Constantly on the hunt for the best beauty products in Singapore? As fans of all things beauty, nothing excites us more than new products and launches! 

Follow us as we discover the best of skin, hair and makeup brands for every month - both local and international - we try, test and tell on these beauties.

Baskets at the ready! Here are the best skincare, haircare and makeup products that we tried this month, along with what we loved about each of them.

January Beauty Product Reviews

Fenty Watch Ya Tone 5% Niacinamide Dark Spot Serum With Vitamin C

Dark spots be gone! Meet the latest showstopper from Fenty: the Watch Ya Tone 5% Niacinamide Dark Spot Serum with Vitamin C. This new targeted serum delivers an unforgettable glow, giving you radiant, healthy-looking and silky-soft skin. 

This serum is out to impress with its all-star formula. With ingredients such as 5% Niacinamide and Vitamin C that is amazing for minimising dark spots and discoloration to achieve an even skin tone, Licorice Root Extract that helps calm dry and irritated skin, and Camu Camu + Barbados Cherry which brightens and achieve a clear and even skin tone. Yay to brighter skin!

Vanilla Luxury Raves: We can’t deny our love for all things Riri - her skincare and makeup lines included! If you struggle with dark spots or want to achieve a more even skin tone, the Watch Ya Tone 5% Niacinamide Dark Spot Serum with Vitamin C contains powerful dark spot-fighting ingredients. Incorporate it into your skin care routine and watch your skin transform with a beautiful glow. Apply to clean, dry skin every day and night for best results. 

Fenty Skin Watch Ya Tone Niacinamide Dark Spot Serum ($68) and Refill ($60) are available on Sephora.sg and in-store at Sephora. 

​Laneige Perfect Renew 3X series

Here’s a practical four-step age prevention method that breaks the cycle of aging by promoting skin healing, improving suppleness, and boosting shine. The newly enhanced Laneige Perfect Renew 3X series is a powerful anti-aging treatment specifically created for women in their mid-20s to mid-30s.

Starting off with Laneige Perfect Renew 3X Skin Refiner, a toner to reinvigorate skin to weather harsh external conditions; hydrates and soothes irritated skin while tightening and firming up pores. The highly-concentrated and nutrient-rich toner is also formulated with a fast yet non-sticky finishing that penetrates skin deep. 

Next Laneige Perfect Renew 3X Signature Serum is 3 types of age prevention serum capsulated into one. It is an age-preventive serum with 1.51X synergy that is more effective in targeting different layers of skin while using pH 5.7 skin-friendly ingredients suited for all skin types.

Laneige Perfect Renew 3X Emulsion, works as a skin base to maintain and nourish skin appearance, adjusts the oil-moisture balance of the skin and strengthens its base to prep skin to optimize and absorb. Achieve results of a rich and bouncy coat of foundation with maximum hydration over time.

Also, Laneige Perfect Renew 3X Cream, a 60-second rich and highly dense buttery formula containing 3X RE.D flavonoid, peptide and retinol helps achieve a more glowy outlook, reduce skin wrinkles and firm up skin with its active ingredients. 

Vanilla Luxury Raves: We’re obsessed with Laniege and their quality ingredients such as RE.D flavonoid, peptide and retinol in their new range. This new range is the perfect addition to your skincare routine, especially if you are in your 30s and consider anti ageing skincare. An easy to follow, complete regimen, the Perfect Renew 3X series is kind to irritated skin and nourishing to complexions that need that extra boost. 

Laneige Perfect Renew 3X series is available at LANEIGE Boutiques, Laneigeonline, Shopee and other key Departmental stores. It will also be available at Sephora from 26 January 2023. 

​Chantecaille's Limited Edition Bio Lifting Serum+ Year of the Rabbit

Hot dresser alert! Chantecaille's award-winning Bio Lifting Serum+ now comes in a limited-edition deluxe sized, red-and-gold bottle to commemorate the Year of the Water Rabbit. 

Formulated with a blend of proven botanical actives such as plant stem cells and peptides, it helps to lift and firm the skin, reduce fine lines and wrinkles as well as restore a youthful and radiant glow. 

Decorated in red for good fortune, the limited-edition Bio Lifting Serum+ was created to celebrate the Year of the Rabbit. The deluxe size is 20ml larger than the standard bottle and only available until stocks last. 

Crafted in Switzerland with the highest quality pure botanicals, this silky, hydrating serum is infused with a boosted formula which boasts plant stem cells and five innovative peptides plus skin-tensing and brightening botanicals that leave skin looking lifted, brighter and rejuvenated. 

The newest Matrixyl anti-wrinkle lipo peptide coupled with botanical plant stem cells visibly smoothes horizontal and vertical wrinkles. Sustainably-derived Cocoa Peptides fight blue light pollution from all screens to reduce the appearance of fine lines and wrinkles.

Vanilla Luxury Raves: Botox in a bottle - the highly acclaimed, Chantecaille’s award-winning Bio Lifting Serum+ needs no introduction. Known for its ability to diminish wrinkles and improve skin texture, this lightweight serum is an investment in your skin’s health. 

Get the most of your serum by applying twice a day on clean skin, before your moisturiser. Ideal for all skin types and an especially indulgent treat for your night routine. Lift, tighten and say hello to brighter skin the next morning! 
Chantecaille is available at TANGS at Tang Plaza and Takashimaya Department Store.

Schwarzkopf Extra Care

Introducing the new and improved Extra Care Collection, products are infused with the revolutionary Bio-Restore Complex, a naturally derived damage-reversing technology that gives deeper penetration and stronger repair to restore and revitalise outer and inner strength of hair fibers from roots to tips. With improved formulation containing exotic natural ingredients and advanced repair actives, expect hair and scalp to feel silky and clean! 

Look forward to five variants in this newly improved collection: Moist Recovery Shampoo, 8 Precious Oil, Ginger Scalp Purify, Volume Fortify, and Anti Hair Loss.

Vanilla Luxury Raves: The Schwarzkopf Extra Care Collection comes in products that each cater to different hair concerns such as achieving hair health, scalp satisfaction and treating anti hair loss. We love that they use key ingredients such as hyaluronic acid, tri-active complex and ginger. Best of all, these can be found at your trusted Guardian stores and online so adding damage-reversing technology to your haircare is as easy as it is convenient! 

Schwarzkopf’s Extra Care Collection is available at Guardian stores and Schwarzkopf’s 

Flagship E-store at Lazada Singapore and Shopee Singapore. 

​mise-en-sčene Hello Bubble Foam Hair Color and Hello Bubble All Star Collection

Welcome nourished and healthy hair with mise-en-scène’s new Hello Bubble collection! The Hello Bubble Foam Hair Color now comes in a brand new formula and 5 new trendy colors - expect better color adherence and hair conditioning effects for softer hair. If you want to give your hair an insta-glow up, here’s your chance to do so! 

This Hello Bubble All Star Collection is inspired by K-pop girl group BLACKPINK to give curated damage care solutions for color-treated hair. Comes in their All Star Strengthening Shampoo, Conditioner and Treatment - with key ingredients such as Biotin that is essential for strengthening limp, flat hair and their Double Bonding Ampoule which tames frizz and deeply nourishes the hair. 

Vanilla Luxury Raves: If you love a fun and easy self hair-dye experience, mise-en-sčene’s Hello Bubble Foam Hair Color is simple to use with its ultra-adhering Cream Bubble that creates finer bubbles - all you have to do is mix and lather on your hair and you can expect a vivid glow-up after! The All Star collection is amazing for stronger hair follicles and worth a try as their products are packed with biotin boosters and plant-based protein tricomplex that are essentials to fighting damaged hair - perfect to incorporate into your hair care routine. 

mise-en-scène Hello Bubble Foam and Hello Bubble All Star collection are available at Watsons in-store and e-store, Lazmall, Shopee Mall. If you’re not sure which hair color is suitable for you, try out their collection of colors using their virtual hair service at https://www.hellomycolor.com/ (mobile only). 

Sigi Skin Tea-Tox Sheet Mask

Tired of all the festivities and indulging, we bet your skin is craving hydration and comfort! Sigi Skin’s Tea-Tox Sheet Masks come formulated with highly potent tea extracts, and pack a concoction of powerful antioxidants, anti-ageing, and anti-inflammatory ingredients. 

Containing five magic ingredients – 20% Lactobacillus Ferment, Kombucha extracts, Yuzu extracts, Galactomyces Ferment Filtrate (or fermented sake), and Hyaluronic Acid, it aims to restore and balance urban skin. All while protectecting it from environmental aggressors for a healthy, happy complexion. 

Made with a silky, high thread-count microfiber mask material, the mask is infused with tea and offers multiple benefits such as deeply hydration to parched, dehydrated skin; soothing skin inflammation and minimising the appearance of fine lines and pigmentation. You can also look forward to skin elasticity and a stronger skin barrier. 

Vanilla Luxury Raves: Make no mistake, this is no ordinary sheet mask. The silk and high-thread count, microfibre mask is specially designed to comfortably hug your skin.  There’s also a very generous 27ml of hydrating extract in each Sigi Skin Tea-Tox Sheet Mask, which means any excess should go to other parts of your body that need some TLC. Elbows, knees, or your neck - they’ll all be thankful for it! 

Available on Sigi Skin’s website.