Welcome the new lunar year right, by looking your best. Photo: Dr Dennis Gross
Chinese New Year is all about looking your best. Festive outfits aside, you can also "dress up" your looks with the right makeup. Not mentioning treating your skin right will help give you that healthy glow all throughout the festivities.
Better tone and texture
A limited edition offering from Dr Dennis Gross comes in the form of daily peels powered by AHA/BHAs.
The Lunar New Year 2024 Alpha Beta Universal Daily Peel is formulated to be highly effective without throwing skin off balance, aiming at achieving smoother, more radiant and healthier-looking skin.
This fast-acting, two-step daily treatment includes five AHA/BHAs plus antioxidants and vitamins to lift away dead skin along with excess oil and impurities, while improving the appearance of uneven tone and texture.
For optimal results, use daily in the morning or evening, and first time users may apply the product every other day until the skin becomes acclimatised.
Staying power
Nars Cosmetics introduces its new Powermatte High-Intensity Lip Pencil, crafted with a formula charged with 12-hour wear.
Its cream-to-matte texture applies effortlessly and seals lips with a bold, matte finish which is transfer-proof and lightweight.
Made from a dynamic blend of pure pigments suspended in rich, emollient oils and colour-locking ingredients, it saturates lips with dense colour that glides on effortlessly and wears comfortably.
Silky-smooth finish
Laura Mercier’s Lunar New Year collection is housed in a limited-edition festive packaging which features a bold red hue and golden dragon motif and includes the brand’s range of best-selling products.
The Blush Colour Infusion, developed with micro-fine powders, delivers a silky-smooth finish for a natural, fresh look that lasts up to 10 hours.
Its pure colour pigment provides an added bonus, ensuring a lightweight and even application, layering as seamlessly and flawlessly with liquid or powder makeup as it does on bare skin.
You can use it to achieve a sheer, air-brushed effect with a light sweep or swirl away and build up to a vivid colour statement.
It is available in the shade Ginger – a matte pale nude – which is meant to complement all skin tones.
Dragon-inspired
Shu Uemura’s new collection, Invincible Reds, features stunning hues of spiced brown and apricots, along with auspicious red.
Drawing inspiration from the spirited essence of the dragon, this limited edition collection features a meticulously crafted dragon scale-engraved lipstick bullet and exclusive packaging adorned with calligraphic dragon designs.
Included in the collection are the rouge unlimited kinu cream, a liquid lip colour formulated with Japanese technology in high transparency, and the rouge unlimited kinu matte, a dimensional matte lipstick with 88% lip conditioning formula.
Long-lasting hydration
Bath & Body Works’ new range, Luminous, blends three fragrance notes (ruby currant, gilded iris and praline amber) for a rich decadence, warmth and sweetness.
The collection includes the Ultimate Hydration Body Cream which provides intense hydration to relieve dry skin, resulting in 24-hour moisture.
Infused with natural essential oils, vitamin E, aloe, shea butter, cocoa butter and hyaluronic acid, the product is meant to feel rich and luxurious, providing instant moisturisation.
