Ask the experts: Your winter skin questions, answered by Saint Beauty

1 July 2026
By Fashion Quarterly

Dry patches, dodgy self-tan, fine lines and the slugging debate — your winter skin concerns, met with expert answers. Saint Beauty's clinic team responds to the questions FQ Insiders are actually asking this season.

A model backstage at Erdem's autumn/winter 2026 show, captured in a close-up beauty shot featuring the collection's signature soft, refined makeup look.
Erdem AW26. Launchmetrics.com/Spotlight

Winter has a way of upending even the most considered skincare routine. The temperature drops, the heating goes on, and suddenly your skin is doing something entirely different to what it was doing three months ago. Drier in some places, oilier in others, and suddenly reactive to your holy grail products.

Before you go back to the drawing board and add every in-feed recommended 'miracle solution' to your Shop Pay cart, or at the very least go rogue in the skincare aisle with a vague sense that something needs to change, pause, take a breath, and find comfort in the article…

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