It’s the most beautiful time of the year – when we get to reveal the latest and greatest in skincare, bodycare, make-up, scents and spas. For our third annual Beauty Awards, we’re even adding haircare to the mix. Read on to find out what Fiona McLeish and Justine Lee are loving across every category, and start adding to your carts. If these winners can make you look as flawless and smell as divine as our expert judges, trust us, you’ll want one of each.
Skincare
Cleanser – Caudalie Vinoclean Instant Foaming Cleanser
Formulated with antioxidant and moisturising grape extract, purifying sage and soothing chamomile extract, this ultra-gentle cleansing solution is suitable for all skin types. Not only does it deeply cleanse and purify pores without causing dryness or irritation but it also rebalances the skin and restores the radiance of your complexion.
Lotion/Essence – Albion Skin Conditioner Essential N
Affectionately known as SkiCon, this longtime bestseller recently celebrated its 50th anniversary of promoting clear, healthy skin around the world. With a blend of Job’s Tears extract and oil to prevent roughness and dryness, it’s no wonder the soothing and gently moisturising product is also nicknamed “healthy water”.
Serum – Guerlain Abeille Royale Youth Watery Oil Serum
Harnessing the exceptional repairing power of honey, this latest formula from the French brand’s BeeLab is designed to nourish the skin while correcting the signs of ageing. It’s the first to feature a unique blend of three phytochemical-rich black bee honeys and royal jelly for unprecedented benefits down to the cellular level.
Day Cream – Sulwhasoo Concentrated Ginseng Rejuvenating Cream Rich
Newly upgraded with fortified ginseng peptide, this iconic formula helps protect against visible signs of ageing and strengthens the skin barrier. Suitable for all skin types, it targets fine lines and wrinkles, loss of firmness and elasticity, and dryness to promote a recharged, deeply hydrated, plumper and firmer complexion. And it seals in hydration for a full 24 hours.
Night Cream – Clarins Precious La Crème
With clinical results that include a 39 percent increase in skin firmness and a 24 percent decrease in nasolabial folds, this luxurious cream promises to reverse the signs of ageing by five years. The nourishing formula is powered by the rare moonlight flower that only blooms one night a year and which undergoes a unique cryoextraction process to preserve its maximum anti-ageing effectiveness.
Face Oil – Nuxe Huile Prodigieuse Multi-Purpose Oil
Great for the face, but also the body and hair, this versatile oil features a blend of seven precious plant oils (macadamia, hazelnut, borage, sweet almond, camellia, argan and tsubaki) to deliver long-lasting hydration, nourishment and reinforcement of the skin’s barrier function. The unique dry-oil texture even provides anti-pollution protection. What more do we need?
Mask – Fresh Black Tea Firming Overnight Mask
This intensely moisturising sleeping mask promises to visibly lift, firm and smooth not one, not two but seven facial zones. Mauritius black tea extract helps to smooth and refine texture while a combination of peptides helps improve the look of skin laxity for a firmer, smoother look and fight skin sagging for a more lifted, sculpted look.
“I use the Fresh Black Tea Firming Overnight Mask all year round. I can instantly feel my skin is tighter, plumper and more moisturised after washing it off in the morning” – Justine Lee
Eye Product – Caudalie Premier Cru The Eye Cream
Say goodbye to crow’s feet, puffiness, fine lines, lip lines, dark circles, dullness and dehydration. This targeted anti-ageing treatment features a groundbreaking combination of vine resveratrol and a new and natural skin filler made from rosewood extract, effectively stimulating the activity of longevity proteins by 128 times.
Anti-Ageing Product – Clarins Extra Firming Cream
Utilising a new approach to fighting the signs of ageing, this innovative cream targets the quantity, quality and structure of collagen fibres to replenish collagen reserves. Three key ingredients – the collage polypeptide, pecan tree extract and organic mitracarpus extract – are complemented by a range of nourishing and lifting extracts.
Acne Treatment – Caudalie Vinopure Salicylic Spot Solution
A powerful blend of tea tree essential oil, 2 percent niacinamide and 100 percent natural salicylic acid derived from wintergreen, this spot treatment works to reduce pore dilation while soothing and protecting the skin. The clean and safe formula also features an ultra-comfortable light green cream texture that reduces the appearance of blemishes in one hour.
Whitening Treatment – Tatcha The Brightening Serum
This unique serum uses time-released Vitamin C that stays stable and potent in the bottle and bioavailable in the skin for 12 hours. It also contains vitamin C-rich Japanese plum, ferulic acid and a Pro-Glutathione Antioxidant Booster that improves the skin barrier and targets hyperpigmentation. Did we mention it’s gentle enough to use twice daily?
Sensitive Skin Product – Caudalie VinoHydra Hyaluronic Serum
With the highest possible concentration of 100% organic grape water, this “SOS solution” does everything from balancing the skin microbiome to stimulating the internal hydration mechanisms to restore optimum hydration levels. The ultra-light texture and clean formula comforts and quenches the skin immediately while also protecting and nourishing it all day long.
Exfoliant – Suqqu Clearing Scrub
Suitable for all ages and skin types, this gentle dual- action scrub and rich clay-infused paste removes dead skin cells, impurities and excess sebum without irritating the skin. What’s more, it can be used two to three times a week in place of your usual cleanser or as a mask if you leave it on after massaging it in with wet hands.
Sunscreen – Supergoop! Unseen Sunscreen SPF 50
As its name suggests, this weightless, colourless and scent- free sunscreen delivers 100 percent invisible protection – now in an upgraded SPF of 50 PA+++. The advanced formula has none of the heaviness or stickiness of traditional sunscreens, and even doubles as the perfect make-up primer. Now there’s no excuse not to protect your skin every day.
Men’s Product – Cetaphil Daily Facial Cleanser
Most – but not all – men are not interested in a 10-step skincare regimen. For them, a good cleanser and moisturiser will do the trick. And when it comes to a good, basic cleanser, this is it. With hydrating glycerin, Vitamin B3 and Pro-Vitamin B5, this gentle foaming formula removes dirt and excess oil without leaving skin dry and tight.
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