Bikinis and mulled wine.

Jetting off for sun trips in winter is beauty regime intensive. Well in the grand scheme of things its not hard - keeping hair looking fabulous in drizzle is hard, maintaining a suntan in November is hard, but then it gets a little cyclical as the jetting off for trips to the sun in the winter takes care of both of the above two points.

The thing about jetting off to the sun in winter is that, besides the discovery of 6 extra pounds since August, you're all geared up for tights, and wool and leather. A quick fashion mind-flip is needed to remind you of the tall open toes, jumpsuits and the extensive exfoliation required to show the amazingly shimmeringly bronzed legs - the work required to get them there in November is another story altogether. Its all about make believe until you get there - it seems fraudulent buying Uggs to wear with mini skirts sans tights in November, but oh so necessary - perfect crossover wear for Heathrow, plane, sun....

So - the hard work, isn't really hard work at all - in fact, She Who Loves Shoes loves it, just a headwrap doing it when the past couple of months have been all about gearing up to be a snowbunny.

NB - this jetting to the sun in winter conundrum is common to both NY girl going to St Barths and London girl going to SA, but the only true pro at Sun vs Snow Flipping is CA girl - but London and NYC are short of a conveniently located desert climate with some snowcapped mountains thrown in order to become well versed in the art....

Obviously the solution is more tropical holidays between now and March to perfect technique.