April favourites
Here are some of the must-haves you will not regret adding to your beauty shelf. By Letty Seah
1. Bio-essence Bio-Gold 24K Black Gold Water, $47.30 This gold-infused serum is truly worth its weight in gold. Besides elevating your shelfie, it deeply hydrates and tackles signs of ageing with skin-loving ingredients such as peptides and caviar. The result? Moisturised skin with a healthy glow.
2. Dior Beauty Miss Dior Mini Miss Eau De Parfum, $104 At just 3.2g, this sleek lipstick-shaped solid perfume houses one of maison’s most timeless scents, Miss Dior. A fruity floral concoction of zesty blood orange, mandarin, delicate lily of the valley, and woody patchouli, this fragrance is perfect for the tropics. 3. Caudalie Resveratrol-Lift Firming Night Cream, $90 Powered by resveratrol, a gentle retinol alternative that encourages cellular turnover sans irritation, this formula works overtime to plump, firm and hydrate skin. It’s also infused with hyaluronic acid, a vegan collagen alternative, and peptides to keep skin moisturised.
4. Sisley Phyto-Teint Perfection, $130 While this buildable formula boasts impressive coverage, it still manages to impart a natural, secondskin finish. It’s also formulated with the brand’s Ideal Skin Complex (a mix of hydrating cucumber and glyco-complex, smoothing green lentil extracts, and strengthening buckwheat seed and peach blossom) that combats environmental aggressors.
5. Guerlain Kiss Kiss Bee Glow Oil, $64 Thanks to moisture-boosting ingredients such as Corsican honey, propolis and royal jelly, this lip oil offers immediate comfort to even the driest of lips. Wear it on its own for a glass-like, high shine finish or pair it with your favourite lipstick to enhance volume and luminosity. Choose from six wearable hues.
6. Cle de Peau Beaute Eye Contour Cream Supreme, $360 Antioxidant-rich Indonesian lempuyang (fragrant ginger) extract and citrus unshiu peel extracts work together to reduce the appearance of wrinkles, fine lines and dullness. For best results, work the formula into your skin with the accompanying platinum massager to cool and energise the delicate undereye area.