Top 5 Editors' Picks Beauty Favorites

- by Brenda Chan -

The arrival of spring brings the most welcoming changes. Your skin becomes moist and radiant again, brighter shades of color are seen on makeup looks, and tense, tired muscle from the cold seems to uncoil. In other words, it’s a great time to rethink your beauty routine! If you are looking for the best beauty products on the market? Look no further: our editors have chosen the top picks from skincare and makeup and offer them with amazing discounts!

Breathtakingly Crystal Clear Skin 

Having bright, clear skin is the dream of every woman. SK-II's signature product, Facial Treatment Essence, can help you do just that. This much-loved and most awarded bestseller, also known as the Miracle Water, has over 90% Pitera™. This miracle ingredient discovered over 30 years ago that remains essentially unchanged till today. Its irreplaceable formula gently exfoliates the face and helps moderate the skin surface renewal cycle. It helps improve the appearance of 5 dimensions of beautiful, crystal clear skin in just 14 days: spots are less visible, appearance of wrinkles is reduced, skin texture is more refined, firmness is improved, and radiance is beautifully elevated. 

SK-II Facial Treatment Essence

Visibly Firmer, More Lifted Contour

A lifted, firm contour is also a sign of youthfulness and beauty. Try Fresh Black Tea Firming Overnight Mask. This intensely moisturizing treatment works in synch with the natural nighttime recovery process to achieve a lifted, firmer look by morning. It has a corset-like effect on the skin, giving the appearance of a visibly more defined, contoured complexion. Infused with a proprietary complex of black tea ferment, black tea extract, blackberry leaf extract, and lychee seed extract, this mask inhibits damaging free radicals and helps improve skin elasticity.

Fresh Black Tea Firming Overnight Mask

Create A Perfect Canvas for Makeup 

The crucial step to creating a flawless foundation is to prime your skin because it helps increases the moisture level and corrects your skin tone. You will not be disappointed with Laura Mercier Foundation Primer. This colorless, lightweight creamy gel creates an invisible layer that acts as a buffer to outside elements. Enriched with anti-oxidizing Vitamin A, C, and E, it protects the skin from harmful, aging effects of the environment. What’s best about this primer is that it leaves your makeup looking fresh and colour-true the entire day. It can also used as a cooling gel by putting in into the fridge to refresh skin and reduce puffiness. 

Laura Mercier Foundation Primer

Innovative Compact to Cover Flaws & Blemishes 

No one would object concealer is one of the most important makeup items in your makeup bag. It covers your dark circles, conceals your blemishes, evens your skin tone, and viola, your skin looks flawless in an instant! IPSA Creative Concealer EX SPF 25 / PA+++ is a 3-color concealer compact that allows uneven skin tone areas to “assimilate” themselves with the surrounding skin tone, through IPSA’s original orange-red color tone design, which “redness” has been added. Infused with a “Lighting Formula for Uneven Color Spots”, it increases the light reflection on skin surface. With all the innovative features, it’s THE concealer that you must have! 

 IPSA Creative Concealer EX SPF 25 / PA+++

Spring is the season of hope and new beginnings. Give you beauty routine a boost with these must-try skincare and makeup items!

Find Your Perfect Beauty Match this Valentine’s!

- by Brenda Chan -

What qualities are you looking for in your ideal partner? Someone who is smart and humorous? Honest and mature? And perhaps has a good look and well-built physique? No matter what you are looking for in a partner, compatibility is very important in finding your love match. Not only do highly compatible couples have more enduring relationships, but also romantic and sweet ones. At COSME-DE.COM, we would love our customers to find their beauty match as perfect as their loves. How about a matching game and win sweet savings on your favourite skincare and makeup items? Let the game start now!

Join the Beauty Match Game

From 1 Feb – 14 Feb, we feature a matching game on our website, where you get to match as many pairs as you can within 30 seconds. All you have to do is to click open the squares to reveal the hidden product photos / words and match them. There are total 8 pairs of match. Good luck!

Reveal Sweet Savings!

And it’s so easy to win some sweet savings from the game! If you match 1 to 2 pairs, you can enjoy USD 5 / AUD 5 / HKD 40 / £4 off your order. If you match 3 to 5 pairs, you can win USD 10 / AUD 10 / HKD 80 / £8 saving on your order. If you match 6 pairs of above, you get to win our grand prize – save USD 20 / AUD 30 / HKD 150 / £16 on order over USD 150 / AUD 200 / HKD 1160 / £123!

With these attractive savings, you can choose and shop from thousands of skincare and makeup products at absolutely low prices, and create a gorgeous, flawless makeup look this Valentine’s!

Here’re Some Amazing New Products I Can’t Wait To Try

Famous for its red-soled heels, Christian Louboutin has created a highly sought-after lipstick with an exquisite, flamboyant packaging. Silky Satin Lip Colour comes in a solid metal body which is reminiscent of a precious vial, inspired by Middle Eastern antiquities. Its turret-like crown cap is topped with a small ring threaded with a silk ribbon, transforming the lip colour into a necklace. This gorgeous lipstick has medium to full coverage, and it glides on lips with an opulent and sensual feel in one stroke. It features a unique blend of ultra-fine pigments for deep and saturated colour. 

Christian Louboutin Silky Satin Lip Colour

The new eyeshadow palette from luxurious and unconventional fashion brand Dolce & Gabbana, Eyeshadow Smooth Eye Colour Quad allows you to create a complete day-to-night look, delivering smooth, buildable colour with extended 8-hour wear. The palette contains highly pigmented matte and shimmery eye shadows, and can be applied wet or dry for different eye makeup looks. 

Dolce & Gabbana The Eyeshadow Smooth Eye Colour Quad

LANCÔME’s signature Advanced Genifique collection is now available in beautiful gift set, which makes it an ideal gift for yourself or your loved ones.

LANCÔME Advanced Genifique 5-Piece Skincare Set 

Fresh uses natural ingredients to create a variety of skincare products that care for your skin in the most pampering way. Their refreshing products transform your everyday routines into sensorial rituals that are as indulgent as they are effective. The Crème Ancienne Ultimate Nourishing Honey Mask is made with pure honey that offers excellent moisture. It features a unique texture that instantly melts into the skin. Infused with powerful antioxidant Echinacea, it improves skin’s resilience to environmental stress.

Fresh Crème Ancienne Ultimate Nourishing Honey Mask 

Be ready to hear your lover whispering “I love you” in your ears and enjoy the sweetness of love! XOXO 

Best Skincare For Festival

- by Brenda Chan -

Festival season is just around the corner, and you’ve already picked out your party dresses, clutches and sparkly heels! But wait a minute, we would like to go back to basics and consider the best skincare for festivals – whether you want to create the perfect base for a gorgeous makeup look or just keep your skin glowing and healthy. Here are 5 top skincare tips and products to keep in mind when you’re getting ready for your X’mas and New Year nights out. 

1. Keep Your Skin Cleansed

Cleansing your skin for a long night out is always key. You want to keep it clean, soft and nourished before you apply makeup, otherwise it will look really dull. Try Sensai Silky Purifying Cleansing Oil. Sensai is a prestigious anti-aging Japanese skincare brand that combines advanced skincare technology with its supreme signature ingredient, Koishimaru Silk, which creates flawlessly silky skin. This rich and smooth cleansing oil effectively removes makeup and sebum, retaining skin’s natural moisture and leaving it refreshed. Suitable for all skin types. 

Sensai Silky Purifying Cleansing Oil (For All Skin Types)

2. Wipes Are A Festival Staple

Too tired to remove your makeup after partying all night long? You can crawl into bed without harming your skin. Just reach for a pack of this works “in transit no traces” for a quick-fix cleanse. Containing anti-aging Rosewater, anti-inflammatory Sweet Almond Oil and balancing anti-bacterial Water, it effectively removes all traces of makeup with gentle massage movement. This natural makeup wipe pads are free of synthetic colors, synthetic fragrance and parabens.

thisworks in transit no traces (For Sensitive Skin)

3. Silky Soft Skin

Who doesn’t love baby-soft, silky skin? It’s a beauty trend that never fades, and festival season is the perfect time to get young, perfect skin for yourself. You will love Sensai Cellular Performance Lotion II (Moist). This rich, silky lotion is infused with Hydrolyzed Silk to refine skin texture. It helps delay aging and minimizes fine lines and wrinkles, leaving skin in its best condition for subsequent treatment.

Sensai Cellular Performance Lotion II (Moist) (For Normal-to-Dry and Very Dry Skin)

4. Get Your Glow On

Having glowing, radiant skin is a great boost to your confidence, and it makes you look much more charming in a party. Fresh Rose Deep Hydration Face Serum can help you achieve glowing, flawless and clear skin. Offering 24-hour moisture, this fast-absorbing fluid intensely hydrates and retains moisture for a healthy-looking, glowing complexion. It is infused with Hyaluronic Acid to maintain moisture, Rosewater to soothe and Rose Flower Oil to nourish skin.

FreshRose Deep Hydration Face Serum 

5. Hydrate, hydrate, hydrate

Late nights, dancing and alcohol – all these things can add up and make your skin look dull and dehydrated. To keep your complexion looking hydrated and refreshed during festive events, it’s important to choose an effective moisturizer. Try Perricone MD Hypoallergenic Nourishing Moisturizer. Contains patented anti-aging Olive Polyphenols and Neuropeptides, this velvety-rich cream delivers essential moisture to skin, improves skin’s firmness and tone, and boosts supple-looking skin. It is hypoallergenic, non-comedogenic and dermatologist-tested.

Perricone MD Hypoallergenic Nourishing Moisturizer

Follow the above skincare tips and products to keep you looking and feeling fresh whilst having fun this festive season! 

Pearls Of Joy And Wisdom

“A woman needs ropes and ropes of pearls.” - Coco Chanel

Do you want compliments on your radiant, glowing, pearly skin? Do you want to get those compliments without spending a fortune? Well, then, you are in exactly the right place! At COSME-DE.COM we are launching our Gemstone Promotion for October. And to kick things off we are starting with all the products that give your skin a radiant luminosity and a glowing flawlessness. Just like the rare, incandescent, timeless beauty of pearls. Hop on board girls for the PEARL Promotion from 3 – 13 October 2016. A beautiful skin is priceless!

Pearly Skin Starts with….

Start with Albion Essential Skin Conditioner, perfect for gently regulating problematic skin, calming redness and breakouts, smoothing any roughness and improving skin metabolism. This wonder product can be used daily as a toner after cleansing and as a lovely, refreshing and moisturizing mask when left on skin for 3-5 minutes. In no time at all your skin will have all the beautifying and whitening benefits of this truly special product.

                                                 

Albion Essential Skin Conditioner

For that pearlescent, moisturized look to your skin, try Sisley Ecological Compound Day & Night Cream. For all skin types, this gorgeous cream revitalizes, moisturizes and balances skin with a synergistic complex of natural plant extracts including ginseng, hops and horsetail. The extracts are selected for their stimulating and revitalizing action, meaning you will glow from within like the ocean’s most beautiful pearls. What’s more, you only need the one product to serve as a day and a night cream. There’s value for you!

Sisley Ecological Compound Day & Night Cream

Peptides For Pearly Skin Qualities 

One of the most important skin discoveries in recent years has been the effectiveness of various peptides in our skin products. The presence of peptides signals to your skin that it needs to create more collagen. Peptides can be applied topically to skin to create the collagen-producing messaging. In so doing, the peptides assist in minimizing the appearance of fine lines and wrinkles and creating a more youthful-looking appearance. This is why it makes sense to include clever peptides in your anti-aging skin care routine. One of the best ways to do this is to include Cosme Decorte AQ MW Repletion Vitalizing Serum into your bag of radiance products. Full of “skin messaging” peptides, this wonder serum works quickly to address skin issues and bring that gorgeous radiant translucency to your skin.

Cosme Decorte AQ MW Repletion Vitalizing Serum

Pearls and Roses

Who doesn’t love a luxurious face mask treat? Who doesn’t love roses? Exactly, none of us. So a Fresh Rose Face Mask is precisely what you deserve – a soothing gel formula infused with real rose petals and pure rosewater (noted for its toning properties). Added with aloe vera gel, cucumber, algae and green tea extracts, it can give you 10 minutes of face mask bliss. Not to mention hydrated, soft, fragrant skin.

Fresh Rose Face Mask

The Treasure Inside…

And to add the finishing touch to your silky, perfect, radiant complexion? Use Sulwhasoo Perfecting Cushion SPF50+ / PA+++. A beautifully packaged pearl of a “perfecting cushion”, it contains apricot kernel oil and Korean herbal water complex. A few stamps give perfect coverage, without a cakey or opaque look. It’s totally you, just absolutely perfect! You can effectively cover any imperfections and fine lines, while protecting your skin from the sun’s rays. What’s more, your fresh, glowing complexion stays that way, without darkening, for 12 hours!

                                                 

Sulwhasoo Perfecting Cushion SPF50+ / PA+++

“Pearls are always appropriate.” Jackie Kennedy

These products, like a string of perfect pearls, will provide you with everything you need to step out with a flawless and beautiful skin. With money in your pocket too! Enjoy beautiful pearl!

Your Secret Garden Of Enchanted Treasure

Do you ever feel that life needs a little bit more enchantment, a little bit more magic and a little bit more mystery? We do, which is why we have created a magical, mysterious and enchanted treasure hunt for you for the whole of August! Yes, every week in August we will be hiding secret codes in the COSME-DE website, for you to search for, find and unlock cash value discounts and gifts!

What’s that Watson?

Now, we know for sure that this appeals to the beauty sleuth in you, so this is how it works! Secret codes will be hidden on various web pages, and once you have spotted them with your eagle eyes, all you need to do is enter the code into the search box. Ok, so the search box is easy to find, it’s just the secret code that requires a little of your Sherlock-like detective work! And then? Well then, Voila! You will be on the receiving end of a cash discount on purchases, OR a free gift? How blooming cool is that?

Now, we move on to the theme of the Secret Garden. I want you to close your eyes (yes, go on) and imagine the enchantment of a secret garden, full of flowers, everywhere you look there is the discovery of something fresh and new and delightful, bursts of colour and a profusion of heady fragrance.

Get your rose-tinted glasses on

Each week we will focus on one of the exquisite flowers from this secret garden, so you may take part in the magic every day at home with beautiful, fragrant products. So, week 1 is, drum roll………. the most celebrated of blooms, the ROSE. The rose – revered by poets and artists, with petals of velvet and silk, and fragrance delicate and sweet.

So, how do you get some of this loveliness for yourself? You can start by infusing your beautiful face of a flower with the intensely soothing and hydrating rose face mask, a gel mask infused with real rose petals and pure rose water to restore a rosy radiance and suppleness to all skin types. Beside the regal rose, the cooling gel contains cucumber, aloe vera, algae and green tea to deliver a host of brightening, beautifying benefits. Apply this loveliness in a jar to cleansed skin, avoiding the eye area, for 5 – 10 minutes to let that rose sink in and then rinse. You can mask up every day if you so wish, and I think you just might!

Fresh Rose Face Mask (For All Skin Types)

Treat yourself to the ultimate skin care luxury, Sisley Black Rose Precious Face Oil. This silky-smooth dry oil with Black Rose extract at the heart of the formula is perfect for dry skin, restoring vitality and youthfulness and erasing fine lines with every precious drop. Combined with active botanical ingredients, as well as Bulgarian Rose and Magnolia, this potent oil gives a delicious boost to all the senses. Just apply 3 – 7 drops in the morning or evening on face and neck for powerful benefits.

Sisley Black Rose Precious Face Oil

Next, let’s focus on getting the texture of your body skin as plush and smooth as the most delicate rose. Use Jurlique Rose Body Lotion every day for a lightweight moisturiser infused with rose, calendula and daisy to hydrate, balance and firm the skin to the texture of a supple, perfect petal.

Jurlique Rose Body Lotion

And finally, for the ultimate in irresistible lips, give yourself a slick of Givenchy Rouge Interdit Vinyl Extreme Shine lipstick illicit colour. Go for extreme shine, impactful shades and a major plump up effect – and go for it all in rose! Choose 03 Rose Mutin, 05 Rose Transgressif, 10 Rouge Provocant or 11 Rouge Rebelle for the unfair beauty advantage. Rare black rose oil is part of the formula that delivers extreme moisture, with a silicone resin for that vinyl-like, mesmerizing shine. I dare you!

Givenchy Rouge Interdit Vinyl Extreme Shine Lipstick Illicit Color

So there you have it fellow garden lovers, get your rose on, get your sharp eyes out and get those discounts and gifts that will make August the most magical month of the year! Watch this space for next week’s featured garden flower!