The Best Beauty Launches in January 2023 to Get You Excited

It’s time to refresh with these latest launches in makeup, skin, and hair care.

The New Year marks the time for a fresh start and every month brings new beauty launches, and every month the beauty-lover in me manages to be just as excited. This month also saw a handful of new launches and category expansions from brands like Tom Ford, Summer Fridays, MAC Cosmetics and more. With such an enormous range of beauty and skincare products released each month, how can you discern whether the latest serum, highlighter, or lip oil is actually worth purchasing? Well, Face to Curls is here to help you with that roundup and to jumpstart your 2023 routines with the best beauty products that launched recently. Whether you’re a skincare connoisseur, an avid makeup collector (or borderline hoarder) or you’re simply browsing the web for something fresh to add to your beauty routine, here are some of the best beauty launches that’ll keep your skin glowy and hydrated this winter.

Charlotte Tilbury Glow Glide Face Architect Highlighter ($48)

Brighten, lift and sculpt the look of your skin without creasing, caking or settling into fine lines for a CONFIDENCE-BOOSTING GLOW! Illuminating, sculpting-effect highlighter on your cheeks, jawline, eyes, nose, brows and lips for a glowing, defined looking facial structure. Its formula is infused with a unique light flex technology that was inspired by the lighting tricks used in old Hollywood movies. Available in 6 shades. 

Too Faced Cloud Crush Blurring Blush ($29)

This airy, diffused blurring blush infused with a flower extract blend—available in diffused satin and diffused matte finishes. It’s ultra-smooth, cushiony velvet powder offers a seamless wash of buildable, rejuvenating color for a natural blurring effect with a soft, second-skin feel that wears like a dream. This buildable, blendable, formula is made with 93 percent naturally derived ingredients. It also smells like a tropical beach. 

Elf Cosmetics Camo Color Corrector ($4)

Longwear, hydrating, crease-resistant, comes in a range of complimentary shades to address all skin discoloration concerns from dullness to red tones, blemishes, dark spots, and under eye circles. Full coverage with a satin finish and infused with hyaluronic. They have colors in Yellow – camouflages dullness in fair-to-medium skin tones; Peach – camouflages spots & darkness found under the eyes in fair-to-medium skin tones; Orange – camouflages spots & darkness found under the eyes in deeper skin tones; Green – covers redness, blemishes & rosy cheeks in all skin tones and Blue – visibly offsets orange & yellow tones in the skin.

Tarte Cosmetics Sculpt Tape Contour ($35)

If you’re already familiar with Tarte’s iconic shape tape concealer, you know this product is going to be worth it. The creamy formula helps create definition all over the face with ease, thanks to the cushion tip and blendable texture. The formulation includes shea butter, licorice, and porcelain flowers, leaving imperfections blurred and skin nourished. 

Tom Ford Cherry Smoke & Electric Cherry Fragrances (1.7 oz $390)

Cherry Smoke: (Warm, Woody Spices) Opens with the scent of Dark Cherry, enhanced by exotic saffron notes. The fragrant white flowers of osmanthus exude facets of apricot, olive, and leather while a precious, smoked-wood accord tantalizes with heated vibrancy and a simmering, blazing pull.

Electric Cherry: (Fruity floral) Merges the lush tartness of Morello cherry notes with exhilarating ginger, while opulent jasmine sambac entices with a mesmerizing aroma. Ambrettolide introduces an alluring musk scent, releasing a warm breath that mingles with spicy pink peppercorn.

Summer Fridays Midnight Ritual Retinol Renewal Serum ($69)

An effective yet gentle serum that is clinically tested for sensitive skin and works to help smooth the look of fine lines and improve skin’s appearance. perfect for normal, dry, combination, and oily skin types who have concerns such as fine lines and wrinkles, pores, and uneven texture. This serum is powered by a blend of gentle, slow-release vegan retinol/retinyl linoleate and is enriched with niacinamide and hyaluronic acid. Some fantastic ingredients in this serum are vegan retinyl linoleate, niacinamide and hyaluronic acid and tiger grass extract and oatmeal blend.

MAC Cosmetics

For the first time, MAC cosmetics released a skin care line with three new products; a hydration serum, moisturizing cream, and cleansing oil.

Hyper Real Serumizer Skin Balancing Hydration Serum ($55); Hyper Real Fresh Canvas Cleansing Oil ($48) and Hyper Real Skincanvas Balm Moisturizing Cream ($49).

Glow Recipe Avocado Ceramide Moisture Barrier Cleanser ($28)

A hydrating, skin-barrier-strengthening cleanser packed with ceramides and pre- and postbiotics to balance the skin’s moisture barrier while effectively removing makeup. This milky lotion-to-foam cleanser contains ceramide boosters and postbiotics that are clinically shown to moisturize, rebalance, and continue strengthening skin’s barrier—even after you’ve rinsed them off. It’s good for all skin types, including sensitive. Ingredients help to soothe redness from dehydration and retain moisture. Avocado oil helps to break down makeup while nurturing skin.

Ole Henriksen Hydrabarrier Nourishing Face Oil ($58)

This rich face oil has some incredible ingredients, including a pure Scandinavian Oil blend. This barrier-boosting face oil—with skin-supporting peptides and pure Scandinavian berry oils—to lock in all-day hydration, visibly improve uneven texture, and support strong skin.

MICRO-CLOUD ($18)

A pack of 12 hydrocolloid microdart patches that target irritated, early stage spots while looking cute. Press these powerful lil clouds onto your skin and their tiny, self-dissolving microdarts will send key ingredients directly to your underground spot. With hydrating hyaluronic acid, calming niacinamide, and salicylic acid, a beta hydroxy acid that helps dissolve dead skin cells and unclog pores.

Gisou Honey Infused Hair Wash Shampoo ($37)

This 92% naturally-derived, nourishing shampoo not only gently cleanses, removing all residue, but packs in supercharged hydration, leaving hair touchably soft, shiny and more manageable after only one use. Great for all hair types and works well if you also have hair concerns such as dryness, color-safe and frizz. So, if you enjoy using hair products that leave your hair smelling sweet, then you’ll love this. It has mirsalehi honey, keramatch and argan oil.

Bumble and bumble Bb.Sunday Purifying Clay Wash ($34)

We all know that Sundays are for self-care so this creamy, color-safe shampoo-and-mask hybrid, formulated with kaolin and bentonite clays plus lactic acid, will help you wash away the built-up residue, pollutants, and other impurities that can collect in your hair so you can start the week fresh.

Sol de Janeiro Bum Bum Firmeza Firming & Debloating Body Oil ($52)

For anyone with very dry skin and love the scent of the bum bum cream, it’s now available in body oil form with the new Sol de Janeiro Bum Bum Firmeza Body Oil. This intensely moisturizing body oil reduces the feeling of puffiness and visibly firms for noticeably tighter looking skin. Some of the amazing ingredients are guaraná caffeine+ complex, microalgae extract and brazilian olive oil.

Fenty Skin Butta Drop Vanilla Dream Whipped Oil Body Cream with Tropical Oils + Butters ($45)

A subtle rose-gold pearlescence and a dreamy, warm vanilla scent link up in this limited-edition Butta Drop body cream with some fab ingredients like Seven Luxe Oils, Shea Butter and Glycerin.