My year in beauty

What have the past 12 months of product trials, hardcore treatments and expert insights taught Cosmopolitan’s glam squad? Quite a lot, it turns out…

Beauty Director INGEBORG VAN LOTRINGEN found 2018 brought a skincare revolution This was the year when near-professional-strength skincare became available to the masses. Never before have we been confronted with so many new products, procedures and ingredients we can actually afford. Breathless online tutorials have us slapping on way too many super-strength actives in no particular order. In Superdrug a bottle of hair glitter now comes with a side of £99 lip filler, while 10% AHA peels and 30% vitamin-C serums (once the preserve of clinics) are a dime a dozen. It’s a world where no one could be blamed for thinking you can’t overdose on beauty. But, dear reader, I’m afraid you can. Reactive of skin as I am, I’ve spent my 20-year career in beauty dodging most of the treatments brands…

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Cosmopolitan UK (Digital) - 1 Issue, December 2018

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