A beautiful red and gold packaging gives off a festive vibe. Photo: Guerlain
Chinese New Year is a time when most people are busy with their loved ones. However, don't forget to also pamper yourself – so that you are able to welcome the Year of the Snake looking radiant and healthy.
Check out these vibrant beauty products, which can also help get you into a festive mood.
Mystic red
To celebrate the Year of the Snake, Guerlain has created a new collection designed around the snake’s captivating energy and flamboyant red, the star shade in its colour palette.
At the heart of this collection, Rouge G is adding a new red shade with a remarkable intensity to its vast colour palette: N°669 Mystic Red.
It features a marbled bullet inspired by the snake’s sensual undulations. Fusing perfectly together, the shades deliver a multi-faceted result with an intense vibration and depth.
The Rouge G Mystic Red features a collector’s jewel case. The precious red and golden fabric, combining different weaving effects, is fashioned in a variation of prints adopting the hypnotic reflections of the reptile’s skin.
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Impressionistic artwork
Lancome’s Genifique Ultimate Serum gets a glow-up this season thanks to a collaboration with Cai Guo-Qiang, a globally renowned artist celebrated for his gunpowder art and installations.
Together with Cai, an AI model developed by Cai and his studio, the campaign introduces Paris Rose, a masterpiece crafted with Cai’s signature coloured gunpowder technique.
It blends advanced AI technology with Cai’s artistic philosophy. Using its mechanical arm, it sprinkles pink gunpowder to delineate the rose’s contours before igniting the fuse, resulting in a striking impressionistic artwork that symbolises renewal, vitality and endless possibilities.
Festive elegance
Bobbi Brown’s Light the Night Collection is a celebration of glow and glamour.
This limited-edition lineup includes the Lunar Lights Eye Shadow Quad, a palette features four striking shades: Star Beige, Firecracker, Pearl Rose, and Plum Blossom.
All these colours blend effortlessly to create a lantern-lit glow. Whether you’re going for a soft shimmer or bold drama, these shades are your ticket to a celebration-worthy look.
A fresh new edge
Kiehl’s is dressing up its most loved products in special packaging for the upcoming festivities.
A collaboration with multimedia artist Dawn Ang or better known as Aeropalmics on her socials resulted in the eye-catching 2025 Lunar New Year Limited Edition packaging.
The Rare Earth Deep Pore Cleansing Mask, Calendula Herbal-Extract Toner and Ultra Facial Cream wear this vibrant design, which captures the cool, fresh and powerful energy of the Year of the Snake.
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Refresh your complexion
Great for gifting during this festive season, Paula’s Choice’s Pro-Collagen Peptide Plumping Moisturizer sports a vibrant shade of dark pink.
The perfect product to refresh your complexion, it is packed with a powerful 3X pro-collagen peptide complex.
This deeply hydrating gel-cream works below the surface to restore bounce and visibly plump the skin, giving it that youthful, rejuvenated glow, much like the renewal that comes with the Year of the Snake.
