Nail the look
Essie Nails has released its autumn collection of six new colours to suit the season. There's beige for day, brick red for traditionalists, deep red wine for drama, creamy pink for a feminine look, tawny brown in keeping with fashion's winter tones and shimmery chocolate. All are HK$120, from NailTech Professional, unit 2202 2203, 22/F Queen's Place, 74 Queen's Road Central, tel: 2139 0014.
Christian Dior's Tres Dior Pouch Set (right) will be on sale from today for HK$1,300 (normally HK$2,100). The black pouch contains five of the brand's best-selling products - HydrAction Deep Hydration Essence (50ml), HydrAction Deep Hydration Creme Gel (15ml), HydrAction Deep Hydration Intensive Mask (10ml), HydrAction Deep Hydration Lotion II (50ml) and Purifying Cleansing Oil (200ml) - plus a Dior hairband designed especially for the pouch. Available at the Dior Beauty Boutique, Festival Walk, Kowloon Tong, and all Dior beauty counters.
Lavera Natukosmetic from Germany has introduced a range of bodycare products containing organic ingredients free of preservatives and colourants, with some suitable for vegans. The Body SPA range includes Wild Rose Shower and Bath Gel ($150/150ml), with plant-based moisturising agents and essential oils from fruits, organic rose and organic myrtle to calm your skin. Wild Rose Body Lotion (HK$150/150ml) contains organic almond oil, soy oil, shea butter and organic fruit oils. Luffa-Jojoba Body Peeling (HK$120/75ml) is a scrub with fine particles to slough dead skin cells and includes organic almond oil and jojoba for smooth skin. The company says its products are good for sensitive skin. Available from Watsons Pure Beauty stores, shop B212, Times Square, Causeway Bay, and 18 Cameron Road, Tsim Sha Tsui.
OPI Nails gets ready for the new season with the Kick Up Your Heels collection (HK$120 each, below). It features 12 new nail lacquers, with six in brown and gold and six in Rockette Red. There's a new, wider brush for easier application. It's not all about varnish, either, with a new OPI Face and Body Shimmer (HK$205/100ml), a 'Tis the Season to Be Juicee moisturising set (HK$158) and a mini lacquer set of the new colours, Music Hall Minis (HK$180), for those who want to try the various shades. Available from Beau Nails in Two IFC, or call 2505 5028.
Langham Place Hotel's Chuan Spa says it's the first and only spa in Hong Kong to launch Thalgo's eastern spa journey, Indoceane (far left). Thalgo, a specialist in marine cosmetology, has created a complex known as Qi-marine, a 'cellular, stress-relieving' marine active ingredient that works in synergy with extracts of lotus to 'optimise the ritual's relaxing power'. It begins with a purifying body exfoliation with the Sweet and Savoury Body Scrub, while the second step involves a milk bath with soothing musky scents. Hands- on techniques from China and India are then combined for a sculpting massage. Qi-balm, a concentrate of Qi-marine, is first massaged into energy centres to release tension and prepare the body for the massage, before a fragrant body wrap containing Qi-marine, rice bran oil and lotus. The full ritual is two hours for HK$1,650, with a weekday promotion price in October of HK$1,320. Each step can be booked individually as well. The body scrub is HK$450 for 30 minutes, the milk bath HK$200/ 15 minutes, the massage HK$600/60 minutes and the body wrap, HK$400/ 15 minutes. Chuan Spa, level 41, Langham Place Hotel, 555 Shanghai Street, Mong Kok, tel: 3552 3388