We got there! Christmas has been skipped or staggered through, and New Year is honing into view. I hope you’ve had time to rest and zone out a bit, recharge and refuel. Now for a little light retooling.
When I say I’m writing about New Year’s resolutions, I’m not suggesting that there’s an inadequate 2024 you to be reformed for 2025. We’re adults and we’re fine.
However, January 1 does provide a useful focusing device for reappraising the things we do and tweaking them around the edges. And our beauty rituals are no exception.
Here are the five things I’ll be doing over the next few days, and you might want to, too.
Relax
The greatest gift I gave myself this Christmas was those earplugs one sees youngsters sporting to block an ever-demanding world.
My Loop Switch 2s (£54.95, loopearplugs.com) can be switched between ‘quiet’ (peace), ‘experience’ (decreasing concert volume) and ‘engage’ (lowering people’s voices) modes. I now crave a Loop Dream set (£44.95) to keep beside my bed. I’ll still hear my alarm, just not those morning planes that have been waking me with a stressed jolt.
I’ll slather myself in Nikura Sleep Essential Oil Blend (£5.99, nikura.com) and use them with my Drowsy Silk Sleep Mask (from £52, drowsysleepco.com) for the ultimate beauty sleep.
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Think
Use this interlude to ponder, read and watch. Magazines will yield a wealth of ideas – even merely the advertising looks.
While I highly recommend Lisa Eldridge’s YouTube videos, you may be galvanised by a novel in which the heroine has a signature beauty gesture or a friend’s party look for tomorrow night.
Maybe you’d like to go into 2025 with a fresh hair colour, or foundation technique? Now is the time to fantasise.
Look
I was talking to a great British beauty the other day, and she told me that what she wants in a make-up artist is not fiddling about with different gimmicks, but someone who takes a long look at her face, then acts on those findings. Do the same. Is your mirror midlife eyesight-ready? I use the excellent Mirrorvana Double-sided with 10X/1X Magnification (£25, amazon.co.uk).
Restock
Go through your cosmetics kit, axing anything that isn’t working such as old make-up and balding brushes. Then clean the remaining blighters. Wash, sanitise and/or replace your cosmetics bag, too.
Restock your cleanser, use up pots of old cream and streamline your kit to see you into spring.
It’s going to be cold – make sure your face is ready for this. And lay down some hand and hair nourishment, too.
January 1 provides a useful focusing device for reappraising the things we do and tweaking them around the edges. And our beauty rituals are no exception (Stock Image)
Plot
January and February are a great time for winning little projects such as bolstering your eyebrows or growing your nails.
You might wish to invest in silk pillowcases to be gentle on skin and hair. (I rely on stray eyeliner-proof black Bedsure Satin Pillowcases for Hair & Skin, £5.04 for two, amazon.co.uk).
You may commit to a beauty supplement, or yearn to whiten your smile (me, too – watch this space).
I’ll be 54 in March, meaning pigmentation is setting in, so I’ll be looking into remedies.
I also intend lifting my features with my hands using Deciniee Gua Sha Massagers (£12.89 for two, amazon.co.uk) and the brilliant Mini Eye Cool Rollers (£4.99 each, amazon.co.uk), which are exquisitely soothing.
Perhaps you will resolve not to let your lips crack before resorting to balm, or conclude: ‘Scent makes me feel alive. I shall wear it every day.’ Small tweak, beautiful New Year.
See you in 2025.
RACE YOU TO IT!
Parched skin and brittle hair and nails are the price of festive dehydration brought on by booze, central heating and simply not drinking enough water. Stockpile Nutriburst Enhanced Hydration + Beauty Electrolyte & Vitamin Formula (from £9.49 for six sachets, amazon.co.uk) for New Year.
MY ICON OF THE WEEK: Nicole Kidman
The actress admits that she is ‘pretty addicted’ to By Terry’s Baume de Rose Lip Care
Make-up artist Kate Synnott used Beauty Pie to get Kidman, 57, glowing for her new thriller Babygirl.
She prepped with Superluminous Skin Glow Filter Tinted Hyaluronic Complexion Brightener (members’ price £20, beautypie.com), followed by the Everyday Great Skin Hyaluronic Blur Concealer (£12.50) and Triple Beauty Luminising Highlighter Wand (£11).
COSMETIC CRAVING
Removing a party face in the wee small hours is a chore. What’s needed is
Olixa Gummy Facial Cleanser (£28.50, olixabeauty.com), the bestseller from this natural skincare brand.
Plant-based ingredients create an antioxidant-rich formula designed to refine tone, boost hydration and brighten the complexion.
However, it’s the texture that stands out: xanthan gum lending glue-like grip. Work a dollop into dry skin, pressing and lifting to create suction.
Wet fingertips and continue to massage until the cleanser turns milky, then rinse.
Understandably cherished by make-up artists, one application eradicates every scrap of slap – no cloth required. Then, hit the sack in a state of virtue.
PARTY PIECES
Pat McGrath Eye Shadow Quad Sublime Blooms in Opalescent Orchid (£55, patmcgrath.com)
Floral fantasies for tomorrow night and into spring.
Hildun Immortal Metallic Eyeliner in Silver (£16, hildunbeauty.co.uk)
Glinting, mirror-like, metallic – go from desk-to-disco with a swipe of each lid.
Anastasia Beverly Hills Beauty Balm (£34.40, boots.com)
Sheer skin tint which gives a fresh, youthful sheen.
Lisa Eldridge Kitten Lash Mascara (£29, lisaeldridge.com)
Flirtatious length and curl is so now. Kitten Lash is purr-fect.
Dior Addict Lip Glow in 63 Pink Lilac (£33, dior.com)
Have the most kissable mouth for New Year’s Eve. Warm-toned women should pick 75.
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