Six Beauty Essentials To Own This Spring
Below, you’ll find our carefully curated edit of spring-ready picks across makeup, skincare, haircare, bodycare, and fragrance. If they’re not already in your kit, they’re about to become your new favourites…
The Beauty Picks Ushering In Joy This Spring
Kiehl's
Creamy Eye Treatment with Avocado, £30.00Come spring, the lighter the layers, the better – be it your clothes or your beauty routine. Kiehl’s Creamy Eye Treatment glides on with an ultra-light texture that refreshes tired eyes without weighing them down. Enriched with nourishing avocado oil and energising caffeine, it helps soften your delicate undereye area while reducing the appearance of dark circles and puffiness.
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KOSAS
Lip Pulse Glassy Lip Plumper, £24.00Because dry lips should be a thing of the winter past, Kosas Lip Pulse is a new-season essential, pairing a plumping formula with a high-shine finish. Delivering a natural wash of colour and a fuller-looking pout in six flattering shades, these nostalgic tube glosses are the perfect finishing touch for fresh, dewy makeup looks.
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Youth to the People
Superfood Cleanser, £14.00With an ingredients list that reads more like a superfood smoothie, this daily cleanser is one of the most refreshing you’ll try. Powered by green tea, spinach and kale, it helps protect against environmental stressors while a blend of vitamins keeps skin balanced and comfortable as you cleanse. The result is fresh, bouncy, happy-looking skin after every use.
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REFY
Skin Base, £30.00If there’s one thing REFY does best, it’s creating innovative makeup formulas that perfect your skin while still looking like you’re wearing nothing at all. That’s exactly what makes this skin tint so special. It delivers a luminous, even-toned complexion with just enough coverage to let freckles shine through, while hyaluronic acid and the plant-derived extract Inclusium™ help hydrate and support your skin barrier as you wear it. Want to know more? Read our REFY skin base review.
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Aesop
Resurrection Aromatique Hand Balm, £28.00You’ll soon be hooked on Aesop’s hand balm, if not for its addictive almond, coconut and rosemary leaf scent, then for how it instantly softens dry hands and cuticles. Our favourite part, though, has to be how quickly it absorbs, so the too-sticky-to-touch-anything feeling passes in no time.
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Victoria Beckham Beauty
Colour Wash Bronze Water Tint Bronzer, £44.00On days when all you want for your skin is a healthy flush of colour, this is the product you’ll reach for. With a watercolour-inspired texture, this bronzer tint delivers a sheer wash of colour that truly looks like it’s all your own. Lighter than light, packed with mineral-rich hydration and effortlessly easy-breezy, it’s practically springtime in a bottle.
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Sol de Janeiro
Cheeky Biquíni Perfume Mist, £25.00Meet the fragrance you’ll be slinging into every handbag for weeks to come. A feminine, fruity blend of acai, fresh peach, tangy raspberry juice and sheer vanilla, this lightweight, layerable mist feels airy, never cloying, and is perfect for every event on your spring calendar.
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L'Occitane
Almond (Amande) Shower Oil, £9.00Once you try this shower oil, you may never go back to regular body wash. With its addictive almond scent, this silky oil-to-milk formula is packed with nourishing actives that gently cleanse, while natural oils, fatty acids and omegas leave skin soft, smooth and healthy. As a bonus, it works beautifully as a shaving lubricant, too.
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Ouai
Bond Repair Balm, £46.00As the sun makes its grand return, you might notice your hair feeling a little drier. A nourishing treatment can easily help, and OUAI’s Bond Repair Balm is just the ticket. It restores strength, softness and shine while protecting against future damage, with skincare-favourite ingredients like hyaluronic acid, peptides and lipids giving your lengths some serious TLC.
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