Fashion Brief
Facial essence feels like water and looks like water and, if you believe the hype, is almost as essential. This is the new addition to your already laborious cleansing routine – this is the step between rinsing and moisturising where you pat a liquid into your face and hope for the best. The modern version of a toner, essences prepare the skin for your moisturiser, with Tom Ford’s Intensive Infusion Treatment Essence (£82, tomford.com) promising to hydrate and soften and basically make you prettier. As you press it into your skin twice a day, patting the recommended 100 times, half of you will be congratulating yourself on this investment in your skin’s health. The other half will be lost in a 90s reverie, remembering how simple washing used to be.
Alternatively
SK-II Facial Treatment Essence £105, harrods.com
Sisley Essential Care Lotion £100, uk.spacenk.com
RMK Firming Essence £48, selfridges.com
Clarins HydraQuench Intensive Serum £43, boots.com
Kiehl’s Iris Extract Treatment Essence £36, kiehls.co.uk
Suqqu Repair Essence £85, selfridges.com
