Marine beauty

Shimmer like a sea queen this summer with handbag’s selection of aqua-inspired beauty buys, ensuring you’re as mesmerising as a mermaid. Visit handbag.com for all your skincare, make-up and hair needs

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Marine Beauty

eye shadow,skincare,MAC,beauty,creme de la mer,make-up Shu Uemura Deep Sea Essence

 

By Yanar Alkayat

 

Dip into sea-inspired skincare for its renowned skin-benefits or dab-on shimmering aqua blues and turquoise green hues for a truly tropical look.


Shu Uemura Deep Sea Essence

 

Deep sea water and marine extracts make this a potent, skin-saving treat. Use morning or night before moisturiser to boost skin\'s hydration and health.

£33.50, shuuemura.com

 


Estée Lauder Beyond Paradise Blue

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A summer scent, with an oceanic touch, is perfect for summer days. This little number, full of uplifting top notes and cool bottom notes, will take you Beyond Paradise in one cool spritz.

From £28, estee-lauder.co.uk

 

Carita Ideal Hydration Lagoon Water

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Summer sun can cause tight, dehydrated skin so this sea water spritz will quench thirsty skin like taking a dip in the deep blue lagoon.

£27, carita.co.uk

 

Dr Braggi Marine Enzyme

eye shadow,skincare,MAC,beauty,creme de la mer,make-up Dr Braggi Marine Enzyme

 

From the depths of the sea, Dr. Bragi (a professor in marine bio-chemistry) discovered marine-enzymes to boost the clarity and condition of skin. This award-winning product contains little else apart from these super-active ingredients and will sink in quickly to hydrate skin.

£120, drbragi.com

 

Thalgo Ocean Memory

eye shadow,skincare,MAC,beauty,creme de la mer,make-up Thalgo Ocean Memory

 

For a real slice of the ocean, look to Thalgo, the spa range based on the powers of the sea. The new Ocean Memory ritual range, which includes a home fragrance, a nutrient-rich body cream and sea-salt and algae scrub, will take you, well, straight to the ocean for all its beauty benefits.

 

Ocean Memory Cream, £42
Deep Sea Scrub, £36
Home Fragrance, £15

 

Available at thalgo.com or Urban Retreat

 

Lancome Ellipse Eye Shadow

eye shadow,skincare,MAC,beauty,creme de la mer,make-up Lancome Ellipse Eye Shadow


This brilliant aqua-blue hue screams maritime beauty and who can resist the cute, transparent case it\'s housed in? Not us! This blue baby comes from Lancome\'s summer collection and will definitely look the part by the sea.

£15, lancome.com

 

 

MAC

eye shadow,skincare,MAC,beauty,creme de la mer,make-up MAC cool heat eyeshadow

 

Catch MAC\'s current collection for some cool blue-meets-green hues. Blend together for a swirl of sea-inspiration or dab subtly in the outer edges of eyes, teaming with the sultry corals on lips for a steamy Riviera look.

Cool Heat, from £10, maccosmetics.co.uk

Nexxus Phyto Organics Sea Swell Ocean Air Texture Mist

eye shadow,skincare,MAC,beauty,creme de la mer,make-up Nexxus Phyto Organics Sea Swell Ocean Air Texture Mist

 

It\'s a sexy look, that wind-ruffled, seawater-scrunched ‘do and a little spritz of this aptly named spray will recreate the look with ease. It also smells uncannily like care-free days by the sea.

£10.25 hqhair.com

Bliss seaweed soap

eye shadow,skincare,MAC,beauty,creme de la mer,make-up Bliss seaweed soap

 

Skin-detoxing seaweed and softening sweet almond hold the secrets to this super-exfoliating soap. So slough away the pesky bits and nudge your lymphatic nodes into cellulite-busting action.

£10, blisslondon.co.uk

Space NK Spa Seaweed body polish

eye shadow,skincare,MAC,beauty,creme de la mer,make-up Space NK Spa Seaweed body polish

 

Keep this seaweed infused scrub with added sea salt, close on the bathroom shelf and rest assured it\'ll be an invigorating and super-cleansing treat.

£25, spacenk.co.uk

 

Crème de la Mer Gel crème

eye shadow,skincare,MAC,beauty,creme de la mer,make-up Crème de la Mer Gel crème

 

Summer skincare just got lighter with Crème de la Mer\'s new season essential. Fans of the original recipe can expect the same benefits from the miracle-like deep sea ingredients, but in a refreshing, gel formula.

£160, cremedelamer.co.uk

 

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