Where to Get Your Paris Beauty Fix: 8 Products You Need from the Cult Shop, Oh My Cream Inline
Photo: Courtesy of Joëlle Ciocco1/8“Joëlle Ciocco is the French skin guru who treats everyone from Laetitia Casta to Marc Jacobs. She has a very specific philosophy, which is that the skin is an ecosystem and you have to protect it, and the best thing you can do is cleansing. If you’re not doing that well, even if you put on a cream that is 300 euros, you’re just wasting it, because the skin isn’t prepared to receive the ingredients. Her best seller is the Lait Onctueux Capital cleanser, which is just amazing and smells like orange blossoms.”
Joëlle Ciocco Lait Onctueux Capital Sensitive Cleansing Milk, $69; ohmycream.com
Photo: Courtesy of Susanne Kaufmann2/8“This serum is really great because it only has three ingredients—and the second one [on the label] is hyaluronic acid, which means that the concentration is high. It’s very lightweight, so it penetrates very easily. It gives your skin a beautiful glow, and it plumps it instantly.”
Susanne Kaufmann Hyaluron Serum, $137; ohmycream.com
Photo: Courtesy of Grown Alchemist3/8“Grown Alchemist is an Australian brand that I love. Their purifying mask has clay in it, and also cranberry, which is a very powerful antioxidant. It gently exfoliates so you have a wonderful complexion afterward, but it won’t dry out your skin. However, before you use it—and this is very important—we tell all our clients to exfoliate first. We don’t use the kind with little beads here, because they can be irritating to the skin. Enzymatic exfoliators with AHAs, like Ren’s Glycolactic Radiance Renewal Mask, are gentler and more efficient—plus they fight wrinkles and hyperpigmentation at the same time. Use it first in a thin layer for ten minutes to remove the dead cells, then apply the Grown Alchemist purifying mask. I also like Antipodes’s Aura Manuka Honey Mask a lot as an alternative.”
Grown Alchemist Deep Cleansing Masque, $24; ohmycream.com
Photo: Courtesy of Aurelia4/8“Aurelia is a brand from London that is based on probiotics, which boost your skin’s natural defenses by calming the inflammation that causes aging. It’s perfect for sensitive skin, and it also has peptides to boost your collagen production. I think it’s especially great for a woman who is about 30 and maybe isn’t ready for strong anti-aging treatments yet, but she wants to protect her skin from the aggressions of the city, like pollution.”
Aurelia Cell Revitalise Day Moisturizer, $61; ohmycream.com
Photo: Courtesy of Kure Bazaar5/8“People come in for manicures and they always end up falling in love with Kure Bazaar nail polish. It’s natural [and non-toxic], but it stays a long time and the colors are very powerful. I like the Bordeaux shades, and then this one, called Mademoiselle K, which is a red with a tiny touch of pink. I also really like their beige in Cappuccino.”
Kure Bazaar Nail Polish in Mademoiselle K and Cappuccino $18; ohmycream.com
Photo: Courtesy of RMS Beauty6/8“I do all my makeup with RMS. The Lip2Cheek colors are great because you need just one in your bag and that’s it. There’s a universal pink shade called Demure that fits all complexions, it’s very nice. But to be honest, I prefer Diabolic. It looks a little scary in the pot, but actually it’s not—it’s the color of lie de vin on your lips. They also make a luminizer for the skin that you just have to get. It’s not sparkly at all, it just reflects the light very well. You put it on the zones of the face that are shadowy—in the inner corners of the eyes, cupid’s bow, high on the cheekbones. During the spring, you just need beautifully moisturized skin, a bit of the Lip2Cheek, and some luminizer, and you’re set.”
RMS Beauty Lip2Cheek in Diabolic, $38; ohmycream.com
Photo: Courtesy of DJV Beautenizer7/8“Fiberwig is the number one mascara in Japan. Sometimes in the day, your mascara flakes. This one won’t budge. It actually coats your lashes and then dries in little tubes that won’t flake. At night, you don’t need makeup remover, you just add warm water and the tubes slide off your lashes! All of our clients that travel a lot and don’t want to bring makeup remover love it.”
DJV Beautenizer Fiberwig LX Mascara, $27; ohmycream.com
Photo: Courtesy of Christophe Robin8/8“Christophe Robin Crème Lavant au Citron is one of our best sellers. It’s really a weird product because it’s a shampoo, conditioner, and a mask all at once. It’s a cream, you scoop a little with your hands, wet your hair a little bit, and massage it into the roots, adding a little water each time. They say to do it for five minutes, but I usually only do it for one. When you rinse it off, your hair is perfectly clean, but soft like never before and really, really shiny.”
Christophe Robin Cleansing Mask with Lemon, $39; ohmycream.com
