Alexandra Friend

2 months ago | msn.com | Alexandra Friend

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2 months ago | redonline.co.uk | Alexandra Friend

It’s a beauty editor in-joke that, after a career of scooping up a dollop of cream or serum with one finger and swatching it on to the back of the opposite hand, we all, at some point, find that one hand looks younger than the other. It’s a sort of Picture Of Dorian Gray scenario, except you don’t have to go into the attic to see a time-ravaged counterfactual.

2 months ago | redonline.co.uk | Alexandra Friend

My 17-year-old niece would put it perfectly. Right now, beauty at Boots is ‘leaving no crumbs’. Which, translated for the rest of us, means it’s doing very, very well indeed. That baby blue colour-changing Prada lip balm, created by the famously exacting runway makeup artist Lynsey Alexander and spotted in the Sabrina Carpenter video that went viral last summer? It’s at Boots. The Korean collagen masks all over TikTok? Boots has them. And the peel-off Sacheu lip stain loved by Billie Eilish?

2 months ago | redonline.co.uk | Alexandra Friend

If I had a pound for every time I’m asked how I get my skin through a grey British winter with glow and bounce intact… well, I probably wouldn’t be here right now, in this particular winter. But here I am, and it’s cold out. My skin, though, has no idea – that’s how practised I have become at cushioning it from the blows delivered by our inhospitable climate. From a supplement you can froth into your coffee to an iconic skincare buy, here’s how I do it – and you don’t even have to give me a pound.

Jan 21, 2025 | afr.com | Alexandra Friend

It’s all too much, isn’t it? The late nights, the mince pies, the tiny, glinting glasses of liqueurs. But it will come to an end, of course. “If it was just one or two days, it wouldn’t matter, but I had my first mince pie in October, so there you go,” laughs functional medicine practitioner Rosemary Ferguson. The problem – if you’re currently bothered by a puffier face, shadowy eyes and dull skin – is largely inflammation, agree nutritionists and skin experts.