Photo courtesy of Westman Atelier
There’s truthful overmuch large caller worldly close now—good thing, due to the fact that we’re not conscionable buying for ourselves successful December (if you missed it, cheque retired our gift guides). The things we’re fixated connected this month—a glow-inducing tegument set, eighteen-karat-gold cryofacial tools, the chicest lip-gloss shades of each time—reflect the one-for-you, one-for-me cognition we’re each feeling close now.
Jean Godfrey-June
executive quality editor
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“Once, successful the infirmary helping of the luxe and old-school Clinique La Prairie spa successful Montreux, Switzerland, a small, studious doc leaned crossed the array toward me. ‘You are healthy,’ helium said. ‘But you could get much magnesium.’ More recently, Stanford neurobiologist Andrew Huberman extolled magnesium’s benefits connected Armchair Expert, and my involvement flared again. Magnesium supplements enactment sleep; and magnesium soaks, a peaceful psyche. I person nary occupation sleeping, but my psyche could not beryllium described arsenic peaceful.
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“Steeping myself successful the caller magnesium-flake-infused Anchor bath soak from acupuncturist and aromatherapist Annee de Mamiel is other psyche-soothing due to the fact that I cognize it was made by de Mamiel, who is 1 of the astir serene, grounded radical I’ve ever met. In summation to magnesium flakes, she’s blended 3 kinds of brackish (Himalayan, Epsom, and Dead Sea) into the bath, on with jasmine, lavender, and frankincense, positive each mode of uncommon botanical extracts. It smells and feels perfectly fantastic, and the fantasticness continues aft you look from the bath—you benignant of conscionable person to prevarication down, look astatine nothing, and bask however large your assemblage feels oregon (option B) autumn asleep. It’s heaven. It besides makes a gorgeous gift: It comes successful the astir beauteous metal-embossed achromatic solid jar, tied with the pale-blue de Mamiel grosgrain ribbons.”
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de Mamiel Anchor Bath Soak goop, $88
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“Think assemblage lipid and you think, Not getting dressed aft that. But this spritzable, exquisitely scented (orange flower, acacia, vanilla, roses, and more) adust lipid is astir a 1000 times easier to usage than your emblematic pourable oil, and it leaves your tegument brushed and supple, not to notation acceptable to gaffe into immoderate outfit you’re readying that time (or night). It’s made connected an organic workplace successful Tuscany, and the lipid smells and feels arsenic gorgeous and glamorous arsenic that sounds.”
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Seed to Skin The Serenity Time Defying Dry Body Oil goop, $162
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“This perfectly unthinkable plum-seed look lipid (it smells faintly of amaretto) from California has been retired of banal for astir of the pandemic, and astatine past the super-moisturizing-but-sinks-right-in occurrence is back. It’s packed with antioxidants, omega fatty acids, and polyphenols, but the mode it feels connected your tegument (and of people the mode it makes your tegument look) is the crushed to bargain it. I’m stocking up lest it merchantability retired again.”
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Le Prunier Plum Beauty Oil goop, $72
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Megan O’Neill
senior quality editor
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“This aureate aluminum flask looks similar thing retired of a storybook (or perchance the latest Dune movie, which I can’t hold to spot again) that mightiness clasp a occurrence youth-restoring brew. What this wholly recyclable refill instrumentality does clasp is simply a superserum designed to creaseless good lines (the German prof down the enactment infuses each look with a patented high-tech complex/youth-restoring elixir), moisturize, calm, and invigorate skin. I massage it successful each greeting and night, and the milky cocktail of soothing and brightening pomegranate effect concentrate, edelweiss extract, vitamin C, and atom bran lipid sinks successful instantly. The results: My blemish-prone tegument is little aggravated and waaay much radiant. The serum step—I don’t skip it anymore; boy, does it marque a difference.”
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Augustinus Bader The Serum Nomad goop, $350
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“Am I much taken with Pharrell’s benignant (hot-pink Chanel cardigans! piles of glinting golden chains and bejeweled necklaces! cat-eye sunglasses and caller sneakers!) oregon with his seemingly ageless and poreless, impossibly glowing skin? Of people I had to effort his caller wholly clean, powerfully skin-boosting Humanrace tegument care. The Humidifying Cream is my favorite—the blend of calming snowfall mushroom and tiger leafage extracts and intensely moisturizing plant-based squalane melts close in, infusing my tegument with a dewy summertime sheen adjacent erstwhile it’s forty degrees out. It’s affluent yet ace lightweight, refreshingly unscented, made for each genders (Pharrell is adamant astir that), and layers beautifully implicit my Augustinus Bader serum to seal everything in. The bright-green packaging rules, positive it’s refillable (the refill containers are made with implicit 50 percent postconsumer recycled plastic). I emotion Pharrell, I emotion his caller plumping cream, and I emotion that he’s arsenic into sustainability arsenic helium is into looking truthful supremely dapper.”
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Humanrace Humidifying Cream goop, $48
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Humanrace Humidifying
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“Everything astir these subtly tinted liquid balms—how fantastically shiny and afloat they marque my lips look, the cushiony hydration they impart, that they consciousness similar exquisitely contoured chess pieces successful my hand—makes maine deliriously happy. I emotion to propulsion 1 from my container (handling thing truthful sleek makes maine consciousness sleek) and creaseless connected the blend of profoundly nourishing jojoba, almond, and argan oils that leaves my lips supple for hours. This kit comes with the 2 bestselling shades: Nana is the sheerest, juiciest, sexiest, hardly determination nude that makes maine recognize however unmodern and weirdly ceremonial a batch of different nude pigments look, and Pipsqueak is simply a translucent cranberry reddish that’s arsenic stunning with cropped RE/DONE jeans and a vintage camo T-shirt arsenic it is with the strappy velvet camisole I program connected wearing to the clump of vacation cocktail parties I person coming up.”
Brianna Peters
associate quality editor
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“I archetypal became obsessed with cryofacials erstwhile I tried 1 astatine HigherDOSE aft an infrared sauna session, and the results—luminous, energized, refreshed skin—were amazing. I’m stoked that I tin present bash the full attraction myself astatine home: You support the 2 eighteen-karat-gold-plated tools successful the freezer until you’re acceptable to usage them, past enactment connected your favourite expanse disguise oregon serum. Gently glide some wands successful outward, upward strokes implicit your look and cervix (I absorption nether and astir my eyes). It sounds chilly, but it feels truthful good. And conscionable 5 minutes leaves my tegument radiant, lifted, depuffed, and wholly invigorated. For the afloat experience, I’m reasoning of getting the HigherDOSE sauna blanket.”
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Angela Caglia Gold Cryo Facial Set goop, $125
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“I’ve been obsessed with these velvety, subtly shimmery eye shadiness pods (you get 3 idiosyncratic pots of shadiness that instrumentality unneurotic successful a magnetized ‘pod’),and present they travel successful a goop-exclusive acceptable with the brand’s oculus shadiness blending brushwood and inky-black, lusciously heavy mascara. It’s genuinely each anyone needs for practically immoderate oculus look. I similar to blend each 3 shades—there’s Chocolat, a affluent brown; Tabac, a lukewarm bronze; and Neige, an iridescent ivory—on my apical and bottommost lids for a somewhat sultry, defined smoky eye, oregon use Neige conscionable nether my brow bony and astatine the interior corners of my eyes (Gucci Westman herself taught maine that one). Either way, I flick connected the gorgeous mascara and extremity up with wide-awake eyes and tons of compliments.”
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Westman Atelier All Eyes connected Clean goop, $175
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“I’m already into the cult Augustinus Bader look cream, and now, aft each shower, I’ve been slathering myself caput to toed successful this profoundly moisturizing lotion infused with almighty cleanable ingredients similar TFC8 (it supports skin’s renewal process), a polysaccharide complex, vitamins B5 and E, and aloe vera. I emotion the mode my tegument looks erstwhile I usage it—healthier-looking, plumper, and firmer—but beyond that, I’m obsessed with however it makes my tegument feel: soft, supple, and beautifully hydrated.”
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Augustinus Bader The Body Lotion goop, $95
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Erica Ndlovu
junior subordinate quality editor
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“I similar to support my greeting skin-care regular beauteous simple. I’m usually moving down successful the a.m.—it takes maine acold excessively agelong to peel myself from my furniture for my greeting Peloton oregon AARMY on-demand footwear camp. This skin-loving operation is the best: I sprinkle the vitamin C pulverization into the ultramoisturizing chebula serum (vitamin C serums are notoriously unstable, which is wherefore I emotion this pulverization form), and the chebula leaves my tegument glowy and radiant. All that’s near to enactment connected afterward is immoderate (mineral) sunscreen.”
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True Botanicals The Gold Standard goop, $60
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“This is the archetypal cleanable perfume I’ve fallen for since joining goop and learning astir the perchance health-harming ingredients successful fragrances. The scent is beachy but better—more blase and sexy—with notes of cedar, vanilla, sandalwood, and coconut, and it afloat satisfies my island-getaway nostalgia. It’s conscionable airy capable to deterioration year-round and layers beautifully with different scents, and I get truthful galore compliments erstwhile I deterioration it.”
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Heretic Dirty Coconut goop, $165
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“I’m a notorious overpacker, and this kit has made my holiday-travel packing database a small shorter (if not made much country for an other brace of shoes). You get a foaming cleanser, an ultrahydrating look mask, hyaluronic and calming serums, a skin-coddling look cream, and the beloved articulator balm—all from skin-care guru Dr. Barbara Sturm. The acceptable covers each basal portion keeping my tegument nourished and acceptable to brave the wintertime weather. Plus, it’s a large acquisition for idiosyncratic you truly (really) love.”
Camila Michaels
assistant quality editor
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“I emotion the feeling of a caller manicure, but I’m not a regular nail-salon visitor. But present I tin radiance my nails with this polisher, propulsion backmost my cuticles alternatively of cutting them (the information that clipping my cuticles damages my nail obstruction is thing I’ve known but ignored), and creaseless my cuticles with this lipid to fortify them, and my nails look natural, clean, and polished—without nail polish oregon a manicure appointment. The kit comes successful a pretty, achromatic vegan-leather lawsuit that fits successful immoderate container (and makes an casual present, too).”
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Bare Hands The Dry Gloss Manicure Kit goop, $39
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“Taking mascara disconnected astatine the extremity of the nighttime ever rips retired immoderate of my eyelashes. No longer: This mascara individually defines each azygous 1 of my eyelashes, thickens them without clumps, and leaves them inky-black and glossy. But my favourite portion by acold is the casual removal: Even if I’ve applied the mascara successful the boldest mode imaginable (several coats) for a nighttime out, my earthy lashes are near unscathed erstwhile I creaseless it disconnected with makeup remover. Think Big is simply a miracle, some connected and off.”
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Beautycounter Think Big All-in-One Mascara goop, $27
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“My constitution regular conscionable got easier, and my constitution container noticeably much compact: These 3 petite sticks—a contour, a highlighter, and a blush—bring the colour backmost to my tegument each morning. The effect is truthful pronounced that I haven’t needed instauration oregon concealer (which I usually do), truthful my tegument tin respire arsenic it looks glowy and sun-kissed, and my constitution regular is present astir arsenic effortless arsenic it gets. Note: Two friends—each with precise antithetic complexions—have tried the aforesaid set, and we each look bully successful the colors, truthful decidedly get 1 for yourself, but besides deliberation of it if you’re looking for a simple, elegant gift.”
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