Concealer that offers luminous coverage with skincare benefits, a new fragrance perfect for the heat, and a famous skin serum that supports a worthy cause. These are the latest beauty launches you need to know about by editor Trudi Brewer.
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It would be remiss not to highlight pink in October to support breast cancer awareness. For 30-plus years, Estée Lauder Companies has been committed to the hope that we can live in a breast cancer-free world. Their Charitable Foundation has funded more than $131 million for lifesaving global research, education, and medical services, and more than $103 million funding medical research through the Breast Cancer Research Foundation (BCRF). Their beauty support this month with their iconic Advanced Night Repair Synchronized Multi-Recovery Complex Night Repair Serum (just one of the brand’s products going pink this month) in a limited-edition bottle is your way to support breast cancer awareness here in Aotearoa. Beautiful, healthy-looking skin awaits you, and 20 per cent of the purchase price will support the Breast Cancer Foundation NZ.
A holiday in a tub. This body butter smells like a mango cocktail, and it’s rich, fast absorbing and luxurious to use - all the while helping you build a daily gradual glow - in time for summer. A self-tan, stacked with skincare benefits, including energising, lifting, and firming, guarana, caffeine, and shea butter. Did we mention 200mls is $23? It’s an epic cheeky beauty buy.
This is the perfect remedy for dull-looking skin. Enough shimmer to catch the light, giving your skin the illusion of fullness and brightness. But the silky texture that glides on smoothly and can be worn on its own or mixed into your foundation, primer, or moisturiser is why we love it most. The glossy effect from the four shades on offer is made to flatter a broad range of skin tones, brighten, bronze, flush or illuminate the skin. You only need the tiniest amount, focusing it on the highest areas of your face to enhance and define your features. And more good news. It’s stacked with skin-loving benefits from niacinamide, vitamin E and glycerin.
Try this clean beauty buy if you’re looking for a new mascara. Its clever tapered brush and carefully shaped bristles elongate, define and lift lashes. Even a tiny amount can transform limp, stubby lashes by wrapping them in weightless, 360-degree tubes. But the best news is it resists running and smudging and comes off in warm water – no makeup remover or harsh rubbing required. Great if you wear glasses. Like all Jane Iredale cosmetics, it’s vegan and cruelty-free.
GUCCI Flora Gorgeous Orchid Eau de Parfum, from $149.
We can't find a single reason not to call this the scent of summer. Gucci’s first Ozonic floral gourmand perfume captures the scent of the ocean infused with sweetness thanks to vanilla and musky orchids. It’s a beautiful fragrance, but what more would you expect from this covetable designer brand? If you want a long-lasting perfume that will develop to become unique on your skin, this gorgeous feminine floral is the one.
This new concealer is so worth the money. A small amount brightens tired, dull eyes, leaving behind a sheer finish that’s hard to detect on the skin. It’s made with 80 per cent skincare ingredients, including hydrating, illuminating and plumping, niacinamide, vitamin C and hyaluronic acid (all the good stuff) that benefits the skin while it perfects. The chunky doe-foot applicator deposits just the right amount of product, which is buildable thanks to the texture that melts into the skin and doesn’t move. The brand calls it: "A weightless, radiant longwear concealer." We agree: The coverage is so good that you may not need foundation. There are 44 shades.
From a serum that gives back to body butter loaded with self-tan and more.