“Nail polish is like the icing on the beauty cake.”
Mary Helen Bowers
Make-up trend
Blueprint
What looks as if it has been pressed directly from the tube of color onto the eyelid and then smoothed into shape with the fingers is great skill: At Dion Lee, colors that give even the quietest look a boost reign supreme. It really is like painting: prime your eyelid in advance with a smoothing base, which not only holds the subsequent color in place just like you hold your treasure in your hand, but also intensifies it. A few sprays of fixing spray and you’re done.
Nice to have
Somewhere over the Rainbow
Twelve steps are necessary to turn a piece of acetate into a comb. The colorful things are made in Switzerland for the Officine Universelle Buly label – in one of the last workshops in Europe that has mastered this art. This is done so carefully and with so much love that the teeth of the finished utensil can do no harm to hair or scalp. If you like, you can have the colorful comb engraved with your own initials or a favorite word. Simply beautiful.
Happy Birthday
Cheers!
If crowdfunding had already existed in 1980, Paul Mitchell and John Paul DeJoria would certainly not have had to realize their idea with just 700 dollars. Well then, the few bucks were enough to turn a spark into a wildfire: Today, the beauty company, to which we owe full, well-groomed and beautiful hair, is celebrating its 42nd anniversary – and in such a big way because the milestone birthday two years ago fell victim to Corona. We deliver high-calorie cakes and champagne by the bottle and join in the toast: To the next 40! paulmitchell.de
Unfuck the World
Doubly doubled
Tap open, water out. This is a matter of course for us. However, the fact that 800 children worldwide die every day from diseases caused by a lack of access to water and soap makes us swallow hard. In addition, up to 150 tons of used soaps are thrown away in Swiss hotels every year. Facts that hurt – and stimulate the brain, at least that of Dorothée Schiesser. In 2014, she founded SapoCycle and has been recycling hotel soaps ever since in order to pass them on to people in need. And the good doesn’t stop there: people with disabilities work in the SapoCycle workshops, enabling them to work independently. This year, the NGO is expanding its program to include discarded shampoos, conditioners and shower gels and their plastic packaging, which are no longer used in Swiss hotels. People in need in Switzerland and around the world who would otherwise have no access to soap and the like benefit from the reprocessed and recycled hygiene products. sapocycle.org
Hair Trend
Gimmick
Frizzy hair, don’t care? Well, we do grind our teeth when our hair takes on a life of its own at the first mist. Hardware LDN provides us with two solutions to avoid this problem: Braids or a bandana on top, of course a combination of both is also possible. Braiding doesn’t necessarily have to be the smallest job, a thick braid also makes an impression. And the headscarf? There are at least as many binding options as there are design variants, just choose your favorite.
New Brand
Phoenix
Bad things are happening in the world – and in our neighborhood. The war in Ukraine is causing despair and many refugees who have fled their homeland are left with nothing. In Ukraine, Dara was on stage as a singer, in Switzerland she became a beauty entrepreneur within a few months. The Ukrainian tinkers with beauty formulas and founds her own label. The result: Dara Cosmetics and a line of ten products for all skin types. These include an anti-ageing mask, a bamboo, argan oil and enzyme peeling, a smoothing serum for the day and one for the night that stimulates cell division and ensures an even complexion. Dara donates 15 percent of the proceeds from the sale of her products to Terre des Hommes to support children in Ukraine. Good products that do good: What more could you want? dara-cosmetics.com
New Open
Healthy as fuck
Sport: checked. Healthy nutrition: checked. Enough sleep: checked. And yet we feel like we’ve been put through a meat grinder. Why is that the case? We can get to the bottom of this with epigenetics, which allows us to draw conclusions about what actually causes us to age prematurely. This requires a lot of data: your blood, your DNA and AI-supported photo analyses. Yes, the whole thing is complex – but fortunately there are experts such as Dr. Valentina Bänninger, who has dedicated her newly opened sweet skin clinic to helping you age healthily. Of course, you can also have a classic makeover there, in modern rooms that are more reminiscent of Google headquarters than a conventional beauty clinic. sweet skin, Grabenstrasse 2, 6340 Baar, sweet.skin
The Look
C’est chic
The make-up free look is like the holy grail. What has to be right: the base (with moisturizer, primer and foundation), the highlights (please apply in liquid form and with a brush), the contour (just a hint) and the brows (thick and tamed). With Ester Manas, nothing distracts, not even the hairstyle, whereby the earring tries its luck – and fails because of the glossy lips.
We love
Drama, baby!
Oribe Canales was the Elvis of hair – and artist Alvaro portrayed him as such. This image now adorns the dry shampoo, equally popular with models and stylists, which can do much more than trick the mop of hair past a wash: zeolite crystals absorb oil, dirt and odors, mango, aloe vera and kiwi provide moisture, and the special polymer blend makes the hair grippy and particularly easy to style.
