(Published in the Cayman Compass Weekender, Friday, March 4, 2016)
Get ready for spring and update your makeup collection with Weekender’s pick of our favorite must-have beauty products. From fabulous metallic eyeshadows and sweet, kissable lips, to pink-hued collections and skin-perfecting products, this roundup has all your beauty angles covered.
Highlighted, picture-perfect skin
Strobing continues to be a big trend this spring. Celebrated beauty brand Kevyn Aucoin has recently released its new Guardian Angel Highlighter. Housed in a sleek compact case, this highlighter features a creamy, lightweight formula designed to create a subtle shimmer while blurring lines and imperfections for a clean, polished, picture-perfect look. The silky balm texture leaves skin feeling baby soft and smooth too. Apply to the cheekbones, forehead, bridge of the nose, or anywhere light naturally reflects for an effortless lit-from-within glow. A must-have essential to creating this season’s strobing makeup look.
Available at Le Visage, Camana Bay
Sweetly chic colors
Nothing screams spring more than MAC’s latest collection, Flamingo Park. Plunge into the punchy pleasures of pink with Flamingo Park’s collection of limited-edition, scrumptious colors for eyes, cheeks, lips, and nails. The sweetly chic collection includes a nine-pan eye palette featuring pretty pastel hues, two Technakohl liners in shades of purple, two beauty powders, two gorgeous pink-colored nail lacquers, a selection of concentrated loose shimmering powders, along with an array of lipsticks, glosses, lip liners and powder blushes. Our favorite items from this delicate pink-hued collection? The MAC Studio Nail Lacquer in Spoonful of Sugar, a soft pink glittery nail polish flecked with pink pearl, and the Creamsheen Glass lip glosses in flattering, easy-to-wear pink shades perfect for everyday use.
Available at the MAC boutique, Cardinall Avenue
Summer Glow
Capture the radiance of sun-kissed skin with Estee Lauder’s newly released, limited edition Bronze Goddess Summer Glow collection. This curated collection features a selection of eye, lip, cheek, and face products to help you achieve an enviable sun-kissed radiance without the damaging effects of the sun. Among our favorites from this collection are the Gelee Bronzer, a creamy gel which effortlessly glides onto the skin for a subtle veil of healthy looking, sun-kissed color, and the Lip and Cheek Summer Glow, a dual-ended multitasking color stick for lips and cheeks for an instant summer glow. A fabulous, travel-ready addition to your spring cosmetic bag.
Available at Penha Cosmetics, Cardinall Avenue
Golden radiance
Few brands can match the esteem and utter luxury of coveted skin care brand La Prairie. Now the Swiss brand has released a new gold standard in skin care – its new “Cellular Radiance Perfecting Fluide Pure Gold.” Harnessing the light-reflecting power of pure gold, this collagen-boosting peptide helps improve skin quality below the surface for smoother looking skin, while golden photo-reflecting agents and pure gold powder provide an immediate golden luminosity. Apply this lightweight gel-emulsion morning and night, using fingertips to gently smooth the product over your face for a beautiful, soft-focus finish. It’s the perfect product to ensure selfie ready skin; just be prepared for its steep price tag, it does, after all, contain one of the world’s most precious metals.
Available at la prairie Spa, The Ritz-Carlton, Grand Cayman, and La Perfumerie, Cardinall Avenue
Sweet lips
Cosmetic giant Clinique has released a range of hard-to-resist lip products. “Sweet Pots” are a dual product, featuring a tinted moisturizing lip balm and sugary lip scrub designed to buff away dead skin for smooth, kissable lips. The products are housed in a cute little macaroon-inspired caddy, designed to give wearers super smooth, hydrated lips. Available in six shades, Clinique’s Sweet Pots are an indulgence you won’t be able to resist.
Available at Penha Cosmetics, Cardinall Avenue
Effortless beauty with BECCA
BECCA is now being stocked at Le Visage and we can’t get enough of this cult beauty brand! Hailed by celebrity makeup artists and beauty editors for its beautifully curated collection of products, BECCA features a selection of lightweight, luxurious and advanced formulas that are designed to perfect skin for an effortless, natural look. One of our favorite must-have products is the award-winning Shimmering Skin Perfector Liquid designed to impart a gorgeous radiant glow to skin. Wear alone on the high points of the face, or mix into foundations, primers and moisturizers for an on-trend dewy glow. Be sure to check out the fabulous selection of foundations designed for all skin tones, as well as the water-resistant beach tints, which impart a gentle wash of color to lips and cheeks.
Available at Le Visage, Camana Bay
Joanna Lewis 