The festive season has a way of inviting beauty into every moment. As Christmas approaches and the New Year draws near, the Festive Selection is revealed, spotlighting beauty brands that capture the spirit of celebration and refinement. This edit is an invitation to slow down, indulge, and reconnect with beauty as a source of pleasure and confidence with our top skincare brands.
Each brand featured tells its own story, shaped by thoughtful craftsmanship, sensorial experiences, and a deep understanding of modern beauty rituals. Whether it’s a luminous finishing touch for festive evenings or a gift chosen with intention, these selections bring a sense of occasion to the everyday.
Margy’s Monte Carlo
Winter is often the season when skin begins to ask for more – more care, more nourishment, more performance. This is where Margy’s Monte Carlo naturally finds its place in a refined skincare ritual. Renowned for its professional expertise and personalized approach, the house offers far more than products: it delivers a sensorial experience designed to restore balance, strength, and radiance to the skin.
Guided by Swiss standards of excellence and precision, Margy’s Monte Carlo brings together advanced research and luxurious formulations to support skin regeneration while respecting its natural harmony. Each treatment is designed to work in synergy with the skin, revealing a smoother texture, renewed vitality, and a luminous complexion that feels as good as it looks.
The collection unfolds through three complementary ranges, allowing every routine to be curated with intention. Pour la Vie supports the skin at every stage of life, reinforcing the skin barrier and helping preserve youthfulness and natural glow. For those seeking instant luminosity, Luminance acts like a breath of fresh air, revitalizing tired skin and enhancing radiance in just 15 days through a sophisticated blend of biotechnological and natural actives.
For moments when skin craves deeper renewal, Prestige offers an elevated solution. Created for dehydrated skin and visible wrinkles, this high-performance line restores density, firmness, and hydration from the very first application. With hero formulas such as the Triple Concentrate Serum, the Triple Action Cream, and collagen masks composed of 97% human-identical collagen, Prestige transforms skincare into a true ritual of visible rejuvenation and indulgence.
Extending this world of refinement beyond skincare, Margy’s Monte Carlo unveils a luxurious limited-edition coffret inspired by Swiss paper-cutting art and the architectural elegance of Monaco. Created in collaboration with Marie-Laure Beun, a master of the traditional Art du Pays d’En Haut, the festive packaging becomes an artistic expression in its own right, delicate, dreamlike, and meticulously crafted. A true celebration of refinement, this brand transforms the act of caring for skin into a visual and emotional experience, an invitation to invest in your skin and elevate your daily ritual.
La Prairie Switzerland
La Prairie Switzerland is the epitome of luxury skincare elegance, especially magical during the Christmas and New Year’s festive season. Celebrated worldwide for its fusion of Swiss science and timeless sophistication, La Prairie elevates skincare into a ritual of indulgence and radiance — a truly perfect gift for loved ones or even yourself during the most celebratory time of the year.
At the heart of La Prairie’s allure lies the Pure Gold Collection — a standout range that captures the essence of a golden-hour glow on the skin. Inspired by the warm, luminous light over the Swiss Alps, this collection is powered by the Advanced Pure Gold Diffusion System, which combines precious gold with cutting-edge actives to revitalize, nourish, and enhance radiance.
For a radiant festive complexion, start with La Prairie Pure Gold Radiance Concentrate, a serum that smooths and refines texture while delivering an instant glow. Follow with La Prairie Cellular Radiance Perfecting Fluide Pure Gold, a feather-light hydration boost perfect for winter’s dryness, and finish your ritual with La Prairie Pure Gold Radiance Nocturnal Balm to nourish skin overnight. Don’t forget delicate areas — La Prairie Pure Gold Radiance Eye Cream brings lush hydration and glow to the eye contour.
This holiday season, La Prairie isn’t just skincare — it’s a gift of golden radiance. Its iconic Pure Gold range helps ensure your skin looks luminous, hydrated, and perfectly celebration-ready for every festive toast and holiday photo.
Albion
Albion has long held a beloved place in the world of Japanese skincare, and its products are especially perfect for the colder months when skin needs extra hydration, resilience, and radiance. The star of the line is undoubtedly the Skin Conditioner Essential, Albion’s iconic essence that balances, soothes, and deeply hydrates skin while improving texture and encouraging a healthy complexion — a must in dry winter air.
For those seeking even deeper nourishment, Albion’s high-performance essences and creams like Albion Flarune Serum in Total and Albion Flarune Koku Melty Cream deliver intense hydration and a glowing finish that’s perfect for festive parties. The lightweight yet potent serum boosts luminosity under makeup, while the rich cream locks in moisture all day — ideal for combating winter dryness.
If you want a radiant complexion for Christmas and New Year’s celebrations, a gentle cleansing step such as Albion Flarune Shake-It Cleansing preps the skin beautifully, and a touch of ALBION EXCIA Celestial Veil / NA01 can add a luminous finish to your holiday makeup. Albion’s blend of botanical science and Japanese craftsmanship makes it a winter-season essential — nourishing, glow-enhancing, and utterly festive.
MD Glam by Dr. Cat
Looking for high-quality skincare designed to meet the needs of every woman, MD GLAM by Dr. Cat stands out for its uncompromising standards and modern approach to beauty. At the heart of the brand lies a clear philosophy: every product must stand out. Each formula is thoughtfully created to deliver real results; it is innovative, effective, and among the very best in its category.
This philosophy comes to life in The Ultimate Anti-Aging Kit, a must-have, all-in-one skincare regimen designed to support skin at every stage of life. Crafted with high-performance ingredients backed by years of scientific research and clinical experience, this four-step system targets dryness, oiliness, fine lines, wrinkles, uneven tone, and loss of firmness while remaining luxurious and easy to use.
The regimen begins with the Deep Pore Foaming Cleanser, infused with Dead Sea minerals to gently cleanse, hydrate, and soothe without stripping the skin. Next, the Exfoliating Enzyme Scrub uses ultra-fine particles to polish and refine texture, leaving skin smooth, refreshed, and perfectly prepped. For daytime, the DMAE Antioxidant Day Moisturizer delivers lightweight hydration while helping improve firmness and defend against environmental stressors with vitamins C and E. At night, the ritual concludes with the Hyaluronic Acid Night C-Complex, combining glycolic acid for renewal with low molecular weight hyaluronic acid for deep hydration and visible rejuvenation.
With this year’s special selection, Chic Icon highlights beauty that elevates everyday rituals and makes each celebration feel effortlessly refined.
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