How to hide a hangover like a celeb

This festive period, after the Christmas shopping, gift-wrapping and visiting friends and family, sometimes it can be easy to lose some time for yourself. While there can be little room in the celebratory routine to keep looking perfect on a daily basis, especially the morning after, here are some top beauty tips from celebrities who can advise what product can keep you looking fresh during the festive party season. So here are some of the celeb-approved beauty products you can gift yourself with this season.

An important element to looking fresh is hydrated skin and taking on water is an important aspect of providing that. The product that ‘keeps my skin from getting dry’ stated by Sophie Dahl is the Eau Thermale Avène Water Spray, priced at an affordable £6.50 for 150ml available at Boots. This thermal spring water solution provides soothing care for sensitive, allergic or irritated skin that can use before or after any occasion to cleanse skin or set make-up and when travelling.

With Witch Hazel extract that aids the clearing of skin by tackling the cause of spots, the Witch Bursting Beads face wash also helps to wake someone up from the morning’s groggy state. Lucky Watson tells of how this product helps energise you in the morning as ‘I use an energising face wash in the morning to wake me up! I use the Bursting Beads Face wash from Witch as it is so refreshing!’ Witch Bursting Beads can be found at Superdrug at £3.99 for 150ml.

The New Year period is the time of boozing, and whether spiced mulled wine, chocolate Baileys or Buck’s Fizz is your choice of drink, the hangover in the morning makes it hard to recover a fresh holiday look. One way to tackle this is to remember to take your vitamins in order to get all the nutrients we need. To boots your vitamins, the nifty Emergen-C that Jodie Kidd has sworn, ‘by taking Emergen-C for a daily booster dose of Vitamin C’, can be at hand, at only £4.99 for a pack of 8, and £13.99 for a pack of 24, or and 99p for a single sachet available from Boots and Tesco.

For those looking for a fast fix for greasy hair, Gwyneth Paltrow has advised on the Klorane Gentle Dry Shampoo With Oat Milk, telling us ‘this stuff’s great when your hair needs a little spiffing up, especially when it’s starting to get a bit greasy.’ Without the need of water, the Klorane Dry Shampoo is made from a unique combination of plant-based ingredients that absorbs excess oil so that hair is left clean and volumised and available from John Lewis at £7.50 for 150ml.

Hydrating skin is not just important for the morning but can also be done before bed in order for skin to feel refreshed immediately after you wake up. Abbey Clancy has tweeted ‘Covered my face in Bio-Oil last night my skin feels amazing this morning #goodbyedehydration.’ The bestselling specialist skincare oil that helps improve the appearance of scars, stretch marks and uneven skin tone is formulated from a combination of plant extracts and vitamins suspended in an oil base. It also contains the ingredients PurCellin Oil that makes the consistency light, non-greasy and easily absorbable. Bio-Oil is £8.95 for 60ml available from Boots, Superdrug and other independent pharmacies.

The perfect product for the morning shower that can help you freshen up with tea tree extract is the Australian Bodycare Skin Wash that Stephanie Pratt has said ‘I love the Australian Bodycare Skin Wash, it leaves my skin feeling so clean and fresh after showering.’ The properties of the antiseptic wash suitable for everyday use can help inhibit spot causing bacteria and is non-drying and pH balanced. It is available to purchase from Johnlewis.com at £12.50 for 250ml.