TikTok | Regime Skin Care

A female beauty influencer with dark hair, a thoughtful expression on her face, holds up a smartphone displaying a video. She sits at a wooden desk with a large corkboard in the background. She wears a black sweater. The desk is heavily adorned with various makeup and skincare products, a jar of brushes, an open notebook, and scattered eyeshadow powders. A laptop computer sits on the desk with a digital chart about UK beauty trends. The corkboard features handwritten sticky notes with messages about beauty and skincare, a collage of pictures from a magazine, and two rows of white papers with blurred text. Beyond her and the desk is a tall, narrow bookshelf and a window overlooking some houses and green space.

How to navigate the need vs. want shift at the coalface of UK beauty

In 2026 the beauty lover is no longer just a customer; they are sitting ducks in a high-stakes, twenty-four-hour digital siege. For those of us hovering at the coalface of the beauty industry as consumers , the experience has shifted from the tactile pleasure of browsing a department store counter to an exhausting marathon of scrolling, swiping and dodging ‘limited time’ offers. We are bombarded with a relentless stream of new product releases, hyper-personalised email market

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