The skincare selection box

Gift-buying tips with Caroline Foran

La Prairie Skin Caviar Luxe Eye Lift Cream

The tree is up, the Christmas cards are stacked and ready for your handwritten messages (jump to page 26 for inspiration), and now – before the logistics of the Christmas Day schedule presents itself, along with the once-yearly Brussels sprout haul – we face the interim task of gift-buying.

The thing is, despite the daily barrage of beauty brand advertisements coming at you from all angles to convince you that theirs is this ...