Sally Foran: The best of April's beauty releases

Beauty Editor Sally Foran introduces the latest and greatest products to add to your repertoire

Thu, 02 Apr, 2026 - 01:00

Sally Foran

Environ Skincare RAD Active

This sunscreen is the next generation of the iconic RAD formulation, originally launched in 1992 as the world’s first sunscreen combining antioxidants with UV protection. It’s upgraded from SPF15 to 20 and is lightweight, breathable, sweat-resistant, combines physical and chemical filters to protect against UVA and UVB rays and a synergistic antioxidant blend to defend against free radical damage and photoaging.

Enriched with moisturising, barrier-supporting ingredients, it offers effective daily protection, a comfortable dewy finish and sits perfectly under makeup.

€34, Monica Tolan

Nak Hair Peptide Leave In Power Mask

If you’re a fellow blonde, you’re going to love this at home treatment designed to revive, repair, and restore damaged hair in minutes. It features hydrolysed vegetable proteins, 24 biomimetic peptides, and essential amino acids that strengthen and rebuild the hair fibre at a molecular level – essentially skincare for hair.

It left my hair looking visibly healthier, smoother, and stronger, and it helps reverse damage from bleach, colour, chemical treatments, heat styling, while locking in moisture, balancing pH, smoothing hair, and
protecting against oxidative damage, frizz, and flyaways. It really does it all.

€65, selected salons

Trinny London Miracle Blur 2.0

This is miracle blur reimagined, and I much prefer it to the original. It bestows an instantly retouched complexion by blurring lines, pores and uneven skin texture in seconds, for a soft focus, matte, diffused finish. It can be worn alone, under makeup or tapped over makeup, all invisibly, thanks to its universal translucent shade.

Driven by advanced blurring technology, it presses seamlessly into skin without dragging, settling or feeling heavy. It’s breathable formula feels smooth, comfortable and undetectable, making it ideal for targeting areas such as forehead lines, crow’s feet, under eyes (I particularly love it here) pores and lip lines. Contains hyaluronic acid for lasting hydration too.

€34, trinnylondon.com

Hourglass Unreal Liquid Highlighter

This might be the most beautiful highlighter I’ve ever put on my skin. It’s a serum light veil that just melts into skin. Powered by an advanced liquid light system, it is designed to mimic the way skin naturally reflects light with ultra fine pigments to create a weightless finish, that never looks heavy or metallic, while Hyaluronic Acid and Upcycled White Lupin Seed Extract hydrate and firm the skin. It moves with skin, while also managing to look like a second skin, without a hint of shimmer in sight – just what you’d expect from this luxurious brand. Available in five shades.

€46, Space NK

Victoria Beckham Beauty Colour Wash Bronze Water Tint

A new subtle shade extension of her award winning Colour Wash cheek colour, which I adore, just in time for summer. In two buildable bronzes, tanline and heatwave, this innovative watercolour inspired formula delivers a healthy sunkissed glow, that looks like it’s coming naturally from within. In a base of skin loving, refreshing activated sea water, vitamin C rich superfruit extracts, and coconut fruit water, it hydrates immediately and sets slowly into a long wear stain. Beckham herself calls the water-based formula her “summer in a bottle”.

“It soaks into skin and looks exactly like the fresh, healthy glow I have after a holiday in my favourite sunny destination.” Well, we’ll have a bit of that!

€44, victoriabeckhambeauty.com

Charlotte Tilbury Pillow Talk Blush Balm Lip Tint

I got a sneak peek at these back in January, and I’m so excited they’re finally here. Powered by Charlotte’s pH Custom Colour Chemistry, they’re a 3-in-1 sheer lipstick, balm and tint that react with the lips’ natural ph chemistry, creating a blushed from within stain effect, unique to each wearer.

Formulated with a blend of 92% botanical butters, oils and peptides, it repigments, replenishes, replumps and retexturises lips for a blurred, diffused lip blush effect. Available in six shades, delivering up to eight hours of naturally flattering colour, with no wait time.

€33, Arnotts

Chanel Nº5 Eau de Toilette

Chanel has just released a new edition of No.5 Eau de Toilette – with Margot Robbie as its ambassador – a warm and vibrant interpretation of the original fragrance launched by Gabrielle Chanel. I’ve been wearing it daily.

It opens with a floral bouquet of rose, jasmine, and ylang ylang enhanced by aldehydes, while sandalwood and vetiver lend depth and texture.

Presented in a redesigned minimalist square bottle. Olivier Polge, Chanel’s current in-house perfumer creator, says: “N°5 Eau de Toilette is a modern, abstract floral composition distinguished by its subtly woody facet. The fragrance asserts itself through its elegance and complexity.” We’ve been asked multiple times what we are wearing with it on, always a good sign.

€144, Brown Thomas

Brow Aid Lash Lab Restoring Mascara

The only brand who could get me to try a black mascara! Powered by Panthenol (Vitamin B5), this advanced formula hydrates, repairs, strengthens and shields lashes from environmental damage while helping to lengthen and volumise. It contains 86% natural ingredients and doesn’t smudge, flake, or fallout. It’s precison dual sided wand combines two brushes in one, a moulded brush to lengthen, separate and define, and a bristle brush to create volume, fan lashes and amplify.

It’s innovative emission system delivers a lasting lifted curl too. Finally, a luxurious blend of waxes and emollients ensures a smooth, buildable application and a weightless texture. Available in jet black and yes reader I have requested a brown version.