CHANEL Beauty SUBLIMAGE Le Baume
If your skin is throwing a tantrum after that laser treatment or simply life’s daily aggressors, CHANEL’s new SUBLIMAGE Le Baume is basically therapy in a jar. The fragrance-free formula features the brand’s signature polyfractioned Vanilla Planifolia, with 40 times the concentration of active molecules compared to the raw plant, plus a recovery complex enriched with ceramides and vitamin B5 to soothe and strengthen the skin barrier. With its velvety texture that melts seamlessly into skin, consider this your recovery plan when your face needs a little extra TLC.
Aesop Resolute Facial Concentrate
A decade in the making and worth the wait, Aesop’s Resolute Facial Concentrate is the brand’s first dance with retinoids — starring Hydroxypinacolone Retinoate (HPR), an alternative that brings all of Retinol’s skin-renewing benefits without the dramatic irritation typically associated with Vitamin A derivatives. This sumptuous oil-serum combines HPR with barrier-reinforcing Squalane and grounding Cedar Atlas, creating a formula that works in harmony with your skin’s natural processes rather than disrupting its delicate balance. While the skincare world races to intensify retinoid effects, Resolute takes the opposite approach: maintaining optimal efficacy while prioritising tolerability and sensorial pleasure, because powerful skincare shouldn’t feel like punishment.
The Ordinary Rice Lipids + Ectoin Microemulsion
The Ordinary’s new Rice Lipids + Ectoin Microemulsion proves that heavyweight hydration doesn’t need to come in a heavy formula. This milky, almost weightless moisturiser delivers 24 hours of moisture through microfluidization technology that seamlessly blends water-loving Ectoin with nourishing Rice Lipids and Jojoba oil. Through high-pressure processing that creates smaller, more uniform particles for better absorption, this clever emulsion packs serious occlusive ingredients into a texture so light, your skin will wonder if you applied anything at all.
Noble Panacea The Exceptional Repair Reset Cream
When modern life keeps your stress switch permanently “on,” Noble Panacea’s The Exceptional Repair Reset Cream offers a 30-day reboot for skin stuck in survival mode, breaking the vicious cycle where stressed skin signals stress back to the brain. This neuro-cosmetic formula, powered by OSMV™ Technology and crafted over 12 weeks per batch, uses Wild Indigo Extract to break down excess cortisol within skin cells while triggering calming neuropeptides, effectively resetting blocked skin receptors that have become desensitised to regular skincare.
Guerlain The New Abeille Royale Eye Care
Guerlain’s new Abeille Royale Eye Care brings the busy bee’s repair magic to your most overworked feature—the eye area that endures 10,000 daily blinks but naturally contains fewer repair cells than the rest of your face. This ultra-smoothing gel-cream concentrates the iconic serum’s youth-repair technology with five times the honey concentration, using patented Black Bee honeys and royal jelly to target deep epidermal repair while its innovative “strapping” texture creates an invisible second-skin film that instantly tightens and smooths.
Paula’s Choice CellularYouth™ Age-Disrupting Longevity Serum
Forget merely fighting ageing signs. Paula’s Choice’s new CellularYouth™ Age-Disrupting Longevity Serum goes straight to the cellular source, energising skin from within to slow ageing before it shows. Developed through five years of advanced epigenetic research and marking the brand’s most clinically studied formulation to date, this lightweight serum harnesses a trio of high-tech ingredients: sunflower sprout extract to regenerate cellular enzymes that fuel skin’s energy, goji berry phyto-exosomes to improve cellular communication, and AI-optimised acetyl tetrapeptide-2 to enhance structural integrity and elasticity. Good news for Paula’s Choice fans—it’s now available in Hong Kong, exclusively at Sephora!
Sulwhasoo Lumiwise Brightening Ampoule Serum
When your skin’s turnover rate hits the brakes, and melanin overstays its welcome, Sulwhasoo’s Lumiwise Brightening Ampoule Serum has got your back. This powerhouse combines proprietary Ginseng Ectoin™ with 2% Niacinamide to create a dual-defence system: inhibiting age-induced inflammatory cytokine PGE2 from within, while blocking UV-induced pigmentation from the outside, clinically proven to enhance skin clarity and luminosity by up to 4.17 times.
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Kaitlyn Lai
