Heatless Curlers
Whether you were crimping your hair in the eighties or straightening it in noughties, chances are you’ve put your hair through the wringer when it comes to heat damage through the years. No more. Heatless curlers are a simple invention, designed to be worn overnight to curl your tresses into bouncy waves with zero damage.
The Kit You’ll Need:
Kitsch
Heatless Curlers, £12
Fake Tan Contouring
Dubbed ‘tantouring’, this is a craze which harnesses self-tan mousse as a contour bronzer to give your the face sculpting effects of make-up with – important to note – semi-permanent effects. It can feel rather daunting on first attempt as it goes against the ‘blend, blend, blend’ mantra we have been taught, but opt for a light shade of mousse tan and leave for less time for a subtle glowing sculpt.
The Kit You’ll Need:
Beauty Blender
Sponge, £17
Isle of Paradise
Self-tanning Mousse, £22
Skin Cycling
No, it’s not the new Peloton. Skin cycling taps into the idea of having a roll-call of facial products that you ‘cycle through’ during the week on specific days to ensure your more potent actives (retinoids, AHAs etc) are spread out sufficiently to allow your skin a break to heal and repair in-between.
The Kit You’ll Need:
Glow Recipe
Ceramide Recovery Serum, £40
Paula’s Choice
Skin Perfecting AHA & BHA Exfoliant Peel, £42
Sunday Riley
A+ High-Dose Retinoid Serum, £70
Glass Skin
The term ‘glass skin’ originates in the world of K-Beauty, referring to the mirror-like perfection of the pore-less, dewy complexions seen all over our TikTok feeds. Yet the skin-finish cannot be obtained through a sweep of good highlighter alone (sorry). It comes from a rigorous, up to eleven-step skincare routine that focuses on gentle yet thorough cleansing, pH balancing and hydration, hydration, hydration.
The Kit You’ll Need:
Tatcha
Cleansing Oil, £48
Byoma
Hydrating Serum, £13
Caudalie
Grape Water, £12
Vichy
Aqualia Gel Cream Hydrating Moisturiser, £24.50
Brown Make-Up
Make-up trends tend, as we know, to be cyclic, and the return of brown shades is no different, having returned from their nineties heyday for a 2020s reboot. Glazed doughnut lips are another sub-trend that have made a resurgence, with high-shine lip glosses and oils in toffee-tones back in popularity. But the chocolate tones don’t stop there; mascara has gone back to its roots with a natural slick of brown and a smudge of cocoa liner to finish.
The Kit You’ll Need:
NYX
Butter Gloss, £6.50
Rimmel
Kind & Free Mascara, £7
Revlon
Precision Eyeliner, £7
By Lydia Mansi
November 2023
