The best makeup, skincare and hair buys you need to invest in this March

New month, new beauty launches. Here’s our edit of the best beauty buys for the month of March across makeup, skin and hair.

SUMMER SWITCH

Refresh your kit with swaps that will let the sun shine on you, sans the damage.

SWAP YOUR HEAVY CREAMS WITH LIGHT SKINCARE
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Forest Essentials’ Balancing Water and Activating Serum are water-based and offer light nourishment and dewy radiance, courtesy sweet potato, mandarin peel extract and gotu kola herb, mulethi, neel kamal and priyngu seeds. Forest Essentials Rasa Activating Serum, Rs 2,750; Forest Essentials Tejal Balancing Water, Rs 1,875

SWAP YOUR STATEMENT LIP COLOUR WITH SUNNY HUES
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Pick from NYX’s fiery metallic copper or MAC’s fluorescent liquid lippie that looks like the colour of the setting sun; or go for the glittering gold lip oil by Clarins, guaranteed to give your lips all the sunshine they need. MAC Grand Illusion Liquid Lip Colour in Twinkle Twinkle, Rs 1,900; Clarins Lip Comfort Oil in Honey Glam, Rs 1,900

SWAP WINTER MASKING WITH DEEP DETOX GREEN TEA MASKS
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Try: Glamglow’s Bubblesheet Oxygenating Deep Cleanse Mask that stars green tea, along with bamboo-charcoal that bubble up together on the ‘sheet’ over your skin to detoxify and refresh tired skin. Or the Body Shop’s matcha mask—a blend of matcha green tea from Kakegawa, dandelion extract and aloe vera—to gently exfoliate and deeply purify pollution-ravaged skin. Glamglow Bubblesheet Oxygenating Deep Cleanse Mask, Rs 850; The Body Shop Japanese Matcha Tea Pollution Clearing Mask, Rs 1,895

SWAP YOUR SERUM WITH A TARGETED BRIGHTENING TREATMENT
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Winter dullness going into harsh summertime pigmentation requires just a few drops of this. Bobbi Brown’s potent skin brightener is made with nature-derived ingredients like plum, algae and molasses to bring your luminosity back. Bobbi Brown Remedies Skin Brightener No 42, Rs 3,550

HEAD START
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Leave those inhibitions (and boring black hair) aside, and have some fun under the sun with L’Oréal Paris’s Excellence Fashion Highlights at-home kit. This step-by-step guide by the brand’s international expert Christophe Robin will have you DIY-ing your way to beautiful caramel and honey-toned tresses.
Find your perfect shade… By looking at celebrities with a similar skin tone as you. If a colour suits them, chances are it will suit you too.
Start right… The best way to start a DIY colouration is with dry, detangled hair that’s parted tidily. It’s better to have the hair freshly cut to highlight the length—you don’t want to cut your length after colouration! To get the perfect natural colouration you should highlight harder around the face and the length.

Do it yourself…

1. First, wear an old T-shirt.
2. Separate the hair just above your ears and fasten it with a hair clip.
3. Put on the gloves, and mix the crème colour and developer in a bowl.
4. Dip the special brush in the mix, then glide along the lengths. Always put product on the brush when you repeat the gesture.
5. Tilt your head back when you highlight around your face.
6. Once you are done with the colouration of that part, take off the hair clip and repeat the previous step.
7. Let the highlights develop for 30 to 45 minutes depending on the desired intensity of highlights.

L’Oréal Paris Excellence Fashion Highlights in Caramel Brown and Honey Blonde, Rs 399 each

STYLE FIX
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The risks of at-home styling are high. Is this what burnt hair smells like? Is this iron too hot? Wait, this hairstyle doesn’t look like the Insta-inspiration! But with the right gear, it’s a feat easily achievable. It all starts with a fundamental step—protection. Consider Moroccanoil’s Mending Infusion—a serum-lotion hybrid—the instant fix that will hydrate brittle ends and strengthen strands to take on all the pulling and tonging your hair is faced with. Apart from the antioxidant-rich argan oil, the lightweight formula also includes baobab extract from the larch tree for moisture, hydrolysed quinoa to restore strength and other nurturing elements. Massage into dry hair—mid-lengths to ends—and style away. Moroccanoil Mending Infusion, Rs 2,475

WITH LOVE, FROM TOKYO
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You don’t have to be a frequent flyer to enjoy the exotic cultures of the world—let beauty bottle them up for you. This month, we present Japan: in the form of eye tints and lipsticks by Giorgio Armani. The vibrant, glowy colours—pops of pink, orange and coral—take inspiration from bright Sakura cherry blossoms dotting gardens in Tokyo and look as pretty as a walk in those gardens sounds. Giorgio Armani Tokyo Gardens Ecstasy Lacquer in No 100 Acqua, Rs 2,450; Giorgio Armani Tokyo Gardens Eye Tint in Rose Reflexion, Rs 2,870; Giorgio Armani Tokyo Gardens Ecstasy Shine in No 303 Freesia, Rs 2,815

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