Swiss Pristine Is La Prairie’s New Era Of Skin Barrier Science

Launched today, La Prairie’s Swiss Pristine is a three-product skin barrier collection that pairs micro-encapsulated glacial minerals with a patented biotech active. We’ve read the science so you don’t have to. There is a particular kind of tired that no amount of sleep fixes. La Prairie calls it “modern fatigue”: the cumulative toll of long-haul…

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What Is Beauty Tech? The Complete 2026 Guide To Beauty Technology

Your LED mask, your AI skin scan, the smart mirror that knows your face better than you do – welcome to beauty tech, the fastest-moving corner of the beauty industry. Here’s your complete 2026 guide: what beauty tech actually is, the devices worth your money and the innovations about to land on your shelfie. What…

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Jo Malone London Just Put A Fragrance Inside Fortnite

The most tastefully wrapped brand in beauty has spent August inside a battle royale. Look past the novelty and it’s one of the sharpest bits of media buying of the year. There is a ritual to buying a Jo Malone London cologne. The cream box. The black grosgrain ribbon, hand-tied by someone who has clearly…

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The Supplement You Wear: Inside The Transdermal Collagen Patch Trend

The collagen economy runs on powders, capsules and a certain amount of blind faith – most of it dissolved in oat milk before 9am. Now a new wave of wearable wellness wants to skip your digestive system entirely and deliver nutrients through your skin. The science is genuinely interesting; the claims deserve a proper look.…

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The Woman Who Fixed Typing For The Long Nail Economy

Every woman with a fresh set knows the sound. That hollow clack-clack-clack of acrylic on aluminium, the soundtrack of a thousand open-plan offices and at least three of your group chats. Long nails, for all their glory, come with an unspoken tax: the cans you can’t open, the contact lenses you approach like a bomb…

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Shu Uemura’s New AI Mirror Knows Your Face Better Than You Do

Somewhere on the first floor of Omotesando Hills, a mirror is quietly forming opinions. Not the ambient, self-inflicted kind you bring to any reflective surface after a red-eye – actual, data-backed, algorithmically considered opinions. About your face shape. Your proportions. Your feature balance. And then, rather politely, it hands the whole dossier to a human…

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Biohacking Beauty: Dr Sara on PLIM, Skincare And The Tech She Actually Trusts

A leading doctor at Knightsbridge’s renown Dr Rasha Clinic and ambassador for PLIM, Dr Sara sits exactly where medicine, technology and fintech collide. PLIM is the ‘buy-now-pay-later’ platform revolutionising how we finance our cosmetic treatments: with 0% interest, instant pre-approval, and a marketplace of over 836 vetted clinics. The idea is that paying for aesthetic…

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