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The glory days of huffing noxious fumes—magic markers, paint thinner, fixatives—never included nail polish. Until now, thanks to Berlin's Uslu Airlines, a quirky cosmetics company known for its DIY airbrushing contraption and who commissioned Bernhard Willhelm to develop nail polish colors (expect three more later this year, btw). A collaboration with Colette, Uslu's metallicized screen-blue shellack comes smelling like figgy FRIA, the boutique's best-selling fragrance—which makes it the world's first perfumed nail polish. Maybe now we won't get raised eyebrows when we do a quick mani touch-up in public.
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Bad dreams, ingrown toenails, gout, wrinkles. According to Oriental medicine, they all boil down to one thing: imbalanced qi (or "chi," if you wanna get all Western about it). So embrace Erborian, a quasi-traditional Korean skincare line that uses hush-hush herbal tactics, not hardcore chemicals, to fight dermal fatigue. Referring to the skin as a "living envelope," which sounds slightly horrific, though true, Erborian focuses on micro-circulation, infusing super-light moisturizers with tiny grits of herbs that break down and sink in. Ginseng Infusion Total Eye ($39), a lush cream containing mega-doses of the root, promises a more alert ocular area, while Yuza Sorbet ($58) works like a delicate emulsion to get you back into whack, leaving a silken matte barrier against the elements. Which is perfect for warmer weather, when you want to ditch that winter beast of a moisturizer that now leaves your face feeling like a melting slab of flan. Exclusively at Space NK.
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A snakebite on the face is one way to freeze creases, but then, well…you die. Enter Brendan Truaxe, founder of cosmeceutical company Euoko, who figured out how to harness the paralyzing effect of venom without the killing aspect. The resulting serum, Y-30 (Euoko products have generic techie names, the better to make them sound like part of a system, which they are) sold out pretty much the second it hit counters earlier this month, despite its $500 price tag. And while stuff like this usually maims plenty of critters in the development process, no Euoko product is ever tested on animals. This is one of the warmest, most exciting companies around—don't let the cool, clinical packaging fool you—even when it comes to scent. You might expect Euoko's marvels of science to have the stench of Mr. Clean, but instead you get a pleasant fragrance blend—R-40, a hyper-nutritious radiance cream concocted from extracts found all over the world, smells like white chocolate. $50 - $710 at Bergdorf Goodman.
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