Anti-aging skincare is often organised around ingredients. Retinol for wrinkles. Vitamin C for brightness. Peptides for firmness.

But SHISEIDO Vital Perfection has increasingly moved in another direction.

Rather than isolating one visible sign of aging, the Japanese skincare line approaches the face as a combination of firmness, brightness, moisture, wrinkles and overall facial impression.

Some skincare renewals are little more than a packaging update. TAKAMI Essence 5CE Premium is not one of them. The Japanese skincare brand is replacing its long-running TAKAMI Essence 5C+E with an extensively reformulated vitamin C serum launching nationwide in Japan on September 2, 2026.

SNIDEL BEAUTY’s Autumn 2026 collection takes a different route. Its new Still in the Afterglow collection keeps pink firmly at the centre of the face. But this is not spring pink. Instead of making the colour itself dramatically darker, SNIDEL BEAUTY changes what surrounds it: softer shadow beneath the cheekbones, slightly muted eye colours, controlled luminosity and clear lip colours touched with brown, berry or rose.