Perhaps one of the cutest collaborations we’re seeing this year, the shu uemura x Super Mario Bros collection combines our childhood with a cute hot pink packaging. This eye and cheek palette is also travel-friendly, putting all essentials into one package.
Dior Beauty’s Precious Rocks holiday collection sees several shades of matte liquid lipstick, but we’re smitten by this rose-nude shade.
While Becca is most known for their highlighters, they’ve transformed their famous highlight shades into one shimmery eye shadow palette that’s worth collecting.
Also from Dior Beauty’s Precious Rocks holiday collection, this stunning blusher sits pretty on both your cheeks and your dressing table.
The Anna Sui Makeup Coffret Set K inspired by kaleidoscopes comes with a cute travel makeup pouch, an all-over face powder with six shades to give your skin a natural glow, and a star-shaped lipstick in a glittery pink shade.
Part of the YSL Beauty Dazzling Lights collection, this limited-edition lipstick comes in a pretty coral hue.
What’s Christmas without a dash of red lipstick? It’s even better when it comes in this limited edition YSL Beauty Dazzling Lights packaging.
Pamper someone with yet another product from the shu uemura x Super Mario Bros collection: this matte orange lipstick.
‘Tis the holiday season, which basically gives everyone free reign to put on anything glittery. That includes this Dior Diorific Precious Rocks Golden Glow Loose Powder, which gives your complexion an ethereal glow.
The Anna Sui Makeup Coffret Set K inspired by kaleidoscopes comes with a cute travel makeup pouch, an all-over face powder with six shades to give your skin a natural glow, and a star-shaped lipstick in a glittery pink shade.
Gift this YSL Beauty Dazzling Lights Edition Complete Make-Up Palette and it’ll be their go-to palette for a long time to come — until the next limited edition face palette comes along, that is.
Know someone that needs a volume boost with their hair? This Matrix Biolage Full Density Densifying Spray Treatment will do the trick.
Damaged hair is a common problem, especially with girls who constantly style their hair with hot styling tools. Treat it well with this L’Oreal Professionnel Vitamino Color Color Radiance Protection + Perfecting Smoothing Cream.
Your curls will come effortlessly with this GHD Size 3 Ceramic Vented Radial Brush. The 45mm barrel is best used with long hair.
Using powerful oils from across the globe, this nourishing hair oil softens the skin and hair with just a single pump.
Have your hair smell of roses and shine like jewels with this 2-in-1 hair spray.
Its tri-zone technology allows you to keep on stylin’ without worrying about the breakage.
When your hair is over-processed, it’s dry, coarse and definitely more prone to breakage — hence a hair masque like this will come in handy. Your hair will be immediately softer and much more manageable after just 10 minutes of usage.
Don’t be fooled by its sweet, magical-looking packaging. The fragrance is feminine yet mysterious. The scent opens with pink pomelo notes and spicy pink pepper, before going floral with delicious raspberry pralines then dark with golden cypress and himalayan cedar wood.
Bask in the scent of first morning light in Provence that opens with a fresh, sparkling and slight fruity top note of bergamot, pink pepper, and blackcurrent. The scent then evolves to a floral explosion of pink peonies, and ends with a tender, musky dry-down of white musk.
Let the new Penhaligon London As Sawira fragrance bring you on a journey to Marrakech, where heady spices and the soft caress of myrrh are bottled into a flacon — an experience in a fragrance.
Be a ‘Good Girl’ again with this new Carolina Herrera Good Girl Collector Edition. The original composition of tuberose and cocoa is encased in the same stiletto shoe with a killer heel, but decorated with glitter combined in three different colours.
Anne Flipo is the nose behind this floral fruity scent. It opens with neroli, bitter orange and raspberry with orange blossom and jasmine as its heart. When the scent lingers, it becomes husky with amber, patchouli and honey.
One of Annick Goutal’s most iconic scents gets packaged into a delightful box that has a matching body lotion, so you can smell like cherry blossoms all day long.
Dior’s iconic gold fragrance gets a new update this year, yet it is still exquisite. Not only is the long neck with the carved necklace unique, the scent remains sweet with top notes of jasmine and a heart of rose and ylang ylang.
This is truly a treasure box with a combination of 24 Amazonian clay eye shadows, 2 Amazonian clay blush shades, 2 Amazonian clay bronzers, an Amazonian clay highlighter, a full-sized Sex Kitten eyeliner, one deluxe lights, camera, lashes 4-in-1 mascara and one deluxe Tarteist quick dry matte Lip Paint in Grand.
For this year’s holiday collection, Chanel channeled shades of aubergine and green for the eye shadow palette. It’s unique and perfect for both daytime and nighttime looks.
This limited-edition brick red shade is going fast, so don’t walk — run! Popularity aside, this liquid lipstick also has a yummy gingerbread scent to it, adding on to the novelty.
They say it’s a palette fit for a queen, and we couldn’t agree more. You would definitely look like a queen when you combine the blush, contour, highlighter, and luminising powder from this face palette.
Shiseido collaborates with Japanese artist Sisyu for their holiday collection, and the results are sublime. This eye and lip palette features light shimmery shades for the eyes, and three lip colours the range from dark to bright, and nude. Definitely one for the collection.
Also from the limited edition Sisyu holiday collection, Shiseido’s cushion compact gets a makeover but with the same popular formula.
For the holiday collection, four of Chanel’s lipsticks get a festive red makeover. This shade is an iconic red with blue base.
Caudalie’s new range targets anti-pollution while giving your skin the glow it deserves. Power your skincare routine with this fast-absorbing serum. Your skin will thank you.
The iconic Pitera essence gets maxed up with this essence, so expect to be looking youthful in no time.
Japanese artist Sisyu has also done her magic on one of Shiseido’s best-selling serums for this limited-edition product. It’s worth collecting, we say.
Whether as a refreshing mist or a primer for your makeup, this boxed set comes with one spray bottle and two refills.
Whether as a refreshing mist or a primer for your makeup, this boxed set comes with one spray bottle and two refills.
This coffret from Clarins contains the Body Shaping Cream (200ml) and Body Fit (200ml) for a more toned version of you.
Get smooth and moisturised skin that also smells yummy with this Soap & Glory duo. It contains the Flake Away Body Polish and The Righteous Butter Body Butter.
Playing Santa can be both a fulfilling yet difficult process. You love surprising your loved ones with gifts, yet the pressure to gift something meaningful is real. That is why we’ve taken it upon ourselves to curate a definitive holiday beauty gift guide for the women in your life.
Here, we sussed out five personalities and gifts that would tickle their fancy. First, we have The Aesthetics Lover — we know at least one of them in our lives. The Aesthetics Lover is the one who prioritises the packaging before the product; they are the ones that willingly fall prey to the cutest and prettiest makeup packaging in the market. Luckily for them, the holiday season usually sees plenty of makeup collaborations, which gives rise to cute, limited edition collections.
Next, we have the Hair Maven, who prizes her crowning glory above all else. She only goes to a specific hair stylist because only they would know how to handle her hair. Her bathroom is filled with a multitude of hair products: four different types of hair conditioners, a different type of hair masque for each week, shampoos catered to different hair colours, and more. While other girls collect makeup brushes, her tools of the trade are hair brushes and hot styling tools. We’ve got the perfect gifts for her.
The third on our list is the Fragrance Fanatic. She probably already has a whole glass cabinet filled with perfume bottles, but she is still adding on to her collection. Make her day with these new fragrances to hit the market, with a mix of pretty bottles and unique scents.
Then, there’s the Makeup Magpie who is never seen bare-faced. Her love for makeup runs so deep that makeup to her is no longer about creating a pretty face, but tools to create a work of art on her face. Surprise her with these limited-edition holiday products ranging from lip colours to eye shadow palettes.
Finally, we move on to the girls with the Good Skin Comes First mantra. They take pride in their skin and work hard at providing the best sort of nourishment, because good skin will always radiate beauty. Help them with their cause with these star skincare products and coffrets.
Ready to begin your Christmas shopping? Click next to view our holiday beauty gift guide, and don’t forget to click the (+) button to see where you can purchase these items.
Photographer: Soon Lau (Awesome Image Studio)
Dior Beauty’s Precious Rocks holiday collection sees several shades of matte liquid lipstick, but we’re smitten by this rose-nude shade.
Also from Dior Beauty’s Precious Rocks holiday collection, this stunning blusher sits pretty on both your cheeks and your dressing table.
The Anna Sui Makeup Coffret Set K inspired by kaleidoscopes comes with a cute travel makeup pouch, an all-over face powder with six shades to give your skin a natural glow, and a star-shaped lipstick in a glittery pink shade.
‘Tis the holiday season, which basically gives everyone free reign to put on anything glittery. That includes this Dior Diorific Precious Rocks Golden Glow Loose Powder, which gives your complexion an ethereal glow.
The Anna Sui Makeup Coffret Set K inspired by kaleidoscopes comes with a cute travel makeup pouch, an all-over face powder with six shades to give your skin a natural glow, and a star-shaped lipstick in a glittery pink shade.
Have your hair smell of roses and shine like jewels with this 2-in-1 hair spray.
Let the new Penhaligon London As Sawira fragrance bring you on a journey to Marrakech, where heady spices and the soft caress of myrrh are bottled into a flacon — an experience in a fragrance.
Dior’s iconic gold fragrance gets a new update this year, yet it is still exquisite. Not only is the long neck with the carved necklace unique, the scent remains sweet with top notes of jasmine and a heart of rose and ylang ylang.
For Her: A definitive holiday beauty gift guide
Playing Santa can be both a fulfilling yet difficult process. You love surprising your loved ones with gifts, yet the pressure to gift something meaningful is real. That is why we’ve taken it upon ourselves to curate a definitive holiday beauty gift guide for the women in your life.
Here, we sussed out five personalities and gifts that would tickle their fancy. First, we have The Aesthetics Lover — we know at least one of them in our lives. The Aesthetics Lover is the one who prioritises the packaging before the product; they are the ones that willingly fall prey to the cutest and prettiest makeup packaging in the market. Luckily for them, the holiday season usually sees plenty of makeup collaborations, which gives rise to cute, limited edition collections.
Next, we have the Hair Maven, who prizes her crowning glory above all else. She only goes to a specific hair stylist because only they would know how to handle her hair. Her bathroom is filled with a multitude of hair products: four different types of hair conditioners, a different type of hair masque for each week, shampoos catered to different hair colours, and more. While other girls collect makeup brushes, her tools of the trade are hair brushes and hot styling tools. We’ve got the perfect gifts for her.
The third on our list is the Fragrance Fanatic. She probably already has a whole glass cabinet filled with perfume bottles, but she is still adding on to her collection. Make her day with these new fragrances to hit the market, with a mix of pretty bottles and unique scents.
Then, there’s the Makeup Magpie who is never seen bare-faced. Her love for makeup runs so deep that makeup to her is no longer about creating a pretty face, but tools to create a work of art on her face. Surprise her with these limited-edition holiday products ranging from lip colours to eye shadow palettes.
Finally, we move on to the girls with the Good Skin Comes First mantra. They take pride in their skin and work hard at providing the best sort of nourishment, because good skin will always radiate beauty. Help them with their cause with these star skincare products and coffrets.
Ready to begin your Christmas shopping? Click next to view our holiday beauty gift guide, and don’t forget to click the (+) button to see where you can purchase these items.
Photographer: Soon Lau (Awesome Image Studio)
PohNee Chin
Editor, Kuala Lumpur
Poh Nee is the editor and writes about travel and drinks. When she's not living out her holiday dreams via Google Earth and sipping on an Old Fashioned down at the local bars, you can find her snug at home bingeing on Netflix and mystery fiction.
