BEAUTY FINDS IS TEN’S ONLINE SERIES WHERE BEAUTY AUTHORITY EDWINA INGS-CHAMBERS DISSECTS HER MUST-HAVE BEAUTY FINDS EACH MONTH.

It’s March beauty pickers (though not for much longer). But as spring has finally decided to pop its head out and say hello, and just before we do a handbrake turn into April, here are the beauty launches that topped our beauty charts this month. So…

Straight in at Number 1 is the product that beauty editors would bump each off to get their hands on: Westman Atelier’s new Sun Tone Bronzing Drops. Frankly, these drops had us at ‘hello’ because the packaging in the holiday shades of clear-day sky blue or shades of sea green are instantly more-ish. But what’s inside is even better: a liquid, non-shimmery bronzer that gives you that perfect Californian beach-babe glow so synonymous with many of Gucci Westman’s friends and clients as a makeup artist (from Jennifer Anniston to Cameron Diaz) and that’s easy to blend and layer. Available in four shades.

Number 2 has Augustinus Bader back in the charts yet again and this time with its brand new The Sunscreen SPF50 from Space NK. As you’d expect from this brand they aren’t just offering a broad spectrum sunscreen but all the skincare benefits you’d expect from them – including their signature TFC8 skin renewal complex so that you’re treating the skin at the same time as protecting it (results are impressive including a 65 per cent reducing in pigmentation and a x 2.5 hydration boost. And the product texture feels as lightweight as the perfect cream, with no cast.

In at Number 3 is Merit extending its cult makeup line with a brand-new Signature Lip Sheer Lip Liner. This is a liner with a difference: the gel formula glides on and delivers a slight gloss finish, so if you like a satin finish you need apply nothing else on your kissers but this. Plus it keeps lips hydrated and, on a practical front, has a built-in sharpener. Available in eight shades ranging from soft pink to deep brown.

Milk Makeup is back in the charts at Number 4 with its innovative Hydro Grip Gel Tint. Another wonder product from this brand, this skin tint gives a really natural and quite dewy finish and offers light but buildable coverage that lasts well, and leaves skin well hydrated too – and a great option in warmer weather. It may say ‘gel’ on the tube but the formulation feels more creamy and is fragrance-free so good for sensitive skins too.

Violets are back in fashion with the new spring/summer 25 fragrance offering from Ffern focussing on the bloom entering the charts halfway through at Number 5. This cult, organic, Somerset-based fragrance house always produces intriguing blends and for this season it’s all about a tale of a sunny woodland glade filled with sweet violets, Jonquil daffodil, and yland ylang blended with velvety orris to create a joyously fragrant symphony of blooms that’s still grounded and flirty rather floaty and diaphanous.

It’s all about sunny escapes with the launch of Baobab Collection’s latest limited-edition candle (and diffuser) collection all inspired by the Côte d’Azur entering the Top Ten at Number 6. Choose from the Côte d’Azur fragrance with lemon, sea salt, and musk houses in screen-printed glass holders showing the architectural highlights of Nice, Menton and Saint Tropez. Or if you’re want a headier fragrant option then the Riviera Leopolda (named after the famous Villa Leopolda perched above the hills of Villefranche) comes with notes of tuberose, sea salt and moss and housed in a pink and turquoise swirlingly patterned glass container. Get yours here.

For an alternative approach to fragrance check out Dior’s new Miss Dior Mini Miss fragrance sticks at lucky Number 7. These solid perfumes are alcohol free fragrance sticks and look more like lip balms and come housed in refillable and very fashionable accessories emblazoned with the Maison’s distinctive jacquard houndstooth pattern and give a very modern twist to the classic Miss Dior fragrance. Available in three options there’s the Miss Dior edp with lily of the valley and rose and musk, a fruitier take on proceedings with mandarin and jasmine for Miss Dior Parfum, and the Blooming Bouquet version with bergamot, rose and white musk.

It’s not often we’ll go crazy over shampoo, but the new Oribe Serene Scalp Densifying Range is one to get excited about at Number 8. It’s designed to help those with thinning hair look the opposite by plumping and densifying strands. But it’s also just a totally brilliant volumizing range for anyone that will leave hair looking bouncy and shiny and very Eighties supermodel-worthy with the absolute minimum of effort. Plus, call us superficial, but the purple bottles also look pretty swanky in a bathroom too.

A little bit of beauty history enters the charts at Number 9 with the documentary The Final Copy of Ilon Specht available on Prime Video. The short film tells the story of the creative ad exec who created the infamous line for L’Oreal Paris ‘because you’re worth it’ back in 1971. In a very poignant 17 minutes, and in what became deathbed interviews, Spect recalls how the slogan came about and the story is told both in macro terms of the social impact and the advertising world and in the micro and how Spect applied the philosophy to important personal relationships too. Keep the handkerchief handy because this is also a tearjerker. Watch here.

And at Number 10 it’s a real back to the future moment from Bronnley. The brand itself may have had a little bit of a revamp but its classic lemon-shaped bar soaps are still made in the same moulds as they have been since 1892 and are still some of the cutest and coolest you could find anywhere. The fragrance? Lemon citrus, of course, with added notes of lemongrass, neroli, cedar and musk. Bronnley may be a heritage brand and this design may be well over a century old, but these soaps would be going viral if they were stamped with a must-have fashion brand name. As it is, if you’re in the know then you know just how on trend they always are.

Top image: photography courtesy of Dior.

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