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• The beauty products and gadgets I tried, tested and loved last year

Like many, I buy nothing frivolous at the start of the year, so please don’t think for a minute that I’m instructing you to go forth and splurge on 30 beauty products you don’t need. But it’s common to find that a hitherto favourite skin, body, hair or makeup product isn’t keeping you as comfy as it should come winter. Perhaps it can’t quite rise to the challenge of a cold snap, and you may find it helpful to swap it out temporarily with something more fit for purpose.

The bulk of my routine is unchanging, but since the weather turned, I’ve added two more layers of hydration to my skincare sandwich, and life is all the better for it. Think of seasonal skincare not as a wardrobe changeover but more as throwing a coat and hat over what you already wear.