If Omicron wasn’t depressing enough, the dull winter light is turning our skin more dreary by the day.

Aside from a cheery shade of blusher, there is something you can do to brighten your face that doesn’t involve jetting off to St.Barts – change your hair colour. Not drastically. Just enough to sway the pigments in your skin to appear more vibrant, says hair colourist Nicola Clarke, who recently took longtime client Kate Winslet a warmer shade of blonde for winter. 

Posting a picture to her Instagram account of Winslet with slightly darker, toasty-hued hair the caption read: “when a blonde goes darker for the winter” 

Speaking to us about how she tweaked the actress’s golden strands, Clarke explains: “every now and again in winter I take Kate slightly darker so that the regrowth doesn’t show through as much. All I do is apply the same light blonde that she usually has and mix in some caramel and light chestnut shades.”