W-beauty is full of from American, French, European, and more beauty brands so you can already imagine the decisions we have to make for our Editor’s Picks for W-beauty week. We’ve narrowed down a mix of skincare and makeup brands from high-street to luxury so you see a nice variety that you can add to your wishlist this coming holiday!

Check out our W-Beauty Editor’s Picks!

1

Swissline Cell Shock Luxe-Lift Overnight Balm

With Swissline patented Cellactel 2 Complex and the Bio-mimetic Growth Factors 3% formulas, the Cell Shock Luxe-Lift Overnight Balm has upped the ante with the addition of gold and silk complex. Utilizing biotechnology, Swissline combines colloidal gold with silk protein (fibroin) to reduce the levels of lifestyle-induced skin damage such as stress and make the skin instantly silkier to the touch.

The Cell Shock Luxe-Lift formula is also enhanced with Marine Collagen, a pure form of solubilized collagen and amino acids that occur naturally in silk to deliver line-fining benefits, maximum effect of collagen protein construction and moisturizing the skin.

  • The star ingredient of the Luxe-Lift Overnight Balm – Superoxide Dismutase (SOD) is an antioxidant enzyme obtained from natural yeast that slows down the aging process and reverse signs of aging in the skin.
  • It also plays a role in minimizing signs of sun-induced redness and preventing pigmentation disorders as well as correcting cellular damage caused by the cumulative effects of photo exposure from natural UV and artificial lighting.
2

Oud Essentials Dual-Phase Oil

Our Essentials Dual-Phase Oil is produced from luxurious Pure Oud, often called ‘liquid gold’, combined with an innovative blend of natural oils and minerals, perfectly balanced and formulated to provide just the right amount of moisture to keep your skin hydrated. Its vitamin-rich composition is nourishing and enriching. Applying daily, it will instantly bath the skin in a golden glow, while toning and reducing the appearance of fine lines.

  • Revitalises, moisturises and improves skin texture and tone.
  • Instantly rejuvenates the skin, reducing the appearance of ageing.
  • Non-greasy, fast drying formula allows makeup to be applied immediately afterwards.
3

Sisley Paris Sisleya L’Integral Anti-Age Eye And Lip Contour Cream

Combining the technological breakthroughs of Sisleÿa L’Intégral Anti-Âge with the behavioural dimension of ageing, this anti-ageing cream for your eye and lip area is specially developed for the delicate, vulnerable eye and lip contour areas.

  • It’s been tested for tolerance under dermatological and ophthalmological control and is formulated without essential oils, making it suitable for sensitive eyes and contact lens wearers.
  • It fights wrinkles, dark circles and puffiness and immediately hydrates and smoothes fine lines.
  • Rich in plant extracts (Padina pavonica, Matricaria, and Licorice) and vitamins to fight signs of ageing.
4

Clarins Extra-Firming Silky Day Cream & Silky Night Cream

The new Day and Night Creams now contains a new extract of organic mitracarpus (to replace the organic green banana + lemon thyme complex from the previous formula) that gives a triple action on collagen and elastic fibres and, the links of firmness visibly promotes the skin’s elasticity.

  • It’s also infused with another newly discovered powerful ingredient, Kangaroo Flower Extract from Australia that helps to preserve the environment of the “youth reservoir” (a cluster of young cells that promotes skin regeneration) and stimulates the regeneration of capacity of the young cell clusters so your skin becomes visibly firmer.
  • It contains Clarins’ Anti-Pollution Complex to protect your skin from pollution and external aggressors.
  • Comes in two different textures, Silky Cream (combination skin) and Comfort Cream (dry skin).
5

YSL Beauty All Hours Foundation

YSL Beauté’s first night-proof foundation (has up to 22 shades) that stays put all hours, oil-free, waterproof, and transfer-resistant, whatever you put it through it’s as flawless at the end of the night as it was when you first applied it in the morning, with no need for touch-ups.

  • Thanks to a special long-wear resistant polymer, rich in perlite, which comes from a volcanic rock and absorbs up to three and a half times its weight in water, the foundation lasts through non-stop activity all day and all night long.
  • Special skin conditioning complexes with antioxidant benefits helps to improve skin texture and keep it protected from urban aggressions with SPF 20.
  • Infused with Kombuchka, a fermented black tea extract to improve your skin’s luminosity.
6

Neal’s Yard Remedies White Tea Enriching Facial Mask

This award winning facial mask that’s made for dry and sensitive skin folks.

  • It’s filled with antioxidant-rich, refreshing white tea and purifying kaolin clay that nurtures and detox your skin.
  • It plumps your skin, reduce the appearance of fine lines and wrinkles and restore your skin’s natural moisture levels.
  • This intensive weekly treatment gently cleanses and detoxifies your skin.
7

Lancôme Monsieur Big Waterproof Mascara

This mascara gives your lashes up to 12 times more volume and offers up to 24 hours of flawless wear despite a workout or a sprint to catch your train. It comes with these triple guarantee that last the whole day:

  • Sweatproof
  • Smudgeproof
  • Waterproof
8

MAC Cosmetics Fix+ Prep & Prime Spray

Whether you use the Fix+ as a primer, setting spray, or to enhance your eyeshadow/highlighter game, you can’t help but love the versatility and how it keeps your makeup intact all day. It comes in a Matte version like above or in different scents such as Rose & Coconut. Here are some tips:

  • Prime your skin before makeup. It could also act as a hydrating mist on top of your skincare.
  • Intensify highlighter because we all need that enhanced glow on our face.
  • Dab your eyeshadow brush on the powder then spritz some Fix+ on your brush before applying on your lids and enjoy the pigmentation.
9

Kiehl’s Calendula & Aloe Soothing Hydration Masque

Formulated with handpicked Calendula flower petals and Aloe Vera, this mask is suitable for all skin types and it gives a refreshing surge of cooling hydration to your skin in just 5 minutes!

  • The scent of the Chamomile and Lemon Essential Oils gives a soothing, fresh aroma to the paraben-free, colourant-free formula.
  • You can use the mask regularly up to 3x per week, or as an instant skin pick-me-up after a long flight, a stressful day at work, or a sleepless night.
  • Store the mask in the fridge to cool it and use it after the Calendula Herbal Extract Toner for an even soothing treat when the weather is sweltering hot.
10

NARS Climax Mascara

This red-hot mascara was launched just last week and we’ve been obsessed ever since! #NeverFakeIt anymore with this awesome mascara thanks to its awesome qualities such as:

  • The exclusive ribbed bristles of the wand gets right up to the root of your eyelashes, loading it up with whipped, blackened pigments for hardcore lift and a softcore feel, all with a featherweight touch.
  • It has a Lash Moisture Complex that keeps your lashes healthy and let’s you build up the volume without clumping or smudging.
  • Clump-resistant, Flake-resistant, and Smudge-resistant.
11

Ren Evercalm™ Global Protection Day Cream

This sensitive skin saviour is a great day cream that’s designed to repair your skin’s natural barriers, calm, hydrate and soothe sensitised skin.

  • It combats redness and irritation, protects against signs of premature ageing and leaves the skin soothed and radiant.
  • It contains Blackcurrant Seed Oil that’s rich in Omega 3, helps to soothe skin.
  • Not forgetting, Seabuckthorn Berry Oil, a source of Omega 7, that keeps your skin soft while Calendula repairs it.
12

Crabtree & Evelyn Gardeners Body Lotion

This revitalizing lotion features a nourishing blend of rich butters and oils – Avocado, Shea, Grapeseed and Meadowfoam – to reinvigorate dry skin while uplifting the senses with the freshly cut scent of cucumber, sage and rosemary extracts.

  • With nourishing blend of extracts of cucumber, rosemary and sage to refresh and purify your skin.
  • It’s dermatologically tested.
  • This lightweight, fast-absorbing body lotion is made with super hydrators meadowfoam seed and grapeseed oils work with rich avocado and shea butters to reinvigorate dry skin.
13

Omorovicza Balancing Moisturizer

This lightweight gel-cream moisturizer is perfect for our weather and those with oily/combination skin.

  • Helps to regulate the production of sebum to avoid shine.
  • It also contains exotic fruits extracts that blurs the appearance of pores and brightens your skin.
  • Omorovicza’s mineral-rich Healing Concentrate™ in this moisturizer also leaves your skin firmer, more supple and younger-looking.
14

Elizabeth Arden Advanced Ceramide Daily Youth Restoring Serum

Each golden capsule is filled with fresh, concentrated dose of moisture-boosting serum that has triple the anti-aging power to give you visibly firmer, smoother, healthy-looking skin.

  • Lightweight, silky-smooth, this serum helps to maintain healthy, youthful-looking skin and correct the visible signs of aging by delivering a new and improved blend of ingredients your skin needs to target skin barrier repair, moisturization, and Anti-Aging.
  • Elizabeth Arden’s skin-identical Ceramide technology helps strengthen skin’s moisture barrier layer with what it needs for a youthful-looking appearance.
  • The capsule is biodegradable, fragrance and preservative-free too.
15

Caudalie Vinoperfect Radiance Serum

Even out your complexion back to its radiant state with the help of this popular oil-free serum from Caudalie that you have to try.

  • It’s rich in viniferine, a natural extract of grapevine sap used to treat dark spots & olive squalane that moisturizes your skin.
  • Corrects dark spots and prevents them from appearing as it evens out your skin tone.
  • It’s non photo-sensitizing properties also protects your skin from UV rays.
16

Sephora Collection Creamy Lip Stain

This is one of the best liquid lipsticks we tried! And, it’s affordable and comes in so many colours and finishes!

  • It applies like a lip stain but it dries into a smooth matte finish that last!
  • Pigmented, high-coverage formula and ultra-velvety texture.
  • Infused with avocado oil to keep your lips comfortable.
17

By Terry Hyaluronic Hydra-Powder COLOURLESS HYDRA-CARE POWDER

This colourless, micro-fine hyaluronic acid powder takes the cake for leaving a soft, blurred finish to our skin without leaving any powdery finish and keeping our skin hydrated too.

  • Its hydra-comforting formula combines ultra-filling and plumping micronized hyaluronic acid spheres and super-absorbent silica micro-spheres to slip into the slightest creases to resurface wrinkles, fine lines and enlarged pores.
  • You’ll love the “blurring” makeup-setting power, “soft touch” texture and lumi-smoothing finish.
  • You can use it as the last step of your skincare if you’re planning to not wear makeup or use it to set your face makeup to let it last longer.
18

Guerlain L’OR

This luxurious face primer that’s filled with flecks of gold leaves your skin moisturized, radiant and smooth that allows makeup to last all day.

  • Pure 24-karat gold flakes precious gold flakes are crafted into ultra-sparkling and reflective particles, then dispersed into this hydrating smoothing gel.
  • Let your complexion glow with a supple and satiny finish that’s ready for long-lasting makeup application.
  • You can mix a few drops of this into your foundation for a lightweight, radiant finish.
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Eve Lom Cleanser

A cult-favourite, multi-award-winning OG of cleansing balms. This removes even the most waterproof makeup in a cinch.

  • Enriched with four aromatic plant oils such as Clove Oil (has antiseptic properties to encourage clear skin), Eucalyptus Oil (helps drain away toxins), Hops Oil (tones), and Egyptian Chamomile Oil (softens and soothes) to bring back your skin’s radiance and refined texture.
  • It’s 3-in-1 where it removes makeup, cleanse, and tones your skin without stripping it dry.
  • With the Musline Cloth that comes with it, it gently exfoliates, tones and improves circulation which helps skin cells to regenerate quickly and your following skincare products to be absorbed better.
20

Fenty Beauty Invisimatte Blotting Powder

This blotting powder not only keeps oil at bay, it gives your skin that smooth, Insta-filter finish without leaving any white flashbacks.

  • It contains an exclusive pore-diffusing complex that absorbs shine and gives you a natural matte refresh for an instantly filtered look.
  • This translucent powder blends to all skin tones and won’t cake, clog pores, creep into fine lines, or disturb makeup.
  • Setting your foundation with this will also let it last longer and touch-ups are a-ok too.
21

Talika Eye Decompress

This unique eye mask inspired by Asian relaxation rituals, not only soothes your eye area, it also comes with a 10-minute relaxation podcast created by a Iyengar yoga master, Arnaud Caby for you to listen to while doing the mask.

  • It’s super convenient for traveling too since the compressed mask sheet and lotion is separated in a double-capsule that you can just throw in your bag.
  • The eye lotion is infused with Japanese camellia petals (soothing, antioxidant and anti-pollution), Escin (decongestant, anti-puffiness and anti-dark circles), Anti-pollution plant-based film (smooths the eye contour and prevents the adherence of particles), Cornflower and chamomile waters (soothing and hydrating).
  • The formula is also paraben-free and dermatologically tested.
22

Dior Backstage Glow Face Palette

This highlighter, blush, and bronzer palette created by Peter Philips, Creative and Image Director for Dior Makeup with universal shades that fits all skin tones adds instant radiance to any look, from a natural healthy look to intense luminosity.

  • The easy-to-blend textures and highly concentrated shimmery pigments gives a lightweight veil of luminosity and that famous, natural glow just like the models backstage.
  • You get two highlighters, one white and one golden. A rosy blush and a bronze blush to apply to the cheekbones or as a bronzer.
  • The buildable coverage lets you decide if you want to go for a neutral or more intense look, either way, the second-skin finish is long-wearing.
23

Melvita Organic Damask Rose Floral Water

Our favourite pick-me-up face mist that smells so good and keeps our skin hydrated throughout the day.

  • It’s suitable for all skin types as it’s 100% natural and certified organic.
  • Gives your skin a powerful hydration boost and rejuvenates it!
  • It can be a toner mask too. Just soak the floral water into a cotton wool pad and apply to the face morning and evening to tone the complexion.

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