We’re only three weeks into the new year and the beauty industry is already full to bursting with new products and technologies to get us all excited for better skin. January sees a pretty balanced update across the industry’s ranges, with makeup, skincare, and fragrances getting in on the new year, new me excitement.
So whether you’re building a better routine or looking for exciting colours to play with in 2025, you’re bound to find something for you in this edition of Wishlisted.
Huda Beauty Ube collection
Huda Beauty embraces lilac with the new Ube collection, bringing that unmistakeable purple to three of its best-selling products. The collection is inspired by Huda Kattan’s annual birthday tradition, which she celebrates with an ube (purple sweet potato) cake – and which led to the creation of the first product in the collection: the Easy Bake powder in the new Ube Birthday Cake shade. The delicious electric lilac colour also comes to the Blush Filter and Faux Filler Lip Gloss (in shades named Ube Cream and Uuu-Baby, respectively) for a full face of ube-inspired beauty.
MAC Cosmetics Nudes collection
Nudes are back in a big way, and M.A.C Cosmetics is proving it with the launch of the Nudes collection, featuring a total of 28 neutral, skin-complementing shades across lip and eye makeup.
The collection highlights both new and fan-favourite lip colours in M.A.C’s Powder Kiss Liquid Lipcolours, M.A.Cximal Silky Matte and Sleek Satin lipsticks, and the Lustreglass Sheer-Shine lipsticks, as well the lip pencil in Cool Spice to match. Finally, complete the look with the Connect in Colour eyeshadow palette in Nude Board featuring six shades of nude neutrals for everyday, glam and every look in between.
Fenty Beauty You Mist Makeup-Extending Setting Spray
After years of dropping instant-favourite makeup, finally Riri blesses us with a setting spray to lock it all in! The You Mist is Fenty Beauty’s new high-performance setting spray that promises 12-hour wear. The spray boasts a hybrid formula that combines skincare-like properties of a finishing spray and the lasting properties of a setting spray, with the brand new InvisiFlex Defense Shield technology at the heart of the formula that protects against the environment, while providing a durable and flexible hold on your makeup.
Dior Spring 2025 Glowmania Make-up collection
The beauty trend for spring in house Dior is all about that radiant, healthy glow and the Glowmania limited-edition collection reflects that. Inspired by the shine of the iconic Dior Addict Lip Glow balm and the bright pastels of the season, the collection introduces products made for the face, eyes, lips and nails too.
The heart of the collection (in our opinion) are the gorgeous new Diorshow 5 Couleurs eye palettes: 623 Peachmania and 812 Pinkmania, each offering glitter, shimmer, and irresistibly iridescent finishes. And of course, the Dior Addict Lip Maximiser gets five new opalescent and pearlescent shades that range from soft peach to eye-catching lilac blue.
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Kosé Sekkisei MYV Actirise Golden Sleeping Mask
Japanese skincare leader Kosé takes golden glow to the next level with the Sekkisei MYV Actirise Golden Sleeping Mask. This gold and golden ingredient-infused mask focuses on giving your skin the visible benefits on a full night of sleep, boosting your body’s natural restoration to deliver a youthful glow by morning.
Infused with golden silk, golden-silver honeysuckle, and Kanazawa gold leaf, the mask improves moisture retention, hydration and dullness. The mask is also formulated with yuzu, mimosa and fragrant olive essential oils that lull you into a deeper sleep to better rest.
Fenty Skin Cherry Dub Pore Purify’r Gel Cleanser
Another Fenty launch to debut this January comes from Fenty Skin, in the form of a gel cleanser. The Cherry Dub Pore Purify’r cleanser is made to clean and brighten the complexion over time.
Especially formulated for oily skin but safe to use for all skin types, this foaming gel cleanser instantly cleans and removes impurities while reducing surface oil and shine without stripping the skin. The key ingredient is the vitamin C-rich Barbados cherry which appears in the formula as the Triple Barbados Cherry Complex, alongside niacinamide and aloe, which delivers brighter skin and refined pores too.
Paula’s Choice Pro-Collagen Peptide Plumping Moisturizer & Gloss Balm
High-performing peptides take the spotlight in these two products, promising to hydrate and plump the skin and lips. Peptides are the tiny messenger proteins that are key to maintaining skin structure and bounce, and these Pro-Collagen Peptide products are packed with a 3X complex for ultimate hydration.
The gel cream works under the surface with the help of these tiny peptides to deliver long-lasting results and up to 24-hours of hydration upon application, while the gloss balm does the same for your lips: plumps, smooths, and nourishes.
Esmi Skin Minerals’ Ageless Hyaluronic Hydrating Serum – Ageless
Vegan and cruelty-free Australian skincare brand Esmi Skin Minerals introduces its highly anticipated Hyaluronic Hydrating Serum – Ageless that brings an anti-aging edge to the brand’s popular serum. The Ageless formula combines peptides, triple-action hyaluronic acid (HA) and antioxidant watermelon into one power-packed serum.
Aside from the HA, this serum’s key ingredient is acetyl hexapeptide-8 which is an excellent non-invasive alternative to wrinkle relaxants. The result is boosted hydration, improved appearance of wrinkles and fine lines, antioxidant protection and stimulated collagen production, which lends to an overall youthful glow.
The Ordinary GF 15% Solution
Another groundbreaking scientific innovation made accessible from The Ordinary, this time in the field of age-support formulations. The GF 15% Solution combines three next-gen growth factors, EGF, IGF, and TGF, at a high concentration to support the skin with renewal, regeneration and integrity respectively.
Growth factors that occur naturally in the body work as signalling molecules to support the skin’s natural repair process, which supports the skin’s natural collagen, elastin, and hyaluronic acid production as well as cell turnover. With this serum, you’ll be supporting all that natural processes for that will smooth, firm and lift the skin.
Murad Hydration Sensitive Skin Heartleaf Regimen
This is one for the sensitive skin girlies among us – a full range of products designed to soothe and calm irritated skin all thanks to heartleaf extract. Murad introduces a complete regiment comprising of four products: the Heartleaf Soothing Face Cleanser, Heartleaf Soothing Body Cleanser, Heartleaf Gentle Resurfacing Serum, and the Heartleaf Calming Cream.
All four products are formulated with Heartleaf, microalgae, and ceramides which come together to soothe, hydrate and strengthen the skin’s barrier to reduce sensitivity over long term use. The range is hypoallergenic, fragrance-free, alcohol-free and non-stripping so it works on even the most delicate skin.
La Prairie Skin Caviar Liquid Lift
This one is not so much a new launch as it is a renewed one, as La Prairie’s iconic Skin Caviar Liquid Lift serum gets a reformulation. The Skin Caviar Liquid Lift is designed to ‘reconstruct’ the skin’s architecture to rejuvenate at both surface and foundational levels thanks to the proprietary Exclusive Cellular Complex.
The new and improved formula is enhanced with the new Caviar Micro-Nutrients ingredient that supports skin metabolism for even better lifting efficacy. It works by stimulating cellular energy pathways that work in the formula to deliver a visible lift to the skin in just 15 minutes.
Drunk Elephant Mello Marula Cream Cleanser
The antioxidant-rich Marula seed oil can even do wonders in a rinse-off cleanser as this new launch from Drunk Elephant proves. The Mello Marula Cream Cleanser is an ultra-gentle, low-lather formula that is powerful enough to clean water-resistant makeup and sunscreen too.
Together with Marula seed oil, the cleanser also contains 1% colloidal oatmeal and illipe butter for a skin-friendly pH5.0 formulation that soothes and moisturises while effectively cleansing. The proprietary Mello Marula also contains vanilla fruit extract that was added for its antioxidant, calming benefits while also giving the cleanser a light and pleasant naturally sweet scent without the use of added fragrances.
Cartier Les Bases à Parfumer
Fragrance meets personalised skincare in Cartier’s new line of high perfumery objects Les Bases à Parfumer. A kit and a ritual more than a singular product, Les Bases à Parfumer consists of three main essentials: the Crème Pure (pure cream), Huile Pure (pure oil) and Les Gouttes de Parfum Concentré (concentrated perfume drops) that allow you to mix and match to create the ultimate fragrance for you.
Starting with your choice of the unscented body cream or skin oil, both made with the uniquely moisturising Peregrina oil, you then mix in any of the four Les Gouttes de Parfum Concentre, available in the scents of four of the maison’s emblematic perfumes: La Panthère, Oud & Santal, L’Heure Diaphane, and Pure Rose. One drop or five, one scent or a mixture of multiple, the choice is yours. And if you know exactly what you want, you can also mix Les Gouttes directly into the Crème Pure of Huile Pure, to create your own signature Cartier fragrance.
Guerlain Pêche Mirage EDP
The newest addition to Guerlain’s L’Art et La Matière collection, the Pêche Mirage bottles the sweet and captivating peach aroma into a scent mirage. Capturing the fragrance of peach is nigh impossible, and the quest to do so is steeped in history that can be traced back to Jacques Guerlain himself. Peach fragrance notes must be synthesised, and in 2025 Delphine Jelk utilises the new Melbatone molecule, a product of green chemistry, to express the fruity smell.
The scent itself is peach-meets-leather, the sweet fruit opening the perfume with a juicy burst complemented by saffron and blackcurrant. Then the trail rounds out with osmanthus before the intense notes of leather, sandalwood and amber envelops you. Sweet, sensual and irrestible – no wonder it’s fit to be one of the treasured L’Art and La Matière fragrances.
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