Whether it’s uplifting real-life stories, health advice, beauty junkie must-haves, shoes or dreaming of far-flung holidays, we hope you take some time out too and enjoy your new-look essentials!

Like many women of a certain age, essentials has undergone a little reshape! True to current beauty trends, we avoided anything so altering as a face-lift and merely Botox-in-a-jarred ourselves fresher!

You’ll find all the inspiration, useful ideas and advice you’ve come to expect but, with any luck, you’ll find it all a little faster because we’ve colour-coded the magazine to make it easier for you!

All of us at essentials are time-strapped working women, so when we pick up a mag for a stolen 15-minutes of downtime between the school run, dinner, bath time and our nightly beauty regime, we need to find what we want to read fast, before someone has a chance to spot that we might be unwinding