Sulfate-free moisturizing shampoo, face spray that relieves any tension, the scent of happiness and other finds of the month from BeautyHack Creative Director Ksenia Wagner (@kseniavagner).
Serum Cellular Performance Essence, Sensai
I tested Her, getting up at 7 o'clock on a snowy morning - and most of all I wanted to climb back into the blanket cocoon and hide my, to put it mildly, not cheerful face there. And here - this life-giving dew! In consistency, it is like diluted oil, not water (I do not like these), but also not a sticky toffee. Moisturizing is instant, but at the same time the product does not fall into the skin - once and for all (I don't like this effect), but is gradually absorbed, on average, in 5-7 minutes. And after complete absorption, double joy: not only really tangible hydration, but also smoothing of all pillow marks and other irregularities. And she also does not require the same brand of cream - I applied La Mer on top and they became great friends, without any lumps or redness. In short, another five can from Sensai, inspiring to believe in their beautiful legends about silk and emperors.
Price: 6 300 rub.
Facial spray Quick Fix Mist, Ibuki, Shiseido
If there is in the world the perfect tonic spray for an airplane, the height of a Moscow traffic jam or a deadline when the boss turns into a Terminator, it is he, a kind wizard who relieves any tension with blissful freshness. The effect is invigorating, but comfortable, without prickly, instant chill - and the coolest thing is that it lasts not a few seconds, but another 10 minutes. The feeling that you are resurrected, rejuvenated, teleported to the Norwegian fjords - all at once. In consistency, this is not really water, but rather a gel, scattered into tiny particles - and therefore the effect is long-lasting. I can't wait to take him on vacation at sea - after three hours on the beach you can't think of the best express spa for a face (PS: In general, over the 12 years of my beauty adventures, I have not a single disappointment in leaving Shiseido, I ought to sniff out that they have a new one now, maybe someone in the know?).
Price: 2 600 rub.
Moisturizing gel-milk body Merveille Arctique, Thalgo
Despite the word “arctic” in the name, this lotion is spring: light, airy and smells like a plucked bouquet. But the coolest thing is the effect. There are no mineral oils in the composition, so the product does not create a film and a deceptive nutritional effect due to this, but actually moisturizes by 10 out of 10. And it also pleasantly excites - as if it cools and at the same time as if warms! My first thought after testing was about dating - if my husband and I were only at the candy-bouquet stage, as if we would smear it on before some candlelight dinner. One touch on such a velvety, delicate shoulder - and complete victory. Tenderness, by the way, is long-lasting - I applied it after an evening shower and in the morning it was all the same infantile smooth. And the pajamas did not get dirty and did not smell - which is also a plus: the fragrances are clearly soft.
Price: 3 300 rub.
Mascara Eccentrico, Giorgio Armani
Here, as in a joke, I will be brief - the best mascara for volume without lumps, which I have tried over the past five years (in fact, you can see It in the third video). In addition to the cool instant effect, it is also worn like a good girl - it does not crumble, does not smear and does not tire.
Price: 2 200 rubles.
Nordic detox soap based on activated carbon, Natura Siberica
In a black-black city on a black-black street … there will be no beauty horror: in fact, soap that looks like soot cleans 10 out of 10. The sponge feels like a pebble - until you wet it. Then it softens, but, frankly, because of its super-density, the product does not foam very well. I managed to turn the thick nigella into an airy (relatively) soap from the third run. The composition, as always, of Siberica, in the genre "wide is my native country" - oil of pits of Sakhalin raspberries, oil of Siberian cedar, etc. For sensitive skin I would not recommend all this flora. On my normal one - really good cleansing and a lush pinkness like after a bath. Oh yeah, and it smells just bombingly delicious.
Price: 520 rub.
Cologne Green Wheat & Meadowsweet, Jo Malone London
Green magic from the traditional spring limited edition, English Fields. This is not just greenery - this is its very juice, a heady madness from somewhere from childhood, from an old summer cottage, where in the heat they mowed grass, heated by the sun and sprinkled with pollen. For me personally, most green scents are cold, about freshness and waterfalls, dew and sorbet, ice floes in a mojito and the first morning jump into the pool. And this one is warm! Greens, but soft, enveloping, without cold and crunch.
Price: 3 900 rub.
Cushion Liquid BB Creme Au Ginseng, Baby skin effect, Clair, Erborian
You can see it in detail in the video below (second slide), but in short, this is such a veil for skin without noticeable imperfections, which easily lays down, moisturizes and really creates baby skin - smooth and fresh.
Price: 3850 rub.
Body cream Body Modeling Cream, Egia
The first is happiness for those who hate perfume, and no matter for whatever reasons, allergic or aesthetic (many, for example, do not want a body product to argue with perfume). A thick, but not too dense consistency is also good news if you like richness without fat content.
It is absorbed on average in 10 minutes, the film does not leave marks on clothes either. As for stretch marks, let's be realistic - this is a genetic story and if you are inclined towards it, then no remedy will help, except that it will slightly reduce the scale of the disaster.
Price: 3 700 rub.
Mask-scrub Black Sugar, SkinFood Russia
I have already told you about these recruits from Korea. In each product, and there are almost 900 of them, at least 40% of the components are natural and "edible", such as black sugar (pictured), organic carrots, berries from Lapland, etc. The brand is over 50 years old, it is one of the oldest in Korea, the annual turnover is, as Ellochka the Cannibal would say, "ho ho!" Jam with a photo - for those who like to fall into the bathtub and scrub with something smelly, tactilely pleasant and … yes, sweet. The effect is good breathing of the skin and matting (you won't shine like a washed plate).
Price: 700 rub.
Mask Platinum Purple Facial Mask Kit, doubledareomg
The kit is not for a hurry - it took me thirty minutes for all three stages (oxygen mask, film mask and serum after). And not for the beauty classics - you won't get bored with OMG, like with Carlson: at first I was bubbling - the oxygen film mask foams and hisses funny, "hello Santa Claus, beard made of cotton wool." The sensations are pleasant - nothing stings or tightens, everything is light and airy, as if diving into a cloud. Five minutes later, you take off Santa Claus and turn into a cosmic girl - the main mask is bright purple, thick, like condensed milk and smells of ginger (although in the composition of blueberries). It freezes for a long time, about 15 minutes. The face is mummified and verbal skills are lost (the only thing that led to my attempts to ask my husband for water was his sympathetic rzhach). Unlike many film masks, which stick to the face like toffee to the gums, this one was more or less easily removed. To eliminate the residues, the third stage is actually attached - a disc soaked in serum, which also provides hydration. There are two main effects: lifting and freshness. Moistening is also declared, but then I would not get excited. But if you need to put the face "in place" and make the skin VERY pink (in a good way), it will do. Fans of film masks are also a joy. Well, for the beauty bachelorette parties, there is a lot of fun: “What are you…. Violet!”, - admired #DusyaDaughter (Editor's note - this is how Ksenia calls her daughter Nina) all half an hour of my beauty epic. In general, the brand is interested, now I want to try their other masks.
Price: 7 400 rubles.
Shea Jasmine Oil, L'occitane
Here is Loksitan - or Loksi, as we affectionately called him in Allura - is able to make happy a woman who is frozen in the snow. "Magic jasmine", "melting butter" "70% shea butter" - all these promises that caress the ear for beauty do not lie. Jasmine smells like jasmine, not 80s soap, the consistency is whipped cream that really melts from body heat, and a generous portion of shea is also a reality. I smeared myself on in the evening and even after my morning shower was still smooth and soft like a baby (and jasmine!).
Price: 680 rub.
Mascara ParadiseExtatic, L 'Oreal Paris
The facts are: 81% of 107 women who tried this mascara noted the effect of widening eyes, 98% - lengthening and 66% volume. Unknown women, I am a plus. I will also add fluffiness - those who love fluffy eyelashes, velvety and very black, like from Fellini's films, will definitely like it. It is washed off in general quite well - with oil, so in general with a bang.
Price: 460 rub.
Sakhalin Cloudberry Illuminating Tonic, Natura Siberica
"Instant radiance" is more honest to call instant pinkness - most likely, from all tops and roots (except for cloudberries in the formula, there are 10 more extracts + AHA-acids and salicylic acid). When applied, it slightly foams, refreshes well and works as an additional cleaner, but with moisturizing (also declared) I would not get hot and would not recommend it to dry skin - after I was "pulled up". But if the skin is normal and you need to quickly wake up and turn pink - completely.
Price: 120 rubles.
Face mask ExtraIntensiveMask, Sensai
All my friends beautygolics are divided into two groups - who loves Sensai products and who has not tried them. The brand is Japanese (the Japanese, by the way, in principle, do not do anything bad in their care), and the main component of the products is silk. Here asks a little beauty parable. In 1930, Sanji Muto, manager of the Kanebo textile company (today Sensai is part of the concern), noted that the hands of women working in the silk manufactory are always smooth. Mr. Muto's observation led to research into the features of silk, and those to the discovery of fibroin, a substance that can hold seven times more moisture in the skin. Today, the brand uses the exclusive Koishimaru Silk extract - in ancient times, kimonos for the imperial family were made from this fiber, and to this day it remains an expensive pleasure for the Japanese aristocracy. To be honest, I am a skeptic and I treat the beautiful stories that each brand has with a smile. But after this mask (she is at night) you really wake up like an aristocrat who only does what she tastes of the beauty - sleep, delicacies and cultural values. Whether it's silk or other ingredients (and there are many worthy types of niacinamide among them), right after application you really dive into the “Endless Ocean of Moisture” promised by the booklet. And in the morning this effect of nourished and happy skin does not turn into a greasy film. I will definitely smear the entire can without delay - it feels like the course of such evening "oceanic" swims can compete with salon treatments.
Price: 12,000 rubles.
Night moisturizing mask Ultra Facial Overnight Hydrating Masque, Kiehl's
An excellent "homework" for those who cannot learn how to apply evening care at the time recommended by cosmetologists - no later than 21.00. Because if you apply this jelly right before bed, you will just stick to the pillow. It is absorbed, despite the lightness, for a long time - exactly half an hour. But in the morning - peeeersik. Especially good for summer - jelly-like, slightly cooling, light, I choke on tenderness, on your-my freshness. The composition contains urea (urea) - one of the most effective moisturizers (an intelligent cosmetologist advised me to take this ingredient into account). In general, this is an unambiguous recommendation for those who have dry and prone to dry skin, who do not like thick creamy masks, excessive odor and overpayment for the design of the can. Everything here is Kilsian honest - the price is for not a shameful composition and a comfortable consistency.
Price: 1 440 rub.
Moisturizing shampoo Replenishing Moisture Shampoo, Caviar, Alterna
First, it is sulfate-free. In general, sulfates are not evil, but after restoring and "nourishing" procedures, it is better not to use them, and I just did this ("Happiness for hair" in Inhype Beauty @ inhype.beauty). Secondly - although, probably, this is still the first thing - the head after it clearly demonstrates the whole difference between cheap shampoo and expensive shampoo. Hair - like an English princess: the most delicate, soft, shiny. And most importantly - lively, wonderful children's airiness and freshness (which cheap shampoos with a lot of silicones never give). Thirdly, it smells nice of the sea - but exactly while you are foaming it. On the strands themselves - no war with scent. True, do not expect volume, but smoothness and obedience - the sea. The product contains black caviar extract, shea butter, sea silk, vitamin C.
Price: 3 010 rub.
Eau de parfum Hibiscus Palm, Aerin
This is happiness, gentlemen. Happiness is different, for me in this bottle with an orange lid is vacation happiness. This is the smell of gardens on a searing noon somewhere in the Italian province, and you walk through them and eat grapefruit sorbet. It smells like leather bought in the sea. And the warm wind dancing in the white curtains. And a bouquet collected by children in a wild meadow near the beach. Well, if without my fantasies, then this is jasmine, tuberose and tiare. Sweet women, we shower and wave!
Price for 50 ml: 9 600 rubles.
Pineapple Lip Balm, Beauty Bar
The funny round boy immediately took control of #DusyaDaughter, but the mother managed to state three facts:
1) ergonomic packaging, which does not require finger climbing;
2) delicate, oily, but at the same time "thin" coating on the lips (composition of 90% oils)
3) pleasant smell of pineapple without the “gouge out” effect;
Price: 290 rub.
Lip gloss High Shimmering Lip Gloss, Citrus 4, Bobbi Brown
Natural and pleasant nude, but at the same time the lips do not get lost on the face and do not merge with the cheeks. I like! See the glitter effect in the video below (5th slide)!
Price: 1 990 rub.
