The average mum in the UK gets a mere 17 minutes of ‘me-time’ per day – hardly enough time for a shower, let alone a blow dry or manicure. Blow Ltd’s fast beauty concept offers a menu of speedy beauty treatments - offering a slice of indulgence away from daily stresses.

As beauty brands connect more with their consumers, Beauty For All is L’Oréal’s attempt to make itself more accessible by turning away from a super glam aesthetic. But do we really want brands to abandon unobtainable glamour for more humble, emotive and ‘real’ visual tropes?

Worth $11 billion in 2013, the Mexican beauty market has been growing fast, and is now the 10th largest worldwide. Like North Americans and Europeans, Mexicans want to look healthy - leading to the success of products like self-tanners and anti-wrinkle creams.

The beauty market in China is growing rapidly, but this is not down to growing demand from women, but looks-conscious men. Described as a 'major driving force' in the beauty market, male demand has contributed to the segment growing by 7% in 2013 alone.