Unless you have a personal hyperbaric chamber (and we're guessing you don't), there is no convenient, at-home way to deliver extra oxygen to your skin -- until now. This wrinkle treatment from celebrity skin expert Kate Somerville uses a patent-pending delivery system that infuses your skin with oxygen and other anti-aging ingredients like hyaluronic acid and antioxidants. It promises to brighten dull skin, smooth and firm skin, and intensely moisturize. It's available in March, 2012.
L'Oreal has done it again, by creating another first in the mass brand hair market. Riding on the success of their other "Ever" lines, they have created a completely alcohol-free hairstyling collection. Certain alcohols that are used in many styling products can dry out hair and thus cause damage, so they've opted to ditch alcohol and instead use styling polymers to deliver on the claims each of the eight products in the collection make. From the Curl Activating Mousse to the Volume Root Lifting Spray, you're sure to find an alcohol-free, hair friendly product for your hair type and styling needs.
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NuFACE Trinity Facial Toning Device, $325
This is the second generation of NuFACE, which was the first ever at-home FDA-cleared handheld microcurrent device. This five-minute treatment, which can only otherwise be done at a spa, helps tighten skin, smooth wrinkles, lift your brows, contour your cheekbones, and even give you a more defined jaw. What makes this sleeker, updated version better than the original is that it allows for interchangeable heads, which means that you can do more than one type of treatment with the same device -- and the company will be launching new treatment heads throughout 2012. It also has a skin sensor to help you get the perfect amount of current, a beeping mechanism that tells you when to move onto a different area of your face, and an auto shut-off and recharging cradle.
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Estee Lauder Invisible Fluid Makeup, $35
Until there is a mind-blowing technology that gives us all completely flawless skin at the flip of a switch, this might be our best option: Invisible foundation. This liquid formula uses a patent-pending IntuiTone pigment technology, which employs a mix of super fine pigments with optics. Together these allow the shade to adapt to your own skin tone for a perfect match, and give great coverage while allowing your natural skin to shine through. But here's the best part: The formula is so lightweight and airy (it actually contains air) it doesn't feel like you have makeup on. Plus, the 16 available shades are all oil-free, non-acnegenic, and contain hyaluronic acid, which will keep skin hydrated. Available in March, 2012.
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Clarins Extra-Firming Day, $80
This hot-selling firming cream just got a makeover. And the newly-added, hard-working ingredients sound more like items you'd stock your kitchen with than what you'd find in a face cream: organic lemon thyme, which helps prevent skin slackening; organic green banana extract from the Dominican Republic, which is a Clarins exclusive ingredient that promotes the synthesis of collagen and a healthy skin structure; and oat sugars, which create an instant tightening effect. Together they help smooth wrinkles, firm skin, improve elasticity, and deliver an instant lifting effect. Available in March, 2012.
It seems like every day a new beauty product comes out and with each one comes the same thing: Hope. Hope that this anti-aging serum will erase those brown spots. Hope that this smoothing cream will banish frizz for good. Hope that this spot treatment will make acne a distant memory.
Of course, we all know that most of the beauty products out there won't end our quest for perfect skin and hair. It's evidenced in the "product graveyards" we all have in the back of our bathroom cabinets. But every year there are a few breakthrough beauty products that do deliver the impossible. Heck, that's why we keep the hope alive, right?
And in 2012, we have quite a few potential "miracles in a bottle" to get excited about. Some of the new releases include an all-natural hair growth system, both digital and invisible foundations, truly game-changing styling products, plus an injectible that puts Juvederm to shame when it comes to knocking out deep wrinkles. Don't you just love technology?
