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The Ultimate Father’s Day Gift Guide For 2026

AR Staff — Sat, 29 Aug 2026 07:56:34 +0000

Dads often brush off requests for gift ideas with a flippant “I don’t want anything” but it’d be remiss to take them at their word. And, filial duty dictates that our fathers and father figures do indeed receive something on Father’s Day. This year, Father’s Day takes place on Sunday, the 6th of September, 2026 in Australia. Steer away from dedicated Father’s Day gift curations in department stores and supermarkets; we can assure you dad doesn’t want another ‘World’s Best […]

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AR Beauty Beat, August 2026: House Of Sephora Edition

Arabella Johnson — Fri, 28 Aug 2026 08:41:03 +0000

Welcome back to the AR Beauty Beat, our monthly series which covers the must-have beauty and grooming releases of the month. While no month is an uneventful one in the beauty industry, this month’s AR Beauty Beat is a particularly special one, released following House of Sephora. A biannual event, House of Sephora showcases all the newest releases coming to the retailer’s Australian stores. Comprising skincare, makeup, haircare, and fragrance, House of Sephora usually takes place around April and August […]

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Smell Like A Sexy Ashtray (Or Don’t!) With The Best Tobacco Fragrances

Theo Rosen — Mon, 17 Aug 2026 23:34:53 +0000

Smoking is something of a relic. Between heavy excises on tobacco, a public health campaign running almost three decades, and graphic anti-smoking ads a compulsory fixture on cigarette boxes around the country, smoking has officially become passé in Australia. And don’t get us wrong, that’s a good thing — smoking is bad. Seriously, don’t do it. However, it retains a certain allure—both emotive and sensorial—that the mango- and blueberry-flavoured air of the battery-operated vapes the kids are puffing on today […]

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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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