Beauty has never been more, well, beautiful. You can buy lipsticks that click shut with the satisfying ‘clunk’ of a Mercedes door closing, cleansers that melt into your skin with the ease of butter sliding across hot toast, and make-up palettes that look more like an objet d’art. Realistically, it was only a matter of time before some of our traditionally tidied-away products started getting pretty enough to take centre stage.
No more will you furtively dig a battered tube of hand cream out of your tote, or edge your washbag out of shot when you take a just-landed hotel room snap. Meet the new beauty basics that are anything but…
