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FESTIVE FIXES

Ten steps to look your best this party season. By Nathalie Eleni

1Slip Silk Sleep Mask This eye mask is crafted from pure mulberry silk inside and out to protect the delicate skin around your eyes from damage while you get your all-important preevent beauty sleep. £50, cultbeauty.co.uk

2Bioeffect Imprinting

Hydrogel Mask

Designed to maximise the effects of Bioeffect’s signature skincare, this uses glycerin and hyaluronic acid to deliver deep levels of moisture to your skin. £70 for 6, cultbeauty.co.uk 3 Foreo Luna 4 A high tech cleansing treatment that refreshes skin, boosts circulation and purges pores using T-Sonic pulsations. Clinically proven to remove 99 percent of dirt, oil, and makeup residue, it’s also 35 times more hygienic than brushes with nylon bristles. £239, foreo.com

4Wanderlash Mascara This vegan formula builds lashes to create a false lash effect, adding lots of nourishing ingredients along the way. £28, bellaworld.com 5 K18 Leave-In Molecular

Repair Hair Mask

Leave this hair mask in for just four minutes for locks with renewed elasticity, silky smoothness and restored bounce. £55, cultbeauty.co.uk

6Estée Lauder Smoke

& Brighten Kajal

Create the perfect party-ready smokey eye in moments with Estée Lauder’s new double-ended eyeliner – one to smudge and the other to brighten. Choose from four colour combos. £24, selfridges.com 7 Isamaya Beauty

Skinlacq Glow Serum

This triple hyaluronic glow serum (feat. three different weights of the hydrating holy grail) plumps up skin and adds natural luminosity to all skin tones, without shimmer. £60, isamaya.co.uk

8L’Occitane Immortelle

Precious Overnight Mask

Works wonders to recharge skin, either as a ten minute perk up, or applied before bed for a deep hydration boost. £55, loccitane.com 9 Rodial Glass Skin Edit Take yourself from dull to dewy in minutes with this expert kit, including its glowy Banana Lowlighter, Glass Paper for blotting, Glass Powder for a velvet fi nish and a mini Buffi ng Brush. £45, rodial.com

10 Chantecaille Sheer Glow Rose Face Tint A luminous gel-crème that blurs and perfects your skin for a healthy glow. Boosted with powerful botanicals that visibly moisturise and smooth. £68, chantecaille.com

Beauty BUZZ

All the latest beauty news. By Nathalie Eleni

BYE BYE BLEMISHES

Target redness and blemishes ahead of festive season with Dr Marwa Ali and her new acne facial at Harrods. She uses a specialised IPL laser fi lter, which produces a wavelength that targets the glands in the skin that produce sebum, decongesting pores, reducing oil production, and killing acne-causing bacteria to prevent further breakouts. It also instantly reduces redness and helps with infl ammation. The Stellar M22 Acne Facial, £880 for 75 mins at The Wellness Clinic. harrods.com

SPARKLE AND SHINE

The Lunch Time Whiten with Dr Krystyna at White & Co in Battersea Power Station is an under-one-hour transformative tooth whitening treatment that starts with a deep clean to remove plaque, followed by an express in-chair whitening session. Clients leave with a bag of follow-on products to maintain the whiteness at home. Hygiene & Stain Removal, £130; In Chair Whitening and take away bag, £500. whiteandcodental.co.uk

SCENT OF A ROSE

Inspired by the fl eeting moment when rose is about to blossom, this new scent by Bulgari, created by Master Perfumer Alberto Morillas, combines fl orals and white musk for a wonderfully feminine and seductive fragrance. £81, bulgari.com

MELT AWAY

The revolutionary Emerald machine is a laser device that is designed to help people who struggle with losing weight, including people with a BMI of 30+. The laser, which feels wonderfully relaxing, is applied externally, and targets excess fat by emulsifying fatty tissue. It’s used as part of a treatment by Dr Natalie Geary at the Light Touch Clinic in Weybridge, Surrey, who also devises a personalised wellness programme to run alongside the laser for positive, achievable life changes. Six sessions, £1,800; ten sessions, £3,000. lighttouchclinic.co.uk

HOW TO… Identify Early Health Warning Signs

ADVICE FROM C&TH’S BEAUTY DIRECTOR

When it comes to your health, there’s no such thing as being too prepared. John Bell & Croyden has partnered with London Medical Laboratory to introduce simple fi ve-minute blood tests in its Wigmore Street pharmacy, carried out by a phlebotomist and designed to identify early health warning signs before they become a problem. The tests measure over 80 individual biomarkers, including kidney and liver function, full blood count, iron, prostate, erectile dysfunction, female hormones and fertility, thyroid, and heart. Next generation fi nger prick blood tests are also available via postal kits, which measure your blood sugar to detect diabetes, thyroid function and cholesterol. Tests from £39, johnbellcroyden.co.uk