10 Best: new hangover cures

From fixing your face and soothing your head, to satisfying your cravings and ordering best recovery packages, here's how to beat that hangover

BY JESS MOORHOUSE

1. Make Up Trickery: For morning-after-the-night-before eyes remember to be careful with your cosmetics, as make-up artist and founder of her eponymous brand Bobbi Brown says: "when it comes to puffiness around the eye area, the most common mistake that women make is to over-do their eye makeup. But the truth is, less is more."

Her routine is as follows: "start by priming the eye area with Bobbi Brown Hydrating eye cream to help calm and soothe skin. Then, apply a creamy concealer under the eye up to the lashes and on the innermost corner of the eye. After gently blend in concealer with your fingertips, lock it into place with a dusting of sheer loose powder. You can't go wrong with minimal makeup and subtle definition."

Laura Mercier's eye brightening trick of using a light pencil on the fleshy party of your lower lashes also works wonders; "it creates the illusion that you're awake and makes eyes appear bigger, but use a pale blue pencil as opposed to white. Make sure that the pencil is soft and not chalky as those don't work as well and are easier to apply. The colour will open the eye by giving the illusion of pushing back the lash line."

2.Skin Fixes: Clarins Flash Balm, £29, is an oldie, but never such a goody as when you get to the party season as the olive and witch hazel extract blend was developed purely to do away with the appearance of tiredness. It brightens and tightens, and also works to soothe and plump (while the Eye Revive Beauty Flash, £29, goes a step further to decongest and de-puff) making it the ideal remedy for the morning after the night before.

3. Overnight Skin Saviours: It's called Midnight Secret, £58.50 because it's a secret shared amongst many a beauty editor. Slather this rose scented cream from Guerlain on your skin before you sleep and you somehow - apparently due to a 'hydronoctine' complex to boost skins' natural overnight recovery, circulation and help decongest - wake to clearer, "party? Who me?", kind of skin.
The other ailment of burning the candle at both ends is dehydrated skin - and a thirsty skin can immediately look five years older. So something simple, but quenching, likeOrigins Drink Up Overnight Hydrating Mask, £22, which works while you sleep is good skin insurance for better, younger looking, skin the morning after.

4. The mini-cleanse: With willpower at an all time low the morning after it's all too easy to reach for the sugar, so take our advice and pre order the Raw and Juicy 1 day Post Party Pick Me Up, £65 . These five juices rich in cleansing greens and vitamin and mineral rich fruits, spices and nuts go someway to undoing the damage done by a night on the tiles. You'll thank yourself for it - well at least your body will - particularly 24 hours later when the energy-boosting, system-soothing, stomach calming mega green mixes, aloe shots and psyllium husks have done their hard work.

5. The Natural Remedy: It's not all early nights and juicing for the green brigade who have their own organic kit to power them through the party season. There's natural lip balm, de-puffing eye gel and zingy foot cream to serve as the anti-dote to late high-heeled nights, but also Super Tonic and nux vomica piills to help any post party queasiness too. The Organic Pharmacy Party Girl Kit, £75

6. The TLC Parcel: If you painted the tiles a little too red the night before, then sit back, curl up into the sofa and let Sick-Note's Ultimate Hangover, £10.99, pack nurse you back to your less vulnerable self. With vitamin & rehydration drinks, tasty snacks, a movie and a magazine, it's pretty much the Bear Grylls of hangover survival kits.

7. Damage Limitation: Try Drinkwel's life of the party kit, £29.99 . It comes with a mini-booklet of 12 smart cocktails such as a Mango Margarita and Kiwi Mint Martini - all packed with milk thistle, amino acids, vitamin B-complex and superfruits to lessen the internal damage done.

8. The SOS Kit: Koibito, usually busy making bespoke intimacy kits for luxury hotels, have put their discretionary style into a nifty little Koibito hangover kit, £12,to mend a sore head. Depending on just how fragile you're feeling there's medical remedies including electrolyte salts to rehydrate, nux vomica tablets to help nausea, milk thistle for your liver, and vitamin b for energy. You'll also find essential oil lavender roll-on and cooling strips to ease the pounding.

9. The Five Star Fry Up: If the office Christmas party has left you feeling a little worse for wear, Grazing, £12.95 have a special hangover menu to get you back on your feet again. Created by a team of chefs in the heart of London, each hot box delivery contains a mixture of energy-boosting treats to graze on; from beetroot, apple, avocado, lime, mango and lemon smoothie to the classic bacon & fried egg buttie. There's even bacon chocolate for the afternoon choccy dash .

10. The Greasy Silver Spoon: If the corner shop seems like a million miles away, soak up the fun you had the night before with J Seal Butchers, £12.50 ' fry-up delivery kit. It's a tummy rumbling inducing combination of eggs, bacon, pork and herb sausages, good ol' baked beans, black and white putting topped off with a healthy dollop of Bloody Mary Ketchup. If needs must.

Appeared first on : http://fashion.telegraph.co.uk