Kiehl’s Clearly Corrective™ Dark Spot Solution

I have lots of freckles on my face. I've had freckles for as longs as I can remember. I think it just came with being blonde and growing up in FL. And probably having a wee bit of Irish in me. They've never bothered me and I've never wished them away. But sometimes they seem to have a mind of their own when they get in the sun, some of them darkening, others not, giving me an almost blotchy look. But that's what foundation is for, right? To help mute and matte things a bit.

So when I received a sample of Kiehl’s Clearly Corrective™ Dark Spot Solution in my Birchbox last month, I figured it was worth a shot to see if it did anything to these areas. While you can use it everywhere to even skin tone and to impart overall radiance and luminosity to your skin, I chose to do areas just on my cheeks since I had such a small sample.

While I didn't see jaw dropping results, there's was some lightening of some of the underlying skin tones that caused the blotchiness (leaving the freckles there to pop all on their own). This surprised me, but then it may just have been a coincidence to me not being in the sun too much lately. Which leaves me on the fence a bit. But I think it's worth exploring a little further and maybe even focusing on some of it's other claims, as well (like reducing the appearance of scars, etc.). I could see where you might get the results they note on their website, though, which take up to 8 weeks to see.