As the season's change, so should your beauty routine, says editor Trudi Brewer. Who shares the outstanding beauty products to treat your complexion this winter.
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The best winter beauty products work to keep your complexion balanced and calm while battling colder temperatures. Because skin lacks moisture in cold, dry climates, it's time to want to load up on all the hydration you can get, with one constant companion in your routine, regardless of the season, sunscreen. Swap our lightweight lotions for heavy-hitting serums and oils, creams, and moisturising masks to successfully transition to a new routine. Decrease the use of harsh soap and reduce the temperature of the water while cleansing. While winter is the perfect time to invest in skin treatments such as laser and peels, be mindful of the active ingredients like retinol, hydroxy acids, astringents, and alcohols, which can exacerbate dryness. Here are the beauty buys we rate for winter.
The Cleanser
AVENE TOLÉRANCE LOTION EXTREMELY GENTLE CLEANSER, $35.
Switch your cleanser over to a gentle hydrating lotion that won't remove your natural oils or disrupt your skin barrier, such as this newbie from Avène. It's a waterless cleanser, so no rinsing is required, strengthening the skin's barrier and keeping moisture in and nasties out. It's a concentrated gel-like lotion that swiftly removes makeup to leave the skin feeling clean but not dry and tight. Use morning and night by massaging gently with your fingertips, and then remove using cotton pads. Followed by spritzing your skin with Avène's soothing thermal spring water.
The Face Oil
Charlotte Tilbury Collagen Superfusion Facial Oil, $120.
Adding a facial oil to your nightly skin routine is a game-changer for ageing skin. When it was created by makeup artist Charlotte Tilbury with 28+ years of experience, working with women's skin ‘The Queen of Glow’ as she is fondly known in beauty circles has created a glow-giving face oil. The ingredient list includes sweet white lupine seed to
hydrolysed collagen, cocoa bean extract, and avocado oil, and the reason it smells so divine is the sweet lavender and bitter orange flower oils, eucalyptus globulus leaf oil, and divine Damascena rose flower extract. This dreamy lightweight oil is instant rehab for dull, blah-looking skin.
The Serum
Dermalogica Circula Hydration Serum, $109.
This newbie was created to flood your complexion with moisture. Using an enhanced form of hyaluronic acid, algae, polyglutamic acid extracted from fermented soy, plant-derived sugars and a postbiotic blend of lactobacillus ferment together deeply nourish the skin both morning and night. Suffice to say: it’s a goodie for any skin type this winter.
The eye cream
Tailor Awaken Eye Cream, $49.
Eye cream is our desert island beauty product for hydrating the eye area, blurring those circles and fine lines. This caffeine-infused cream gets the thumbs up to revitalise the skin under the eyes and wipe out the puffiness. At the same time, hyaluronic acid minimises the look of wrinkles. But the reason it's addictive is the golden mica extract gives the skin under the eyes a glow-giving subtle shimmer #love.
The Mask
Cultured Biome One Mask, $107.
This jelly-like mask is a mini-facial for the skin. Expect a gentle exfoliation, as well as correcting oil flow, reducing, open pores and blurring the look of hyperpigmentation. How does it do that? With the blend of lactic, malic and azelaic acid, lactococcus ferment, chicory and agave. The brand calls this mask a mini facial in a bottle, and we agree.
The Day Cream
Elizabeth Arden Advanced Ceramide Lift & Firm Day Cream, $155.
This cream needs to come with a warning, it’s addictive. Not just the citrus floral scent but also its also smoothing, and skin firming effects. Stacked with Arden’s famous ceramide formula, tetrapeptides and edelweiss extract It’s a lovely lightweight texture that dry skin will adore, and we love the new sustainable glass jar. There is also an SPF laden option.
The Lash Serum
Clinique High Impact Lash Amplifying Serum, $70.
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o amp up your smallest assets, the ingredients in this formula are protein peptides, hyaluronic acid, vitamin E, ginseng and turmeric root, alma extract, caffeine, and arginine. If you have tried other lash lengthening serums but they cause irritation, this won’t. Expect luscious lashes after a few months when you use daily.
The Powder Foundation
bareMinerals BarePro 16HR Skin-Perfecting Powder Foundation, $57.
This new skin-perfecting powder foundation, not only gives skin a luminous finish it’s also stacked with nourishing skincare ingredients, and pineapple extract to brighten and smooth the skin’s texture while peony and sugarcane-derived squalane, hydrate and nourish.
Sweat, humidity and transfer-resistant you can get a medium to full coverage finish with what is the brand's updated best-selling foundation.
The Perfume
Boucheron Quatre En Bleu Eau De Parfum Spray, $110.
The latest interpretation of Quatre is a woody-musky floral, built around a bouquet of white flowers, with an unexpected burst of citrusy lemon, bergamot and mandarin orange. But why our style director is made for this perfume is the Egyptian jasmine and Rose, in a creamy base of Akigalawood, musk and sandalwood.
The Body Cream
Weleda Revitalising Body Lotion - Sea Buckthorn $30.
There’s a new collection of 100 per cent certified natural body lotions from Weleda. Made from the goodness of pure plant oils from kernels, seeds and sun-ripened fruits. Restore your dry skin back to looking and feeling super-smooth. Expect that long-lasting glow to last at leave 48 hours. There are six scents, pictured here Sea Buckthorn.
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