It’s 2025 and the new year is the perfect time to revamp your beauty routine. Citizen Femme’s beauty and wellness director Becki Murray has all the recommendations you need, with her round-up of the best new beauty launches for January.
To help you start 2025 in style, there are plenty of exciting new skincare innovations on offer, including from Refy and Chantecaille, plus multi-tasking makeup essentials and fabulous fragrances. These are the best January beauty launches to stock up on this month.
Gone are the days when lightweight skin tints hardly lasted an hour. Laura Mercier's iconic tinted moisturiser now delivers full day-long wearability, alongside the glow-boosting finish we know and love. Plus, it's uber hydrating with 88 per cent of the formula actually being made up of skincare ingredients.
Nothing warms the soul during January's back to work busyness like lighting a candle – and this one from Diptyque smells good enough to eat. Inspired by the popular French king cake, the limited edition gourmand aroma of almond, sandalwood and iris is indulgently moreish and a real post-Christmas treat.
Christmas may be over but this limited-edition candle from Diptyque will keep you feeling merry and bright throughout January.
Let us introduce you to the new skincare equivalent of an at-home facialist! Guaranteed to have you looking super fresh faced, the hydrating and smoothing gel-cream is supercharged by the built-in roller massager. It pushes the skincare actives deeper into your skin, using lymphatic massage techniques to cool, lift and sculpt your complexion.
If your new year's resolution was to finally try supplements for your skin and hair, these new gummies are brilliant for beginners. The 100 per cent vegan and sugar-free formulas are available in four varieties: Nourish (for hair), Glow (for dulled skin), De-Puff (for stressed skin); and Clarity (for breakouts) – all in tasty fruity flavours.
Powered by Barbados cherries (which Rihanna loves from her birthplace), this gel-to-foam cleanser makes light work of removing even waterproof makeup. Plus, it not only cleans, it brightens too, with not one but three forms of vitamin C-rich cherry, and – if that wasn't enough – niacimaide is also on hand to help refine the appearance of your pores.
Struggling with weather-worn skin as the wind, rain and even snow continues to hit? This nourishing balm is the luxurious first aid you need and, in the best news, it works in just one night. Our top tip: use it once a week or whenever you have significant signs of redness and dryness. It will quickly soften, plump, and add radiance to stressed-out complexions.
The fight against winter-worn skin doesn’t have to feel stressful with this indulgently nourishing cream from La Mer.
Merit Beauty is the queen of 'expensive-looking' makeup and this blush with its melt-into-skin texture continues that trend (and is now available in a wider shade range). With the ability to amplify your wintry flush, the formula reflects light without a faux sparkle, to breathe fresh natural-looking life into your cheeks.
As I've predicted in our CF 2025 beauty trend report, big hair is back for 2025 and this is the tool that can help you achieve it. The lightweight hairdryer with four styling attachments delivers powerful airflow for quick results (without the arm ache). Plus, it uses infrared and ionic technology to eliminate frizz, promote blood circulation and to help keep your hair healthier and shinier.
If, like me, you tend to struggle to travel with your favourite fragrances, Jo Malone CBE's Jo Loves fragrance paintbrush solution is for you. Now available in the brand's latest spicy and warm ginger scent (inspired by Dubai's golden hour and perfect for winter evenings), you simply swish the scent onto your pulse points with no need for big, heavy glass flacons.
2024 really was the year of barrier-repair serums as skincare refocused on soothing our complexions (rather than harsh exfoliators). This product takes things up a notch for the new year, especially if you dislike richer textures. In fact, despite its fast-absorbing lightweight texture, the serum is clinically proven to deeply hydrate your skin – up to 10 layers deep – in just 15 minutes, with sensitivities fading after just a week of use.
Lightweight serums can pack a real punch during the winter as this barrier-boosting hydrator proves.
Petal, Westman Atelier’s number one best selling shade is now available in three new formats, including this stunning liquid lip colour that gives you instant lip definition. With its sheer 'juicy' finish that isn't at all sticky, it easily works alone or when worn over a lip colour, providing a lip plumping effect with a single swipe.
Dr Jart's Cerramidin range is brilliant for sensitive skin so it's great to see the brand expand the line with an eye cream. A damaged skin barrier is common around your delicate eye area, exacerbating fine lines, puffiness and dullness; this solution contains barrier-strengthening and hydrating ceramides, cocoa seed extract and panthenol to reverse the signs.
Give your skin the little glow boost that it probably needs after the busy festive period with this intense version of Chantecaille's 24K Gold Essence. The lightweight veil of moisture contains a blend of vitamin C, peptides, wild hibiscus and lentil extract, which work together to quickly but gently smooth and replenish your complexion.
Social media has gone crazy for purple powders but before you raise an eyebrow, let me tell you why they really are that good. Instead of dulling your makeup (which can happen with white or brown-toned setting powders), the purple adds a healthy-looking glow to your skin, while keeping your makeup totally in place. Don't worry, this one has a super natural finish.
Escape back in time – to a winter garden in the time of Medici's Florentine court – with this warm and citrusy aroma that playfully combines the cossetting heaviness of amber and myrrh with the fruitiness of bergamot. It is the sort of fragrance that changes throughout the day too, so you'll find yourself falling in love with it over and over again.
With the warmth of amber elevated with the sparkle of citrus, you’ll find yourself falling in love with this fragrance over and over again.
Pondering over your pores? Searching for a smoother skin solution? Powered by rainbow algae extract, succinic acid and AHAs, this gentle-yet-effective nighttime exfoliator is clinically proven to improve clarity and visibly tighten pores. But don’t worry, it won’t leave your face feeling tight or sore (promise).
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