November 28, 2025 |
Greetings, beauty pop pickers. So here we are, but a few weeks away from the end of the year and our second last Top Ten of 2025. So what has managed to win us over and deserved a place in our beauty charts of November? No need to wonder any longer.
Straight in at Number One is Inora, the new liquid supplement brand that we are reaching for in order the ward off the succession of lurgies that has laid us low and even managed to stop work –and play – in the last few weeks. Inora has been created in collaboration with an NHS-trained GMC-certified physician and a PhD-led advisory board, using advanced liposomal technology for clinically-validated superior absorption. So, no wonder we’re feeling much more like our zingy selves as of late. There are three concoctions to choose from. Wake Up Call for some energy and focus (that’s caffeine-free) with a tropical citrus taste; Marathon, Not a Sprint for cellular repair and longevity support delivered with a wild berry flavour; and Was it All a Dream to relax and aid quality sleep that tastes like spiced cherry. Easy to dispense – just fill the pipette and squirt it in your mouth. Simple. But effective. Take care of you. Shop here.
At Number Two is another brand-new brand: 39BC, a fine fragrance bathing range inspired by the love story between Cleopatra and Mark Antony and created by none other than Sharmadean Reid – a leading beauty and creative force who was also the founder of WAH nails. It comes in four very enticing fragrances: Silk Veil (ylang ylang, jasmine, tuberose, neroli and amber), Sage Water (red rose, patchouli, cedarwood and aldehydes), Fig Milk (galbanum, fig, coconut and cedarwood) and Denarii (frankincense, pepper, vanilla, raspberry and sandalwood). Housed in elegant bottles with an ancient Egyptian feel, they may officially be called oil body cleanser but they actually work really well in the bath too and deliver a decent foam. Shop here.
It’s an haute lux offering swooping in to take the Number Three slot with Louis Vuitton and the latest addition to its Les Extraits collection. Bid bonjour to Fantasmagory, a veritable ode of Shakespearean levels to vanilla. Under the creative lead of the maison’s master perfumer Jacques Cavallier Belletrud and using CO2 extraction this extract captures the full impact of all of its creamy softness, warmth and sumptuous sweetness of the whole pod pulp to deliver the purest vanilla essence you could hope to spritz. To make it even more special, Frank Gehry has also designed a fragrance trunk which both links the Extrait collection to the heart of Louis Vuitton’s travel heritage and gives serious fragrance hounds an extra obsession to cultivate. Shop here.
Number Four throws the spotlight onto a legend of a very different kind: Mr Chow. Yes we do mean the famous and infamous luxury Chinese restaurant in Knightsbridge – and yes please, we’ll have the duck and pancakes and a lychee martini if you’d be so kind. But we’re not here to talk about their menu (much as we wish we were), we’re here to talk about the restaurant’s Uni Mr Chow hand wash that’s available exclusively at Space NK. Yes, there are no limits to how you can leverage a brand name. But even if we wanted to be cynical about this we can’t because it’s so darned good. Housed in a chic white pump container it has a lemon, chamomile and lavender fragrance and a nourishing gel to foam formula. We’re awash with love for it but we’ll leave it there because all this Mr Chow talk is making us hungry. Shop here.
We’re halfway through, beauty pickers, but don’t flag now. In at Number Five we have YSL Beauté with its All Hours Glow foundation. This is a very special offering especially if you need your foundation to be buildable (up to high coverage) work hard, stay put and still deliver a glowy complexion. You can find that all here – and more, in fact, because it also comes with skincare ingredients including hyaluronic acid and niacinamide to hydrate and help to even skin tone with use. Particularly good if you’re looking for some make-up longevity during party season or planning a festive wedding (or an any time wedding) as this keeps on glowing all day, but the texture is so light it will feel weightless despite its heavy lifting. Glow on and try it – it’s available in 40 shades. Shop here.
Leading the second half of this month’s chart is the cult viral makeup brand Sacheu, in at Number Six and also now in Boots stores up and down the country. Founded by the influencer and beauty content creator Sarah Cheung, it is famed for its peel-off Stay-N lip liner which is as good as they say. But its also well worth checking out the Cheek Stay-N and the Contour Stay-N which both come with sponge tip applicators for easy and precise use while delivering a natural and very dewy – almost too good to be true – finish. Shop here.
Cult body and face treatment Ricari makes an entry at Number Seven. This Californian creation has a new home at London’s swanktastic Peninsula Hotel at Hyde Park Corner. And if ever a treatment was worth checking in for it’s this one. Depending on what you opt for you could have a face or a body or a both treatment but assuming you do the combo then for the uninitiated you wear a body stocking for the process which involves a deep mechanical lymphatic drainage massage that also boosts circulation and can have pretty dramatic results in terms of slipping into a dress a size lower (we can’t guarantee that but it was also our experience – true story), plus use of Ballancer Pro Compression therapy for extra lymphaic drainage (Jen Aniston is a fan of these by the by), plus some LYMA laser action, and infrared PEMF alongside using the lux label Margy’s Skincare. It really is one of our favourites treatments every and perfect for party season – or any season, really. Shop here.
We’re back to make-up now for Number Eight and the new Merit Solo Shadow Sheen eyeshadow pots which follow on from the brand’s already top-selling matte version. These could not be easier to use – unscrew the lid, and it’s as simple as dipping in your finger and swiping over your eyelid. Job done. Eyes all dressed up with a sheer wash of colour with a light pearlescent finish (no glitter). The colours range from almost undetectable to add a little daytime emphasis to eyes, to deep dramatic metallics ready for the dance floor and dates with destiny. Full marks, shop here.
The eyes still have it at Number Nine as we get all giddy over Violette_FR’s new Lune Liner eyeliners. These liquid liners have been given a disco makeover and use a high-performance multichromatic metallic formula to deliver a precise amount of colour to lash lines – or eyelids. They go the distance so will last for up to 16 hours and are designed to deliver instant fun and glamour. We couldn’t be more obsessed. Available in four shades: Coup de Foudre – a rich yellow to green metallic gold; Aurora – an opalescent white with a pink to apple green glowing glitter; Cuivre 29 – an iridescent bright copper that shifts to gold, green and pinky coral; Ultraviolet – as it sounds. Plus, the brand now has a new concession in Liberty which is really well worth a visit and full of curated books and trinkets by Violette herself. Shop here.
And we finish this beauty chart rundown with a bit of beauty reading: enter the new autobiography from Bobbi Brown Still Bobbi in at Number Ten. She tells her life story in very conveniently short chapters, each illustrated with a full page photo (no peering at teeny tiny images and trying to figure out who’s who). So read all about her family, journey to becoming a make-up artist, a brand founder, corporate life and starting a new brand in her 60s with Jones Road. There’s lots of inspiring talk and good life advice too, which includes her favourite get-on-with-it phrase: “So what? Now what?” – words to live by. Shop here.
Top image: photography courtesy of Ricari.
