All the beauty resolutions we're making for 2025
OK, yes – change can be made whenever – but there is no denying the feeling of renewal that comes with the turn of a new year. As Red's beauty team wrap up our content for the year, it gets us thinking: what have we learnt in 2024 that we're still thinking about? What, in the swathes of press releases, masterclasses and interviews, are we taking into 2025?
A fair amount, it turns out. Whatever you call them – resolutions, vows, promises – here are the things Red's beauty team are going to be implementing for a glossier, glowier, healthier 2025. Some are tiny changes that reap reward instantly; others are commitments that promise to show fruit months down the line. What are you going to try?
Alexandra Friend, Senior Beauty Editor
This is incredibly boring, but having spoken to a handful of health and longevity experts just before Christmas, I’m more convinced than ever that cutting down on sugar and eating more plants is a sensible thing to do, to fight inflammation and feed my microbiome. Good for skin; good for healthspan.
I’ve also signed up to functional medicine practitioner Rose Ferguson’s Jan Plan, which starts on 5 January. I’m not sure what it will entail yet, but I think it will be a gentler way into the above and will also get me moving again – I haven’t exercised in months.
For a few easier wins, I’m going to take electrolytes daily (every beauty expert I’ve spoken to lately has recommended these for inside-out hydration), wash my makeup brushes and, having admired a fellow beauty editor’s incredible eyelashes on a work trip recently, will start using RevitaLash to thicken my own.
Advanced Eyelash Serum
Phoebe Lee, Senior Beauty Writer
2024 was the year I stopped biting my nails (terrible habit; blame anxiety), and now 2025 is the year I'll start treating them to good quality manicures. I've had two exceptionally good ones using BIAB and am vowing to book in more regularly for them. Never have my nails been so long and healthy after a manicure.
On that note, cuticle oil is historically the sort of product I'd have viewed as unnecessary, but it makes a huge difference to the longevity of a manicure. I do it as sort of muscle memory now every evening using L'Occitane's baby-powder-scented offering, and will continue this into 2025.
It's hard with my job, but I'm slimming down my skincare routine this year. I rediscovered Clarins' Double Serum after it recently launched its ninth iteration. It's only one serum, but it's delivering everything my skin needs (and wants): plumpness, glow, antioxidant protection. When one product is this good, it's a struggle to justify using anything more.
Double Serum
I air dry my hair too much. Hair is most vulnerable when wet, so why am I sleeping with it damp, roughing up the cuticle against my pillow? Blow-drying, then, is the way forward. To keep hair healthy, the consensus among hair experts I've spoken to seems to be low and slow: keep the temperature cool and take your time drying. I've started doing this already with a Dyson Supersonic, and swear my hair is looking less split.
Jess Denham, Deputy Multiplatform Editor
I've vowed to improve my sleep hygiene in 2025. That involves not using my phone 30 minutes before bed to reduce stress and minimise blue light exposure, and making more use of my Aromatherapy Associates atomiser. It's an electric diffuser that you can load up with different blends of essential oils, including ones designed to help you feel more zen. So good.
Aromatherapy Associates The Atomiser Pure Essential Oil Ceramic Diffuser
Urmi Pandit, Beauty Intern
I became more aware of my consumption this year; of everything, but beauty especially. Exciting new makeup launches aren't exactly in short supply, and so it's rare I finish a foundation before buying a new one. I'm going to adopt a one in, one out policy next year, and make sure I hit the pan of every product I bring home.
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