It’s not just your mood that becomes imbalanced when you skip out on sleep. If your skin’s internal clock becomes disrupted by a chaotic calendar, constant scrolling and, especially, substandard slumber, it really shows on your face. This is something the dedicated team at Estée Lauder know all too well. They aren’t just new-found experts in the sleep-science realm; the long-revered beauty brand actually pioneered it. After completing more than 40 years of research, it was the first to prove that poor sleep accelerates the visible signs of aging by interrupting the all-important cellular renewal that occurs in the P.M. Pretty revelatory, right? 

The brand’s beloved Advanced Night Repair Serum, a truly innovative top-shelf hero that optimizes your skin’s circadian rhythm to repair it by night and protect it by day. Packed with plenty of incredibly effective ingredients, like the exclusive multi-functional Night Peptide and a high concentration of hyaluronic acid that deeply moisturizes for 72 hours, this serum is backed by dermatologist testing and thousands of glowing five-star reviews.

So how did this serum perform in our own rigorous assessment? Turns out, it’s already a long-time favourite of ELLE Canada beauty collaborator Théo Dupuis-Carbonneau, who’s designated it a bona-fide skincare essential.

“Thanks to its cocktail of powerful active ingredients, it’s like having a multitude of treatments in a single bottle,” she says.

Those intense renewal actions she speaks of? They include a whopping seven intense renewal actions while you sleep: visible-line reduction, tone evening, firming, skin-barrier strengthening, a boost in both hydration and radiance plus eight-hour antioxidant protection. 

Estée Lauder’s Advanced Night Repair Serum helps you look like you got your eight hours of beauty sleep—even if your shut-eye tracker confirms you didn’t. 

Estée Lauder’s Advanced Night Repair Serum, 50ml, $160. 

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