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Bring on your A game with everything from gin-inspired shower gels to a styling balm from cult brand Morris Motley.

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Bring on your A game with everything from gin-inspired shower gels to a styling balm from cult brand Morris Motley.

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Frequent washing and sanitising is drying out your hands. The Peak offers up some moisturising solutions for him and for her.

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Frequent washing and sanitising is drying out your hands. The Peak offers up some moisturising solutions for him and for her.

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Every night while you’re sleeping, your skin is working overtime to restore its protective barriers. Why? Because it is at night that the skin is at its most productive and when it does most of its replenishing. That's why it's imperative to give your face a little boost while it's in repair mode. All you have to do is concentrate on getting enough shut eye and let these products do all the work. With calming effects to increase your quality of sleep and powerhouse ingredients to penetrate the deep layers of your skin, these nighttime-ritual essentials will give you that rested and healthy glow each and every morning. 

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1. Lancôme: Rénergie Lift Multi-Action Night

Ideal for every skin type, this rich and comforting night cream (HK$850) lifts and tightens the skin while it’s in its optimal repair cycle. Its potent enough to penetrate the deepest layers of your skin without being too heavy and clogging your pores. The shea butter and hyaluronic acid in it works to replenish and plump the face full of hydration so you can wake up to renewed skin.

2. Glow Recipe: Watermelon Glow Sleeping Mask

This delicious, watermelon-powered overnight mask (HK$360) is packed with hydrating ingredients like hyaluronic acid, AHAs, antioxidants and peony root. Great news for those who like to turn in their sleep, this formula is highly absorbent and pillow-proof -- so you’ll only wake up to glowing skin and not a face-stamped pillow. 

3. Kiehl’s: Midnight Recovery Eye

This lightweight serum (HK$330) promises that you’ll wake up bright-eyed and beautiful over time. It’s formulated with squalene, lavender essential oil and evening primrose oil, which mimics the molecular structure of natural skin lipids. That means your skin’s natural moisture balance will be restored and you can say goodbye to puffiness, under-eye circles and fine lines. 

4. LXMI: Crème du Nil Pore-Refining Moisture Veil

The ultra-hydration you get out of this is surprising for a consistency that's as lightweight as LXMI’s Crème du Nil (HK$455). The brand’s signature ingredient, Nilotica Reserve, lends its potent powers with a generous amount of essential fatty acids to quench your skin’s thirst. Use this and you'll awaken to dewy, youthful skin pumped full of moisture. 

5. Eve Lom: Time Retreat Intensive Night Cream

For those extra hard days that we’re all too familiar with, Eve Lom’s concoction comes to the rescue. The rich and powerful solution (HK$1,020) includes liposome-encapsulated retinol with Vitamin A that can instantly salvage tired and dry skin. Its combination of shea butter, squalene, hyaluronic acid and aloe vera keeps the skin nourished from PM to AM so you can start a new day looking and feeling refreshed and invigorated.

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Today’s topic is the new skin diagnostic tool that will allow you to know if your skin is starting to display signs of aging by just taking a picture of your face. We’re all aware of the importance of taking care of our skin, but are we really sure we’re using the right products for our […]

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From late nights to jet lag and weather changes, the skin struggles to recover. When life rhythms change, the skin is affected – from the epidermis to the heart of the dermis. When cellular renewal slows down, dark circles, under-eye bags and fine lines appear – signs of aging that start to become noticeable. Exhausted skin often shows a deficit in nutrients and an inability to restore itself.

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Introducing the star ingredient of Dior Prestige: Rose de Granville, a legendary wildflower that was discovered on the cliffs of Normandy. Among 250 roses rich in manganese and in essential omegas, just one will produce rosehips. Cultivated in a dedicated Dior Garden in France, the Rose de Granville grows in an open field without fertiliser, pesticides or herbicides. They’re only harvested once a year, in autumn, when they present the strongest concentrations of phytonutrients, sugars, calcium and potassium.
At the heart of Prestige skincare, Rose de Granville – both the rose flower and the rosehip – is the secret to its anti-inflammatory formulas. Test protocols suggested that the Rose de Granville demonstrated a capacity of resistance greatly superior to that of a classical rose.

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Today, Dior Science has gone one step further and made a new breakthrough. For the first time, LVMH Recherche took an interest in women who felt their skin was exhausted, stressed and sensitive to changes in weather. It was found that fatigue can induce a deficiency in potassium, essential fatty acids, and cermaides, which in turn affects the ability of skin cells to regenerate and defend themselves from oxidation.
Dior Science rose experts were able to extract all the micronutrients from the heart of the Rose de Granville. This exceedingly rare and luxurious ingredient brims with 22 perfectly pure micronutrients, such as potassium, omegas 3, 6 and 9 fatty acids and manganese to boost damaged skin’s natural repairing and soothing processes.
Infused in Dior Prestige Le Micro-Caviar de Rose, the amalgam of micro-nutrients from the Rose de Granville acts in synergy to restore cellular energy, stop inflammation, stimulate natural soothing mechanisms and boost circulation of nutritive supplies.

As part of the Rose de Granville series, the complementing product to be used alongside Prestige Le Micro-Caviar de Rose is the oil format, Prestige La Micro-Huile de Rose. A blend of 20 micro-nutrients that act as precious gems are transmitted from flower to skin. Each bottle houses over 10,000 rose micro-pearls that are responsible for rebalancing the skin and preparing it for the serum and moisturiser in the following steps in the beauty regime. Used daily, the nutritional balance of the skin is synchronised against signs of fatigue, stress, and climate changes.

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How to add skin-rejuvenating Rose de Granville to your skincare regime:

1. Prep the skin with Prestige Le Micro-Lotion de Rose

Prep the skin with Prestige Le Micro-Lotion de Rose. Enriched with Rose de Granville minerals and oil, this micro-nutritive pre-lotion combines intense purification and lasting comfort, for long-term hydration.

2. Apply Prestige La Micro-Huile de Rose to rebalance the skin

Used as a pre-serum, Prestige La Micro-Huile de Rose is a facial oil that delivers the right dose of micro nutrients to the skin. It can be used daily or can be combined with Prestige Le Micro-Caviar de Rose as an intense treatment.

3. Calm skin with Prestige Le Micro-Caviar de Rose

Apply a generous layer of Prestige Le Micro-Caviar de Rose to soothe, regenerate and plump the skin. Each caviar pearl is infused with precious and powerful ingredients, soft and delicate for perfect fusion with the skin. For more intensity, it can be used as a three month treatment to help exhausted skin; as a sleep mask to encourage cellular renewal and giving cells new energy; as an SOS mask to soothe, smooth, repair, and plump areas damaged by stress, weather, flights, skiing and the sun.

4. Massage Skin

Help skin recover by massaging your face from the centre outwards in a circular motion. Start at the chin and move up to the forehead, then move back to the neck.

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Tea has been an integral and customary part of Chinese culture for centuries. It’s only the most consumed beverage in the world, heck there were even wars over this ancient brew. But now, these incredible cured leaves are examined under the microscope as we've come to discover its potent beauty benefits. Every big beauty brand out there is extracting its beauty-boosting powers to some degree to infuse into their new host of beauty elixirs.

Packed with natural caffeine, antioxidants, amino-acid and flavonoids, tea is a super-ingredient that’s been tested to help with the following: hydration, detox, de-puff, tightening, anti-inflammation, defend against free-radicals, skin metabolism, relaxation… you get it – the list goes on and on.

We’ve tried and tested bottle after bottle, jar after jar, to bring you the top 5 brews of beauty you need to make space on top shelf for right now.

Amore Pacific Time Response Vintage Wash Off Masque

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Sourced from Dolsongi Tea Garden, the oldest green tea garden on Jeju island in South Korea (and exclusive owned by Amore Pacific), the 34-year-old leaves are carefully selected before they're used in the Korean brand’s bestseller. The antioxidant properties of the green tea extract softens the skin instantly, and with prolonged use is moisturised and plumped. On top of that, the skin tone is evened out too. The best part though, is the scent, and the fact that it only takes 10 minutes of your day, twice a week.
HK$1,200/50ml

Amore Pacific; Various locations

Amore Pacific, Times Square, 1 Matheson Street, Causeway Bay; +852 2114 0262

Fresh Black Tea Firming Eye Serum

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Brewed with the brand’s very own black tea complex and an eye-defining peptide to lift the baggage under the eye area, tighten loose skin, iron out fine lines and diminish the look of crow’s feet to reveal younger, more radiant skin and bright eyes. Unlike other eye serums, this one is delightfully lightweight and absorbs instantly without leaving any sticky residue. To be used on its own or layered underneath an eye cream as a moisture barrier to lock in hydration. Fresh also carries a line of other tea products using similar ingredient components that are worth mentioning too, including the Kombucha Facial Essence, Firming Corset Cream and Overnight Mask.
HK$660/15ml

Fresh; Various locations
Fresh, ifc mall, 8 Finance Street, Central; +852 3572 0126

Sunday Riley U.F.O. Ultra-Clarifying Face Oil

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For troubled skin that’s easily irritated and prone to breakouts, Sunday Riley’s award-winning U.F.O medicated oil has worked wonders to calm aggressive skin. The chamomile tea extract soothes stressed and blemished skin, while salicylic acid removes buildup and decongests pores and cucumber seed oil counterbalances the drying effects. The result is nourished, glowing skin, even-tone complexion and reduced acne discolouration. What’s more is that this can be used to treat scalp and back acne too.
HK$650/35ml

Sephora; Various locations

Sephora, ifc mall, 8 Finance Street, Central; +852 3168 4088

Sephora, Windsor House, 311 Gloucester Road, Causeway Bay; +852 3153 2783

RéVive Defensif Environmental Antioxidant Booster

To level up your skincare routine for the days you need an extra push, one drop of this supplement mixed together with your everyday moisturiser will boost the skin’s defences against stressors. Green tea, along with other antioxidant ingredients like turmeric, Vitamins A, C and E work together to fight and neutralise free radicals so it won’t matter if the skin is exposed to pollution, infrared, smoke and blue light wavelengths – the Antioxidant Booster has got the bases covered.
HK$1,365

RéVive; Various locations

RéVive, Lane Crawford, ifc mall, 8 Finance Street, Central; +852 2118 2288

La Mer Crème de la Mer

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Considered the epitome of luxury skincare, La Mer has always been associated as the 'it' brand of beauty. And its most iconic product and best seller, Crème de la Mer is responsible for putting the brand on its pedestal. The indulgently rich cream heals dryness with its Miracle Broth and Lime Tea blend. This ultra-hydrating formula shows best results on mature skin, parched winter skin, and is gentle enough for even the fragile eye are. The thirst quenching results are instant, and visible results show in just two weeks.
HK$800/15ml; HK$18,300/500ml
La Mer; Various locations 

La Mer, ifc mall, 8 Finance Street, Central; +852 2111 2616

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Clear, even, luminous skin has long been the holy grail of the beauty industry, with many brands going so far as to include dangerous bleaching agents in their facial products. But with advances in technology, the days of adding mercury and hydroquinone to creams and masks are largely over. Now, rather than attacking dark spots and discolouration only after they’ve appeared on the surface of the skin, one French skincare brand has discovered a way to inhibit melanin production at its source.
Researchers at Sisley Laboratories have spent more than 20 years studying skin pigmentation in developing its popular Phyto-Blanc collection. “We’re always searching for harmony in the complexion, a balance of different parameters that together create the appearance of healthy skin,” explains scientific director José Ginestar. “One of the main areas of research is brightening, to fight against melanogenesis and the disruption of melanocytes.”

As Ginestar points out, melanocytes are cells that produce melanin, which is then transported to other layers of the skin and ultimately results in the formation of dark spots. This development of melanin is often caused by environmental factors such as UV aggression and other inflammatory micro-stresses – one reason why SPF and anti-pollution products are so widely recommended.But as Ginestar and his fellow researchers discovered, melanocytes do not act in isolation. They actually communicate with other skin cells, engaging in a kind of “cross talk”. “When the melanosomes (which are charged with melanin) reach the extremity of the dentrite, they transfer the melanin to the keratinocytes,” he says. “At this point, the keratinocytes rise to the surface and we can observe discolouration.”
This four-step process – maturation of the melanosome, melanin synthesis, melanin transport and melanin transfer – occurs throughout the body, with the exception of two places: the palms of the hands and the soles of the feet. Palmoplantar whiteness, as the phenomenon is known, is the result of a dermal protein called DKK1. Produced by the fibroblasts in the palms and soles, DKK1 has been identified as a natural inhibitor of melanin production.

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This ground-breaking discovery led Sisley researchers to ask the natural question: how do we reproduce this phenomenon on the face? After testing thousands of plant extracts, they found the answer in Egyptian Myrobolan – a dry savanna tree that is found across the Sahara in Africa – and the impetus to create an entirely new brightening product.
Phyto-Blanc Le Concentré Pure Bright Activating Serum, which launches worldwide this month, is the first product of its kind that’s able to stimulate the production of DKK1 by non-palmoplantar fibroblasts, effectively preventing melanin from forming in the first place. But that’s not all. Le Concentré also targets dark spots on the surface of the skin as well as each step in the melanin process using a proprietary complex of four active ingredients.

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First, pea peptide extract inhibits maturation of the melanosome. Then the organic compound hexylresorcinol works to prevent melanin synthesis while wild thyme extract acts on the transport of the melanin. Finally, vitamin B3 works to block the transfer of melanin to the keratinocytes. Together with Egyptian Myrobolan as well as antioxidant and anti-inflammatory factors, these key ingredients work to treat the “dermal and epidermal neighbourhood” as a whole.
Le Concentré, with its serum-gel texture, is designed to be used morning and evening on the face and neck. Laboratory testing has shown a significant reduction in intensity and yellowness of dark spots after one month of use, and an increase in skin transparency in just 15 days. In fact, luminosity, radiance and clarity all showed improvement in 15 days with more than double the intensity after one month of use.
While Le Concentré has been proven effective at both treating and preventing dark spots, Ginestar says results can only improve when it’s used as part of a complete brightening ritual. “The serum is [designed to be] part of a routine, so when you use all the products the efficacy is better,” he says. “It’s the ritual that allows you to get the most benefits.”

FILL IN THE BLANC

How to achieve ultimate brightening with Sisley's comprehensive Photo-Blanc collection

1. Cleanse

   Sisley offers three cleansing products in the Phyto-Blanc series: Lightening Cleansing Milk to gently remove make-up and excess sebum, Lightening Foaming Cleanser for combination/oily complexions, and Buff & Wash Facial Gel with bamboo micro- particles for exfoliation.

2. Tone

   Used after cleansing, Phyto-Blanc Lightening Toning Lotion soothes and balances the skin with a blend of lavender and marjoram essential oils. It also tightens the look of pores and leaves a matt finish.

3. Treat

   In addition to applying Le Concentré, target stubborn spots with the Intensive Dark Spot Corrector or apply the Ultra Lightening Mask once or twice a week for 10 minutes.

    

4. Finish

   Don’t forget to shield the skin with Brightening Daily Defense Fluid in SPF 50. And finally, the Phyto-Blanc Cushion Foundation (available in three shades) provides buildable coverage while boosting hydration and radiance. The sweat- and humidity-resistant formula also protects the skin from environmental pollutants.

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Thann’s founder Tony Suppattranont talks self-care versus selfies, and why taking a break from social media can help you find inner-peace.

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