Beauty Watch: Lancôme Le Correcteur Pro Conceal Palette
“A Fantasy of Flowers” is the latest colour collection by MAC. This one is not for shrinking violets but packed with vibrant hues straight from the What Dreams May Come gardens. For fans of the brand’s velvety Mineralize powders, there are four new eye-shadow quads, two blushes and two Skinfinish face powders, all of that formula. Six new shades of the brand’s high-shine lustre-finish lipsticks (including Fleur D’Coral, €19, a gorgeous peachy-nude that brightens your smile), six Cremesheen Glass glosses, two Fluidline liner-pots and four jars of shimmery eye-shadow pigment powders round off the range. My favourite products are the candy-coloured nail lacquers, €13.50 each.
What looks worse than under-eye shadows? Two half-moons of concealer highlighting them to the world. Lancôme’s new concealer palette, €38, helps you hide shadows like a pro in three steps. The peachy shade on the left cancels out blue and purple tones on the inner third of the under-eye. The centre-palette shade should perfectly match your skin-tone (choose from eight shades) and brightens any dull skin. The third shade is translucent powder, which evens out the area and maintains coverage all day.
If you have yet to update your makeup look for Spring, Laura Mercier offers the season’s prettiest shades in a lightweight, linen-covered palette with mirror. The Enlightenment Eye and Cheek Palette, €42.50, has four wear-anywhere eye-shadows in pale pink, gold, pearly brown and dove grey. Cheek colours in cool and warm pinks are all you need to complete the natural new look.
Tom Ford’s Spring makeup collection is a range of four limited-edition nail lacquers, €32 each, and eight sheer lip colours, €46 each. “Beautiful and glowing skin touched with a little hot colour is a ravishing look,” says the designer. The lip-sheer formula contains vitamin E, vitamin C and Shea butter. The colour pigment of each shade is far stronger than any sheer I’ve tried, providing full coverage in hues ranging from “In the Buff,” a naked pink, to “Bitter Sweet,” a rich chocolate, and “Firecracker,” an orange-toned red. The nicest of the nail lacquers, “Indiscretion,” is a bold, cool-toned fuchsia that wears well for seven days.
Huile Prodigieuse body oil, the first product by French brand Nuxe, has been a cult hit since its 1991 launch. This month, Nuxe Prodigieux: The Perfume, €48.60, launches in chemists nationwide. Brand founder Aliza Jabés called the oil prodigieuse to remind women to take “prodigious” care of themselves. With orange blossom head notes, a velvety rose and magnolia heart and a vanilla and coconut base, the fragrance smells more like a hot weekend in Anguilla than a fortifying essence. Nonetheless, it is lovely.
Guerlain’s Météorites Perles face-powder, €49, has had a makeover. The perfume house’s signature radiance-booster is 27 this year and now available in colour-correcting shades that conceal redness, ashiness, age-spots or dull-skin, depending on which of the four pots you choose. The irregular-sized, multi-faceted pearls are still hand-shaped “with craftsmanship mastered by only four people in the world,” which seems an incredibly demanding job for such a small crew, especially given the brand’s global availability.
Get some colour in your cheeks with Clinique’s new Cheek Pop blushes, €20 each. These powder blush compacts dry to a natural, granule-free finish. It’s that just-pinched look with no chance of capillary breakage. Cheek Pops are available in berry, ginger, peach and plum shades from 21 March.
Any skincare product with “miracle” on the label sets itself up for a fall but the new Olay Regeneriste 10 Minute Miracle Primer, €38.49, has plenty to recommend it, if you’re willing to wait 10 minutes. It’s more like a serum-primer hybrid. What I really like about this primer is the niacinamide (vitamin B3) which (when used with adequate sun-protection) helps skin repair itself over time. Chamomile and vitamin E provide extra moisture and antioxidant benefits.
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