The Beauty Specialists
Beauty Expert - Natural Skincare and Luxury Gifts
Here you'll find a beautifully designed website offering products by I Caudalie, Aromatherapy Associates, Cowshed, Fudge, L'Occitane, NV Perricone, Phytomer and Ren plus lots more, including gift sets, fragranced candles, organic and natural skincare and beauty tools. Have a browse.
Cult Beauty - Beauty and Grooming Products plus Expert Advice
Cult Beauty is a new kind of online beauty boutique and e-zine, retailing some of the best beauty and grooming products and combining it with editorial and beauty news. This is your beauty hall of fame, where you can discover model beauty secrets, the top products, info and expert advice and brands such as Blinc, Acca Kappa, Duwop and Kirstie McLeod.
Return to Glory
The next time you feel like a bit of serious pampering to relieve the stress of your busy life consider letting the beauty/massage specialist come to you, rather than making the journey to your nearest salon and worrying about getting there on time/parking/getting to your next appointment. Return to Glory's innovative service makes it possible (provided you live in the area they cover) for you to have your next mani/pedi/massage or facial in the comfort of your home, or anywhere else you choose, such as your office or hotel room. What more could you ask for?
Time to Spa - Specialist Salon Products and Advice
Time to Spa offers Elemis face and body products, La Therapie solutions for acne, scarring and hyper-pigmentation and Steiner Haircare. This is not a retailer so much as a beauty salon, where you can register with them for an online consultation by one of their team of therapists on your beauty regimen, find out about food and fitness for health and have your beauty questions answered. If you purchase from their online shop you'll find lots of gift ideas, excellent Elemis travel collections and gift wrapping.
Clinique - Specialist Premium Brand Beauty and Skincare
If you're a dedicated Clinique follower then this is the site for you, where not only can you purchase replacements for all your favourite products, but you can also read all about what's new. Visit their Gift Centre to special sets and accessory kits and join Club Clinique, where you can register for fast checkout, free samples with your orders, 'Beauty Scoops' and expert advice. Delivery is to the UK only but there's an express service and gift wrap option.
Space NK
Nars, Stila, Darphin, Laura Mercier, Eve Lom, Diptique, Frederic Fekkai and Dr Sebagh are just some of the 60 plus brands you'll find on the website of this retailer, famous for bringing unusual and hard to find products to the UK (so you don't have to go to New York any more to buy your Frederic Fekkai shampoo. Shame). They're also an excellent place for gifts as they offer a personalised message, gift wrapping service and next day delivery if you need it (call for overseas deliveries). It's a well designed and easy to get round website with very clear pictures. Go shop now.
Amanda Lacey - Luxury Specialist Skincare
Amanda Lacey is known for her luxurious facials, using the purest most special oils. Known as ‘The English rose of skincare’ and fast becoming a firm favourite among stars of stage and screen, you can buy into her skincare regimen online, which includes her classic Cleansing Pomade and Oils of Provence, Protecting Day Moisturiser and Restoring Mandarin Mask. Everything is beautifully presented and packaged and extremely hard to resist.
Beauty Flash - Professional Skincare Products
Beauty Flash offer the full range from Dermalogica, including masques and moisturisiers, specialist treatments and treatment foundations (although you already need to know your colour before you buy these) spa body products and sun care. They have the Skin Doctors range of professional strength skincare (with lots of information and advice), Fake Bake and St Tropez tanning products, Air Stockings and Dermablend Cover Creme.
Bliss - Cult Spa Treatments
Sign up for Bliss Beut e-mails and stay in the 'Glow'. Does that give you some idea of the tone from beauty online from New York and London's hottest spa. If you don't have the time to visit these spas you can at least now buy the products online and relax at home with your own treatments, shower gels and shampoos with simple names like Body Butter, Rosy Toes and Glamour Glove Gel. Some of the products are reasonably priced but you'll also find some of their marvellous anti ageing products will set you back a bit. It'll be worth it though.
Dr Hauschka - Cult Specialist Natural Skincare
You may well have read about Dr Hauschka's natural skincare products through its press celebrity connections. When you look at the products online, you'll find that they're not overpriced and there's lots of information about each one, not just what it's for, but how to use it and a full ingredients list. When you find something you like, check to see if a trial/travel size is offered before you splash out.
Dr Tuhin Dev - Specialist Anti-Aging Skincare
International skincare expert Dr Tuhin Dev, has invested years of research and experience into formulating an anti-ageing skin care range that reduces the effects of ageing and encourages healthy, youthful looking skin.
The collection includes serums, moisturisers, cleanser and toner, where modern, innovative actives work synergistically with traditional ingredients to provide effective, re-juvenating skin treatments.
The collection includes serums, moisturisers, cleanser and toner, where modern, innovative actives work synergistically with traditional ingredients to provide effective, re-juvenating skin treatments.
ESPA - Luxury Theraputic Beauty Products
ESPA was created to bring together the best of ancient and modern therapies with the finest quality ingredients and skin care advances. This is a lovely light and modern website offering their famous range of aromatherapy products from specific beauty treatments to bath and body products and luxury gifts, with everything formulated from the highest quality organically grown plants. So if you're feeling stressed, this would definitely be a good place to start.
Eve Lom - Luxury Modern Specialist Skincare
This is surely one of the most famous names in modern skincare with Eve Lom’s firm belief that the best skincare is simply based on total cleansing using natural products and her famous polishing cloth. You may not be able to get to her for a personal facial but at least now you can find her products to buy online. The range is small and definitely not cheap but you'll know that you're buying the very best and you can order from anywhere in the World.
Harvey Nichols
You've almost certainly visited this great fashion and beauty store, whether in London, Dublin, Edinburgh or elsewhere. The list of modern brands they offer is always excellent, up-to-the-minute and totally in line with each season's trends. Now you'll be delighted to know that the store has opened it's online shop for exclusive and hard to find beauty products and has expanded the online range to include brands such as Amanda Lacey, Korres, Ole Henriksen, Robert Piguet and Soap and Glory. There's also lots of information on fashion and beauty trends plus online booking for their restaurants. Enjoy!
Jo Malone
Most people when they think of Jo Malone think of her luxurious fragrance and spa products, all of which you'll find here. Take a good look again at her beautifully designed website, where you'll also find her gorgeously scented cleansers, serums and moisturisers and her facial finishers: finishing fluid and powder, lip gloss, blush and mascara and beautiful travel sets, but beware; once you're on her site it's extremely hard to escape without buying.
Karin Herzog
'We didn’t just jump on the oxygen band wagon we created it', they say here, where you can order from this range of oxygen skincare from Switzerland. If you're not quite sure (and the products aren't cheap), go for one of their trial packs and kits, such as the Congestion Charge, which aims to help skins with acne and dull, excessively oily skin or the energising Detox in a Box. There's a lot to read here and you may well be tempted.
Liz Earle
This beauty specialist retailer offers a pampering range of skin, body and sun care products and is particularly well known for their Cleanse & Polish Hot Cloth Cleanser and well priced but excellent special treatments and moisturisers. Shimmer products for body and lips, Vital Oils and mini-kits from across the range are just some of the temptations on offer and the lovely packaging is an extra bonus.
Planet Skincare - Specialist Luxury Anti-Ageing Skincare
Planet Skincare is a new, luxury anti-ageing skincare company founded by skincare expert Caroline Clapperton that has already been snapped up by Selfridges and is distributed worldwide. Currently there are just two revolutionary products - her Daily Moisturiser with Syn-ake®, designed to smooth your skin and speedily get to work on fine lines and wrinkles, and her Instant Firming Serum with Pepha-tight®, with an immediate tightening effect. More products are to follow soon.
Salon Skincare
Some of the brands you'll find here, such as Elemis, Decleor, Gatineau and Phytomer are not hard to find on the web and others, such as luxury skincare brand Carita, Baxter of California, Max Benjamin (candles) and MD Formulations are not readily available. Couple this with the extremely well thought out design of this website and this becomes an essential beauty destination if you like salon brand products. You can also buy Dermalogica, Fake Bake, Molton Brown and Nailtiques products here plus Klein-Becker Strivectin SD, the stretch mark turned anti-wrinkle wonder cream.
Skinlight Cosmetics
If this is the moment when you think you'd like to add a new luxurious treatment into your skincare regimen, then take a look here where you'll find a range of specialist products, particularly good for anti-ageing and radiance boosting (although there are other specialist areas as well). Do make sure that you know exactly what you're buying before you invest - you can spend a fortune here. There's a great deal of information about all the products. Brands include Euoko, Covermark, Medik8 and MD Skincare.
Spa Finder
This is much more than just a global spa locator. Here you can easily discover spas anywhere in the world offering the specific services you require and contact them directly through the website’s links. You can see so many wonderful pictures of each spa that, if you’re anything like me, you’ll want to book something immediately. You can order the Worldwide Spa Directory here or the Luxury Spa Finder Magazine, check out day spa deals and group specials and buy vouchers to spas throughout Europe. Next time you need a bit of pampering definitely take a look here.
This Works - Contemporary Natural Skincare and Body Products
Here you’ll find soothing, natural and gently scented products for bath and body with unusual names such as Energy Bank or Deep Calm Bath and Shower Oil, Muscle Therapy and Enjoy Really Rich Lotion or Hot Stone Essences, and all have been created by Vogue beauty expert Kathy Phillips to high acclaim. The collection also includes bath and shower gels, moisturisers, lovely gift ideas and irresistible travel kits.
Years Younger - Products and Advice on Looking Younger
Years Younger is all about helping to make you look and feel younger and is packed with advice on skincare, make-up, hair care, style and fashion. It's very well laid out and worth having a browse through as the tips are very practical - how to find the right hair colour, for example, or how to apply makeup properly. and you can also buy products such as GHD straighteners, Natural Elements skincare and Glominerals cosmetics and brushes plus their own range.
Zelens - Premium Specialist Anti-Ageing Skincare
You may not have heard of this line of hi tech skin care products: Zelens is a very small, expensive and specialist range of Day, Night and Eye creams, formulated by leading skin ageing and cancer specialist, Dr Marko Lens. They have two ranges – Skin Science, which is a natural cellular protector and rejuvenation cream, and Fullerene C60, an extremely potent anti-oxidant. Read all about them now.



