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Beauty & Wellness Awards 2020: Skincare Heroes
After months of reviewing close to 300 beauty products and wellness facilities, and tallying, here are the best skincare products of this year, and lest we forget, your top pick! And so without further ado, here are the Beauty & Wellness Awards winners.
It all starts with a blank canvas and, with that, it’s our mission to safeguard the foundation where it all begins. These are the lotions and potions that we’ve tried and tested on every type of skin to narrow down the highest-performing products that cover all bases.
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New In: The 6 Beauty Products to Try in April 2020
In a time when self-care has never mattered more, and the fact that you have more time on your hands, there's really no reason not to kick your beauty game into high gear. Whether it’s switching up to a lighter face wash or indulging in summer-appropriate skincare to a brighter colour palette; here’s our definitive list of what’s new on the shelves for your new season routine.
Gucci Mascara L’Obscur
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Gucci has been upping its beauty game in the past few seasons, so it comes as no surprise that creative director Alessandro Michele is presenting a new product for spring. The Mascara L’Obscur sets itself apart from other formulas with its flexible elastomer brush. The design features a thin brush tip ensuring ultimate comfort and ease of application, catching the smallest of lashes and separating each lash to prevent clumping. The ultra-rich texture coats each lash to thicken and intensify without smudging, flaking, or feathering.
HK$315
Chanel Sublimage La Collection Lumière
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Chanel’s most prestigious skincare range, Sublimage, gets two additional products added to its radiance-focused line, La Collection Lumière. Made from white birch water, natural Anthyllis extract and intense vanilla planifolia water to provide the skin with a surge in hydration, the Sublimage La Lotion Lumière Exfoliante and the Sublimage La Crème Lumière deliver the highest level of efficacy when used together. The active ingredients work together to bring out a natural luminosity and comfort to the skin.
Sublimage La Lotion Lumière Exfoliante HK$1,180/125ml
Sublimage La Crème Lumière HK$3,100/50ml
Estée Lauder Re-Nutriv Ultimate Lift Regenerating Youth Emulsion
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Estée Lauder Re-Nutriv Ultimate Lift Regenerating Youth Emulsion[/caption]
Combining the most precious ingredients sourced from the highest mountains from the Himalayan range with state of the art technology, comes Estée Lauder’s newest emulsion to its Re-Nutriv collection. The Himalayan Gentian is a unique flower with the ability to flourish even nature’s harshest climates, making its extract a powerful youth-generating component to optimise the skin’s natural cellular activities and promote collagen and elastin production. Following continued use, the skin becomes firmer, lifted and strengthened.
Re-Nutriv Lift Regenerating Youth Emulsion HK$2,000/75ml
Apivita Aqua Beelicious Collection
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Inspired by bees, Apivita is taking nature’s nectar as its core ingredient for its newest collection. Made from blossom honey and flower extract and enriched with organic aloe hyaluronic acid and rose oil, the range includes an oil-free hydrating gel-cream, comfort hydrating cream, hydrating eye gel and a refreshing and hydrating booster. The skin is instantly hydrated, refreshed and lightweight – a perfect collection to be used for the hotter and more humid days we have ahead of us.
Apivita Aqua Beelicious Eye Gel HK$215/15ml
Apivita Aqua Beelicious Refreshing Hydrating Booster HK$275/30ml
Apivita Aqua Beelicious Comfort Hydrating Cream HK$240/40ml
Apivita Aqua Beelicious Oilfree Gel Cream HK$240/40ml
Laura Mercier Under the Blazing Sun Collection
Embracing the summer heat, Laura Mercier is releasing a seasonal limited edition collection, Under the Blazing Sun. With four shades of Caviar Stick Eye Colour pencils in shimmer and matte finishes, four high-shine Lip Glacé plumping glosses and a Face Illuminator Highlighting Powder – you can still fake a sun-kissed look while limiting your exposure outdoors.
Laura Mercier Caviar Stick Eye Colour, Lip Glacé and Face Illuminator Highlighting Powder HK$260 each
Eve Lom Moisture Lotion
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Eve Lom Moisture Lotion[/caption]
Hot days are the worst makeup days if you’re careless. The secret to true radiance is clean skin with lasting hydration. Eve Lom’s Moisture Lotion is the multi-tasking moisturiser that can effectively remove waterproof makeup and support enough hydration to keep skin cells plumped for up to 72 hours, and control oil and shine while offering antipollution and antioxidant protection.
HK$870/50ml
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The Beauty Products We Loved This Year
We reveal our favourite beauty discoveries of the past year -- find out what our go-to skincare brands are, make-up we never leave home without, where you'll find us when we're in need of a luxurious spa treatment, and what 2020 launches we're excited about.
Favourite Treatment
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Chantecaille's Rose de Mai Signature Facial is a big drink of goodness to quench your skin's thirst. Every visit is an opportunity to catch up on zzzs and I wake up to plumped, glowy skin. Plus, the delicate scent is reason itself to love this treatment.
Favourite Make-up Brand
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Walking into Charlotte Tilbury makes me feel like a kid at a candy shop. The legendary makeup artist is the queen of colour. Her glamorous eyeshadow palettes are highly pigmented and easily blendable and buildable. To top it all, all her products are so beautiful in her signature modern-boudoir packaging.
Make-up item I can't live without...
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Having gone under the knife earlier this year (and by that, I mean microblading), I was ready to shake my brow make-up dependency.But shu uemura hard formula pencil (a combination of powder, wax and semi-solid oil; HK$200) will always have a spot on my top shelf. I still use it when I want extra definition.
Beauty product I'm always hoarding
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Masks. Be they sheet, mud, gel, peel-off or sleep. Following any masking routine, my skin feels fresh and renewed. My top-shelf products I use on rotation include WEI's Lotus Blossom Thirst Relief Sheet Mask (HK$430/6 sheets), Apivita's Prickly Pear Moisturising & Soothing Mask (HK$245) and Fresh's Umbrian Clay Purifying Mask (HK$490).
Favourite beauty hack I learned
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I've started to exfoliate once or twice a week after workouts. Sweat opens your pores so you can get a deeper cleanse and rid all impurities this way. I can control the cleanse with Tatcha's The Rice Polish Calming (HK$600) and add more or less water depending on the exfoliation I need.
Favourite overall beauty discovery
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So much has launched in 2019. But my favourite find has to be the Valmont Teint Majestuex Satin Glow Foundation (HK$1,650). What I love most about it is that it's a hybrid between make-up and skincare offering a glowy satin-like finish without drying out the skin. It also works great with the Poudre de Teint Précieuse compact powder (HK$1,380) when I need to touch up on too much shine.
Brand I'll always be loyal to
When it comes to Canvas, I can find no fault. All its products are at least 90 percent natural and organic, so I can rest easy knowing they won't irritate my very sensitive skin. I'm especially fond of the Rose Otto collection.
Favourite skincare product
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Depending on when you ask me this, my answer will probably change. But I'm currently obsessing over Sunday Riley's Luna Sleeping Night Oil (HK$450). A winning combo of retinol and blue tansy, the oil works through the night to reduce fine lines, the appearance of pores and redness. I also like that the formula is grease-proof and absorbs into your skin (rather than your pillowcase).
Favourite haircare product
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I'll be the first to admit that I'm guilty of negligence when it comes to my hair. I find a good quality hairdryer is more than half the battle. The ghd Air Hairdryer is fast-drying, controls frizz and ives my fine lifeless hair a boost of volume.
Favourite beauty personality I met this year
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Meeting Angela Caglia during her visit for her brand's launch at Lane Crawford in Hong Kong was rather memorable. She's made a name for herself by creating such beautiful, easy-to-use and effective tools. I've been hearing about her for some time now, so finally meeting her face-to-face and trying out her line was a real treat.
Favourite beauty device
Face massages helps to stimulate collagen production, plus it's relaxing when you're just sitting in front of the TV or computer. Frame Cosmetics has a Thermal Vibration Face Massaging Device (HK$4,680), which has a heating and cooling effect on top of a pulsating function that's said to help penetrate serums into deeper layers of the skin. All it takes is about 10 minutes and you've got yourself a mini at-home facial.
Favourite beauty-related social media to follow
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@gelcream posts the most beautiful product shots and honest reviews about new products. The only downside is that it will guarantee Instaenvy. Everything you find here will somehow make its way on to your wish list.
Favourite Fragrance
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I've always been a sucker or oral fragrances and my current favourite is Gucci Bloom Acqua Di Fiori (HK$1,040). The white-floral bouquet scent reminds me of fresh cut flowers without the overpowering sweetness, thanks to its earthy undertones.
Favourite Bodycare Product
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I would recommend the Aesop body range to anyone regardless of their skin type. The cleansers are gentle on the skin thanks to the nourishing botanical ingredients and are suitable year-round. Its Geranium Leaf Body Cleanser (HK$325) and Body Scrub (HK$260) are my top choices -- the fresh pine-needle and sage scent really wakes me up.
The next product I can't wait to get my hands on
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It would be impossible for me to list them all as there are so many products on my wish list! But I will say that I've been eyeing the 111Skin Rose Gold Radiance Booster (HK$895) and any of its masks for some time now. If it's good enough for Margot Robbie, Kim Kardashian and Priyanka Chopra, I can live with it. I've also heard some great things about the Dr Barbara Sturm Calming Serum (HK$1,930) and Victoria Beckham by Augustinus Bader (HK$2,100) that I wouldn't mind trying out too.
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Beauty Awards 2019: The Spa Experience in the Comfort of Your Home
While we all love a good facial in the hands of a professional, it’s easier than ever to create a spa experience in the comfort of our own homes. Just choose the right product for your skin type, sit back and let the beautifying begin.
The Exfoliating Cleanser
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Dr. Barbara Strum Enzyme Cleanser (HK$550)[/caption]
There’s no point in applying a mask unless it’s on a clean, prepped surface. Dr Barbara Sturm Enzyme Cleanseris a fine-grained powderthat transforms into an exfoliating foam, and our choice for home-spa prep. joyce.com/beauty
The Hydrogel Mask
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111SKIN Rose Gold Brightening Facial Treatment Mask (HK$250)[/caption]
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The Face Masks
Dry skin? Oily skin? Sensitive, or just plain irritated? Have no fear, there’s a mask for you. And everyone else you ever met, for that matter. These are just a few favourites from the dozens we’ve tried this year.
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Apivita Prickly Pear Face Mask (HK$275)[/caption]
The thick gel texture and "express" packaging make Apivita Prickly Pear Face Mask good for beauty on the go. apivita.com
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Eve Lom Rescue Mask (HK$590)[/caption]
A farm favourite along with her cult cleanser, Eve Los Rescue Mask tackles stressed out skin with camphor, almond and honey-infused Kaolin clay. evelom.com.hk
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Malin+Goetz Detox Face Mask (HK$400)[/caption]
For a quick fix on our all-too-often clogged pores, we turn to the oxygenating and foaming five-minute Malin+Goetz Detox Face Mask. malinandgoetz.com.hk
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Payot Uni Skin Masque Magnétique (HK$415)[/caption]
With its rich texture and unique magnet removal system, Payout Uni Skin Masque Magnétique is fun and effective at the same time. payot.com
The Jade Roller & Guasha
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The Artistry Face Roller and Guasha Scraper Set (HK$289)[/caption]
There are devices and gadgets aplenty these days, but give usThe Artistry Face Roller and Guasha Scrapper Set and we’ll happily massage the day away. theartistry.com.hk
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