Tis the season to be….shattered, but having to look fresh and radiant for the barrage of parties Christmas and the New Year brings. Easier said than done. But to solve your party woes, we have rounded up our 20 beauty essentials to help you look as glam as possible, no matter if you’ve been up all night wrapping presents or baking mince pies. Enjoy!

Sarah Jagger has an unusual job. For a start she gets to touch the faces of famous people for a living. As a make-up artist regularly called upon to style people for the red carpet, for music videos and for photo shoots, you may not think that is anything out of the ordinary. However Sarah doesn’t just apply make-up with a brush. Oh no, that would be too easy. Sarah...

Clinique has launched a new limited edition make-up range for Christmas. But you’re going to have to love purple as much as Dot Cotton to be excited by this one. The Black Tie Violets range features products for eyes, cheeks and lips in hues that vary from plum to sugared almond. Apologies for all the food references - I think I must be a little peckish. But with...

Yep, brace yourself and hide your purse. Those naughty people at MAC have just launched another assault of tempting new products that you’ll instantly convince yourself you just need to have. Want doesn’t even come into it.

Glamorous. Over the top. Fabulous. That’s how American designer Michael Kors describes the star factory that is Hollywood. It’s this sexy decadence which has inspired the new fragrance. The Project Runway judge says: “

Russian make-up brand Rouge Bunny Rouge has launched in the UK. And I can’t help but think it has been created by hippies with a keen knowledge of certain fungi, if you understand what I’m saying. It’s not just the brand’s darkly trippy packaging and imagery, featuring black and white silhouettes of flowers. Any brand that describes how to apply one of its products...

A thin, claret-coloured pout, flawless alabaster skin with just a hint of peach blush, angular jet-black brows and numerous strings of pearls. Every fashion icon has a particular image, in many cases a famous photograph, that becomes the standard but extraordinary library shot by which we remember them. For Audrey Hepburn say, there’s the chignon, tight black dress...

Ingeborg Van Lotringen has the kind of job that most girls dream of. As beauty editor of Cosmopolitan, one of the world’s best known glossy magazines, she’s in charge of a beauty cupboard full to the brim with amazing goodies. Forget having to pay £100 for the latest face cream, Ingeborg gets sent it for free before its even available in the shops. But it’s...

So a luxury beauty brand, gets in touch and offers you a skin scanning treatment, what do you say? “When, where, can I come today?” Of course. This is exactly what I did and ended up at Darphin headquarters to have my skin scanned. Now I have always been fairly sceptical of these scientific techniques employed by skincare brands to make you realise how bad...

I have such sensitive skin that when I’m not testing out facial products I tend to stick to a standard fragrance free moisturiser by Boots. However, and I say this like an excited kid, that was until I experienced