WINTER WONDERS
FANCL’S limited-edition Premium Beauty Selection set combats winter skin problems and gives you 100 per cent beauty with zero preservatives
The coming of winter heralds cooler, crisper weather—and with it a slew of skincare considerations, from dryness to dullness to fine lines. With mature skin, these are issues all year round, and the colder seasons simply exacerbate them. That’s why, during this time of year, investing in skincare products that counteract dryness and cold weather is key.
Fortunately, leading Japanese skincare brand FANCL has launched its limited edition Premium Beauty Selection set just in time for the season. Unlike other brands on the market, FANCL takes a “0 Preservatives” approach, completely doing away with preservatives that can accumulate in the skin, damaging skin cells, accelerating ageing and negating anti-ageing effects by damaging the structure of collagen, which keeps the skin supple. With FANCL’S Premium Beauty Selection set, you can guard against the colder seasons and experience 100 per cent of the beautifying benefits with none of the negative side effects.
The set brings back healthy, glowing skin, relieving both environmental and mental stress with four different products, each geared towards distinct skincare considerations.
Extra Precious Oil This refreshing beauty essence oil enables your skin to retain moisture overnight. It comprises two layers, each serving different functions. The oil layer is anti-oxidising, enhancing skin metabolism by promoting blood circulation in capillaries and locking in moisture to prevent water loss, while the essence layer hydrates your skin, promotes collagen synthesis and enhances firmness. Not only that: the oil also comes with a soft, relaxing scent and a non-sticky feel that will leave your skin refreshed.
Wrinkle Cream This cream targets the wrinkles around the eyes, on the forehead and along the nasolabial folds, or smile lines, located in the area between your nose and mouth. Besides remedying problems with the skin, restoring firmness and repairing elastin and collagen to enhance resilience and plumpness, it also has a preventative effect, dealing with wrinkles before they even form.
BC Essence Wrinkles and sagging skin are caused by the decline and accumulation of old collagen, which impedes the generation of new collagen. This anti-ageing essence combats wrinkles, dullness and dry skin by removing the old collagen and generating new collagen, making nutrient absorption easier and improving metabolism. Dull skin is repaired, restored and revitalised to a state of radiant translucence. As mature skin also lacks both moisture and the lipids that retain skin moisture, the essence replenishes both of these, making the skin supple and hydrated.
W Moist Cream Mask Last but not least, treat your face with this mask, which contains 20ml of essence—almost as much as an entire tube. It combines the effects of the previous three products into one—moisturising, replenishing lipids, introducing collagen and locking in moisture.
disenfranchised Karen people of northwestern Thailand. The watchmaker is also a major backer of the Laureus Sport for Good foundation, which helps uplift youth in underserved communities globally through sports training and mentorship.
Cartier Philanthropy focuses on addressing the challenges faced by women in economically deprived communities. A key area is girls’ education in developing countries, which has countless associated benefits not only for the individual girls, but also their families, communities and countries as a whole. Statistically, the longer a girl in a developing country stays in school, the more likely she is to one day build a small, healthy family, avoid contracting HIV and earn a higher wage. The more educated a young woman is, the later she’ll tend to marry and have children—and the more likely it is that her children will be educated and brought up in good health.
For these reasons, among its numerous other activities, Cartier Philanthropy is supporting Room to Read’s Girls’ Education Programme. This programme gives thousands of girls in Bangladesh and Cambodia (where there are particularly egregious gender disparities) the opportunity to complete secondary school—and the chance at a better life, for them and their family.
H Moser & Cie has also thrown its weight behind Room to Read’s mission to eradicate illiteracy and gender inequality. This year, Moser created two special-edition watches, proceeds from the sale of which will support the charity, whose literacy programmes have helped almost 17 million children across 16 countries. The auction pieces, both white-gold Endeavour Centre Seconds Automatic models on kudu leather straps, feature dials decorated with paintings based on art created by children attending Room to Read’s Literacy Program in India and Sri Lanka. The brand’s recent two auctions brought in a total of CHF63,000 (about HK$500,000) you’ll be pleased to read. As will the numerous children who’ll benefit from the funds raised.
The more educated a woman is... the more likely it is that her children will be educated