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

Greetings beauty pickers and welcome to the first Beauty Finds of the year. Fun times. So what’s been happening, what are the movers and shakers that have made it into the beauty charts? Well, strap on your LED mask, because here we go...

Straight in at Number One is Lisa Eldridge’s Pinpoint® Concealer Micro Correcting Pencil – the launch was such a big draw that she had customers flying in from abroad for the event and queues that stretched round the pop-up block all day long. And they were right to, it really is worth making an effort to get hold of. Based on Lisa’s signature Pinpoint application technique, the fine tip allows for very precise application to cover blemishes and small discolourations, and the gel-based formula provides a seamless easy-to-blend texture. Proof that a little really can go a long way, it’s available in 16 shades.

Number Two is a major entry, but it’s a destination not a product – and that’s not us getting existential about things. So, if you haven’t hustled yourself down to the new Charlotte Tilbury flagship boutique in Covent Garden then please rectify that pronto. Three time the size of any of her other emporiums, this retail extravaganza also includes dedicated Skin and Pillow Talk Spas as well all the usual glamorous Tilbury-style playgrounds and elegant spaces for tutorials. Beauty fans, check it out.

It’s soft soaping but very much as you’d like to be with Cire Trudon’s new super-duper luxury liquid Scented Hand Soap available in two of the house’s iconic fragrances: Médie (a woody citrus) and Vixi (aromatic woody) eau de parfum which enters the charts at Number Three. Inspired by the toiletries of 18th century European royalty, they come housed in green fluted glass with gilded stainless steel pump hardware. And the soap itself? Well it’s only made by a master soap-maker from 97 per cent natural ingredients including organic olive and copra oils and crafted in a cauldron in the purest Marseille soap tradition. It’s the epitome of soap chic.

The eyes have it at Number Four with the arrival of the first eye cream from Reome, the award-winning skincare brand founded by a former beauty director, Joanna Ellner, and grounded in the powers of TCM and biotech. This lightweight gel-crème formula contains a first to market use of the ground-breaking and potent new skin-firming DHK03 biotech active ingredient (it boasts 10 times the efficacy of synthetic vitamin C) making it perfect – and efficacious – for the delicate skin around the eyes. This is new gen skincare from a brand dedicated to high performance.

We’re halfway through this month’s top ten and in at Number Five we have Rare Beauty – the brand founded by Selena Gomez – with a brand new Soft Pinch Liquid Contour. Available in six shades, it’s easy to blend, easy to build and gives a natural-looking finish. And the packaging is simple – a doe foot applicator – so no explosions in your make-up (like some other brands who shall remain nameless here…). It’s so good that the first drop is already selling like hot cakes… but nil desperandum, there’s more coming. Need we say more?

And it’s an unusual double entry this week as Rare Beauty gives another showing this time at Number Six with a new Awaken Confidence fragrance Awaken for its very delectable Find Comfort Bouncy Body Cream and Body & Hair Fragrance Mist.  The new aroma is a light and cheering peach-floral (the original is a luscious jasmine, lemon, tonka bean blend) and the products come back with skincare ingredients. Remember, one per cent of the brand’s sales go to the Rare Impact Fund to increase access to mental health services for young people worldwide.

We’re going full cult product at Number Seven as Hailey Rhode Bieber’s Rhode slips into the January launches just as the month is about to close with its new Peptide Lip Shape. Already the proud purveyors of surely one of the most lusted after lip tints in the market (the phone case which clasps its own gloss product is touted by almost every key beauty personality in London at the moment) now has a lip liner to go with it and the creamy formula provides an easy lip contour with a peptide rich formula to help to soften lips for smoother effect and boost hydration. Pucker up, peeps. It’s available in 11 shades.

It’s all about taking life’s lemons and turning them into…a carefully crafted fragrance with Sana Jardin and the new Air of Aquarius eau de parfum entering the charts at Number Eight. This is a citron-focussed citrus but with real heart, depths and sexiness to it with notes of rosemary, jasmine, and musk added. So it’s no cologne, but a properly lasting hit of optimism and sensuality. Why lemons? Well, because the fruit has very high natural vibration and healing properties – and who doesn’t need a hit of that?

Innovation at Clarins sees their first refillable skincare packaging enter the market – and enter the charts at Number Nine. But it isn’t the environmental focus on the exterior that you should know about but also the contents with a collagen-supporting Extra Firming focus thanks to an avocado-derived peptide and day and night protocol options. Remember, collagen isn’t just a problem for the old gen as collagen starts to decline from the age of 25 onwards (sorry to put a downer on the day).

And if the excitement of this list – or just getting through January – has left you feeling a tad on the exhausted side then you might like to aid a good night’s snooze time with Number Ten, the new Vida Glow Sleep supplements – which have been clinically proven to improve sleep quality by 35 per cent and reduce fatigue by 37 per cent in four weeks. Key ingredients include Maizinol® for its melatonin-like effects, passionflower to calm, and Vitamin B6 a co-fact in melatonin production. It’s a non-drowy approach to sleep and more focussed on soothing mind and body so you fall asleep fast and stay asleep longer. Pill popping has never been so beneficial.

Top image: photography courtesy of Rhode.

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