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Your skin is with you for life. To keep it looking healthy and youthful, La Prairie skincare, infused with rare marine ingredients, is probably the best beauty investment you could make for yourself.

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Your skin is with you for life. To keep it looking healthy and youthful, La Prairie skincare, infused with rare marine ingredients, is probably the best beauty investment you could make for yourself.

Photography Darren Chang Art Direction Feng Ling
Photography Darren Chang Art Direction Feng Ling

Understanding that your skin deserves the best, premium Swiss beauty brand La Prairie has spared no effort in its quest for the rarest, most precious ingredients that can enhance a woman’s beauty.

The result is a slew of luxury skincare products formulated with the best nature has to offer.The most famous, of course, is its Skin Caviar Luxe Cream. Billed as the ultimate firming and lifting cream, its rare ingredients include caviar extract.

Always challenging itself, the brand has now created a lightweight version of its cult cream: Skin Caviar Luxe Cream – Sheer. It marries potent concentrations of caviar extract and other active marine ingredients with cutting-edge technology in a proprietary formula, and is a welcome advancement for women who struggle with the effects of humidity and pollution on their skin.

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PAMPERING GOODNESS
Boasting La Prairie’s iconic exclusive Cellular Complex, Skin Caviar Luxe Cream – Sheer, $680 for 50ml, has a light-as-air texture and possesses the same lifting, refining and brightening benefits as the original cream, courtesy of specially sourced ingredients that promise better, younger-looking skin.

Besides caviar extract, said to improve firmness over time and enhance the skin’s defence system, Skin Caviar Luxe Cream – Sheer is fortified with polyglucuronic acid, red seaweed extract and microalgae extracts sourced from a Hawaiian lake, all of which work together to smooth and hydrate the skin without leaving behind a sticky residue.

Also in the formula: malt extract, which reportedly strengthens existing collagen fibres and minimises collagen degradation, and fermented enzymes, which purportedly better protect against premature ageing.

CONCEAL AND PROTECT
In the hands of La Prairie, even makeup feels pampering. Its smooth-as- silk Skin Caviar Concealer & Foundation SPF15, $340 for 30ml, with a silicone-in-water emulsion base effectively hides imperfections to give you smooth, even-toned skin as well as vital UV protection. Expect too, long-lasting wear and a perfect, dewy finish, thanks to its advanced pigment technology.

Enjoy the lifting, firming benefits true to La Prairie’s entire Skin Caviar collection. This luxurious base is enriched with nourishing caviar extract, a peptide said to aid skin elasticity and hydrolysed malt extract to help prevent collagen loss and premature ageing.

There’s something about caviar
It’s common knowledge that caviar – unfertilised, salt-cured fish eggs – is one of the rarest, most expensive foods in the world. Royalty and noble folk have feasted on it for centuries, and this culinary delicacy is often served on mother-of-pearl spoons to avoid tainting its delicate flavour. Its health benefits are well known – it supports the circulatory and immune systems – but more recently, researchers have discovered that it also has exceptional anti-ageing properties, making it a much sought-after ingredient in skincare.

“La Prairie products enhance skin’s radiance with a blend of nature’s finest ingredients. By harnessing the goodness of the nutrient-rich caviar, we aspire to make a woman look and feel her best.” Michelle Ong, training manager at La Prairie Singapore