Beauty worth questioning
Lancôme Pink Palace palette, pink lipstick and gold bell-shaped highlighter against a burgundy background.
The cover / Lancôme

Room for a little extravagance

Lancôme’s Pink Palace turns festive makeup into a miniature hotel fantasy. Choose a finish, not the whole suite.

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Image: Lancôme / L’Oréal Japan, via PR TIMES.

A magenta cosmetics pouch, unbranded cream jar and lipstick beside a curling paper ribbon.
Beauty / Money

The free gift has a spending target. Do you?

An ended Space NK offer makes a useful test: would you have spent £220 without the gift?

 Two purple Clinique Collagen + PDRN Cream jars, one open and tilted above the other, beside a silver spatula on a pale background.
Under the Lens

Clinique’s £60 PDRN cream: read the trial first

One-use and four-week consumer trials describe the cream. What can they tell us about PDRN?

Under the Lens

Beauty brands make claims. We ask what they actually mean.

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KÉRASTASE / Frizz-Glaze CreamWaterproof hair

Kérastase’s £44 cream and the promise of “waterproof hair”

Frizz-Glaze Cream makes a tempting proposition for damp-weather hair. The useful detail is which result belongs to the bottle, and which belongs to a routine.

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Vivienne March in a black jacket, holding her glasses with one forearm resting on the red ledge
Vivienne March

“Your face is not a committee decision.”

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Makeup / Under the Lens

73% skincare. What does that actually mean?

A closer look at MAC’s skincare percentage and what the formula number tells us.

The Beauty Question editorial desk
Open gold-toned eye palette and pink-and-gold highlighter beside lipstick and illustrated skincare bottles, floating above a blue and lilac landscape with golden shooting stars.
Makeup / Launch Radar

Clé de Peau’s holiday makeup: what is actually limited?

Clé de Peau’s Courage to Wish pairs Yukiko Noritake’s artwork with holiday colours. Inside the £79 Starry Eyes quad, plus UK lipstick and highlighter prices.

The Beauty Question editorial desk
MERIT New Wave perfume in an asymmetric clear-glass bottle containing golden liquid, with a polished silver cap, on a pale grey background.
Fragrance / Launch Radar

MERIT’s New Wave perfume: has minimalism turned up the volume?

MERIT’s New Wave perfume launched on 22 October 2026. Discover the £79 UK price, fragrance notes and how the brand positions it alongside Retrospect.

The Beauty Question editorial desk
Gold Burberry check compacts standing in snow: an open four-colour eye palette, a closed case and an open peach-toned blush beside its brush.
Makeup

Burberry puts a silver lining in holiday gold

Burberry’s Winter Gold quad and Winter Rose blush: UK prices, the silver-led colour story and what the Holiday 2026 packaging offers.

The Beauty Question editorial desk
Open ice-blue NARS Aspen Highlands palette with four eyeshadows above an iridescent pale blue highlighter and pink blush, on white.
Makeup

NARS goes après-ski with two takes on pink

NARS’s Holiday 2026 collection brings two £65 Après Ski palettes and £37.50 Eternal Snow powder. We look at the shades, finishes and UK prices.

The Beauty Question editorial desk
SUQQU’s two open Frozen Light Eye and Face Compacts.
Makeup

SUQQU’s Frozen Light: is purple the party shade?

SUQQU’s gemstone-inspired holiday makeup arrives in the UK on 5 November. The palettes are beautiful; purple mascara may be the more interesting temptation.

The Beauty Question editorial desk
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