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As the sunshine retreats, Annabel Rivkin gives her worried autumn face a virtual vacation

We are accustomed to the traditional new-term, autumn flavour of optimism — ‘Anything could happen!’. But, as we are all too aware, this year has been usurped by an Armageddon-spiced fretfulness — ‘ANYTHING COULD HAPPEN!’. In this impasse between lockdown (I never want to say or write that word again. It’s the new ‘iconic’) and freedom, we are all clinging to our sense of self, while feeling… not quite right.

And all the while the days shorten and the light dims and any summer luminosity creeps from our faces. Right? Not right. Not right at all. Because there are some crackers out here; some Zoom-friendly, idiot-proof tinted skin treatments that will slap the glow back on to your face and some hope into your heart. Being confronted with a pallid, harassed, possibly booze-addled ‘Covid Face’ in the mirror will do morale absolutely no good.

Oskia’s Nutri-Bronze Adaptive Sheer Tint is carefree… bottled. It’s a tinted serum, which makes all skin colours look convincingly and upliftingly sun-kissed while harnessing hyaluronic acid to hydrate, vitamin E to protect as well as peptides and vitamin B5 to smooth wrinkles. It’s like rubbing a holiday into your face.

You can mix it with your moisturiser; you can add it to your SPF (which you are applying every morning. Course you are. So that’s alright, then); or you can use it as a bronzer, blended to create a sunlit architecture around cheekbones, temples and jawline. It’s enough to put a smile on your anxious yet radiant autumn face. £58 (oskiaskincare.com)