The limited-edition CNY skincare and makeup products to get in the mood
These bright and bold skincare, makeup and bath treats will help you usher in the Year of the Ox in the most auspicious way
By Vanessa Chia -
We’re excited to welcome the Year of the Ox with auspicious reds and golds to bring in lots of good luck and fortune. To help you achieve maximum glow, some of your favourite beauty products have gotten a vibrant makeover to get you off to a fresh start for Chinese New Year.
Get your complexion looking youthful and radiant with this fan fave. The mask is packed with botanicals that fight multiple signs of ageing – dryness, skin sagging and wrinkles, while keeping skin uber soft and supple.
Now in a limited edition jumbo size (75ml) dressed in a brilliant red hue for Chinese New Year, it’s a quick pick-me-up just before you head out the door.
Available at Chantecaille counters at Tangs at Tang Plaza and Takashimaya D.S.
Awakens skin’s intuitive ability to activate its repair and defence mechanisms, keeping your complexion looking radiantly youthful always. Give skin an auspicious start to the year with this iconic fave.
Available at Cle de Peau Beaute boutique and counters.
A red lip never goes out of style, and it’s also the perfect accessory for any Chinese New Year outfit. Housed in an elegant red case, this collection of lipsticks, now in a refillable tube, boasts four show-stopping red hues, including the brand new 999 Velvet, for an ox-picious year ahead, as well as a softer rosewood shade for muted days.
Available exclusively at Dior Beauty boutiques
Get an abundant glow with this illuminating limited edition set. The Diamond Bomb All Over Diamond Veil in Royal Icing comes in a champagne gold hue that gives your complexion a natural sparkle while the Gloss Bomb Universal Lip Luminizer in Cheeky, a lucky red-orange shimmering shade, instantly brightens your look.
Available at Sephora stores and Sephora.sg
Spring is in the air indeed as this Fresh anti-ageing cream gets decked in blossoms. Enriched with a blend of kombucha, together with black tea, blackberry, lychee seed and goji fruit extracts, it lifts and tones the skin, giving your complexion more definition and a youthful bounce so you can look your best for Chinese New Year.
Available at Fresh boutiques
Add a little spice to your Lunar New Year outfit with these new shade additions to the iconic YSL Beauty Rouge Volupte Shine range. Choose from a range of 11 shades, from easy-to-wear neutrals to vibrant red-hot chilli hues – our faves are 129 Carmine Retro, a dramatic red, and 131 Chili Morroco, a spicy burnt red. Each lippie contains a skin-loving formula enriched with macadamia oil and pomegranate extract to keep lips soft and supple.
Available at YSL Beauty boutiques and counters
Gift your skin radiance with this anti-ageing serum. It contains purified lactic acid to gently exfoliate dull, pore-clogging dead skin cells to reveal an instantly brighter complexion. The serum also plumps the skin and reduces the look of lines and wrinkles. Now in a brilliant red bottle adorned with a golden ox for a prosperous and luminous start to the Lunar New Year.
Available at Sephora stores
Get your complexion soft, smooth and glowing for Chinese New Year visiting with this skin-transforming mask. It sloughs away impurities while absorbing excess sebum thanks to its blend of natural clays and volcanic pumice rock. At the same time, it has a patented green tea leaf technology that also helps brighten and firm the skin. Plus, its red and gold new look for the season will look fabulous on your vanity table.
Available at Sephora stores and Sephora.sg
Get lucky with this limited -edition buffing brush. Its dense and soft bristles will help you achieve a flawless finish with ease, even with mandatory mask-wear.
Available at Sephora stores and Sephora.sg
Keep skin clean and clear, especially with all the CNY visiting you’ll be doing, with this clay cleanser. The formula is a combination of red clay, rosemary oil and botanical antioxidants to draw out toxins from the skin, control breakouts and reduce excess sebum production, keeping the complexion balanced and healthy.
Available at Sephora stores
As part of CHANEL's latest addition to their line of beauty products, enter the Rouge Allure Velvet Le Lion. Featuring 8 exclusive creations, the limited edition lipstick features a golden cap, stamped with the silhouette of the lion that holds dearly to Gabrielle Chanel. Also known as the fifth sign of the zodiac and the year Gabrielle was born, she considers the symbol to be more than just an emblem, becoming a favourite subject in many of her creations. The new range arrives in 8 velvet-effect shades with 8 intense colours — from reds to oranges, and even beiges — that comes with a luminous matte finish.
Sending you virtual hugs and kisses – the brand’s iconic essence gets dressed up in vibrant gold brush strokes that spell out “XOXO” on the bottle. And at the same time, why not boost the effects of the FTE with this deluxe-sized limited edition set?
SK-II now has an online flagship store on Lazmall – you can shop all your fave SK-II products there. The XOXO New Year Limited Edition bottle is also available at SK-II counters, while stocks last.
A nutritive cleansing oil that easily removes all traces of makeup – including the most stubborn waterproof mascara, eyeliner and lip colour – without stripping skin of moisture. Now dressed in an elegant red and gold limited edition bottle to brighten your bathroom counter.
Available at Shu Uemura boutiques and counters
This cult classic gets dressed in a deep red and gold leather case for the Year of the Ox. A soft powder that keeps the complexion looking flawless, thanks to its four pastel shades that naturally correct and blur imperfections. The result is a velvety matte and luminous finish.
Available at Sephora stores and Sephora.sg
A gentle alcohol-free toner that soothes and hydrates the skin. And for an auspicious start to the year, this brand fave now features a festive zodiac illustration of Moxie the Ox, by Chinese-born Canadian illustrator, Weiting Mai. Join Moxie as he ushers in the new year with abundant joy and luck.
Available at Kiehl’s boutiques and counters, and Kiehls.com.sg
Fans of the iconic Double Serum will be glad to know that the brand will be introducing a super-sized 75ml bottle to usher in the lunar festivities. And what’s even better news? Once a limited edition, this 75ml bottle will now be a staple to the range. A golden skin elixir, it is infused with 21 plant-based ingredients to keep your skin firm, smooth, radiant and youthful.
Available at Clarins boutiques and counters, and Clarins.com.sg
Instead of its usual sleek black-lacquered box, Christian Louboutin Beauty is bringing prosperity and well wishes with its red-hot and gold limited edition packaging, for its iconic lipsticks. The lipsticks come in three finishes – matte, satin and sheer. And to make the treat even sweeter, the brand is also offering a hongbao set in the same gilded design, with any purchase.
Available at Tangs at Tang Plaza
Originally created backstage at fashion shows to prep models’ skin, this award-winning moisturiser contains bionymph peptide, vitamins C and E, hyaluronic acid, camellia and rosehip oils, and shea butter to reduce the appearance of lines and wrinkles while nourishing, softening and brightening the complexion instantly. And for the New Year, it gets updated with a red and gold lid to usher in good fortune for the year ahead.
Available exclusive at Sephora stores and Sephora.sg
Can’t get enough of this iconic youth boosting serum? Good news, for Chinese New Year, Lancome is introducing a jumbo 100ml bottle adorned with the brand’s signature rose in a radiant red hue to get skin glowing. And what’s even better than one jumbo bottle? Two jumbo bottles in this duo set.
Available at Lancome counters
Estee Lauder Limited Edition Red Advanced Night Repair Synchronized Multi-Recovery Complex, $175
The iconic night-repair serum gets a new red-hot flacon complete with golden peonies for Chinese New Year. Also comes with a peony charm keychain so you can take good luck with you everywhere you go.
Available at Estee Lauder boutiques and counters, and the Estee Lauder flagship store at Lazada.sg
This fan fave gets a vibrant red and gold outfit that features the brand’s latest mascot, Little Mo, an adorable ox, to send you well wishes for the Chinese New Year.
Available at Clinique counters
Keep your skin healthy and radiant all through the Year of the Ox and beyond with this skin-strengthening serum. The limited edition design features blooming flowers, a representation of how your skin will bloom with beauty in 2021.
Available at Shiseido counters
Your favourite Translucent Loose Setting Powder gets dressed in a red and gold limited edition packaging heralding a fresh start for the year. Getting your complexion looking flawless for Chinese New Year visiting has never been so easy.
Available at Laura Mercier boutique and counters
Dr Andew Weil for Origins Mega-Mushroom Relief & Resilience Soothing Treatment Lotion Lunar New Year Limited Edition, $63
Skin under stress? Here’s wishing you healthy and happy skin for the Year of the Ox with this good lucky post-cleanser skin-strengthening treatment lotion infused with reishi and fermented chaga mushrooms, together with a patented probiotic ferment to restore skin’s balance.
Available at Origins counters
Let your eyes do the talking, especially when you’re masked up during all your Chinese New Year visiting, with this limited edition eyeshadow palette of sensuous shades, from silky champagne and sultry russet to shimmering taupe and rich chocolate-brown.
Available at Tangs at Tang Plaza and Takashimaya D.S
A fortune-infused palette of buttery matte, lustrous satin and shimmering glitter eyeshadows in hues of gold, rust and bronze – such auspicious Chinese New Year colours. The perfect beauty companion as you usher in the Year of the Ox.
Available at Nars boutiques and counters
Enter the dragon, literally. Welcome good fortune and luck into your home and bath-time routine with this floral-scented bubble stick. Plus, it also contains a unique dragon fruit powder that’s rich in antioxidants and vitamin C to revive and brighten the skin too.
Available at Lush stores
Fans of Sulwhasoo’s First Care Activating Serum will definitely want to get their hands on this. A jumbo-sized 120ml bottle adorned with a geometric heart, inspired by traditional Korean patchwork, to bring a sense of renewed hope and new beginnings.
Available at Sulwhasoo boutiques and counters
Make the Year of the Ox a brighter Chinese New Year with this cult classic, in its auspicious packaging of red and gold, and five bonus treatments. A daily peel treatment that contains seven acids along with antioxidants and vitamins, to help skin look smoother and more radiant for CNY visiting.
Available at Sephora stores
Aren't these cute? Practising good hand hygiene is easy and fun when you’re toting around these limited edition Lifebuoy hand sanitisers and accessories. Choose from five designs, each featuring three different Chinese zodiac signs grouped based on their compatibility, and one with a Fortune (fu) character for extra luck.
Plus, spend $8 on these Lifebuoy x Disney Tsum Tsum hand sanitisers and you’ll get to redeem an adorable Disney Tsum Tsum red packet pack too (while stocks last).
Available at Guardian, Watsons, Fairprice and the Unilever official store on Lazada.sg
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