Chinese New Year, usually referred to as the Lunar New Year, is one of the important holidays. Family get-togethers, dining, gift-giving, and festivities take place throughout this period. Giving and receiving gifts from family and friends is an important part of the Chinese New Year celebration. Here’s the list of our gifts to give this CNY.
Hibernicis
New Year, New Me – enter the Lunar New year with the new skincare brand, Hibernicis, designed to support, replenish, cleanse and hydrate your skin – perfect for the dry and cold season. Inspired by the history and nature of the untouched Connemara on the west coast of Ireland and its natural resources such as seaweed from the Atlantic coasts, Hibernicis offers gentle, natural gels, lotions and a serum suitable for all skin tones, types and gender – ideal for the whole family to start the new year cleansed and replenished. All products are made in the UK and now available in Hong Kong via hibernicis.com.
Glan (Clean) Bath + Shower Gel
Glan Bath + Shower Gel (HK$390) is a lightly scented, low foaming gel designed to cleanse the skin without stripping its naturally occurring oils. A blend of seven seaweed extracts and a fusion of geranium, mandarin and sandalwood essential oils, Glan is the ultimate cleansing product to pamper yourself or others.
Athlíon (Replenish) Body Lotion and Síoda (Silk) Body Serum
A rich yet highly absorbent body lotion, Athlíon Body Lotion (HK$690) is a blend of rosewater that moisturises, calms and balances the skin, and sodium hyaluronate to soothe and defend against moisture loss. The sublime lotion is perfected with essential oils of geranium, ylang ylang and sandalwood.
Úr (New) Exfoliating Gel and Cara (Friend) Hand Cream
Take your body care to the next level with Úr Exfoliating Gel (HK$390), a unique exfoliating gel designed to be massaged on dry skin prior to bathing. As the process of exfoliating and massaging is an active one, the gel is supported with energising essential oils of spearmint and peppermint. The addition of cooling menthol helps improve circulation and revitalises, refreshes and invigorates the mind and body. Úr is fused with a blend of seven seaweed extracts to achieve smooth and refined skin.
Sulwhasoo
First Care Activating Serum is one of Sulwhasoo‘s steady sellers that has evolved through five renewals over the past 25 years since its launch in 1997. The Serum contains JAUM Activator™, Sulwhasoo’s anti- aging golden ratio formula, make your skin look healthier and awake natural radiance from deep within, activating the master of skin universe, caring the skin’s most essential element, vital to fight against signs of aging. Apply it right after cleansing. This unique first step serum instantly absorbs into your skin. Enjoy the fresh it provides priming your skin from deep within.
ISSEY MIYAKE Parfums
Truly immersing you in nature, A Drop d’Issey Eau de Parfum Fraîche, the new opus by the house of Issey Miyake, captures the journey of a raindrop in springtime. From the moment it falls from the sky, the drop travels through the elements – grass, flowers, wood, and more – to reveal each of their facets, almost as if it were awakening nature on the way, boosting the sensory experience. The new Eau de Parfum Fraîche captures the intimate essence of nature as it is reborn each spring, with the dreamlike aura of Issey Miyake to boot.
Laura Mercier
Celebrate the Lunar New Year, one of the most vibrant and jubilant milestones of the year, with Laura Mercier’s limited-edition Year of The Rabbit Collection.
Now, for a limited time only, two of our most iconic products are wrapped up for the festivities in red and gold, key traditional colors with a touch of modern flare. Set your makeup with the all-time cult favourite Translucent Loose Setting Powder, winner of the reputable @cosme 2022 Beauty Awards setting category, and achieve a 16-hour long wear flawless complexion. Refresh your look with a splash of color by Blush Color Infusion Ginger engraved with a festive Rabbit pattern. These 2 icons are the ultimate celebratory duo to celebrate the New Year.
Augustinus Bader
Celebrate the Year of the Rabbit with our award-winning Serum. Presented in a covetable red glass base, this striking Limited Edition is a symbol of vitality, abundance and renewal for the Lunar New Year.
The Limited Edition Serum
Powered by Professor Bader’s patented TFC8®, The Serum is designed to zero in on your skin’s most persistent challenges for an even, more radiant complexion.
Key Benefits
- Improves tone and smooths texture for brighter, more even looking skin
- Reduces and prevents the appearance of fine lines, wrinkles and hyperpigmentation
- Supports production of collagen and helps lift, firm and tighten sagging skin
- Nourishes and hydrates the skin, while preventing moisture loss
- Balances and calms stressed, overly reactive skin
Aurom
Instead of red packets, impress your loved one this Lunar New Year with the most precious collectible coins – worth significantly more than any common banknote: The Royal Canadian Mint’s limited edition Opulence Collection features the rarest and most exclusive collectible coins, presented by Aurom, the Mint’s premiere global distribution partner. The newly minted gold, platinum and diamond-encrusted coins represent some of the finest examples of numismatic craftsmanship and make an exceptional Chinese New Year gift for those who appreciate the utmost in quality, artistry and value.
The exquisite coins from the Opulence Collection feature Treasure (HK$82,000), Grandeur (HK$352,000) and Splendour (HK$1,565,000), each encrusted with the rarest pink diamonds from the now-closed Argyle Mine from Western Australia. Each coin is crafted with cherry blossom motifs in an homage to the natural beauty of pink diamonds, with an effigy of Her Late Majesty Queen Elizabeth II by Susanna Blunt on the obverse.
Aēsop
An ode to Chinese tradition – Aesop specially curated a selection of incense, nodding to the custom of visiting a temple on the first day of the Lunar New Year to burn incense and make one’s wishes come true. The Murasaki, Kagerou and Sarashina Aromatique Incense offer exceptional gifts for loved ones, perfect to imbue one’s home with complex, unconventional Aesop aromas to start the New Year of the Rabbit in a setting that promotes purification. Long associated with spiritual, religious and cleansing ceremonies, the act of burning incense instils an air of studious serenity, steadily permeating the atmosphere through the unfurling of its delicate ribbons of aroma. Developed with long-term fragrance partner Barnabé Fillion and manufactured by a revered Japanese incense atelier, this triptych has been crafted with assiduous attention to detail, using traditional blending techniques paired with modern processing equipment.
Fenty Beauty
Fenty Eau de Parfum (HK$1,250) – the first luxury fragrance from Rihanna and Fenty Beauty – is now available for a limited time at Harvey Nichols Hong Kong, Beauty Bazaar and Beauty Avenue. This marks the product’s first in-store retail experience after launching exclusively on FentyBeauty.com. A deeply intimate fragrance that’s complex, vibrant, raw, spicy and sweet all at once, the scent was designed by Rihanna for all people and all occasions. She hand-selected key notes of magnolia, musk, tangerine and Bulgarian rose in the world’s fragrance capital, Grasse, France, alongside world-renowned LVMH Master Perfumer Jacques Cavallier-Belletrud to create a sensual warm floral experience. The scent is inspired by distinct memories and places that Rihanna cherishes from throughout her life – Bridgetown, Barbados; Grasse, France; New York, New York; Paris, France; Los Angeles, California.
Fenty Skin
Dark spots better watch out – this targeted serum is a concentrated cocktail of powerful dark spot-fighting ingredients for instantly brighter skin that just gets even better with time. With a formula featuring an all-star team of 5% Niacinamide, Vitamin C, Licorice Root Extract, and Barbados Cherry, this serum instantly boosts brightness, fades the look of dark spots and discoloration, and evens out skin’s overall tone and texture to reveal radiant, healthy-looking, and silky-soft skin. Best of all, you’ll start seeing results in just 1 week that continue to become more visible and more significant over time. Watch Ya Tone features an innovative (and refillable!) pump design that delivers the most precise amount of product so that you can never under- or over-use it! Its lightweight, non-sticky texture absorbs quickly so that you can layer it perfectly with your other Fenty Skin faves, such as over Fat Water Pore-Refining Toner Serum or Fat Water Hydrating Milky Toner Essence, as well as under Hydra Vizor Invisible Moisturizer Broad Spectrum SPF 30 Sunscreen and before you apply your makeup (because protecting your skin with SPF is the best way to keep those spots at bay!). This formula is also noncomedogenic, color- and fragrance-free, and suitable for all skin types, so that anyone, anywhere, can get that unforgettable glow and smooth, even skin.
NARS
NARS introduces six new shades of the long-wearing, transfer-resistant Air Matte Ultra Lip Tint. Featuring iconic dusty rose Dolce Vita, this extended range of seductively smooth, comfortably matte, and irresistibly light gel-like matte formula makes it even easier to switch up your lip looks all year long. The featherweight texture glides on dimensional color with a soft-focus finish and perfects lips for up to eight hours. Wild Mango Butter helps to blur imperfections and creates soft-looking, irresistibly plush lips, and a custom-designed applicator builds vibrant shades to your heart’s desire. Swipe to satisfy. Style to perfection.
