Beauty & Grooming | Fragrance, skincare, makeup for men and women

The 9 Best Milky Toners For A Dairy-Free Dose Of Comfort

Arabella Johnson — Sun, 26 Jul 2026 13:22:34 +0000

Toners used to be a take it or leave it product. A somewhat superfluous step between cleansing and moisturising—or active serums—that was largely reserved for proponents of multi-step skincare routines and eschewed by everyone else. Recent years have seen toners reenter the fray by way of lightweight leave-on exfoliants with water-like textures, but for those seeking hydration and moisture in equal measure, a milky toner is the way to go. Like many skincare phenomenons, milky toners arrived by way of […]

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AR Beauty Beat, July 2026: Best Beauty & Grooming Releases

Arabella Johnson — Sun, 19 Jul 2026 11:39:04 +0000

Welcome back to the July 2026 AR Beauty Beat, where we cover the must-have beauty and grooming releases of the month. We might be in the midst of winter here in the southern hemisphere, but the new beauty, fragrance, and grooming releases continue to come in hot and heavy. However, not all products are created equal. So, to help you differentiate the hits from the misses, we’ve put together the recently released products worthy of your time this month. Without further […]

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AR Beauty Beat, June 2026: Best Beauty & Grooming Releases

Arabella Johnson — Thu, 25 Jun 2026 12:45:12 +0000

Welcome back to the AR Beauty Beat, where we cover the must-have beauty and grooming releases of the month. As a fast-paced industry, there are new beauty and grooming releases each week — and the past month has been no exception. However, not all products are created equal. So, to help you differentiate the hits from the misses, we’ve put together the recently released products worthy of your time this month. Without further ado, here are the 12 best beauty […]

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Amouage Love Hibiscus Distills The Essence Of Perfumery’s Most Mysterious Flower

Tanisha Angel — Mon, 22 Jun 2026 05:08:42 +0000

How do you capture a scent that doesn’t exist? Such was the creative conundrum surrounding the development of Love Hibiscus, the latest addition to Amouage’s Secret Garden collection. The Omani niche fragrance house conceived the Secret Garden collection a decade ago, exploring notions of contemporary femininity through olfactory pairings of floral and gourmand notes. For its latest outing, Renaud Salmon, chief creative officer at Amouage, drew upon both a contemporary and a core memory. The first being the hibiscus flowers […]

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The 22 Best Men’s Skincare Brands For Great Skin In 2026

John Deckard — Wed, 10 Jun 2026 11:33:35 +0000

Men’s skincare has undergone a shift of seismic proportions over the last decade. No longer are men restricted to 3-in-1 face wash/body wash/dishwashing liquid style products while women seemingly have a different formulation for each elbow. Today, skincare is primarily unisex, with pioneering gender-neutral and men’s skincare brands leading the way in active skincare, offering everything from toners and cleansers to serums and sunscreens. We first published this article on the best men’s skincare brands in 2021. Since then, the […]

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AR Beauty Beat, April 2026: Best Beauty & Grooming Releases

Arabella Johnson — Mon, 27 Apr 2026 10:06:06 +0000

The weather might be cooling down in the southern hemisphere, but the beauty industry is just heating up. Naturally, we’re back with the April 2026 edition of AR Beauty Beat. From new fragrances to the return of a formerly defunct brand, we’ve selected the beauty and skincare worthy of your time in April 2026. 1. Aesop Solais Replenishing Hand Serum 2. Deciem relaunches The Chemistry Brand 3. Torriden Dive In Low Molecular Hyaluronic Acid Serum 4. Violette_FR Plume Eyeshadow 5. […]

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Don’t Be A Fragrance Monogamist; Here’s Why You Should Create A Fragrance Wardrobe

Tanisha Angel — Mon, 13 Apr 2026 10:53:34 +0000

For decades, scent purists and celebrities alike have touted having a signature scent as an inimitably chic move. Yet therein lies the trouble. A signature represents one’s mark on the world and thus needs to be unique to you; unless you’re running a fragrance lab in your garage and have managed to concoct your own scent, there’s a good chance there are thousands of people who also start the day by spritzing your ‘signature’ scent onto their necks and wrists. […]

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Rose Perfumes Are Back; These Are 11 Of The Best

Tanisha Angel — Sat, 11 Apr 2026 04:46:16 +0000

Much like any other olfactory note that has achieved widespread mainstream popularity—hello, vanilla—rose perfumes are often unfairly maligned. Hamstrung by its own likeability and familiarity, rose fragrances tend to be dismissed as crowd pleasers, generic, old lady-esque, or, the ultimate modern insult — basic. There’s often also a certain sense of olfactory contrarianism at play, with it being perceived as interesting (edgy, even) to disparage rose perfumes and the somewhat feminine, delicate connotations they may carry. Contemporary perfumers have responded […]

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A Beauty Editor Reviews The Best (& Worst) Lip Stains & Tints On The Market

Tanisha Angel — Fri, 10 Apr 2026 06:17:56 +0000

I’m not great at applying makeup. My makeup routine essentially consists of slapping foundation onto my face and hoping for the best. However, one product that has been a constant in my routine for well over a decade is a lip stain. Like most children of the 2000s, lip gloss was my first foray into the vast world of lip colour — and I welcomed its high maintenance nature, with its constant need for reapplication acting as a low brow […]

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White Floral Perfumes Are Far Less Innocent Than They Look

Tanisha Angel — Wed, 08 Apr 2026 01:57:48 +0000

“I don’t like floral perfumes,” some people like to smugly assert, before proclaiming they favour the timeless elegance of Chanel No. 5 or the breezy sophistication of Diptyque Do Son. Of course, those who make such asinine statements are typically referring to those obvious florals. You know — rose, peony, violet, lavender, iris, heliotrope…often paired with lashes of red fruits and underscored by sweet musks. But it would be remiss to dismiss the most varied fragrance category based on one’s […]

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