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Neal’s Yard’s natural formulations and pared-down aesthetic have always felt right to us. Now, the British apothecary-style brand is earning more points with a new product focused on one of our very favorite pastimes: sleeping. Its Beauty Sleep Concentrate is designed to do its work—that is, stimulate collagen production and cell regeneration—with a host of good-for-you ingredients while you’re off the clock. Grape seed oil and cocoa seed butter soothe parched, stressed skin, while the bio-active peptide, daffodil extract (which is actually harvested from the sunny flower’s bulb as it lies dormant in the winter), helps reboot skin the same way it helps the perennial bloom every spring. The blend’s calm-inducing aromatic essential oils will lull you into a dreamlike state, but it’s the promise of the elixir’s complexion-transforming properties that will really send you off to slumber with a clear head.—Fiorella Valdesolo

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Holiday fragrances often fall into a trap. With classic merrymaking aromas (think: sugar plums, candy canes, winter fresh pine, etc.) dancing in everyone’s heads for the next two months, steering clear of these festive scents is nearly impossible. Yet somehow, Bobbi Brown has managed to stay strong with the release of her new offering, Bobbi’s Party. “It was inspired by old Hollywood glamour,” Brown told Style.com of the violet leaf, rose petal, and sandalwood perfume that is the cornerstone of her new Party collection. “I have vivid memories of my mother finishing her look for a cocktail party with a few spritzes of her signature perfume,” said Brown about the inspiration for the clean, airy eau, which is sophisticated enough for evening yet light enough for everyday wear. Consider it a breath of refreshing, floral-tinged air.

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That painted tips in a range of outlandish colors have become as essential to a full look as the shoes and bag that go with it, truly makes varnish “the new black.” Which is why Gold Grenade’s latest creation is so aptly named. The New Black: Innovations In Color offers up curated polish sets that have been paired together to ombré perfection. The toluene, formaldehyde, camphor, and DBP-free lacquers come in collections of two shades or five like Golden Glimmer, a gilded pair of polishes in creamy opaque metallic and glitter-flecked sparkle and Floyd, a range of pinks from pale ballerina to deep red rose. Wear each on its own, or use them together to create a base topped with stripes, French tips, or any manner of design. Nail art, after all, is also the “new black.”

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Make Up For Ever founder makeup artist Dany Sanz is known for innovations that range from specialized foundation that is nearly invisible to pore-scrutinizing HD cameras to eyeliner so waterproof that synchronized swimmers swear by it. And while Sanz’s professional line became consumer-friendly about ten years ago when it got prominent placement in Sephora stores worldwide, the brand has never had a real home to call its own in the States. That’s all about to change, though. After cutting the ribbon on a pop-up shop at the Sephora store on Broadway in New York earlier this year, the brand will open the doors to a new West Coast flagship on Robertson Boulevard in Los Angeles this week. The 1,300-square-foot boutique officially opens on Friday, and in addition to signature aesthetic touches like hot-pink neon signs, black brick, and colorful photos of body-painted Parisian models, shoppers can create custom palettes out of the more than 1,400 products that line the shelves and then see the pigments’ potential color combinations brought to life on a touch-screen Smart Board the size of a large TV. The space is also crawling with experts who provide 30- to 60-minute beautifying sessions, which, in a store exclusive, can be recorded and downloaded to a USB drive for future reference. “Our customers are always saying to our artists, ‘I wish I could take you home and have you do my makeup every morning,” says Michelle Carroll, MUFE’s Executive Director of Sales. “We wanted to offer them that experience.” For the visual learners of the world, this just might be the ticket to finally figuring out the secret to crafting a truly legit smoky eye in the comfort of your own home.

Make Up For Ever, 132 S. Robertson Blvd., Los Angeles; www.makeupforever.com.—Nora Zelevansky

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Five years ago, the Brit perfumer Jo Malone left her eponymous brand in the hands of Estée Lauder and bid adieu to the world of scent-combining. “I had felt the chapter of fragrance was over for me,” Malone tells Style.com. But the entrepreneur with a nose for business still apparently has an itch for brand-building. “I considered taste and flavor instead. But every day I woke up thinking about fragrance. I wanted another chance at something I love.” Introducing Jo Loves, Malone’s limited-edition range of four scents that just bowed at Selfridges in London this week. “It’s so different this time,” she says of the line that includes Green Orange and Coriander, Gardenia, Pomelo, and Orange Tulle eaux. Candles will follow, as will a second collection. And to gather inspiration for her next launch, Malone has debuted the I LOVE app, an interactive mood board that will generate ideas from fans of the brand. “I think there’s a loss of intimacy with the consumer now, and I wanted to include them in my creative process,” she says. Jo Loves will open a flagship store in the U.K. and start exporting to the U.S. next year (interested parties Stateside can order online at www.joloves.com in the interim). At that point she also plans to venture beyond classical interpretations of scent. “We’ll begin launching some very different things—strange things, really—incorporating the taste element more,” Malone promises. “Beyond that, I don’t want to know the end of journey, to be honest—I want to travel it.”—Grace Timothy

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I’m a sucker for any kind of head massage. I linger at the salon shampoo station like a puppy waiting for its ears to be scratched, and I tend to brush my hair far more frequently than actually necessary simply to feel the boar bristles rubbing against my scalp. So when I heard that the latest addition to Paul Labrecque’s treatment menu at its oh-so-posh Core Club location was noggin-centric, I didn’t waste any time booking an appointment. Developed by Pirkko Vaisanen, the in-house wellness specialist, the new Chakra Rebalancing service aims to reboot, realign, and repair your body, from the head down. Vaisanen, with her adorable Finnish accent and cheery countenance, scans your chakras (energy levels) with the help of a few crystals before placing rose quartz on particularly worrisome areas (my heart was fine; my spleen, not so much). Then, thrillingly, the attention turns to your head. Vaisanen begins with a thorough scalp stimulation using a dry brush before launching into a positively drool-inducing neck and skull massage that she administers with a customized herbal oil blend. Then she douses the entire scalp with Paul Labrecque’s Daily Moisture Mud Conditioner and swaddles the hair in a hot towel before shifting her focus to limbs. Employing Reiki techniques, Vaisanen places her hands on specific pressure points to assuage the built-up tension bubbling beneath the surface. The treatment’s final act is an incredibly soothing reflexology session on the feet that is administered with yet another herbal oil blend. Ninety minutes later you’ll feel what I can only describe as a state of absolute bliss.

Paul Labrecque at the CORE Club, 66 E. 55th St., NYC www.thecoreclub.com.—Fiorella Valdesolo

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Lady Gaga may have worn blue lipstick and green eyebrows to the MTV Europe Music Awards last week, but it was her hooded hairstyle at last night’s Bambi Awards that truly won us over. That’s mostly because the always provocative singer managed to pull off one of the harder beauty-fashion combo looks that the Spring shows had to offer. Wearing head-to-toe McQueen, Gaga looped a short blond ponytail through one of designer Sarah Burton and hairstylist Guido Palau’s more elaborate show headpieces. It wasn’t a complete runway rip-off, though; while makeup artist Peter Philips kept complexions positively monochrome backstage in Paris, applying Chanel Pro Lumière foundation to faces and limbs, Gaga added a few bells and whistles in the form of red lipstick and black eyeliner, which she scrawled along her top lash line and in a squiggly pattern below her bottom lash line (the Queen of Pop would never go flair-free). Which adaptation do you prefer?

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After months of buzz and a few truly swoon-worthy capsule collections, Tom Ford’s full cosmetics range hit shelves exclusively at Bergdorf Goodman this week. And we don’t use the word “full” lightly: While Ford has dabbled in lipsticks and nail lacquers for one-offs and limited-edition Fashion’s Night Out promotions, he’s pulled out all of the stops for his latest launch, lending his design talent to four general categories: color, contouring, skincare, and scent. His color range includes blushes, lip glosses, nail lacquers, eye shadow quads, and the Noir Absolute for Eyes, a multitasking black pigment that can be worn as a shadow or a liner. The highlight of the contouring offerings is Shade and Illuminate, a duo of creamy pigments that add definition and highlights. And as for skincare, he’s devised two cleansers, two moisturizers, an eye cream, a serum, and an Illuminating Protective Primer with SPF 32. Known for his fragrances, Ford has also created two new scents: Beige Santal, a sheer sandalwood eau meant to represent the line’s nude tones, and Jasmine Rouge, a red-bottled homage to the white flower that speaks to the collection’s richer tones. The designer was in New York to present the line at Bergdorf Goodman’s newly erected Tom Ford Beauty counter, which is where we had the pleasure of catching up with him. Here, he talks favorites and why the next beauty frontier just might be makeup for men.

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Cosmetics have come a long way over the years. Though some ingredient lists remain, we admit, a little ominous, gone are the days when your lipstick was literally packed with lead. And the packaging is infinitely more streamlined and user-friendly. But still, we can’t help but sometimes long for the way it used to be, when a woman’s makeup collection consisted of a well-edited array of tiny lipstick bullets and polished tins of mascara and rouge. Besame Cosmetics’ latest creation hearkens back to those times. With its new Crimson Cream Rouge, founder Gabriela Hernandez set out to mimic the bright rosy hue that women seemed to favor in the early half of the twentieth century. Swiped across the lips and smoothed into the apples of the cheeks, the wildly flattering shade of pink works on a variety of skin tones. Yes, we were delighted by the feminine flush it imparts, but we’re perhaps even more thrilled by how its embossed red vintage-style tin looks perched on our dresser. An instant classic, in our opinion.$22, at www.besamecosmetics.com.—Fiorella Valdesolo

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