When it comes time for your sacred nighttime skincare regimen, it’s crucial to pick the right products that can truly work wonders for your skin. After all, the skin regenerates and heals itself best while you’re getting in your beauty rest, and you want to feed it with the best ingredients. Just so you can actually say, “I woke up like this.”
Below, we picked out six of the best luxurious skincare products on the market to add to your nightly routine.
LONG LIVE
What’s a pamper session without something from La Prairie, one of the biggest names synonymous with luxury skincare? If a more youthful outlook is your goal, its new Life Matrix Haute Rejuvenation Cream will be right up your alley. This rich cream is powered by the Exclusive Matrix Complex, comprising a high concentration of the Exclusive Cellular Complex as well as peony root and calendula flower extracts. The first works to optimise the availability of cellular information as well as cellular functionality—the root causes of skin ageing as identified by the brand—for improved cell resilience and health for younger looking skin. The latter two, meanwhile, reduce the look of fine lines and wrinkles, and also boast antioxidant and anti-inflammatory properties that, among other things, help improve skin tone, clarity, hydration and firmness. With a lightweight texture that sinks into skin quickly, the cream feels infinitely nourishing, leaving skin soft and silky smooth to the touch.
MAXIMUM IMPACT
In the beauty sphere, research and innovation never stand still—a boon for us consumers. Case in point: Augustinus Bader’s The Skin Infusion, a four-week intensive treatment driven by the Advanced TFC8, an updated version of the German brand’s proprietary TFC8 complex, created 16 years ago, that is billed to more efficiently deliver essential vitamins, lipids and proprietary peptides to the skin cells. Contributing to the formula’s potency is the plant-based Vitamin D Activator, which works to enhance the skin’s absorption of vitamin D to support healthier skin as well as protect against signs of ageing. This preservative-free concoction with a creamy texture is to be used twice daily for a month, after your regular serum and before your favourite moisturiser.
SPOT ON
Loving on the eye area—home to the thinnest skin on the face—is a must and for that, there is the indulgent Supremya At Night The Supreme Anti-Aging Eye Cream from Sisley. At its heart is the French brand’s Fundamental Regenerative Complex—a blend of anti-ageing actives—as well as key ingredients such as adenosine (tackles the look of wrinkles), yellow gentian extract (targets dark circles and puffiness) and oat seed extract (tightens and smooths skin). For best results, give the area a gentle massage post-application using the accompanying zamac massage tool, designed to revitalise, smooth, lift and stimulate the eye contours. Self-care has never felt this opulent.
RECOVERY MODE
Lucky are those always blessed with a quality eight-hour snooze—after all, it is during deep sleep that all the good things happen: blood circulation increases and the body releases growth hormones, which aid cell and tissue repair and regeneration. For those not quite a s fortunate, there is always Guerlain’s Orchidée Impériale The Mask to help you fake it till you make it. Luxuriously creamy and dense, this recovery concentrate replenishes the skin’s natural moisture while reducing the appearance of wrinkles and other imperfections, so your skin’s surface looks flawless and radiant each morning. Time to bid your dull complexion adiós.
THE FLOWER OF YOUTH
Not every brand can claim to have created a flower in the name of skincare. Dior Beauty, however, did just that with the Rose de Granville, the key ingredient anchoring the houses premium Dior Prestige range since its debut in 1999. Born after seven generations of hybridisations, this mighty rose possesses 22 micronutrients that serve to support the skin’s immunity. The brand doubles down on harnessing its prowess to deliver exceptional skin benefits with the new Dior Prestige La Micro-Huile de Rose Activated Serum, which boasts a formula that, when compared to that of the 2017 original, is six times more concentrated in micronutrients derived from the Rose de Granville. Working in tandem are essential omegas that promote skin recovery while combating signs of ageing. All are encapsulated in 10,000 micro-pearls, suspended in a silky serum, that burst and are activated only upon use. Adding to the sensorial experience is the delicate rose scent that envelops you in a soothing embrace, melting away the day’s stresses and worries.
MIRACLE WORKER
Luxury skincare brand La Mer needs no introduction—its Miracle Broth, at the heart of every one of its products, is the stuff of legend. The German brand has now combined this signature elixir with its new MRA-3 complex, a marine retinol alternative that is gentler on the skin, in The Rejuvenating Night Cream to deliver next-level anti-ageing benefits. Among other things, this supercharged duo fights against the breakdown of collagen and hyaluronic acid in the dermis, for a fresh and plump complexion every morning. The new formula si also pillow-proof, sinking quickly into the skin so you can strike product transfer of your worry list.
This story first appeared in the October print issue of GRAZIA Singapore.
PHOTOGRAPHY JAYA KHIDIR
ART DIRECTION MARISA XIN
PHOTOGRAPHY ASSISTANTS NOWO KASTURI AND SYED ABDULLAH
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