New beauty and wellness offerings: Hourglass, Prada Beauty, The Ritz-Carlton Spa and more
Aug 09, 2024
#legend rounds up some new beauty and wellness offerings to take note of
Burberry Beauty
Like the original Burberry Goddess, the new Burberry Goddess Eau De Parfum Intense embodies strength, confidence and elegance. The signature trio of vanillas from the original Goddess is amplified with a fourth vanilla wood (vanilla supercritical fluid extract), which grants the new blend some smoky nuances. The vanilla quartet is then combined with waves of luminous lavender essence, providing an aromatic balance. Finally, the addition of patchouli contributes an assertive signature and femininity, completing the vibrant, smoky, sophisticated finish. Inspired by the colours at sunset, this fragrance is encased in a square bottle adorned with a golden medallion. Dark beige packaging with a gabardine-inspired gold label references the brand’s heritage.
Inspired by their British roots, Burberry Brit Shine is the brand’s first high shine, long-wear and plumping lipstick, available in 15 statement shades. Its versatile texture acts as a three-in-one, providing the comfort of a lip balm, the powerful shine of a lip gloss, and the intense pigmentation of a lipstick with up to six hours of wear. Infused with natural-origin ingredients and enriched with a blend of collagen boosting peptide, rosa damascena and safflower oil, the formula provides instant hydration and helps to strengthen the lip barrier and limit water loss for plumper lips.
Tom Ford
Like the art it is named after, the Tom Ford Architecture Soft Matte Blurring Powder is designed to perfect, sculpt and enhance your features. The finely milled formula features spherical powder technology for a smooth and even finish that helps to control shine, offering a diffused matte look. Described as a cloud-like veil, it is ultra-lightweight on the skin with a super-fine blurring effect, as hyaluronic acid ensures your complexion doesn’t feel dry.
Gucci Beauty
A new chapter for the Gucci Flora collection unfolds with Gucci Flora Gorgeous Orchid Eau de Parfum. Dressed in radiant yellow, this new fragrance embodies the essence of a dream coming true. The scent’s distinctive gourmand quality is infused with freshness, bursting with creative energy to inspire women to live life in their own way. Perfumer Marie Salamagne weaves together the familiar sweetness of vanilla with marine notes imparted through the ozonic zccord. This unconventional fusion further highlights the luminous sensuality of vanilla orchid, elevating its gourmand richness to new heights. Just like Grammy-award winning, multi-platinum selling recording artist and trailblazer Miley Cyrus, this perfume celebrates the power of embracing personal magic to turn dreams into reality.
Fenty Beauty
Fenty Beauty’s cult-favourite Gloss Bomb lipglosses are now available in a solid lipstick format with luscious shine and a big dose of vitamin E and shea butter to lock in moisture for up to eight hours. It is offered in 10 universal shades, including lip colors you know and love, like “RIRI,” “Fenty Glow,” and “Fu$$y.” The covetable twist-up, shade-matched packaging is easy to apply for an instant splash of non-sticky, explosive shine, and lasting, cushiony colour.
Amp up the staying power of the lipstick with lip pencil. Fenty Beauty’s first-ever lip liner, the new Trace’d Out Pencil Lip Liner is creamy, waterproof, transfer-resistant, and sets onto the lip like a liquid, delivering a velvet-matte finish that will not smudge or feather. Built to last all day with eight-hour, colour-true wear, the liner comes in six universal shades of neutrals, reds and berries. The packaging is shade-matched for easy navigation and the pencil is sharpenable for precise application.
Hourglass
Hourglass’s drop of the year, the new Unreal Liquid Blush is the brand’s first-ever innovative liquid blush, featuring a hybrid formula fusing skincare and makeup benefits. Made to stay in place for up to 12 hours and infused with the brand’s Unreal Lifting Complex, expect this weightless icon to unveil a smoother and plumper-looking complexion in seconds. The blush is available in seven shades, ranging from “Craft” (a deep berry) to “Scene” (a soft, warm pink), with a precise dropper that allows you to customise your look, from a soft-focus finish to a bold, vibrant flush.
Prada Beauty
Prada Beauty extends the routine with a new category, Universal Optimizers: a complementary trio of universally flattering, mattifying formulas, consisting of a primer, a setting powder, and the Reveal Foundation. The three products deliver instant results and over-time care, while elevating the face routine to a luxurious ritual.
The Prada Refine Blurring Extending Primer instantly blurs pores and minimises the look of fine lines for a smooth-skin, soft-focus effect and flawless makeup application. This makeup primer is infused with AHA + BHA + LHA acid complex and panthenol to refine pores for softer, smoother skin over time, as well as minimising water loss for moisturised skin and improves makeup adhesion to skin, extending overall wear and controlling shine.
After priming the skin, the Prada Reveal Foundation creates a unified skin expression with a soft matte finish using the advanced IRL Micro-Filter Technology. This patented hero technology exclusive to Prada optimises light diffusion with a smart molecule that micro-crystallises onto skin, revealing a naturally radiant and seamlessly filtered complexion with breathable 24-hour wear. Over time, the formula optimises the three skin dimensions. Pure vitamin E improves overall skin tone, while 100% active niacinamide enhances the skin’s inner light and locks in moisture; and lactobacillus extract complex refines skin texture.
To finish, the Prada Reset Rebalancing Setting Powder dresses the skin in an instantly mattifying, soft-focus veil that extends foundation wear. Once it makes contact with the skin, the weightless formula rebalances it, delivering day-long shine-control thanks to mineral perlite. The formula is enriched with plant-derived squalene for comfortable care.
Valentino Beauty
The new Spike Valentino is a new matte lipstick available in 13 highly pigmented and mood-boosting colours, including six refillable shades. Inspired by the Valentino Garavani Rockstud Spike Bag, the gold aluminum monochrome packaging is embossed with Maison Valentino’s iconic studs and magnetically opens to an ultra-slim elevated bullet. The texture provides ultra matte pay-off while delivering nine-hour vibrant stay-true colour and 10-hour wear, while staying smooth and comfortable on the lips.
Make Up For Ever
Four years after the launch of Rouge Artist, Make Up For Ever introduces the Rouge Artist For Ever. This new and enhanced version stands as a testament to reinvention, featuring a custom-designed bullet ensuring effortless application. The lipstick is available in two finishes: matte, with 24-hour wear and 16-hour comfort; and satin, with 16-hour wear and 24-hour comfort. From soft pinks to bold reds, and subtle nudes to vibrant corals, Rouge Artist For Ever offers a spectrum of shades for all.
Pair with the Artist Color Pencil Extreme, the brand’s latest lip pencil designed for unparalleled performance with no compromise on comfort. This smudge-proof, waterproof, kiss-proof and transfer-proof lip liner delivers an intense and enduring look, all in a creamy formula providing extreme comfort all-day long.
The Ritz-Carlton Spa
In a first in Hong Kong, The Ritz-Carlton Spa, Hong Kong, has collaborated with luxury skincare brand La Mer, introducing The Genaissance de La Mer Facial and The Revitalising Hydrating Facial.
The Genaissance de La Mer Facial is La Mer’s most luxurious, multi-sensorial treatment that infuses the skin with transformative benefits from the sea, providing deep relaxation while targeting all visible signs of ageing. While the Revitalising Hydrating Facial combines bespoke massage techniques with the pure, coveted power of Miracle Broth to reveal a more youthful appearance.
