Timeless Beauty: Luxury Items Must-Haves

- by Brenda Chan - 

“For beautiful eyes, look for the good in others; for beautiful lips, speak only words of kindness; and for poise, walk with the knowledge that you are never alone.” - Audrey Hepburn

Although I very much agree with this saying, looking beautiful outside is as important as having a good soul, especially when we are living in a time where appearance matters. Like most of you, I like to try different new beauty products to experiment their effects. Some give the results they claim, some just don’t work at all. What I found is that the ones that often work are the luxury brand beauty items. With advanced technologies and exquisite ingredients, these high-end products deliver excellent performance and results. Below is a list of some of my favourite luxury beauty items.

Radiant, Flawless Complexion 

To create a glowy complexion with ultimate radiance, Guerlain L'Or Radiance Concentrate With Pure Gold Make-Up Base is always my go-to pick for primer. This beautiful, golden makeup base is sprinkled with pure 24-carat gold flakes. These precious flakes give skin divine and unfailing radiance. The skin is smooth, supple and satiny, ready for perfect and long-lasting makeup.

Guerlain L'Or Radiance Concentrate With Pure Gold Make-Up Base

For a perfect, flawless finish, I would use Chanel Perfection Lumiere Long-Wear Flawless Fluid Makeup SPF 10. This multi-faceted long-lasting wear gives a matte finish with radiance and color, thanks to the Perfect Skin Affinity Complex. It perfects all imperfections with adjustable coverage, and ensures a second-skin effect and perfect hold for 15 hours.

Chanel Perfection Lumiere Long-Wear Flawless Fluid Makeup SPF 10

Youthful-Looking Skin

To get beautiful, youthful skin, choosing an effective product for fighting signs of aging such as wrinkles, dark spots and sagginess is very important. My all-time favourite is Estée Lauder Advanced Night Repair Synchronized Recovery Complex II. When my experiment with other new products fails, this is ALWAYS the item that I return to for a promising, visible result. With innovative repair technology, it delivers comprehensive and precise night-time repair by fights all major signs of visible aging. In just 4 weeks, I found my lines and wrinkles are reduced, and my skin feels smoother, younger, more radiant and even toned.

Estée Lauder Advanced Night Repair Synchronized Recovery Complex II

Alternatively, La Prairie Skin Caviar Liquid Lift is another excellent product for restoring firmness and elasticity to your skin. It gives the look and feeling of an instant lift and helps increase firmness and over time. By protecting epidermal stem cells, it helps the skin act younger. It rebuilds skin to fill in existing wrinkles, and softens facial expressions to prevent new lines and wrinkles.

La Prairie Skin Caviar Liquid Lift

Shiny, Soft Pout 

How could you miss the lips? A full, shiny and dewy pout is the key element for creating your desired makeup look. This is the product that I make sure I’ll have in my makeup bag – Yves Saint Laurent Rouge Pur Couture Vinyl Cream Creamy Stain. This high-coverage liquid lip color gives your lips ultimate shine, comfort, and all-day wear. Ideal for lip contouring, it dresses your lips in vibrant color with high-impact vinyl shine. The creamy formula provides a very comfortable touch on your lips and does not leave them dry. Coming in a variety of shades, it is a perfect lip product for achieving different beauty looks. 

Yves Saint Laurent Rouge Pur Couture Vinyl Cream Creamy Stain

If you are like me who like to experiment new beauty products, definitely don’t miss out on the above items! They are on discount on COSME-DE.COM from now till Mar 19^th. Get them and you’ll be amazed with their results!  

The Gift Guide To Beautiful White Day

--By Kylie Tang—

White Day is romantic festival invented by the Japanese. Let me tell you the story of Valentine’s Day on February 14 – In 269 AD, the autocratic emperor prohibited the marriage of people to have more unmarried soldiers for his military plans. It led to secret marriages signifying bravery and true love. White Day on March 14 is relatively lovelier. The Japanese encouraged people to return gifts to the women who gave them chocolate on Valentine's Day. White candies, white chocolates and white gifts had made this day romantic.

I love these stories! How about you? COSME-DE.COM has prepared well for your White Day. You would certainly love the wide variety of makeup, skincare and health care products at attractive prices!

Infuse Your Skincare With Caviar Water

It’s a day to look absolutely beautiful. The first discounted item is La Prairie Skin Caviar Essence-In-Lotion. La Prairie’s Caviar collection has been eye-catching for being so luxurious and efficacious. It contains Caviar Water, a highly concentrated infusion with active Caviar-rich components and instantly purifies, moisturizes and firms skin. Now obtain this Essence-In-Lotion at a very attractive price!

La Prairie Skin Caviar Essence-In-Lotion

You Must Have Heard Of This Thermal Spring Water

It can be your toner, lotion, moisturizer or even a mask! Yes, Avène Thermal Spring Water is so multi-functional. It reminds me that in life we can seize opportunities and make decisions on our own, like getting this Thermal Spring Water. This spray is rich in Silica which leaves a soothing and protective barrier on skin. Let this pure Thermal Spring Water nourish your skin.

Avène Thermal Spring Water

Never Think SK-II Is So COSTLY

It’s SK-II Facial Treatment Essence’s turn. For this White Day, you can get SK-II Facial Treatment Essence – Eye at a beautiful price! Pitera™ helps improve anti-oxidating effect and build up moisturizing barrier for your eyes, revealing radiance and clarity. And Alfalfa Extract and Lupinus Albus are good solutions to correct dark circles. If you are still making a decision on which eye essence to buy, I highly recommend you to get this.

SK-II Facial Treatment Essence – Eye 

Massage cream may be new in your skincare routine. If you want to be pretty, all you need to prepare is patience and a pair of hands. SK-II Facial Treatment Massage Cream massage cream helps hydrate, improve skin texture and blood circulation. Apply with easy massage steps to deeply nourish your skin.

SK-II Facial Treatment Massage Cream 

Let La Roche-Posay Take Good Care Of You

Let this dermatologist-recommended skincare brand help your acne-prone skin. La Roche-Posay Effaclar K (+) is an essence formulated with anti-oxidant Carnosine, Vitamin E, Micro-exfoliating LHA and Salicylic Acid. This good solution for blackheads and acnes is attractive and inexpensive for your daily use. Act now at its discounted price!

La Roche-Posay Effaclar K (+) 

These are only 5 of the items that are on sale. On White Day, you can be so brave, happy, pretty or noble. And bear in mind the best is always yet to come.

COSME-DE X’Mas Haul Video – A ‘Beautiful’ Festive Season

- by Caroline Hastings-Brown -

Ho ho ho! It’s that time of the year! Jingle Bells and good cheer everywhere you go! It’s also a crazy time, so much to do, so many parties to go to and things to finish off before the end of the year. Presents to buy and wrap and last minute tasks. I find it hard to even catch my breath!

Click Your Shopping Complete

Online shopping at COSME-DE.COM is a saving grace, as all the beauty vloggers will tell you! A huge array of original beauty brands, all the best in the world, over 500 of them, all in one place. Including exclusive products that are really hard to find elsewhere, all the favourites, all the choice.

Add in that shipping is free, and products are meticulously and individually wrapped so nothing gets harmed in transit and all arrives in perfect condition.

What is more, the prices are brilliant! You can get up to 70% off on many products, so it not only saves you time walking the streets searching for gifts, it saves you loads of money too. So you can buy gifts for more people. No, scratch that, you can buy some gifts for yourself too!

So, Let’s Take A Look At A Tiny Handful Of Favourites You Could Choose From.

Ever envied the Swiss for their reputation for precision? And their beautiful snow-capped peaks and awesome chocolate? Now there is another covetable Swiss item, the amazing La Mauve Lifting Primer Serum.

This serum combines various cutting-edge, highly effective ingredients which lift, firm, hydrate and brighten your skin, restoring a younger and radiant look and reversing the signs of aging. Only La Mauve uses Snow Algae Powder – a highly ingenious ingredient that is extracted from unique algae and is able to survive the extreme conditions of alpine and polar snow fields. But you don’t have to go into these harsh environments to get some. You can just execute a few clicks on the COSME-DE.COM and La Mauve will be at your door!

Now that’s something to yodel about from the tops of a snow-capped peak! COSME-DE.COM. 

La Mauve Lifting Primer Serum

And please tell me, what girlfriend, Mum, sister or any other gorgeous woman would NOT be happy with the covetable Urban Decay Naked Smoky Eyeshadow Palette? Twelve sultry, smoky neutrals, bronzes, grays, rich browns, gorgeous taupes and deep black. All the finishes – mattes, satins and sparkles. Every shade created with the Urban Decay Pigment Infusion System, a special recipe that gives every shade a velvety texture, rich, long-lasting colour and easy blendability. We all need one! 

Urban Decay Naked Smoky Eyeshadow Palette

And, what with all the festivities at this time of the year, you want to be looking like Santa’s very favourite bright, radiant elf! And the trick to natural-looking perfection is La Prairie Skin Caviar Concealer Foundation SPF 15. An exquisitely created blend using caviar extracts for a firming skin boost and deliciously dewy finish, we all want one in our stocking! 

La Prairie Skin Caviar Concealer Foundation SPF 15

Get out your laptop, tablet or phone and make festive shopping as easy as click, flick, click!

La Prairie Cellular Swiss Ice Crystal Transforming Cream Product Review

- by Caroline Hastings-Brown -

This beautifully packaged all-in-one foundation, moisturizer, sun care and protective cream gives a light coverage and works well for those of us who like a good multi-tasking product! It comes with its own soft applicator brush and a lovely, fresh scent. Find out more from Julia, and visit COSME-DE.COM for a discount on this luxurious product!

Product Mentioned:

La Prairie Cellular SwissIce Crystal Transforming Cream SPF30 / PA+++

November Daily Flash Sale: Huge Discounts On Products You Have Always Wanted To Try!

by Caroline Hastings-Brown

At COSME-DE.COM we work tirelessly to make sure you LOVE to shop with us. We are always wracking our brains to find ways to ensure you get more, for less. Ways to ensure you get to experience all the latest, greatest beauty brands, looks and trends. Ways to ensure you NEVER run out of your favourite products, no matter where you are in the world.

The Daily Flash Sale Delivers Maximum Value

So, for the next treat, from 1 - 30 November, we will be having a Daily Flash Sale on our website, every day, starting at 12 AM (GMT+8). Yup, just check onto the site EVERY DAY and you will find a delightful product at a ridiculously cheap price. You will need to spend a minimum amount of USD 160 (Global site) / CNY 1155 (China site) / AUD 200 (Australia site) / HKD 1235 (Hong Kong site) to qualify, and only one piece of each Daily Flash Sale item is available per customer.

The discounts are major, ranging from 28% - 80% off!!! The brands are pretty major too – names like SK-II, Decleor, L’Occitane, Elizabeth Arden, Shu Uemura, Skinceuticals, Elizabeth Arden, Helena Rubenstein, Clarins and Eve Lom, to name but a few!

Give Us An Example?

So, what kind of daily treats can you expect? Think La Prairie Cellular Swiss Ice Crystal Serum, this lightweight, age-delaying serum helps relieve signs of fatigue, including lines, dullness and dryness, in its beautiful silver packaging. Perhaps you have always wanted to try this luxury but it was a little out of reach. With one of our huge big daily discounts, it is within your reach. Try it out to see how skin feels soft, smooth and replenished with diminished wrinkles and a brighter tone. A word to the wise, it is on sale on the 14 November, from 12am! 

La Prairie Cellular Swiss Ice Crystal Serum

Maybe you have seen the trendy, sexy packaging and awesome mud mask products from GlamGlow and really wanted to try it out. Hey, your wish is our command! Hint: on the 24^th of November that is! The super stylish GlamGlow SuperMud Clearing Treatment uses the newest, most advanced and scientific technologies, providing deep, instant clearing treatment that de-clogs pores, restores photo damaged skin and rejuvenates skin. It’s designed for men and women of all ages and all skin types, even after shaving, so could make the perfect gift! 

GlamGlow SuperMud Clearing Treatment

Or you have heard of the miraculous restoration and youth-promoting powers of Afriel and Lofiel Perfect Cream? An all-round age-delaying cream infused with the power of nature and science to boost skin rejuvenation, creating glowing skin like an angel. Proven by science to balance sebum secretion, maintain an even complexion, repair coarse and dry skin, moisturize and brighten skin, prevent moisture loss so skin appears plump and dewy, firm skin and improve elasticity, soothe sensitive skin and care for skin after sun damage. If this is what you need, 15 November is YOUR day! 

Afriel and Lofiel Perfect Cream

Heard about the iconic Japanese beauty brand SK-II and thought you would really love to try it out? There is nothing to stop you trying out the Radical New Age Essence on 24 November. And plenty of other SK-II products on other days in November. When? When? Ah, I have given too much away already, you will need to check the site every day at 12 to see what the day holds in store for you! 

SK-II R.N.A Radical New Age Essence

Happy bargain hunting beautiful ones!

Gemstone Promotion Part 3: The Aquamarine Mermaid’s Shimmer

Aquamarine literally translates to “sea water” and that is what comes to mind when you look into the depths of this gem.

The azure blue of an exquisite aquamarine reminds us of the ultimate hydration – clear, shimmering, sparkling blue water. Nothing is quite so refreshing. And we all know our skin needs water, and a healthy skin has the perfect hydration system, locking in moisture for that plump, dewy freshness of youth. And the allure of an exquisite mermaid, irresistible to sailors, and anyone really!

Aquamarine Promotion For Your Hydration Skin Care Needs

So, at COSME-DE.COM we know exactly how important hydration is to you, which is why we have discounted four of the world’s ultimate hydration moisturizers, just for you between 11 – 22 October 2016. It’s our pleasure, for we know you will absolutely love the results!

Nourish Your Beauty

For an incomparable radiance, try the luxuriously packaged Guerlain Orchidee Imperiale Exceptional Complete Care The Cream. Day after day, it acts upon all the signs of aging to deeply nourish and moisturize skin so it appears remarkably plump and hydrated. With exotic gold orchid extracts and intense regenerating ingredients, you can find the key to unlocking skin longevity and cellular production for the full vitality of completely youthful, nourished skin. 

Guerlain Orchidee Imperiale Exceptional Complete Care The Cream

Velvet In a Sorbet Gel

Get your hands on another iconic beauty brand, the ultimate in chic sophistication, Chanel. The Hydra Beauty Hydration Protection Radiance Gel Cream packs an intense hydration punch backed by advanced antioxidant protection. To bathe your skin in the ultimate beauty and a velvety smoothness, the sorbet gel texture is the ultimate luxury in effectiveness, aroma for hydrated, protected, radiantly dewy skin. 

Chanel Hydra Beauty Hydration Protection Radiance Gel Cream

Caviar Complex

In keeping with the hydrating beauty of the ocean, its luxury product, caviar, is an ingredient in La Prairie Skin Caviar Extrait of Skin Caviar Firming Complex. If you prefer an oil-free moisture boost, this one is for you. It is lightweight, yet drenches the skin with natural nutrients, for a smooth, supple, protected touch with increased firmness and elasticity. Your makeup glides on easily after application and stays for longer. In fact, its effectiveness in creating flawless skin has seen it called a “mini facelift in a bottle!” 

La Prairie Skin Caviar Extrait of Skin Caviar Firming Complex

Elixir Of Youth

For spectacular day and night results, Sisley Sisleya L’integral Anti-Age Day and Night may be your magic elixir of youth and hydration. A complex of plant extracts, vitamins and trace elements stimulate cell metabolism, cell renewal and intercellular exchange that result in both immediate and progressive improvement in skin tone and texture and noticeably minimized fine lines. And if it is off into the wild blue yonder on a luxury yacht that you are going, it will protect your skin against wind, cold, weather and stress! 

Sisley Sisleya L’integral Anti-Age Day and Night

For the most refreshed, hydrated and youthfully radiant skin, you cannot beat the ultimate moisturizer for your complexion – we know you will find the ultimate one for you right here. Enjoy!

Gemstone Promotion Part 2: Diamonds ARE a Girl’s Best Friend

“I never worry about diets. The only carrots that interest me are the number you get in a diamond.” 
― Mae West

And that is because we all have the ability to shine bright like a diamond. Our beauty comes from within, and shines through us with strength and radiance. Inner beauty comes from confidence and peace. And it doesn’t hurt to treat yourself like the magnificent diamond you are by getting the best beauty products at awesomely discounted prices. So, we at COSME-DE.COM are bringing you the most cutting edge beauty products at shiny, discounted prices. So get your beauty fix between 5 – 16 October 2016 and grab these brilliant products!

Sparkling Skin

As timeless as gorgeous skin, the divine La Prairie Skin Caviar Luxe Cream is absolutely your best friend for a firm, elastic, satiny smooth, uplifted, silky skin. It’s lavish, it’s legendary and you really have to have it sparkling one! The deep moisturizing properties enhance every aspect of your skin as you present your firm, contoured, uplifted and beautiful face for the world to admire. A diamond in the world of skin care!  

La Prairie Skin Caviar Luxe Cream

For a product that does exactly what it says, revive your inner glow with Shiseido Bio-Performance Glow Revival Serum. Completely calm down any redness, even out tone and get rid of dullness and discolouration with a smoothing serum that simply melts into skin. With added Vitamin C, give yourself an immediate radiance boost from first application. Skin becomes more vibrant with continued use.  

Shiseido Bio-Performance Glow Revival Serum

Precious Packaging

Beautiful girls love beautiful packaging. So you will adore the Jill Stuart Layer Blush Compact. This illustrious blush is shaped like a beautifully cut stone, with a sparkling crystal as part of the brush design. The blush gives that glowy, natural finish of a crème blush, but in a powder format. The ideal product for the perfect “bloom” to your cheeks. 

Jill Stuart Layer Blush Compact

A Gem of a Product…

Have you got a few skin imperfections that are standing in the way of it looking perfect? We know YOU are perfect, but if you want your skin to follow suit, bag yourself a Natura Bisse Diamond White Glowing Mask. A most effective depigmentation mark treatment that lightens, soothes, refreshes and moisturises, resulting in perfect luminosity! Pomegranate extract, wheat and birch ingredients combine to produce powerful antioxidant properties and even, clarify skin to let that inner beauty shine on the outside too. 

Natura Bisse Diamond White Glowing Mask

“I gazed up at the stars as I waited. They twinkled down at me, like a huge handful of diamonds someone had coated in glue and thrown on the ceiling.” 
― Kelly Batten, One Day You'll Find Me

Like true friends, these gorgeous products are beautiful, great value and always in style!

  

La Prairie Anti-Aging Foundation Review

The lovely Julia gives us an honest and thorough “First Impression” of the La Prairie Anti-Aging Foundation. She gives a detailed account of how she experiences this luxury makeup brand that gives a fluid, natural coverage and a firmer, lifted appearance to the skin. Julia loved her perfect-looking skin after application and the fact that it stayed gentle matte for many hours.

Product Mentioned: 

Anti-Aging Foundation A Cellular Emulsion SPF 15

Flawless Makeup Tutorial: Get Ready with Julia

Get Julia’s absolutely stunning, naturally groomed look using the products and techniques she so aptly demonstrates! Using products from COSME-DE.COM including those from La Prairie, YSL, Dior and more, Julia shows you how to brighten and conceal for a gorgeous complexion, followed by the softest, pretty pink Dior blush and excellent techniques for highlighting eyes that will work for everybody! Love her video and get her look!

Products Mentioned:  

La Prairie Anti-Aging Foundation A Cellular Emulsion SPF 15

Yves SaintLaurent Touche Éclat Radiant Touch

ChristianDior Rosy Glow Healthy Glow Awakening Blush  

ChristianDior 5 Couleurs Couture Colours & Effects Eyeshadow Palette  

Secret Garden Week 2: The Tulip – Symbol of “Perfect Love”

So last week we let you in on Week 1 of our magical Secret Garden promotion for August, a chance for you to add the enchantment of a perfect flower garden into your life. If you missed it, don’t worry, we are all set and ready to delight your senses a little more for Week 2! Every week in August we will be hiding secret codes on the COSME-DE.COM website, for you to search for, find and unlock cash value discounts and gifts!

Because we know how much you love beautiful products at beautiful prices, we have hidden secret codes on various COSME-DE.COM web pages, for you to hunt in the garden of amazing products to find! Once you have spotted these hidden gems, all you need to do is enter the code in the search box, which is easy to spot! And then, as if by magic, you will be the recipient of a cash discount or a free gift on your purchases! So hunt away secret gardeners, and make sure you get your share of the treasure!

Tulips in the garden

So, last week we concentrated on the magnificent rose, and this week we present to you her equally exquisite sister bloom, the tulip! Yes, the divine cup-shaped blossom, that blasts your beauty receptors with its rainbow of deep, true colours. The tulip is the symbol of “perfect love”, and that is what we want for you, to have a life filled with perfect love! The tulip also symbolizes “most admired and beloved”, so let’s bring it on week 2 of the Secret Garden promotion!

Your most youthful bloom

So, let’s get a little loving on ourselves, and start by loving our skin with Christian Dior Capture Totale Dream Skin Global Age-Defying Skincare Perfect Skin Creator. How does a soft-focus veil that instantly, visibly transforms the texture of your skin sound? How does tightened pores, spots, redness and wrinkle reduction, increased firmness and a glowy radiance sound? Grab yourself this luxurious treat from the Dior garden to find out!

Christian Dior Capture Totale Dream Skin Global Age-Defying Skincare Perfect Skin Creator

And speaking of youthful radiance, around the eyes is where we often get the first signs of aging. However, you can protect yourself from this by enjoying La Prairie Essence of Skin Caviar Eye Complex. Only the best for our beloved tulips! One drop of this essence is like a mini facelift that firms, nourishes and re-energizes the eye zone, fading lines and wrinkles away to give your skin its perfect bloom! If you have been working a little too hard recently, give your precious skin a boost and melt those under-eye signs of stress and fatigue far, far away.

La Prairie Essence of Skin Caviar Eye Complex

The sought-after blush of youthful skin is due to the fact that youthful skin retains moisture and always looks perfectly hydrated. You can help to put back what the sun, pollution and stress take out. Try SkinCeuticals Hydrating B5 Gel to replenish nutrients. Vitamin B5 helps with tissue repair, giving skin exactly what it needs to feel smoother and appear younger. The gel contains hyaluronic acid, the body’s efficient natural hydrator. You need a few drops on face, neck and chest. This pre-treatment will also help increase the benefits of your daily moisturiser.

SkinCeuticals Hydrating B5 Gel

And, last, but by no means least, let’s moisturize that body to perfection and improve appearance of any scars, uneven skin tone or stretch marks with the award-winning specialist skin care product – Bio-Oil. No smooth, peachy-skinned gal should be without it! Improve elasticity, pigmentation marks, scars, aging skin and dryness with just a few drops every day over the body or in the bath. It can even be used on the face.

Bio-Oil Nature Skincare Oil

So, the ultimate recipe for skin that glows and shines with youthful bloom! Happy hunting, and happy gardening this week!