You don’t need to spend a fortune to make beauty changes in your life. Here are some trendy, timeless and most importantly, affordable beauty bits to incorporate into your daily routine this month. Lift your spirits and seize the day at work, school or on the streets of Hong Kong with this August’s best beauty buys.
Laura Mercier
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One of our favorite finds is the new Laura Mercier Rouge Essentiel Silky Crème Lipstick. The ultimate beauty statement, this product blends high impact color with weightless decadence that will last you all day long. You’ll find that it delivers intense color in one silky swipe! We adore the collection of 30 creatively crafted colors that’s curated by Laura Mercier and designed with individuality in mind. The Rouge Essentiel Silky Crème Lipstick palette offers a full spectrum of fresh, vibrant shades that play with cool and warm undertones to suit all personalities and skin. The Rouge Essentiel Silky Crème Lipstick is priced at HKD $260 for all 30 shades while the Longwear Lip Liner is priced at HKD $220. It’s perfect to define your lips while prolonging the lip color’s wear.
Laura Mercier LG/F, SOGO TST, 20 Nathan Rd, Tsim Sha Tsui, Hong Kong, +852 3911 1613, www.lauramercier.com
Perricone MD
The ‘No Make-up’ look is not just a trend. Barely-there beauty is simple and brings out every woman’s natural beauty, perfect for meetings, soirees, and even dinner dates. That is why the Perricone MD’s reformulated ‘No Makeup’ collection is heaven-sent. It delivers a definitive low-key, sheer coverage look that outlasts the summer heat and whatever else the season may throw at us with this unpredictable weather. You can definitely achieve a dewy complexion, flushed cheeks, and bright eyes while protecting and replenishing your skin with this fantastic product.
Perricone MD www.joyce.com
Hourglass
One of our best-kept secrets when it comes to defined brows is Hourglass. This brand has innovatively created a brow pencil that combines the benefits of a powder, pencil, and wax to create naturally full and defined brows. The trick lies in its formulated triangular tip allowing the fine edge to define the brow with hair-like strokes whilst the wider edge quickly eliminates sparseness. The Arch Brow Sculpting Pencil is priced at HKD $310 while the Arch Brow Shaping Gel is priced at HKD $320.
Hourglass Cosmetics Lane Crawford, 3 Canton Road, Tsim Sha Tsui, +852 2118 2288, www.lanecrawford.com.hk
Lane Crawford, ifc mall, International Finance Center, Podium 3, 8 Finance Street Central, +852 2118 2288, www.lanecrawford.com.hk
Lane Crawford, Times Square, 1 Matheson Road, Causeway Bay, +852 2118 3638, www.lanecrawford.com.hk
Fenty Beauty
Taking the beauty world by storm since it’s debut, Fenty Beauty has officially launched in Hong Kong and we certainly can’t get enough of all the fabulous products. Rihanna was inspired to launch a makeup line so that women of all shapes, sizes, and colors could feel included. The brand focuses on a wide range of traditionally hard-to-match skin tones, creating formulas that work for all skin types, and pinpointing universal shades.
We love the lightweight products and the diversity of options that allows Asians to explore and discover ways to blend products that suit their skin. One product that stands out is the Stunna Lip Paint Longwear Fluid Lip Color. We are obsessed with the soft matte finish and believe it or not the color is incredible on all skin tones. Another incredible find is the Pro Filt’r Hydrating Primer priced at HKD $268. The lightweight yet moisture-rich face primer that instantly hydrates the skin and is super long lasting. It’s ideal for normal to dry skin types and has become part of our morning routine before stepping out of the house.
Fenty Beauty www.sephora.hk,
