With Mother’s day rapidly approaching, the team at CosBeauty share their pick of the best gift ideas from a tantalising array of new products and treatments. With hair care products, skin rejuvenation treatments and the latest in cosmetics; pamper your mum in indulgent luxury this Mother’s Day.
Shwarzkopf: Ultimate colour, $24.99
Children are undoubtedly the number one cause of grey hair, so this Mother’s Day treat your mum to a vibrant new shade with Schwarzkopf Ultimate Colour. Boosting home hair colouring to a fresh, easy, innovatively new level, Ultimate Colour is the first ever multi-usage permanent colour foam, which can be applied without mixing and used more than once.
How to use Ultimate Colour: The dye and the developer (the two components usually mixed in home hair colouring treatments) are stored separately in Ultimate Colour’s dual aerosol applicator. In pulling the trigger, both constituents are released alongside each other in a ready-to-lather foam. The thick texture affords easy, even application over the head, while the unused dye can be kept in the aerosol can for future use.
For those with shoulder length hair, Ultimate Colour should grant one full head colour, with enough remaining product for a root application four weeks later.
UltraCeuticals: Ultra C Firming Serum, $98 and Firming Concentrate, $120
To combat those signs of ageing, with a little pampering in the process, UltraCeuticals Ultra C Firming Range will leave your mum feeling radiant, youthful and rejuvenated.
With a Firming Serum and a Firming Concentrate, the Ultra C range is designed to improve skin resilience and firmness, while fuelling the skin with protective antioxidants. The non-greasy formula contains no acne-irritating ingredients and helps reduce the appearance of fine lines and wrinkles. It rejuvenates ageing skin by refining skin texture, promoting smoothness and reducing redness and surface shine.
It’s all in the ingredients: Boasting one of the highest percentages (23%) of pure vitamin C in the market, the Firming Concentrate is specifically designed to fight advanced signs of ageing. Each vitamin C particle has been ground to microfine size, smaller than a red blood cell. This, partnered with a CSIRO-developed delivery system, affords increased delivery and penetration of active ingredients.
With a slightly different role, to combat the first signs of ageing, the Firming Serum contains 10% pure Vitamin C, which offers antioxidantprotection while enhancing the skin’s dermal renewal process.
Max Factor: Colour Elixir Giant Pen Stick, $9.95
Perfect to wear during a Mother’s Day dinner, the Colour Elixir Giant Pen Stick is a range of giant lip pencils rich in colour and precise in definition. In a striking array of shades with a sculpted tip on each pencil, the Colour Elixir offers easy-to-apply impact to suit every skin tone, dress or occasion.
Pick a colour:
The Colour Elixir Giant Pen Stick range comes in 6 ultra-pigmented shades. To achieve a classic, arresting look try Passionate Red, applying it as an all-over block colour, adding coats as you go.
For a demure, subtle look, pastel or nude colours like Designer Blossom and Couture Blush will give your mum’s features a warm, natural glow.
L’Oreal: Volumetry, $92.95 for entire range (products sold separately)
For those mums pulling their hair out after rascal children, Volumetry by L’Oreal is the perfect gift to boost volume, enhance nutrition and generate shine.
Volumetry offers a volume-boosting solution in a four-part range: anti-gravity shampoo, conditioner, hair mist and the brand new SOS volume spray. The spray formula acts on the roots with an anti-sebum effect to add long-lasting volume and refresh hair health.
How it works: L’Oreal explains fine hair is up to 30% thinner than your average locks, meaning it’s more resilient to volume retention. The limp appearance of fine hair occurs because the roots lack rigidity, making styling difficult. With Salicylic Acid to purify the scalp, Intra-Cylane to reinforce structure in the hair follicle and Hydralight to offer lightweight hydration and conditioning, fine tresses are left nourished, soft and volumised.
