narciso rodriguez parfums launches a new Oriental Edition: Santal Musc

The Oriental musc editions: both timeless and timely…mysterious and magical. Classical Oriental fragrances reinterpreted with the singular aesthetic of Narciso Rodriguez. Pure luxury: an addictive modern classic created through a masterful synchrony of East and West. The result: a rich blend both precious and potent that disarms the senses. A rarefied experience to be savored by all genders.

Narciso Rodriguez takes fragrance to unprecedented heights with a trio of premium fragrance editions. A transcendent blend of the designer’s signature musc with the most iconic noted of the Oriental fragrance family produces three exquisite compositions: “amber musc”, “rose musc” and “santal musc”.

 Dedicated to discerning fragrance connoisseurs who share Narciso Rodriguez’s enduring passion for scent; his preference for the most luxurious ingredients and his quest for pure perfection and fine craftsmanship. The supreme example of an eau de parfum intense, the oriental musc editions are contained in Narciso Rodriguez’s original iconic bottle painted radiant gold, signed by the designer, and presented in a gold effect jewel-case box.

Max Mara coats!

To celebrate the new edition of Max Mara Coats! Seoul, a special look has been designed. A coat in pure camel’s hair with brass colour lining, and in the same fabric, a shirt with crystal buttons and French cuffs and pencil skirt. This brass colour is inspired by yughee, precious Korean tableware, used by the royal family and passed from generation to generation. Like camel to Max Mara, yughee represents the importance of tradition and quality in Korean culture. Per celebrare la nuova edizione di Coats! Max Mara a Seoul, è stato creato uno special look. Il cappotto in puro cammello con fodera color oro, come il tessuto della gonna a tubino e della camicia con bottoni in cristallo e polsini alla francese. Questo colore si ispira alla preziosa yughee, un complemento da tavola tradizionale coreano, usato dalla famiglia reale e passato di generazione in generazione. Come il cappotto per Max Mara, la yughee rappresenta l’importanza della tradizione e della qualità per la cultura coreana.

BECCA Holiday Collection 2017

Who doesn’t want to look like Elsa descended from her ice castle? Get a glowing après-ski flush (even if you didn’t just hit the slopes) with limited edition holiday sets from BECCA Cosmetics.

BECCA Après Ski Glow Face Palette
AED 248/ SAR 248/ QAR 248/ KWD 19.26/ BHD 25.48

A limited-edition face palette that gives you the perfect rosy, fresh-from-the-slopes glow. From the slopes to the spotlight, this exclusive palette includes a new Shimmering Skin Perfector Pressed Highlighter in Icicle – a cool, icy prismatic frost with a tint of blue and a new Mineral Blush in Winter Berry – the perfect, natural rosy pink.  

The new, limited-edition shades are paired with four bestselling, iconic shades: Sunlit Bronzer in Bronzed Bondi, Luminous Blush in Blushed Copper and Shimmering Skin Perfector Pressed Highlighter in Opal and Rose Quartz. The possibilities are endless – go from a natural, fresh-from the-slopes glow to a sultry, ski bunny bronzed glow.  

HOW TO USE

  • Sweep bronzer across the face where the sun would naturally kiss the skin, or apply below the cheekbones, to the bridge of the nose and around the borders of the face.
  • Apply blush to the apples of your cheeks and blend out towards the temple.
  • Apply pressed highlighter anywhere you want intense glow, like the cheekbones, over or under browbones, down the bridge of the nose, and even the inner corner of the eyes. 

BECCA Après Ski Eye Lights Palette
AED 207/ SAR 207/ QAR 207/ KWD 19.26/ BHD 25.48

Our iconic Shimmering Skin Perfector Pressed Highlighter formula customized just for the eyes! This eyeshadow palette includes 7 shades in 2 luxe finishes – satin-matte & high-shine. 

Put your eyes in the spotlight with this limited-edition eyeshadow palette featuring our bestselling Shimmering Skin Perfector Highlighter formula customized specifically for the eyes. This palette includes our iconic shades – Pearl, Rose Quartz, Moonstone, Opal, and Topaz – and to celebrate the season we’ve included 2 holiday inspired shades – Toasted Marshmallow and Hot Cocoa. These exclusive pairings allow you to dial up or down the lights to create a customized light efect for all skin tones and eye colors. 

The BECCA Holiday 2017 collection is available exclusively at Sephora stores in the Middle East and on www.sephora.ae from December 2017.

Detox at The Heavenly Spa this New Year

Kick start the year on a refreshing and healthy note, courtesy of The Heavenly Spa at the Westin Dubai, Al Habtoor City. Curating a unique spa menu designed to refresh your mind and detox your body, step into 2018 with your wellness rituals in check. Throughout the month of January, The Heavenly Spa’s detox menu showcases three unique treatments designed to leave you feeling rejuvenated, healthier and ready to tackle the year ahead. Using a combination of exotic ingredients and spa techniques, each detox experience will help get you back on track, ready to tackle your overall wellness goals.

For better results, The Heavenly Spa recommends that guests book a series of treatments to promote wellness and is offering a special package which includes one complimentary detox treatment when two are purchased. All packages are best paired with gym training and guests can avail free access to the state-of-the-art gym and spa facilities before or after their detox treatments. Embrace this next chapter in your life, restoring all the much-needed goodness through a series of detoxing treatments, ahead of new beginnings. 

The special Detox packages are inclusive of the following treatments:

Green Coffee Sculpting
Reducing bloating and puffiness through a curated sculpting massage which focuses on the thighs, waist and tummy area. The service starts with dry skin brushing followed by a thermogenic chilli and coffee oil massage to break down unwanted fat cells. The treatment ends with a final application of a resculpting body gel to stimulate the circulation and metabolism of the body.

Duration: 50 minutes  ;  Price: AED 465

Detox Cleansing Ritual
Designed to regulate the body’s metabolism, the full body scrub uses a blend of lemon, seaweed and salt ingredients. This potent wrap of seaweed, eucalyptus and rare fossil mud is then applied to leave the body deeply enveloped, cleansed and stimulated.

Duration: 80 minutes  ;  Price: AED 585

Detox Clean Start
Promoting immediate stimulation of the body, the detox cleansing treatment works to regulate your system. Followed by a traditional Thai balance massage to stretch out your muscles, the spa experience ends with Super Food Smoothie filled with antioxidants to ensure the ultimate detoxification.

Duration: 130 minutes, and with training 180 minutes  ;  Price: AED 825, and with training AED 1,025

The Heavenly Spa
Location:
The Westin Dubai, Al Habtoor City

Opening Hours: The WestinWORKOUT® Fitness Studio is open from 6-10pm (external guests) and is open for 24 hours (hotel guests)

The Heavenly Spa is open from 9am – 9pm
The Westin Pool is open from 7am – 9pm
Westin Family Kids Club is open from 9am – 9pm
For bookings:
  +971 4 437 3300 or email: heavenlyspaalhabtoorcity@westin.com

Guerlain celebrates an exceptional festive season

This year, Guerlain is celebrating the festive spirit embodied by the American Bohemians who settled in Paris during the artistic whirlwind of the twenties: magical make-up, precious objects, enchanting perfumes, exceptional bottles, etc. The party begins in Paris, Guerlain’s capital city, at 68 avenue des Champs-Elysées, the legendary address for lovers of beautiful things, and spreads its light all around the world.

CREATE IRIDESCENT EYES WITH PALETTE GOLD

In a lacquered compact with stylised palm leaf motifs inspired by Art Deco style and nestled in a black and gold case, the new Guerlain Palette Gold offers a complete make-up set (face, eyes, brows and lips) to create a Gold & Chic look that’s a must for spending New Year’s Eve with the Great Gatsby. Its Wet & Dry texture lets you intensify the colours each time you wet the brush. The shades can be applied on their own or layered, dry or wet, for a buildable result rising in a crescendo, from day to night.

Just like changing your outfit for evening, Guerlain Palette Gold offers an invitation to play with colour intensity and accents to create a host of unique looks.

ILLUMINATE YOUR COMPLEXION WITH MÉTÉORITES GOLD PEARL

This refined box in the style of an antique jewel holds the delicate Météorites pearls. For the first time this year, they come in golden colours (white, yellow, pink, champagne). This unique combination enfolds the complexion like a beautiful piece of jewellery that lights up the face. Météorites Gold Pearl bathe skin in a halo of light, revealing all of its radiance.

GIVE YOUR FACE A SUN-KISSED GLOW WITH TERRACOTTA GOLD LIGHT

 

The Gold Light collector’s edition is the Terracotta promise of a bronzed complexion enveloped in an iridescent veil. This sun-kissed highlighter, nestled in a reusable Art Deco jewel case, leaves a fabulous glow on skin of any colour. Shine during the day and dazzle at night.

LIGHT UP YOUR SMILE WITH ROUGE G

Cast in a gold and black Fine Jewellery pack that reveals a mirror on opening, Rouge G adorns your lips with an incandescent stroke of colour. This season, Guerlain has designed two exclusive (limited- edition) shades for its star lipstick. For brunettes, 822 Glamorous Cherry red illuminates the complexion, while the 823 Flaming Red shade creates an intense effect for blondes. Ultra-pigmented, creamy and plumping, it lets us play with different intensities and stays true on our lips all night long.

ADD THE FINISHING TOUCH TO YOUR LOOK WITH GOLD LIGHT TOPCOAT

The Gold Light Topcoat enriched with golden sparkles adds a customised finishing touch to any look. Applied to the tips of lashes or the corner of the eye, its magnetic accents illuminate the eye area.

Absolute Skin Care with Filorga’s Oil-Absolute

It’s official, according to studies the Golden age is now forty-five. Women over forty-five have more self-confidence, are more accepting of themselves and are more liberated, but there’s a but! From age twenty-five well into our thirties, we’re faced with the start of skin aging.

Inevitably, skin gets worn out over time. In hot climates, moisture evaporates and the skin dehydrates quickly. When skin is exposed to the rigor of daily life, such as pollution, UV rays, smoking, stress and fatigue it becomes overwhelmed and cannot protect itself alone. Skin has the incredible power of self-renewal thanks to Stem Cells, however the efficacy of their regeneration declines and skin begins to weaken. But panic not, for all of this FILORGA has created OIL-ABSOLUTE®, a rejuvenating elixir capable of reawakening skin, stimulating and restoring a more youthful complexion. Think “time machine capabilities”, the skin is reactivated in just 30 days targeting nutrition, wrinkles, evenness, firmness, dark spots, dull complexion, skin texture.

The miracle contained in OIL-ABSOLUTE® actively regenerates Stem Cells which are present in the basal layer of epidermis and form our skin tissues. As we age the regeneration powers of Stem Cells is reduced and they begin to suffer from the impact of free radicals and pollution. OIL-ABSOLUTE is developed specially to fight back against the skins natural enemies and deliver healthy skin tissues through the regeneration of Stem Cells.

OIL-ABSOLUTE® contains a Boost Formula for precious nutrition using camellia, buriti, apricot and jojoba oils which nourish intensely and provide supreme comfort and Eternal Amber for its excellent regenerating properties. For Intensive cellular awakening, Polyphenols, stimulate the skin’s natural cell defences, rescuing it from burnout and Hexapeptide to reprogram Stem Cells and restore the skin’s ability to regenerate itself.

A complex of 4 anti-aging active ingredients to smooth, firm, unify and illuminate, combat all signs of aging and is presented in a highly nutritious galenic formula, with a non- greasy, non-shiny finish for a truly sensorial experience.  OIL-ABSOLUTE® is a velvety oil that melts into the skin, carefully developed to fuse with the epidermis for optimal absorption. With the perfect balance of an oily texture and velvet touch, this silky formula is an oil with the strength of a serum.

Two to three drops are all that is needed to restore radiance to the face. Its texture is massaged in to stimulate the epidermis and optimise the penetration of the active ingredients. Once applied, it immediately sinks into the skin, leaving behind nothing but a feeling of comfort on the skin. Its light, delicate fragrance is pure pleasure for the senses.

To fully enjoy the sensual pleasure of OIL-ABSOLUTE®, use Filorga’s massage protocol. Morning and evening, before applying your day or night cream, put two or three drops of product into the palm of the hand and rub the hands together to warm it up. Apply the formula by pressing onto the neck, then work upwards over the face, to the forehead. Perform pinching movements with your fingertips, from the inside to the outside of the face to reawaken the skin. Work from the neck to the top of the face, paying particular attention to wrinkles then smooth outwards from the centre of the face.

For the best results and total effectiveness on all the signs of aging and visible results in record time, follow the ABSOLUTE Ritual from Fiorga, which includes a powerful day, night and eye cream. SKIN-ABSOLUTE DAY®, derived from anti-aging luminotherapy techniques, and borrows its brightening power from white sapphire.  SKIN-ABSOLUTE NIGHT®, inspired by the activity of circadian genes to completely reinitialise the skin’s function, especially with the help of intriguing black meteorite powder. EYES-ABSOLUTE® and its cryo texture, combine the best medicine-like active ingredients with precious extract of white pearls.

Filorga OIL-ABSOLUTE® and the Filorga range is available for purchase at leading pharmacies across the GCC including Bin Sina, Boots, Supercare, Community and Health First pharmacies from November 2017 and retails at AED 515.

Habit Rouge Dress Code Eau de Parfum

Elegance is the ultimate freedom

Habit Rouge Dresscode by Guerlain, a new and contemporary twist on the signature Habit Rouge. Sophisticated and audacious, Habit Rouge adorns itself with a sober black suit twisted with an audacious mix of styles, while the fragrance has an addictive scent with a luscious oriental aroma.
Created in 1965, Habit Rouge is the first oriental fragrance for men in perfumery. As a homage to the equestrian art, it created an element of surprise with its scents of sensual and bold vanilla.
Habit Rouge has an eternally elegant French appeal, its version Habit Rouge Dresscode is a style manifesto for today’s dandies.
Bolder than ever, the man who wears Habit Rouge Dress Code embodies a refined and assertive masculinity.

Fragrance ; Oriental Gourmand ; Elegant, delicious, audacious.

Habit Rouge Dress Code starts with a fizzy head note of bergamot and neroli associated with a touch of rose. Spicy heart notes give way to a woody leather base note. Its irresistible attraction is enhanced by its tonka, praline and vanilla notes.

Perfumer secrets: Habit Rouge is dressed with a gourmand facet which strengthens its irresistible addiction.
The Guerlain Perfumer has tailored a Tonka, Vanilla, Praline accord to reveal its true sensuality.