October 13th, 2023
The new NARS Light Reflecting Collection includes advanced makeup-skincare hybrid formulas, light reflecting technologies, and innovative complexes. Light Reflecting Eye Brightener (£26) illuminates and invigorates the undereye area with brightness that lasts up to 24 hours. Infused with Bidens Pilosa Extract to help improve skin elasticity and strengthen the skin barrier, plus hyaluronic filling spheres to lock in moisture. Hot off the Press
Light Reflecting Advance Skincare Foundation (£39) an advanced makeup-skincare foundation with medium, buildable coverage and a natural finish which instantly blurs imperfections, smooths the look of textured skin, and helps conceal blemishes, dark spots, and redness. Powered by 70% skincare ingredients. Light Reflecting Pressed Setting Power (£34) Iconic pressed powder locks makeup in place all day with a luminous, photo-ready finish. Lightweight and easy to blend, it effortlessly sets foundation without adding additional colour or coverage. All available now at narscosmetics.
Put stars in your eyes with the new Charlotte Tilbury The Beautyverse Palette (£60) which dropped recently. It includes futuristic finishes and eye-gliding shades that play with the light as you dance all night. This limited-edition nine-pan eyeshadow palette features neutral and eye-popping golden, pink, lilac and silver shades in a mixture of matte and metallic finishes. Available now from charlottetilbury.
Fenty Beauty Shadowstix Longwear Eyeshadow Sticks (£22) are intenstively pigmented shine and matte eyeshadow shades that flatter every skin tone and define every eye shape. The easy-to-use stick format is available in a ultra-wearable range of eight shimmer and eight matte shades. Creamy and full of pigment, they are matched to Fenty Beauty’s Pro Filt’r shade ranges for defined eyes with harmonised mattes and shimmers. Available now from fentybeauty. Hot off the Press
Laura Mercier Caviar Stick Eye Shadow Matte (£26) has 12 new high impact shades from nudes and mauves to rusts and deep warm tones. Perfect for all complexions, they are effortlessly blendable, comfortable and long-wearing with up to 24-hour lasting wear. Gives instant colour-true payoff with no tugging, flaking or streaking. Available now from lauramercier.
Laura Mercier Caviar Tightline Eyeliner (£22) is the perfect companion to the best-selling Caviar Stick, this is a next generation product with 16-hour crease-proof wear. This new gel-like eyeliner comes in 7 creamy shades with hyaluronic acid, and allows for precise application without tugging and allows the right amount of time to smudge before setting. Made with 65% sugar cane, it has been designed with a sustainable barrel package. Available now from lauramercier. Hot off the Press
Bondi Sands have added five new products to their Everyday Skincare range. Glow Dust Exfoliating Powder (£9.99) Just like fairy dust, designed to magically transform your skin. A powder-to-paste formula when mixed with water, gently buffs away dead skin cells for a glowing complexion. Enriched with a blend of active ingredients and natural botanicals such as salicylic acid, papaya and pineapple, it works to reveal a brighter, clearer complexion. Melt Me Cleansing Balm (£11.99) This nourishing balm helps to deep clean pores and melt away makeup, sunscreen and impurities for nourished, hydrated skin. Enriched with hydrating sea buckthorn oil, ceramides and marine algae.
Plump It Up Peptide Serum (£8.99) treats fine lines by plumping and hydrating skin to support collagen production. Enriched with 10% matrixyl (peptides) and collagen, this will help skin elasticity to assist with anti-ageing and firm skin. Face Glaze Mask (£10.99) leave on overnight or as a wash-off mask to provide plump, hydrated skin. Enriched with glycerin, ceramides and hyaluronic acid. Light & Dreamy Gel Moisturiser (£8.99) this gel to cream formula is perfect for those with oily skin types and will leave you with hydrated, bouncy skin with no residue. Enriched with glycerin, watermelon water and hyaluronic acid, it works to improve your skin barrier to provide deep hydration. All available now from bondisands.
Byoma Balancing Face Mist (£11.99) is a lightweight face mist with Byoma’s Tri-Ceramide Complex, plus powerful pH balancing probiotics blend to replenish and strengthen the skin’s microbiome. It mimics the skin’s barrier function, working to calm inflammation for hydrated, soft and refreshed skin. Perfect for MUA’s to keep in their kit bag. Available now from boots.
Bali Body’s brand-new launch – Tinted Super Serum SPF30 (£30.95) – blurs the lines between skincare and makeup. Designed to act as a skin perfecting tint, Bali Body’s Super Serum SPF30 provides enough coverage to blur and even the skin tone, without masking your natural luminosity. This lightweight fluid formula provides even, natural coverage while promoting hydrated, healthy skin and protecting from harmful UV rays. Enriched with a powerful blend of peptides, ceramides and amino acids to provide superior barrier protection while calming the appearance of redness and pigmentation, leaving you looking and feeling your best. Available in two sheer adaptable shades that suit a multitude of skin tones, this is the ultimate skincare, makeup and SPF hybrid. Key Ingredients include zinc oxide, hyaluronic acid, jojoba and amino acids. Available now from uk.balibody.
Moisturise, revive and perfect the delicate skin around your eyes with the Embryolisse Radiant Eye Artist Secret Brightening And Cooling Eye Stick (£21), a cooling stick for tired eyes. This portable stick immediately perks up lacklustre skin with an icy effect, which works to instantly revive and illuminate. Plant-based moisturisers including aloe vera, glycerine and sugar derivatives (xylitol and pentylene glycol) hydrate and smooth, while active ingredients improve microcirculation. The massage action of this stick relaxes the eyes, relieving congestion and draining puffiness, and the smoothing texture blurs dark circles. A make-up artist must-have, it fits easily in your kit bag. For extra cooling action, keep in the fridge. Available now at cultbeauty.
The all-new Hair Syrup Scalp Superfoods (£14.50) is the queen of multi-taskers. Packing 12 clean, natural and nutrient-rich superfoods into one handy hair treatment, it’s a hard-working pre-wash syrup that nourishes the scalp and strengthens the hair, leaving you with the kind of super-shiny, healthy locks dreams are made of. The delicious mix of acai, coconut, kiwi, marshmallow root, chia and blueberry gets to work transforming dry, damaged and frizz-prone hair in an instant – you’ll notice the difference after just one wash. Hot off the Press
The newly launched Hair Syrup Zen (£14.50) is infused with lavender, oat and hemp, to condition the hair and improve mood with its natural oil-based blend of calming aromatherapies. The calming scent is designed to relax the senses, promote wellbeing, de-stress you all whilst working to encourage healthy hair growth. Both available now, individually or as a discounted bundle (£26.10) from hairsyrup.
Alchemy Oils Grapefruit Hair Remedy (£35) is a nourishing blend of 5 super-charged oils designed to strengthening and condition your hair. Made with a powerful concoction of nature’s greatest gifts – coconut, avocado, almond and castor oils – this will help your hair reach new heights and leave it with a near blinding diamond shine. Topped off with a citrusy scented grapefruit oil, another key ingredient to banish dandruff and keep your scalp in a happy place. The brand is vegan, Peta approved and part of the Beauty without bunnies program. Alchemy Oils are passionate about never testing on animals and providing hair oils that are cruelty-free. Available now from alchemyoils.
With a waitlist of thousands pre-launch, Lashify’s latest innovation I-Line Gossamer Lashes (£28) gives ‘The Eyeliner Effect’. Lashify are the inventor of DIY lash extensions, with 316 patents. This brand-new method is one of the brand’s most innovative products to launch in 2023. The I-Line Gossamers have a very full distinctive angled pattern that looks like eyeliner when applied, and have been designed specifically for right and left eyes, with cartridges labelled appropriately. The I-line lashes are pre-mapped and can be used to elongate easily and include multiple sizes to play with. If you want to customise even further or add an extra size, single size refills will are available. To get a really bold even black look, overlap the lashes and use two cartridges.
Founder Sahara Lotti explains: ”I wanted to elongate the shape of the eye with a lash so I set out to create a pattern that would accomplish this. Then I wanted to mimic eyeliner so I created a method on how to apply them to accomplish the look of eyeliner hence the I-line.” Available now from lashify. Hot off the Press
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CeraVe, the Cult US skincare brand, are opening their doors for the first time in the UK in October for a “Back to School” themed, immersive pop-up to help educate consumers on the CeraVe skincare portfolio and medical approach to great skin. Taking place in Covent Garden, London from 19th-22nd October, the pop-up will feature various high school-themed spaces including a ‘Cleansing Lab’ where attendees will learn about their skin type, the ‘Ceramides Classroom’ hosting multiple opportunities to unlock special discount codes and exclusive merch via retail partner Look Fantastic, a gym-themed space for myth-busting and education, plus a dedicated area with nurses from the National Eczema Society who will be offering one-to-one skincare consultations.
General Manager for CeraVe UK and Ireland, Cecile Lux says, “As a brand developed by dermatologists, it is really important we bring this to life in the pop-up and it is why we are working with the National Eczema Society to ensure we can make skincare knowledge accessible.” Special discount codes and exclusive merch will be available via retail partner Look Fantastic. Book tickets at Eventbrite.
Protein Formula has recruited celebrity nail artist, Robbie Tomkins as their brand ambassador. Protein Formula Brand Manager, Jess Theaker says; “Robbie’s expertise in all things nails make him the perfect partner for Protein Formula. With a host of prescriptive nail care for every nail concern we are more than just a nail treatment brand, so it’s important to work with professionals such as Robbie who understand the importance of nail health when creating a flawless manicure.”
Robbie’s celebrity clients include Amanda Seyfried, Claire Foy, Gillian Anderson, Hailey Bieber, Joan Collins, Kate Moss, Lashana Lynch, Lily James, Naomi Campbell, Olivia Colman, Paloma Faith and Sophie Turner as well as editorial clients including ELLE, GQ, Harper’s Bazaar, Tatler, Vanity Fair, Vogue and W. He said “Working as a session artist means I regularly work on natural nails and use nail polish (as opposed to gel polish) and the one question I get asked more than anything else is ‘how do I make my nails grow stronger?’ I’ve used many different nail strengtheners over the years so when I was approached by Protein Formula I was curious to discover what was so different about their products. The four different prescriptive nail treatments harness the power of protein and other wonder ingredients such as AHA’s and Biotin and I’m happy to report they actually really work. But don’t just take my word for it, the proof is in the pudding.”
The latest National Hair & Beauty Federation (NHBF) quarterly State of the Industry survey shows the sector in a positive position as it generally remains stable. The signs of positivity seen in previous surveys in April and July have slowed across some indicators but overall, the situation is steady, with a slight rise in businesses making a small or good profit (45%) and a similar number of businesses breaking even (42%). Slightly fewer businesses are making a loss which continues to be a move in the right direction.
The general trend towards increasing prices continues to even off. Over the previous three months, 55% of businesses raised their prices and a further 51% will do so over the next three months. Reliance on external support continues to stabilise; over half of businesses (56%) are still either partially or completely reliant on Government support but 44% say that they are not reliant on continued support. The most positive finding is that three quarters of those surveyed said they are confident in their survival.
However, whilst staffing and recruitment intentions also remain steady they are still in negative territory with only 27% were definitely or likely to take on new staff in the next three months (similar to 28% in July) and 63% saying that it was unlikely or that they definitely would not be hiring. The lack of experienced staff continues to be a huge problem for the industry, as outlined by the NHBF Careers at the Cutting-Edge report in May 2022.
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