For beauty addicts, the close of August isn’t about school shoes or sharp pencils. This is the time of year when the world’s beauty brands gear up to reveal their glossiest, most hard-hitting innovations ahead of the Christmas rush. Here’s the pick of the best to add to your basket now.
Hair and Body Heroes
Hair by Sam McKnight Cool Girl Body is a volumising styler-treatment hybrid that builds soft, swishy, touchable body that lasts, priced at £23 from Marksandspencers.com. Meanwhile, (M)anasi 7 All Over Colour from Swedish make-up artist Susanne Manasi’s line delivers performance skincare and pigment-rich make-up that is microbiome-friendly and packed with wild-harvested and certified organic ingredients. It can be tapped quickly onto cheeks, lips and lids for dewy, fresh enhancement, priced at £40 from Revolve.com.
Skincare Innovations
Skinceuticals P-Tiox Cream tackles deep-set wrinkles, pores and uneven texture, and has barely been able to stay on shelves in the past few weeks since launch, such has been demand. It costs £108 at Lookfantastic.com. Allies of Skin Peptint Tripeptide & Goji Cells Plumping Lip Treatment offers sheer, high-shine colour with tripeptides, goji and rose cells to smooth and hydrate, priced at £28 from Cultbeauty.co.uk.
Uni Rain 24-Hour Body Serum and Gentle Exfoliating Body Wash bottles a summer storm, bringing with it a jolly good exfoliating body wash, priced at £43 from Spacenk.com. Dermalogica Smart Eye Density Serum uses growth-factor technology to improve the function and resilience of delicate under-eye skin, so boosting lost volume, priced at £125 from Facethefuture.co.uk.
Fragrance and Finishing Touches
Dries Van Noten Velvet Violet delivers violet — but not the powdery, old-fashioned kind. Perfumer Gael Montero takes the greener, fresher violet leaf, pairing it with toasted sesame, vetiver and tonka, priced at £250 from Selfridges.com. Solférino Paris Lumière D’Automne Eau de Parfum bottles golden light, amber leaves and chestnuts roasting on street carts with creamy chestnut, vanilla and sandalwood, priced at £230 for 125ml from Selfridges.com.
Olaplex Shape Set Hairspray, three years in the making, harnesses flexible polymers alongside panthenol, glycerin and encapsulated peptides to hold hair while leaving it swishy, soft and hydrated, priced at £32 from Olaplex.com. Vieve Skin Nova Concealer is a balmy, brightening and blurring concealer that moves beautifully with your skin throughout the day, priced at £28 from Vievebeauty.com.
Luxury and Tech
Westman Atelier Supreme Bio-Complex Liquid Foundation is beautifully light, skincare-packed and silicone-free with biocompatible pigments that melt into skin, priced at £65 from Cultbeauty.co.uk. Dermalux LED Face Mask brings 14 years of clinical know-how home with clever Off-the-Skin Technology positioning every LED at the optimum treatment distance, priced at £399 from Dermalux.com.
La Bonne Brosse Body Brush comes in two strengths and is pretty enough to leave out bath-side as an elegant objet, priced at £98 from Labonnebrosse.com. Diptyque Les Rituels de Soin Collection is inspired by ancient bathing rituals, with the Nurturing Body & Hair Cleansing Gel (£59) and Evening Scented candle (£59 & £63) not to be missed, available from September at Diptyqueparis.com. Oribe Bond-Building Elixir works to strengthen, lengthen and repair over time, priced at £60 from Cultbeauty.co.uk. M&S Formula Ultra Peptide Serum tackles seven skincare concerns in one with peptides, ceramides, omegas and a NAD+ booster for firmer, smoother, glowier skin, priced at £29 from Markandspencer.com.
