If the past year has taught us anything – apart from the importance of good personal hygiene – it’s that we don’t always need to be chained to an office desk to get things done. Via the medium of platforms from Zoom to Microsoft Teams, we’ve managed to trade hours spent on sweaty commuter trains packed to the gunwales, for more time spent in front of our monitors.

For the uninitiated, skincare is a tricky world to navigate. It is also, inevitably, an expensive one. It’s easy to gawp at the price of some of the lotions and potions MR PORTER stocks – especially when that money could be going towards that pair of sneakers or new leather jacket you’ve got your eye on – without the context of a thorough grooming education to guide you. The best luxury skincare you’ll find on MR PORTER very much follows the same formula as the clothes we sell.

Thanks to the unfortunate closure of hairdressers that we’ve all had to put up with this year, some unusual hairstyles have been forced upon us. For better or worse though, the one standing head and shoulders above the rest is the mullet. Indeed, the much-derided hairstyle, business at the front, part at the back, is having a real moment. We got our first whiff of the return of the mullet in 2017 when Mr Dacre Montgomery starred as Billy in Stranger Things, rocking a particularly scuzzy mullet. Since then, it seems to have caught on.

If the past year has taught us anything – apart from the importance of good personal hygiene – it’s that we don’t always need to be chained to an office desk to get things done. Via the medium of platforms from Zoom to Microsoft Teams, we’ve managed to trade hours spent on sweaty commuter trains packed to the gunwales, for more time spent in front of our monitors.

For the uninitiated, skincare is a tricky world to navigate. It is also, inevitably, an expensive one. It’s easy to gawp at the price of some of the lotions and potions MR PORTER stocks – especially when that money could be going towards that pair of sneakers or new leather jacket you’ve got your eye on – without the context of a thorough grooming education to guide you. The best luxury skincare you’ll find on MR PORTER very much follows the same formula as the clothes we sell.