Trust me, I'm a beauty expert, you only need these three products. Here's my anti-ageing routine for over 50s...

Another day, different beauty hashtag. Social media's latest obsession is #skinstreaming pinch 137.7million TikTok views and counting.

Translation: streamline your excessive beauty routines by opting for a less-is-more approach. What you request are a fewer effective products, targeting aggregate needs. Then deploy them consistently for amended results.

Basically, this is simply a newfangled measurement of saying what your mother ever told you: 'Stop putting loads of different products connected your look and expecting it to work.'

It's invariably what dermatologists propose and what this 53-year aged beauty obsessive knows to beryllium true. After all, there's a logic why truthful galore of america person super-sensitive complexions of precocious — we aggress our tegument pinch hundreds of chemicals each time arsenic we load connected nan unguents.

'Glow guru' Kate Somerville, 55, nan Hollywood aesthetician who grew up pinch agonising eczema, is very overmuch an advocate, proposing a fistful of hard-working, science-backed treatments loved by Demi Moore, Reese Witherspoon and Eva Mendes.

Her caller KateCeuticals SuperCell Rejuvenation Serum (£84, katesomerville.co.uk) promises clinical-grade tegument rejuvenation via a powerhouse of vegan stem cells and peptides accelerating cellular turnover. Already nan brand's bestseller, its purpose is to boost collagen, combat lines and reside sun and contamination damage.

For lazy aged me, nan truth it's a roll-on besides adds to nan entreaty of this one-and-done approach: a cooling, calming, multi-tasking cinch.

I opportunity one-and-done, but what we're really talking astir present is simply a return to nan accepted three-step ritual, albeit pinch said steps updated. Instead of nan aged cleanse, reside and moisturise, we now person cleanse, repair and protect.

What you'll request is simply a gentle cleanser successful a texture to suit your skin; immoderate benignant of repair merchandise (a moisturiser, oil, aliases serum, again tailored to your needs); past a SPF of 30 aliases above.

You don't person to walk a fortune. Instead, activity retired Neutrogena, Q+A, Cetaphil, CeraVe, Olay, Garnier, Bioderma, Vichy, La Roche-Posay, L'Oréal and Skin Proud.

Or bargain a bundle to make things moreover cheaper and easier. The Revolution Skincare X Sali Hughes Day Gift Set (revolutionbeauty.com) is £31.50 for £53 worthy of basics: a cleanser, exfoliating toner, protective vitamin C serum and ray moisturiser for morning. 

Then, there's a Revolution Skincare X Sali Hughes Evening Gift Set (£36 for £48 worth) for night, pinch nan toner and serum, positive a richer cleanser and moisturiser. Bag a recreation Mini Set type of nan time kit to sample (£10).

Currently, I crave an lipid cleanse time and nighttime — nan only action that doesn't make my look consciousness parched. I'm utilizing Medik8's Lipid-balance Cleansing Oil (£29, medik8.com), which leaves my complexion exquisitely supple.

I 'tone' (or alternatively de-puff) pinch an ice-cube, past adhd a furniture of Emma Hardie Brilliance Facial Oil (£42.85, sephora.co.uk). However, arsenic pinch my cleanser, I often veer cheaper. My sunscreen is simply a moveable feast, but I've go obsessed pinch Heliocare 360° A-R Emulsion SPF50+ (£26.39, lookfantastic.com) for its brilliance arsenic a stay-all-day, make-up primer.

Before bed, I wield celebrity-favourite Bioderma Sensibio H2O Micellar Water for delicate tegument (£4.68, boots.com) earlier my lipid cleanse, conscionable to cheque nan slap and sunblock are off, exfoliating pinch a flannel.

Finally, I decorativeness pinch a slathering of Beauty Pie Youthbomb 360° Radiance Concentrate Serum (members £44, non-members, £185, beautypie.com).

The eventual belt-and-braces brilliance, its trademarked Biolog-Elastic Complex is simply a potent fusion of 15 progressive ingredients: peptides, proteins, super-hydrators and soothers to visibly firm, resurface, brighten, tighten, hydrate and lend stupendous glow. I'm devoted.

Five summertime articulator tints

MAC Glow Play Tendertalk Lip Balm (£22, maccosmetics.co.uk)

PH-activated for a civilization glow successful 10 winning, articulator barrier-strengthening tints.

Lisa Eldridge Baume Embrace Melting Lip Colour (£26, spacenk.com)

Currently Space NK's best-selling lipstick, this melts onto nan rima for glass-like shine.

The Inkey List Tripeptide Plumping Lip Balm (£11, cultbeauty.co.uk)

A non-irritating plumper successful 4 shades that repairs, hydrates and gives visible fullness.

Dr Hauschka Lip to Cheek (£26, drhauschka.co.uk)

A nourishing, 100 per cent natural-ingredient instrumentality successful 4 brightening hues.

Bert's Bees Tinted Lip Balm (£6.79, hollandandbarrett.com)

A much-loved classic, admired by Bridgerton's make-up director, Erika Ovist.

My icon of nan week - Alex Jones

The 47-year-old erstwhile presenter of The One Show caused a operation erstwhile she recommended Simple Protect 'N' Glow Radiant Glow Sheet Mask (£2.30, sainsburys.co.uk), declaring them amended than pricier masks. She besides loves Bobbi Brown Vitamin Enriched Face Base (now £43.20, boots.com), followed by 'my fail-safe portion of kit — blusher. I'd beryllium mislaid without it.'

Cosmetic craving

I would beryllium failing successful my summertime duties if I didn't property upon you my apical assemblage bargain of nan past 25 years, namely nan Philips Satinelle Essential Epilator (£24.99, amazon.co.uk). 

My Mail colleague, Sarah Vine, first introduced maine to said device, aft her mother discovered it. I purchased 1 successful nan early 2000s for overmuch nan aforesaid value arsenic they are now: little than nan costs of a azygous waxing convention astatine my section salon. Only deliberation really overmuch money it has saved me. 

Epilation is instant, easy, painless (just shave beforehand first-time around, support hairsbreadth short, and propulsion tegument taut), and tin beryllium utilized each complete (I see my underarms and bikini area). Regrowth is gloriously slow, soft and subtle. Invest!