Makeup essentials for holiday-season glamour, by La Bouche Rouge

This is a lipstick formula unlike any other; its unique powder-free texture feels soft and velvety and delivers richly pigmented, long-lasting color. The vegan formula doesn’t contain any beeswax, synthetic wax or silicone, but it does boast organic virgin jojoba oil, squalene and hyaluronic acid, making it the most comfortable long-wear lip color you’ve likely ever tried. The best part? When you run out, the lipstick refills can be popped into your favorite upcycled leather case.

The Mascara Le Sérum Noir is something truly extraordinary and will elevate the everyday task of applying your mascara. Its elegant shape is a work of art and it is the first mascara tube made from 100 percent recyclable glass, using 100-year-old glassmaking methods. What’s more, the wand is the first mascara brush in the world to be made without microplastics. Instead, its unique bristles are composed of castor bean oil fibers. As for its results, this is a mascara that does it all. Its specially shaped brush lengthens lashes while also delivering thickness and volume, without clumping.

Eyeshadows are not all created equal. The best are the ones that hydrate rather than dry out your skin, that blend well, feel comfortable and deliver buildable pigments. La Bouche Rouge Les Ombres are all this and more. These silky and covetable shades contain 93 percent natural ingredients and include hyaluronic acid and shea butter to keep the fragile skin on your eyelids hydrated and comfortable all day. With both matte and iridescent shades available, the possibilities are endless, and thanks to the beautiful way they blend, they are ideal for creating soft, smoky eyes and for wearing under your bottom lash line for subtle definition. Apply them with the La Bouche Rouge vegan eyeshadow brushes for a seamless and professional finish.

Like La Terre, La Bouche Rouge La Lumiere hydrates skin to boost your natural glow and is free from microplastics, talc and silicone; instead, it’s made up of 95 percent natural ingredients. The hydration aspect comes in the form of hyaluronic acid – an ingredient commonly found in skincare for its ability to bring moisture to the skin. The beautiful, ‘candle-lit’, healthy glow it creates is the work of sustainably produced mica and looks subtly radiant on all skin tones and textures. Buff onto skin with the La Lumiere Brush wherever you wish to catch the light.

Created in Hesdin-l’Abbé, France, on the Opal Coast, La Bouche Rouge Le Khôl Noir is likely to be the silkiest, creamiest, easy-to-apply eye pencil you have ever tried. With 98 percent natural ingredients, including castor oil, squalene and vitamin E, its intense pigment glides onto skin with almost no pressure on the pencil required. Its creamy formula allows you to blend the line out if you want to create a look that’s more lived-in and smoky. Equally, left as is, the formula dries down to a soft powdered effect so you can be confident that once in place, it will stay put all day (and night).

Using the right tools will add a veil of professionalism to your makeup application. Made of vegan hairs and developed in Osaka, Japan, following the tradition of Kaizen calligraphy, La Bouche Rouge makeup brushes are rather special. A large brush is ideal for sweeping La Terre bronzer along the contours of your face, into your temples and over the bridge of your nose, while a smaller, more delicate, thin brush is the ideal partner to Les Ombres eyeshadow, so you can sweep the color on in one swoop and blend to create shape. Lastly, don’t forget the brows – they can drastically transform the architecture of your face, after all; the angled eyebrow brush will catch even the shortest, thinnest and stubborn hairs to create order and symmetry.