A worthwhile gift for yourself or others without leaving the house, between now and now? Don't mind if we do.
MAC is breaking the laziness market with a gift box with the exact name Better than flowers, which includes three useful products: a reduced and excellent M·A·C STACK mascara, a MINERALIZE SKINFINISH highlighter and a high-shine LUSTREGLASS lipstick in a solid Hug me Nud shade, which will suit everyone. The packaging is black and meticulous and the contents at an affordable price - class with zero effort.
Mack, Better than flowers case
NIS 280 (value of the products NIS 404), available at Walt.
Successful cases can also be found this holiday at
Bobby Brown
. Make-up artists who love deals will be able to stock up on a pair of stick shadows, or their favorite extra lip tint lipstick and a lip pencil at a 20% discount. Lovers of the excellent VITAMIN ENRICHED series can store in the emergency stores a moisturizer and eye cream from the series, along with a cute cream blush that is also suitable for the lips at a 35% discount and feel peachy.
Bobby Brown sets, between NIS 245-480.
And here is a kit that we will definitely keep for ourselves: 6 products from the skincare brand
Origins
, some of them in miniature packaging that made us want more - yes, an eye cream that reduced our puffiness after the historic UFO night, we're looking at you, and also the serum that works a miracle in the glow sector; and some of them are in size Usual that we intend to adopt from now until world peace comes - a moisturizing gel with excellent caffeine that saved dry and gray skin, and a soothing treatment lotion, which is about what we all need now. Also in the box: an effective charcoal mask that pumped our pores and a foaming, non-drying cleansing
cream The Magic of Origins - 250 NIS
Lalin
has come a long way
since vanilla patchouli, and getting older means matching patchouli with a more refined bergamot. The limited edition of the new fragrance is designed in an oval and turquoise, and although we have already met more sophisticated packaging in Linn, the combination between the cute smell, which is very Victoria's Secret, and the non-childish look made us feel good.
The new fragrance can be found in all the well-known products of the brand: body peeling (our favorite), mist, body and hand cream, candles and more - a good-looking gift option at a relatively affordable price.
Laline - packages starting at NIS 90.
Super beautician Paula Blick offers a tiny kit in a transparent bag that is suitable for traveling, and includes an effective facial soap, a serum for tired skin and the magic drops - a highly concentrated serum with hyaluronic acid. For lovers of the reduced products, for Paula lovers, for anyone who just wants to experiment and for women with a problem of committing to a full size.
Paula Blick, travel kit - 199 NIS | Available at the clinic in Ramat Aviv or on the website.
and now! To the perfumes we liked:
for us, this is the winning perfume of the season, and like many other successful scents, it is generally from the men's shelf. The new Berber is warm and masculine but not the standard type: toxic masculinity out, woody notes of cedar, clean and aromatic - pack for us to take, for a partner and for ourselves too.
Burberry, Hero
669 NIS for 100 ml.
LeOccitan
continues the esteemed tradition, and releases a new perfume that will work well even on hot and sweaty summer days. The original combination between roses of the refined type, Persian peach and sour grapefruit creates a clean compound, sweet to the right degree and not domineering - the composition is a winner for the upcoming Sakhonia. The bottle is inspired by the 70s and is one of the cutest we've seen this season.
Okitsen, roses and peach - 199 NIS for 50 ml.
Beit Armani
's latest version
of My Way is sweet and sour and fruity, but not the overpowering migraine-inducing kind. The new limited edition scent combines pear, citrus, vanilla and a bit of bergamot and is especially young and summery, and comes in a too pink bottle.
Armani, my way nectar
389 NIS for 90 ml.
Relative to Joe Mellon
's perfumes
that are like nothing else, the red hibiscus is still like nothing else, but less so. I want to say - here and there at the edges of its floral scent it smells a bit familiar. It is composed of hibiscus, jasmine and vanilla, elegant and intense and long lasting. This mix is supposed to be unisex, to us it smelled feminine to the max.
Joe Mellon, Red Hibiscus Intense - NIS 485 for 50 ml.
If you have a spare thousand and an elderly hostess who wants to pamper you, go for the perfume of the super brand
Floraiku
which comes from Paris, but gets its inspiration from Japanese culture. The perfume comes in a beautiful bento box that we have no way of defining except as an "assembly kit": the cap, the unusual bottle and the contents come separately, and with them another small bottle for carrying. The scent itself is floral, springy and very feminine, but on the extra sweet side. Dizzy at first sniff, balances later with more horsey notes, and in any case suitable for someone who has done things and seen things and knows how to spray it with dignity.
Floraïku Paris, spring river
50 ml + 10 ml for 1,070 NIS, available at Beyond Skin.
And in the same price category, in the high-end collection of
Versace,
they are launching a series of perfumes that on paper are defined as unisex. Despite the pedigree and cost, the Gingembre Pétillant sampled from the series is a fragrance for the masses. On the one hand, unique and interesting, on the other hand, you don't have to be a connoisseur to like it. It is much more masculine than unisex, young in a good way, fruity and delicious.
Versace Atelier, Gingembre Pétillant
1380 NIS for 100 ml, available at selected Super Pharm branches and on the Lilit Cosmetics website
And for the unisex corner - the Australian brand
GOLDFIELD & BANKS
in a bottle with great success the smell of the beach. And since it is an Australian beach, there is less ping pong and cigarettes in the sand, and more crispy sea salt, lemon, amber and dreaminess that will charm women and men alike.
Goldfield & Banks, Pacific Rock Moss
695 NIS for 100 ml. Get online April
BOSS
perfumes
are proof that you don't need a personality to succeed and be loved. With this optimistic conclusion we approached the new edition in a series that has been with us for over two decades. The bottle is the same bottle, only in a shiny dark blue version with a golden cap, and the smell is generic and delicious masculine: both citrus, also green, a little spicy and woody on the edge. An experimenter who is the opposite of a man adopted it for herself, and recommends everyone who suffers from too floral-fruity perfumes to follow her.
Boss, Bottled Triumph Elixir - 449 NIS for 100 ml.
The 'value for money' category is represented by
Gulberry
, who offer a new series of perfumes at a low price. The brand did the right thing when it chose a minimalist design, and the execution is successful - the transparent glass bottles with the beautiful wooden stopper and the white labels are clean and meticulous, and you can't go wrong with the simple white box either. There are 5 scents in the collection, more or less generic, of which we especially liked the AMBER&TONKA which leans more towards the unisex/masculine side - a bit lemony, a bit woody and a bit musky. Medium-low survival, which is a pity.
Gulberry - 100 NIS for 100 ml.