Kiehl’s Midnight Recovery Concentrate, €42

So far, oils have resisted the mass market, and for anyone raised on a diet of bland moisturiser cream, using one for the first time can be a revelation.

AFTER a keenly-felt absence of many years, cult Japanese beauty brand Shu Uemura is back in Ireland and wouldn’t you know it, its retail and education manager is none other than Cork gal Clíona Sweeney.