Wanting to update your beauty stash but not sure what’s worth checking out?
The new year has certainly started off with a bang when it comes to new beauty arrivals.
This time of year is traditionally a busy time in beauty, as post-Christmas sales die down and shelves are cleared of gift sets and holiday limited editions. Plenty of us are staring to feel the effects of a hot summer in the sun, or perhaps reconsidering our skin approach as a new year’s resolution. Then there’s the fact the Northern Hemisphere is in the depths of winter, and new beauty provides the perfect mood pick-me-up, so many global companies time their launches to coincide with this period.
It means there’s plenty of newness to meet our demands, from age-defying skincare to light and bright makeup additions. Here’s what’s landing on shelves right now.
Dermalogica Pro-Collagen Banking Serum
As we get beyond our twenties, the natural collagen in our skin begins to drop. Dermalogica’s new Pro-Collagen Banking Serum aims to slow the process and maintain existing levels , protecting against sagging and loss of volume in skin. The serum has collagen amino acids, soothing jojoba, and polyglutamic acid to nourish the skin’s moisture barrier and visibly plump for a firmer appearance. Available from December 25.
MECCA MAX Off Duty Serum Liquid Blushes and Highlighters
You’ll regularly find us singing the praises of Mecca’s house brand MECCA MAX. It’s a treasure trove of a brand that offers on-trend, easy-to-use products at accessible price points, which makes them good for makeup novices just wanting to have a play or try a new type of application, those that are more experienced, or even those that want a few simple bits to wear every day. The newest addition to the line are these liquid blushes and highlighters. They blend into your cheeks with your fingertips, give a fresh flush of colour and contain niacinamide, squalane and hyaluronic acid to help care for skin.
Jane Iredale Pure Match Concealer
Concealer is a mainstay of a cosmetics bag, regardless of whether you do a little or a lot when it comes to makeup. Jane Iredale’s Pure Match Liquid Concealer is a great solution with decent coverage that is gentle on skin. It feels weightless on, blends well with a finger or brush, covers imperfections well and sets to an undetectable soft matte finish.
Bondi Sands Sport SPF 50 Wet Skin Sunscreen
Bondi Sands has just introduced a new SPF addition to its extensive lineup, and its a godsend if you’re a fan of a exercising or playing sports outdoors, love a summer dip or you have kids that are in and out of the water all day.
Gucci Beauty Lip Gloss
Gloss is still a go for 2024, and it’s hard to go past the packaging of Gucci’s new arrival but we love the sheer glaze of colour these divine lip glosses impart. Hyaluronic acid helps with hydration and there’s a slight plumping effect too.
Glossier Full Orbit Eye Cream
With eye creams, usually you need to choose between something that helps instantly, with hydrating and depuffing benefits, or one that plays a long game, tackling pigmentation, dullness and dark circles. Glossier said ‘watch us’ and has combined all those things into one, with its new eye cream. The trendy USA skin and makeup brand has recently become available here with worldwide shipping options.
Sol de Janeiro Delícia Drench Body Butter
The brand that made Bum Bum Cream famous, is back with another captivatingly scented body cream. Delícia Drench Body Butter is the latest in the brand’s rich body cream line-up, this time with Bacuri butter to deeply moisturise and repair the skin’s natural barrier and prebiotic hibiscus to nourish skin’s microbiome. And yes, it’s predictably sweet smelling, with notes of vanilla orchid, sugared violet and sandalwood.
Glasshouse Fragrances Candles
Finished your Christmas pine-scented candle and looking for something new? Glasshouse Fragrances doesn’t just do winter and Christmas well, it embraces the scents of summer in candle form too! It has two new candles inspired by Palm Springs. Palm Springs Panache is a mesmerising fusion of papaya and agave nectar while Desert Divine offers the refreshing blend of green tea and aloe water.
Tom Ford Vanilla Sex EDP
Leave it to Tom Ford to name a new perfume something a little risqué. This new arrival is getting lots of attention, in part thanks to the name, but also because of the amber vanilla blend that we think will be appealing to many. The pricey scent’s top note is bitter almond; middle notes are vanilla and florals with a base of vanilla absolute, tonka and sandalwood.
Clinique Take The Day Off Facial Cleansing Mousse
Foaming cleansers got a bad rap for being drying so many disappeared from routines in place of oils, balms and gels. But we just can’t go past that textural delight that is gentle, pillowy foam, so thankfully, brands like Clinique are introducing a new generation of them that are kind and effective. This new one has 10% glycerin + hyaluronic acid for hydration and rinses away beautifully.
