After the worst eczema and food allergy breakout of the year, I decided to treat myself to the Luxe Beauty Summer 2024 Must-Have Splurg. Money was not an object I found the perfect excuses to spoil myself. My Sephora basket was filled with Dior, Channel and Sol Janero hero products.
Luxe Beauty Splurge My Must-Have
When my face feels hydrated and itchy these are the luxury beauty products that make me feel better and beautiful. As a mature woman hydration is essential. For days on antibiotics dried my skin out and it needed love.
CHANEL
Channel Hydra Beauty Camellia Repair Mask
This soothing and comforting multi-use hydrating mask, HYDRA BEAUTY Camellia Repair Mask: with nourishing camellia wax that protects the skin’s barrier against aggressors and locks in hydration at the heart of the epidermis. Its rich, creamy texture delivers immediate soothing comfort to overworked and dehydrated skin. It is the perfect daily ally in situations that can disrupt the skin’s hydration levels and cause discomfort, such as a day outdoors, a workout, a flight…
How to use
Leave on for 10 minutes and RINSE off with warm water. My face felt amazing during the 10-minute facial and did not want to wipe it off.
Dior
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3 Skincare Products in a Pouch-Capture Totale
Dior has created a 3-step skincare ritual around the iconic age-defying serum from the Capture Totale collection, for visibly firmer, youthful skin. Discover 3 products in a reusable Dior pouch that is as beautiful as it is practical.
The Capture Totale selection includes:
– Capture Totale Intensive Essence Lotion, 50 ml. The 1st step in this skincare ritual, applying the face lotion to help improve skin radiance.
– Capture Totale Le Sérum, 30 ml. An icon from the Capture Totale range, this serum makes skin visibly firmer, plumper and more radiant.
– Capture Totale Firming & Wrinkle-Correcting Cream, 15 ml. This age-defying day cream corrects visible signs of ageing, and hydrates and strengthens skin, leaving it visibly firmer and plumper. With a little bonus Super Potent Eye Serum. Radiante skin in three steps.
1. Start by applying Capture Totale Lotion Essence Intense to clean, dry face.
2. Continue the discovery routine with Capture Totale Le Sérum.
3. Finish this skincare ritual with Capture Totale Crème Fermeté et Correction Wrinkles.
Dior Backstage Glow Face Palette
The multi-use illuminating makeup palette, a true secret of the makeup artists backstage at the Dior shows, is available in 3 new harmonies: a combination of pure yellow gold, a second gold infused with pink highlights and a third coppery gold with warm highlights. Textures that blend perfectly together for a buildable result, from the most natural to the most intense, which suits all skin tones
1. Using Kabuki Brush #17, apply highlighter* to cheekbones, bridge of nose, Cupid’s bow and chin.
2. Using Blush Brush #16, apply blush to cheekbones.
Diorshow Pump ‘N’ Volume – Mascara – 90% natural ingredients
Diorshow Pump ‘N’ Volume is the squeezable mascara (1) from Dior with a care formula composed of 90% (2) ingredients of natural origin. It dresses the eyes with XXL volume to reveal high-definition eye makeup.
As if multiplied, the lashes take on an intense colour that lasts 24 hours (3).
Infused with cornflower flower extract, Diorshow Pump ‘N’ Volume mascara was developed to suit the most sensitive eyes. This care formula visibly shapes the lashes and makes them appear stronger: with each use of the mascara, they appear sheathed, and their volume is amplified by 200%.
Dior Forever Glow, Star Filter
A liquid illuminator that enhances the complexion and smooths the skin. Use on bare skin for a natural radiant finish. Use under or mixed with foundation to boost radiance. Layer on top of foundation, in touches, to highlight areas of the face—upper part of cheekbones, bridge of the nose. For an illuminating bronzing effect, choose a shade one level above your usual tone.
My face and body are on the way to recovery and these products will follow me on my journey to luxury skin! Who said being a woman was easy especially when you love the good things in life? Mature women are expensive and look younger these days so join the revolution. This is my special occasion routine that makes you face feel expensive.
My Must-Have Items
Clarins
Lip Comfort Oil Hydrating and Plumping Lip Oil
This has replaced my other favorites lip glosses say less. Nourishing lip oil enriched with a trio of plant oils to nourish, comfort, and visibly plump lips, while providing a protective shield of high-shining color
Glow Recipe
This hydrating balm contains broad spectrum SPF 45 and is rated PA+++, to shield against UVA/UVB rays while helping to even tone & prevent hyperpigmentation. The translucent, non-comedogenic formula leaves skin with a dewy glow, never greasy! Perfect for everyday protection & on-the-go reapplication.
Before applying, warm the bullet up on the back of your hand. For each area of skin, apply 4 passes back and forth as the last step of your skincare routine for optimal protection. Continue to apply until you achieve your desired level of glow. Rub in any remaining product for an even layer of coverage.
Holidermie Holistic Beauty
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The Sublimating Body Scrub restores the skin’s radiance and softness with its natural exfoliating formula based on sea salts. Enriched with organic sea fennel and algae with regenerating, moisturising and toning properties, this 2-in-1 treatment effectively eliminates impurities present on the epidermis while providing it with the mineral salts and trace elements essential to its vitality. It leaves the skin feeling incredibly soft, smooth and purified. The wax texture of this scrub oozes delicacy with a unique body experience: it transforms into milk on contact with water, leaving the skin intensely soft, hydrated and radiant.
HolieBeauty Skin Lait Corps Sculptant
The Body Sculpting Milk is ideal for daily use, with its velvety texture and moisturizing, firming and regenerating properties. Its formula, boosted by a caffeine + silicium synergy, prevents skin slackening by stimulating the activity of fibroblasts, the guarantors of skin firmness and elasticity. Enriched with regenerating and lipid-replenishing sunflower oil, this body lotion protects skin from dehydration. The texture of the cream alone makes you want to use it everyday.
Sol Janeiro
Helps visibly smooth and tighten the appearance of your skin thanks to potent, caffeine-rich Guaraná Extract Fast-absorbing Cupuaçu Butter delivers deep hydration and essential fatty acids deep into the skin, making this incredibly hydrating cream an instant treat to leave your skin feeling silky soft. Infused with Brazil Nut Oil, the most selenium-rich food in the world, to help support the skin’s natural ability to protect itself while giving it the glow of healthy-looking skin.
- NEW! Refill pods provide the same amount of our iconic body cream with 89% less plastic. Clean and dry your current jar (and lid), slip the pod into place and enjoy.
HOW TO USE IT: Massage in a circular motion to create warmth for better absorption and circulation. Use it on your bum, legs, tummy, arms—anywhere you need a lift for positively glowing skin.
3INA
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The first ever B-Corp Certified global makeup brand that celebrates colour every day is here to remind everyone that ‘Beauty Is All The Colours of the Rainbow. Hero products that feel like a luxury but don’t break the bank.
The No-Rules Cream Highlighter 512
3 in 1 multitasker: add instant glow to eyes, lips and cheeks. Buildable liquid formula to elevate any look. Highly pigmented universal pearly gold shade. Secretly this is my after gym glow must have.
The 24H Cream Eyeshadow 18 highly pigmented shades: metallic, shiny, and matte. 24H long-wearing waterproof formula. Easy to blend, buttery formula and another gym makeup bag essential.
High colour lipstick with a weightless balmy feel we love a balm. Soft and creamy formula with instant powerful colour and glow finish. Shea Butter for boosted hydration and smooth lips – colour and care.
Refreshing Mist 01- Floret Bouquet
This floral mist that smells like and bouquet of flowers and a mist-type lotion for the entire body (face, body, hair) that provides comfort and hydration. A mist containing moisturising ingredients that comfortably touches the skin and envelops the entire body, providing fresh hydration.It has a cooling feel that blends well into the skin without being sticky, even though it is moisturizing. You can also use it over makeup.
Enriched with an SPF 25 with natural active ingredients, this treatment is a sunscreen combined with nourishing active ingredients. Once on your lips, the finish is that of a lip gloss that brings a glossy touch as well as volume. Refill sold alone, compatible with all Paul & Joe cases.
A powder blush that is easy to apply and will give you a healthy glow with its mixture of shimmering champagne and pearly pink.
Bring a touch of radiance to your complexion with the liquid highlighter pen. In one click, it awakens the eyes and illuminates the complexion. Thanks to its easy handling, this illuminator will offer you precision and comfort during its application. Practical, its format will be perfect to slip it into your bag and will become an essential for your make-up touch-ups. On a natural or made-up complexion, it will catch the light and instantly reveal the skin’s natural radiance.
19/99 Beauty: 19/99 ® – Narrowing the Generational Beauty
Water Colour Tint Another gym makeup bag favorite. A weightless, blendable water-balm formula that creates a flush of colour on lips and cheeks, with a skin-like finish. The buildable formula can be layered for intensity. Comes in PARNA is rose petal pink, MALNA is cool-pink mauve , TEGLA is warm muted-brick
and TINTA is cool-toned inky plum.
Let us know if these items are luxurious enough for you.
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