Best New Beauty (May 2022): From A 2.0 Cult Classic Staple To A Revamped Skincare Icon, An Editor Shares 9 of Her Favourite Products
All it takes is a dab of fragrance here, and a strategic tinge of colour there to instantly perk up your complexion and trigger emotional flashbacks. Prepare to be wowed by the latest innovations
Bazaar Arabia’s contributing beauty editor Fiona Embleton rounds up 9 of the best new beauty products for the month of May 2022.(Curious to know what made the list in the past months? See our Beauty List for March 2022 here.)
Best New Beauty: May 2022
Queen of the Desert
A lush oasis in the Saudi Arabian desert-inspired master perfumer Jacques Cavallier-Belletrud to delve into the Middle East’s rich olfactory heritage. Like petals carried on the warm desert wind, spraying this fragrance means wrapping yourself in rose, a sprinkling of cinnamon, woody Oud Assam and jasmine tinged with honey-like orange blossom.
Happy Days
Sometimes even icons have to reinvent themselves. 15 years after it first launched, Sisley’s formula is even more powerful at shielding against sun and pollution with encapsulated UV filters and botanical extracts to neutralise heavy metals.
A Moment on the Lips
Hermès’ SS22 Limited Edition lipstick shades draw on pink morning skies, warm sunshine and a spring garden laden with almond blossom. One swipe leaves a glossy balm-like sheen, two an intense hit of colour – which is precisely why it’s made our best new beauty list this month.
In the Thick of It
The sexy packaging was enough to catch our eye. But the 200 per cent uptick in volume, minus any hint of crispiness, is what got us hooked as it’s nothing short of transformative for thin, wispy lashes.
Bronze Age
Blush isn’t the only make-up product to add dimension, or breathe life into tired skin. This bronzing powder is bursting with pink and tan pigments plus a barely-there shimmer for a 3D lit-within effect.
Rising Star
Laced with skin-plumping collagen, hyaluronic acid and a hefty dose of the peptide Matrixyl 3000, Qatari influencer Abdulla Al Abdulla’s new collaboration with Fatima Almomen is a must for shuttling hydration back into parched skin.
Feeling Flush
Long-lasting, deeply hydrating thanks to Black Rose oil and a colour palette to make dull skin sing – what more could you ask for? Only that it doubles up as a blusher, which it naturally does, for the prettiest flush — which is why it’s made our best new beauty list this May.
Liquid Asset
You’ve heard of glass skin, now prepare for glass hair. Like a miracle water, this treatment’s completely clear formula means replenishing ingredients like roucou oil bind directly with the hair fibre for six times more sheen.
Stuck on You
He’s the aesthetic doctor the Kardashians have on speed-dial. Now Dr. Simon Ourian is adding a glow-galvanising sheet mask to his line spiked with his ‘Collagen Boost Blend’ for bouncy skin and pores that feel shrink-wrapped.
From Harper’s Bazaar Arabia’s May 2022 issue.
Lead image by Jason Lloyd-Evans (Ferretti S/S22)