Some mornings it may feel like your skin has hit the snooze button, as you wake up feeling puffy, creased and dehydrated. These specially designed, energising skin treatments will give your complexion a morning boost before breakfast. Each is created to smooth, revive and awaken, helping to get ready to face the day.

Kiehl’s


Turmeric and Cranberry Seed Energising Radiance Masque, £30
Turmeric & Cranberry Seed Energizing Radiance Masque

Fake a good night’s sleep with this invigorating masque. The cranberry seeds will gently exfoliate away dead cells while the added turmeric will brighten skin tone. A great reviver for lack-lustre skin. Buy it.


Nuxe


Energising Priming Concentrate, £28
Nuxe

A lightweight liquid primer lotion with vitamin C and hyaluronic acid, it is formulated to refresh and re-plump tired skin for an energising morning hit. The ideal way to prep the canvas for your make-up routine. Buy it.


Clinique


All About Eyes Serum, £28
Clinique

The instantly cooling rollerball application on Clinique’s eye serum is balm from heaven for puffy morning eyes. With panthenol to soothe and hydrate, it layers perfectly under make-up to tighten and awaken tired peepers. Buy it.


This Works


Morning Expert Hyaluronic Serum, £37
Morning Expert Hyaluronic Serum

This quenching serum provides a morning hit of hydration for dry, dull skin. It features hyaluronic acid complex, energising peppermint and rosemary fragrance to boost your skin and your mood. Buy it.


Sarah Chapman


Skinesis Rapid Radiance Cleanse, £39
RAPID RADIANCE CLEANSE

A refreshing morning cleanse, thanks to a complex of rare clays, lactic and salicylic acid to refine pores, and revitalise skin tone. Buy it.


Origins


Ginzing Ultra Hydrating Face Cream, £19
Ginzing

A serious hit of hydration to combat overnight moisture loss, it contains coffee and ginseng to reawakened lacklustre skin that needs a caffeine hit as much as you do. Buy it.


Vichy


Idealia Smoothness & Glow Energising Day Cream Dry Skin, £28
Vichy

If late nights and a busy schedule have caught up with you, this morning moisturiser with kombucha and blueberry extract from Vichy has been specially formulated for women to smooth fine lines and bring back that MIA glow. Buy it.


REN


Glow And Protect Serum, £50
Glow And Protect Serum

This lightweight super fruit enriched serum features protective antioxidants to prepare your skin for the day ahead, plumping, smoothing and firming as it goes. A great preventative and repairing step in one. Buy it.


Pixi


Vitamin C Sheet Mask, £10
Pixi Vitamin C

If you’ve got 10 minutes to spare and your skin is in need of a serious revival the morning after, this Pixi sheet mask is saturated in vitamin C, ferulic acid and caffeine to help firm, de-puff and energise skin to eradicate the signs of a night well spent. Buy it.

By Lydia Mansi
February 2023