How to look (really) good - October 2024 edition
Starring The Cool Girl Styling Trick of the season - and some excellent skincare launches
You know all those people who LOVE autumn dressing? CANNOT GET ENOUGH of the chunky woolies and the cosy layering and COATS and tucking their hair and their chins winsomely into their looped scarf before gallumophing through reddish orangey leaf piles then getting giddy about bonfires?
I am not those people. I way prefer summer, in every respect, not least: clothing. This? It’s a drag! A heavy hairy itchy sweaty-pitty literal DRAG. With a high chance of rain.
It is just harder to look good in Autumn. FACT. The light’s dull and so are the colourways, jumpers look fresh for: what? 20 whole minutes, before becoming one, big, lint-spangled disgrace, a long-sleeved glamour vacuum; coats don’t lovingly cocoon you, so much as, cloyingly overwhelm, and yeah, the armpits on last year’s houndstooth belted business, newly retrieved from the back of the ‘drobe, do whiff a bit.
What to do? Fight back, of course! Fight back, against autumn’s innate lack of glamour with all the tools at our disposal. Herewith:
SKINCARE
I am furious with a lot of expensive skincare. Raging. There’s this assumption that, the more ££££££s it is, the better; but that’s just not the case. (I’m think of one in particular. Mega bucks; famous for it. Packs way less punch in clinical testing than entry level drugstore own brand.) But sometimes, expensive skincare truly does deliver. I’ve been sent samples of two new products, both in the pricier bracket, both of which have blown my Uniqlo heat tech Fair Isle print socks off.
The first is
Trinny London’s Take Back Time Eye Cream £65
Spectacularly textured, sweet and light, slips on and in really well, immediately makes your under eye look fresher: de-puffs and moisturises without oily slicky heaviness. I’ve been on it for a fortnight and I swear it’s making a significant difference already. I’m really rarely impressed by eye creams. Eyes are such a delicate and tricky area, I’m largely of the opinion that only injectables and super smart usage of concealer can achieve anything of note BUT… This might just be changing my mind. ALSO, it’s a decent amount of cream for the price, and a little goes a long way. I’ve barely made a dent in the last two weeks.
The second justifiably spenny skincare miracle to come my way is…