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

Arabella Johnson — Sun, 22 Mar 2026 08:35:42 +0000

We’re well into the third month of the year and the beauty industry is rapidly picking up pace, with March 2026 laden with new beauty, skincare, and haircare releases. With March shaping up to be a blockbuster of a month, we’re back with the latest edition of AR Beauty Beat. As we know, not all products are created equal; we’re here to separate the hits from the misses, bringing you the releases actually that deserve to be on your radar. […]

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Lock In; The 12 Best Grippy Primers For Oily Skin

Arabella Johnson — Wed, 11 Mar 2026 04:37:46 +0000

Those with oily skin know that nailing one’s makeup is only half the battle — keeping it from sliding off your face come the slightest hint of heat, humidity, rain, or simply the passage of time is a challenge of its own. The best primers for oily skin need to not only lock makeup in place, but work to mitigate excess oil and shine by lightly mattifying the skin and minimising the appearance of pores. Add to that, they should […]

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Bouke De Vries Turns Dries Van Noten’s Soie Malaquais Into Sculptural Works Of Art

Esmé Duggan — Mon, 02 Mar 2026 09:42:16 +0000

Created in partnership with perfumer Marie Salamagne, who “fell in love with Dries’ silk dresses in his Quai Malaquais boutique,” Soie Malaquais is a fragrance inspired by lush texture and materiality. “The texture was so fluid it merged with the skin, which gave me the idea for a silky, enveloping perfume, a mix of chestnut with sensual vanilla,” explained Salamagne. One of the ten fragrances Dries van Noten’s eponymous fragrance brand debuted with upon launch in 2022, Soie Malaquais stands […]

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

Esmé Duggan — Mon, 23 Feb 2026 03:02:22 +0000

Welcome back to the AR Beauty Beat. It might be the shortest month of the year, but February 2026 is in no shortage of covetable beauty releases and news. It’s unlikely you’d have missed the headline news—Hailey Bieber’s Rhode has launched in Mecca, with the Australian and New Zealand exclusive ‘Cloudberry’ Peptide Lip Tint promptly selling out—but there are other releases that are equally (if not more!) worth hearing about. Think: Biossance’s new high-tech moisturiser and The Ordinary delivering the closest […]

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The 12 Best Illuminating Primers To Nail A Glowy Base

Arabella Johnson — Sat, 21 Feb 2026 08:35:38 +0000

“It’s a crime not to prime.” Something of an outdated maxim often chalked up to the beauty industry trying to sell us yet another step in an already lengthy skincare and makeup routine, if it is indeed a crime not to prime, well, lock me up. On the few occasions I have deigned to use a primer, it’s typically with the intent of increasing the staying power of my makeup on my oily combination skin, with the primer basically playing […]

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