PSA: your makeup bag, skincare vanity, and shower caddy need these products ASAP. We’ve sourced the newest, most exciting, and highly covetable beauty drops to hit the shelves this year. Give your fingers a good stretch, make sure you phone is charged, and get ready to scroll, tap, and add to cart.
New Beauty in Dubai: January 2026
Charlotte Tilbury Airbrush Flawless Blur Concealer
Price: Dhs175, Ulta Beauty stores
Why we 🩷 it: This weightless formula is a dream for thirsty undereyes. It doubles skin’s hydration and reduces fine lines while giving a blurring, natural-matte, and non-cakey finish. Best of all it’s humidty-proof, sweat-proof, and water-resistant. We’re sold.
K18 AstroLift Reparative Volume Spray
Price: Dhs200, sephora.me
Why we 🩷 it: With just a few spritzes, this spray elevates our strands’ body n’ bounce while keeping movement natural. It’s weightless formula lasts up to two days in our locks without causing stiffness or buildup. Sorry, we can’t hear you over the volume of our hair (*wink wink*).
Lash It Out Velvet Touch Press On Pre-Glued Underlash Extensions
Price: Dhs120, lashitoutdubai.com
Why we 🩷 it: Skip the appointment and customise your lash lewk with these preglued underlash extensions. Each kit contains 30 clusters in three lengths, 10mm, 12mm, and 14mm, and an application tweezer. You can stack your lashes, fill in gaps, or accentuate to give you that perf enhancement.
SHEGLAM Silk Slip Lip Oil Balm
Price: Dhs25.67, sheglam.com
Why we 🩷 it: Cruelty-free balmy lip oils sound like something we deffo want to add to our lip wardrobes. Made with hydrating squalane and firming peptides, these lightweight and non-sticky lippies give our pouts a hint of pretty colour and super smooth effect.
Rare Beauty Warm Wishes Soft Matte Powder Bronzer
Price: Dhs160, dropping 23 Jan at sephora.me
Why we 🩷 it: Tbh, if it’s Rare Beauty, we already love it. We’re obvs adding this buildable bronzer fortified with antioxidants to our makeup bags. The weightless powder’s cream-like feel makes application oh-so-easy. Selena never misses.
Hourglass Illusion Luminous Glow Foundation SPF30
Price: Dhs230, sephora.me
Why we 🩷 it: Medium-coverage, melt-in-your-skin foundation that works as regenerative skincare *and* protects our complexions from the sun? Yes, plz. This new luminous drop gives us 12 hours of cake-free wear with no transfer or creasing. Hourglass is setting the beauty bar high and we’re here for it.
Bath & Body Works Touch of Gold Collection
Price: starting at Dhs90, bathandbodyworks.ae
Why we 🩷 it: We love layering scents at Bath and Body Works, and their latest one, available in everything from lotions, to body washes, perfumes, and candles, has notes of honeyed orange blossom, creamy tonka, and late-season dark berries. Ngl, we just found our signature fragrance for upcoming suhoor nights.
Spa Ceylon Skin Smooth Bakuchiol Serum
Price: Dhs165, spaceylon.ae
Why we 🩷 it: Natural girlies, listen up. Bakuchiol, known as nature’s retinol, boosts collagen and reduces the appearance of fine lines. We’re *so* excited to find this youth-inducing ingredient formulated in this Ayurvedic serum. Apply both day (it’s safe in the sun) and night, for a firmer, smoother, and more hydrated 2026 version of you.
LINNÉ Refresh Mineral Mist
Price: Dhs236, yunitedbeauty.com
Why we 🩷 it: Who would ever want to go into the new year inflamed? Not us! This mineral mist calms irritation, tightens pores, boosts elasticity, and keeps our complexions hydrated from the inside out. It’s basically the skincare equivalent of getting our lives together. The only flames we see are the ones behind us as we’re sprinting toward our 2026 goals.
Guerlain KissKiss Bee Glow Oil
Price: Dhs189, bloomingdales.ae
Why we 🩷 it: Our crown chakras are charging with this honey-infused tinted lavender coloured lip oil. The newest addition to the KissKoss Glow Oil fam belongs in all our bags.
Lola From Rio Rapunzel Hair Growth Tonic
Price: Dhs90, faces.ae
Why we 🩷 it: Rapuzel woudn’t settle for hair fall and neither should you. Spritz this tonic on your locks to spark healthier fuller growth and stronger roots. Handsome prince not included.
Sorbé by Nour Arida Sorbé Clip
Price: Dhs66, sorbeskin.com
Why we 🩷 it: Dubai it-girls know this cellulose acetate hair clip is in a league of her own. Whether you wear it in your hair or as a bag charm, it’s a style statement that pulls all looks and hair types together.
iS Clinical Extra Strength Active Peel Brightening System
Price: Dhs600, facettefacialbar.com
Why we 🩷 it: This new year, it’s a new you with a new glow thanks to this professional-grade at home two-step peel. Step one uses botanical acids to deeply exfoliate the skin. Step two hydrates and support skin’s rejuvenation process. There’s nothing more we love than getting professional results while at home in our joggers catching up on Substack.
AÏZA Rumman Rush Exfoliating Face Scrub
Price: Dhs75, aiza.co
Why we 🩷 it: Massage away your worries, and dead skin, with this sweet blend of pomegranate enzymes, almond powder, almond oil. The stress-free formula glides onto our complexions like pastry cream. It exfoliates and dissolves impurities to reveal fresh and healthy skin underneath. Beauty Editor Tip: Use bi-weekly for best results.
ZO Skin Health Peptide Facial Refining Concentrate
Price: Dhs1300, zoskinhealth.ae
Why we 🩷 it: If there was a face sculpting masterclass in a bottle, this would be it. Its powerful peptides soften expression lines, smooth lines and wrinkles, and make skin plumper than the mochi we ate last night. Its smart formula boosts skin’s natural collagen, improves facial definition, and hydrates for a fuller, lifted look. We might just be throwing away our contour palette.
pHformula MESO X Boost
Price: Dhs585, Al Shunnar Plastic Surgery
Why we 🩷 it: Did someone say microneedling-but-make-it-homecare? That’s what we heard. Flood your skin with some serious hydration and boost collagen like a pro thanks to micro spicules that gently nudge our complexions into renewal mode. With results like brighter tone, fewer fine lines, and smoother texture, we think it’s worth a shot.
Gisou Honey Glaze Collagen Therapy Lip Mask
Price: Dhs125, sephora.me
Why we 🩷 it: We looked into our Cosmo ME crystal ball and saw that soft n’ sweet lips are in our future, thanks to this honey-infused lip collagen mask. Containing lip-loving ingredients like plumping hyaluronic acid and moisturising ceramides, our lips have never felt smoother. Plus, we love the cosy honey buttercream scent.
Obagi NU-CIL BioStim Scalp Serum
Price: Dhs 518, shop.ellesmedspa.com
Why we 🩷 it: Losing hair can be traumatic AF. Luckily, this next-gen treatment targets hair density and thickness, strengthens follicles, and reduces shedding. Its formula is packed with a clinically proven blend of biotin, peptides and other nutrients to reduce hair fall. In just three months, expect to see hair look fuller.
Willow Smith cherishes Egyptian spirtuality, vulnerability & moisturised skin