Between The Met Gala, Australian Fashion Week and the Cannes Film Festival, May has brought us an exciting range of new beauty releases and trends we can’t wait to try out. If you’re anything like us though, the days long stretches of rain and wind followed by unseasonable sunshine have made keeping our skin happy feel trickier than ever this month.
To help comfort struggling skin, find cozy new fragrances, and create stunning new makeup looks, the CF team has been hard at work finding the best new beauty products from Australia and beyond. This month’s curation includes a range of nourishing body care, decadent fragrances and pout perfecting lip products.
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Best Beauty Launches May 2024: Fragrance
Creed Queen of Silk Eau de Parfum
Showcased at Australian Fashion Week earlier this month, Creed’s Queen of Silk fragrance pays homage to the softness and strength of pure silk. This intoxicating fragrance contains floral notes of osmanthus and tuberose combined with patchouli, cedarwood and vanilla.
Glasshouse Fragrances Eager For Espresso Scented Candle
The newest member of Glassouse Fragrances’ Sugar Coated Collection, Eager For Espresso smells like a mouthwatering spoonful of tiramisu. As the weather gets colder, this decadent candle can help create a cozy atmosphere with notes of brown sugar, hot coffee and vanilla wood.
Jo Loves Pink Vetiver Fragrance Paintbrush Set
Indulge your inner artist with this ingenious perfume paintbrush from Jo Loves. With a click of the base, the brush releases a lightweight scented gel that can be painted anywhere on the body. It’s compact, no spill design is perfect for travel and top-ups on the go. We particularly love the Pink Vetiver scent.
Kayali Vanilla Candy Rock Sugar 42 Eau de Parfum
A playful and deliciously sweet take on Kayali’s iconic Vanilla 28 fragrance, Vanilla Candy Rock Sugar smells just like a candy store. Gourmand notes of candied pear, marshmallow, creamy vanilla, caramel, bubblegum and jellybeans mingle with soft florals and sophisticated woods. If you like MFK’s Baccarat Rouge 540, we think you’ll love this!
Maison Francis Kurkdjian Fragrance Wardrobe for Her
Discover the luxurious world of Maison Francis Kurkdjian with this luxurious set of eight 11ml fragrances. Designed to enhance the mood, style and memory of every occasion, each scent has the potential to become a life long signature.
The set includes Aqua Media Cologne Forte, À la Rose Eau de Parfum, Baccarat Rouge 540 Extrait de Parfum, Gentle Fluidity Gold Eau de Parfum, Grand Soir Eau de Parfum, OUD Satin Mood Eau de Parfum, Petit Matin Eau de Parfum and 724 Eau de Parfum.
Ouai St. Barts Hair and Body Mist
A dreamy, tropical mist that will have you escaping our rainy Autumn days for the beaches of St Barts. This featherlight mist can be spritzed all over the hair and body to leave the scent of dragonfruit, orange blossom, tuberose and musk.
Best May 2024 Beauty Launches: Makeup
Alya Skin Lip Jelly
A moisture-locking lip treatment that plumps, hydrates and heals the lips. Alya Skin’s Lip Jelly is made with a luxurious feeling blend of Australian sweet almond and jojoba oil, shea butter and lili pili extract. As cooler weather approaches, this is definitely one to stock up on!
Benefit Splashtint Dewy Lip Tint
Benefit Cosmetic’s new Splashtint delivers soft, comforting hydration and a punchy wash of glossy colour. The buildable, balm like formula smooths fine lines and adds a juicy finish that fades to a tint. Our favourite is Summer Fling, a flirty popsicle pink colour.
DB Cosmetics Peep Show Mascara
A volumising, vitamin infused mascara that might have you throwing out your falsies. Peep Show Mascara’s hourglass shaped wand grips to the lashes for maximum coverage, lift, definition and volume without clumping.
Elizabeth Arden Flawless Finish Skincaring Bronzer
A backstage hero at Australian Fashion Week, Elizabeth Arden’s new bronzer leaves skin looking luminous. The lightweight, soft focus formula contains plant based squalene to boost hydration, vitamin E and tea rose extract to protect and soothe, and vitamin C to help brighten.
Ilia Rewind Complexion Stick
A buildable, natural matte foundation that improves the skin the more you wear it. Ilia’s Rewind Complexion Stick contains potent ingredients that blur the appearance of fine lines, texture, enlarged pores and redness. We also love its notched design that makes application a breeze.
Tom Ford Slim Lip Color Shine
A luxuriously glossy lipstick modelled on the slimline heal of a pair of Tom Ford Stilettos. The Slim Lip Color Shine lipsticks are available in 10 high pigment shades and are enriched with avocado and chamomile oils to ensure lasting comfort.
Best Beauty Launches May 2024: Skincare
Dr Tanya Holy Basil Face Serum
A revitalising serum born from Ayurvedic tradition, Dr Tanya Unni’s 18 years of medical expertise and a blend of potent, highly efficacious ingredients. This biodiverse serum absorbs quickly to brighten and nourish the skin while boosting cellular regeneration.
Emma Lewisham Supernatural Vitale Face Elixir
Like botox in a bottle, Emma Lewisham’s Supernatural Vitale Face Elixir is an antiaging powerhouse proven to inhibit wrinkle causing muscle contractions by up to 91%. The pregnancy safe formulation helps to plump, repair and support the skin while boosting collagen synthesis.
Estée Lauder Revitalizing Supreme+ Night Power Bounce Creme
A seriously hard working night cream formulated to protect and repair collagen within the skin and stimulate its production. In addition to smoothing fine lines, this buttery cream also absorbs deep into the skin for lasting hydration. We love how soothing the Revitalizing Supreme+ Night Power Bounce cream is and that it is safe for reactive and sensitive skin types.
Ohh My Glo Anti-Ageing Glo Drops
A radiance boosting anti ageing serum that leaves skin plump, hydrated and subtly bronzed. The Anti-Ageing Glo Drops contain a nourishing blend of calendula, rosehip and argan oils, and can be mixed with moisturiser or applied on its own to reveal a soft focus glow.
Best Beauty Launches May 2024: Body Care
Aēsop Eleos Aromatique Hand Balm
Aēsop’s much loved, luxuriously thick Hand Balm is now available in a new herbaceous fragrance, Eleos Aromatique. It contains notes of cedar wood, patchouli and cloves and can be massaged into dry cuticles, hands, feet and elbows to revive tired, toughened skin.
Bioderma Atoderm 2-in-1 Oil
French pharmacy favourite, Bioderma’s latest release is a dry touch body oil designed to exfoliate, soothe and soften dry skin. Made with a nongreasy pH balanced blend of fatty acids, ceramides and oils, Atoderm 2-in-1 Oil provides instant relief that continues working for 24 hours.
Nu Skin Pharmanex Nu Biome
Maintaining good gut health can result in benefits far beyond just digestion. Nu Skin Parmanex’s Nu Biome contains a concentrated blend of bacteria balancing pre and post biotics, energy boosting caffeine and defensive antioxidants blended to support intestinal health. It can be mixed with water and is naturally flavoured with raspberry, watermelon and lemon.
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