This botanical oasis in Pretoria offers an immersive salon experience

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Turn your next hair appointment into a day-long affair at Inoar's Salon & Lifestyle Centre, a botanical oasis designed by architect André Eksteen of EarthWorld. As well as featuring a hair salon that offers Inoar treatments and professional colour services, the addition of immersive lifestyle elements will make you want to linger longer.

Alongside a coffee shop, aesthetics and beauty facilities, courtesy of Aesthetics by Cara and Dr Mignon McKechnie, where you can indulge in a quick carboxy, dermaplaning or micro-needling, you can also enjoy some retail therapy at Haki Original, which stocks bespoke leather goods, or shop premium stoneware, porcelain and glassware from Lavish'd South Africa. 

BIONIC SKIN

As the brand that created and patented the first glycolic peel, Exuviance knows how to get skin into tip-top condition through its powerful botanicals and antioxidant-based products.

Our favourite has to be the Vespera Bionic Serum, an oil-like serum with polyhydroxy acids, lactobionic acid, gluconolactone, a multivitamin complex and marine botanicals.

This product helps reduce oxidative stress, resurface the skin while stimulating cell turnover, and fight early signs of ageing.

Although skin is left with a slightly sticky feeling after application, the result of smoother, more even toned and luminously hydrated skin is 100% worth it.

• Exuviance Vespera Bionic Serum 30ml, R745, from dermastore.co.za

NAUGHTY NUDES

If you think you've seen all there is to see when it comes to nude eyeshadow palettes, you clearly haven't come across Huda Beauty's Naughty Nude.

Newly launched in SA and exclusively available at ARC stores, this 18-pan palette features a deliciously warm colour story, allowing for innovative layering and dual-toned finishes.

Enjoy unique eyeshadow finishes including high-shine buttery metallics, multi-reflective shimmer marble creams, matte marble creams and a shimmery gloss hybrid formula with encapsulated pearls alongside rich, pigmented mattes.

• Huda Beauty Naughty Nude Eyeshadow Palette, R1,125, from arcstore.co.za

THE ARMANI WAY

Giorgio Armani's trailblazing new fragrance, fronted by actress Adria Arjona, is a commitment to sustainability.

Celebrating life encounters and journeys of self-discovery, we love how the scent jolts you awake with a fresh, fruity opening note, which unfurls a white floral bouquet with notes of orange blossom, tuberose, Indian jasmine, white musk, Madagascar vanilla and Virginian cedar.

Apart from the fragrance's sophisticated scent profile, My Way also makes use of recycled and recyclable materials, sustainably sourced ingredients, eco-friendly bottle design and packaging, and a bottle refill system that reduces material waste.

• Giorgio Armani My Way EDP 90ml, R2,320.

ON THE BEACH

Escape to olfactory summer with Louis Vuitton's latest dreamy collaboration that sees the return of multimedia artist Alex Israel, who lends his visionary outlook to the bottle's peachy sunset-eque design.

Savour the feeling of ocean freshness and the gentle warmth of sand and sun on the skin with notes of neroli and Yuzu, a rare citrus from Japan. Notes of thyme, rosemary, pink pepper, cloves and cypress blend together to give the scent a peppery, zesty quality.

• Louis Vuitton On The Beach 100ml, R4,000, available from Louis Vuitton Sandton City and V&A Waterfront

COOL RELIEF

If you suffer from headaches, muscle tension or sinus congestion, Goodleaf's Relief Roller will feel like a godsend. Packed with 200mg of CBD oil, Namibian myrrh, ginger root, peppermint, eucalyptus, rosemary and lavender, its aromatic therapeutic formula instantly calms the mind and reduces inflammation.

Pop the 10ml bottle into your handbag or keep on the night stand to roll onto temples, above the brow bone, inner wrists or behind the ears. Its cooling metal roller adds to the feeling of calmness.

• Goodleaf CBD Relief Roller 200mg 10ml, R245, from goodleaf.co.za