Body Beautiful – Three New Beauty Buys to Try This Week

It’s a serious perk of the job here at Her.ie towers that we get to try and test some of the latest and greatest beauty releases and call it work. Lucky us. Here is a heads up on three products that got a communal thumbs up from the team in the week that was… _____________________________ NAKED Illuminated, €29, Urban Decay There's no shame in admitting we get especially excited when a beauty drop arrives from Urban Decay. The brand has won over beauty fans worldwide with innovative products in cool packaging for fair prices - and you can't really ask for more than that. The latest add-on to the ultra-successful NAKED line is NAKED Illuminated, a shimmering powder for face and body. Fans of contouring will appreciate this product, perfect for accentuating cheekbones, collarbone and more. Illuminated in its previous incarnation originally hit the market as a holiday limited edition release. Now, it's a permanent addition to the collection and comes in two shades. The original Luminous is back; a champagne shimmer, along with new Aura, a softer, rosier shade with gold iridescent sparkle. It's available from this weekend in stores. Go forth and sparkle. Brow Artist Plumper, €8.45, L'Oreal Paris The fastest way to a fashion forward beauty look is to give good brow. You've been told time and again that your brows frame your face and completely make your look, but what if you need a little helping hand in taming yours? Step forward L'Oreal Paris, and their first brow gel mascara. Designed to make the combination of pencil, powder, brushes and mascara obsolete, the brow plumper comes complete with a mini-brush designed to make your application perfectly precise, with just the right amount of product to intensify your brows without staining your skin. The formula itself is a tinted, fibre-enriched gel that plumps up thin parts of the brow by coating individual hairs. CICAPLAST Wash B5, €8, La Roche Posay We've said it before and we'll say it again - La Roche Posay offers some of the very best value for money when it comes to high-quality skincare. This soothing cleanser for delicate skin is the latest addition to the Cicaplast range, a hugely popular and effective 'repair-care' line within the LRP solutions. The beauty of these products is the level of innovation applies to getting high-impact results with the best beauty ingredients, but delivered in a formula that's suitable for even the most sensitive skin and fragile. CICAPLAST WASH B5 is a soothing, purifying and repairing gel cleanser for delicate skin, dermatologically, paediatric and gyneacolgically tested for optimal tolerance. It also contains gentle antibacterial agents cleanse the skin effectively without disturbing its natural balance. The solution can be used on babies, children and adults and is suitable for the face, body, scalp and intimate areas. For sufferers of eczema, dermatitis, scalp irritations and other skin conditions, this one will prove to be a godsend.