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Elemis Skin Nourishing Milk Bath, £33.49   If you want to buy your mum or gran a no-holds-barred, no-expense-spared, ‘start-ignoring-everyone-else-and-start-spoiling-yourself-FFS’ gift, then you could do a whole lot worse than this. It is one of my all-time favourite products and one I always squeal over if it lands through my letterbox. I hoard it, never pass it on, and timetable entire weeks around getting the chance to lock the bathroom door and soak in it for a good hour. This...
Poppy King Lipstick Queen Velvet Rope Lipsticks, £35   I am a big believer in gifting someone a single lipstick at Christmas. There’s just something so decadent, so luxurious and fabulous, about handing someone a tiny little stick of utterly perfect lip colour. Red is the obvious choice, of course, since it’s so festive, looks so glamorous, is eminently wearable and not at all fashion-dependent. For years now, I’ve been suggesting Chanel and Tom Ford as the ultimate lipstick gift...
Miller Harris Feuilles de Tabac Shave Cream, £22   The ways of working up a good, beard-softening lather are many and varied. Like most young shavers of my generation, I embarked on my teenage shaving journey in the company of messy, spray-cream consistency foams. I graduated to oils – effective, though their lack of reassuring lather means a leap of faith for the nervous, nick-prone shaver, and they do rapidly clog up a razor. Latterly, I’ve discovered the third way...