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For flat-out mamas, an excuse to forget about the festive ‘to do’’s for a few hours, scrub up and get spangly is wonderful. That said, after a looong day, just the thought of embarking on a fiddly, time-consuming mission to glam-up is enough to make you cancel, pleading exhaustion/a double booking/a sudden dose of Lapland flu.

So here I am. Over 40 (in fact nearly 45) and lately I find I've developed a strange relationship with magnifying mirrors. Once the domain of eye-brow plucking, I'm turning into Snow White's wicked witch with a "mirror, mirror on the wall..." complex. Do I need help? Is this normal I wonder?