If you're wondering how party-mad celebs manage to burn the midnight oil and still look like a glowing goddess the next day, their make-up artists usually have a lot to answer for.

"Party season means you're going to work hard and play hard, so your skin's going to suffer hard," says Dr Nirdosh, dermatologist and anti-ageing specialist to the stars. "You need to ensure you have a good skin rescue plan to get you through the festive season."

If your usually healthy routine has gone into festive freefall, don't panic. We've got a party SOS plan to help you survive those evil early mornings. Hangover? What hangover?


Make-up magic

Don't let your eyes give the game away when you've spent more time on the dancefloor than at the land of nod. A pair of dark oversized shades might wash in celeb-land, but won't go down quite so well with the office dress code.

Prescriptives international make-up artist Gary Bunker has these make-up tricks for hiding that hangover:

Conceal any redness or under-eye circles with concealer which helps to even out your complexion and leave you looking refreshed. Pay particular attention to the inner corners of the eyes.

Hide a multitude of last night's sins with Precriptives Site Unseen Skin Brightening Concealer, £16, Estee Lauder Double Wear Stay-In-Place Concealer, £15, or By Terry Touch-Expert Multi-Corrective Concealer, £25.

Keep your make-up light and natural - anything too heavy will look cakey and flaky.

Using an eyelash curler and a few coats of mascara will really help open up the eye.

Finally, pop a little colour back into your cheeks with a rich blush.


Hair flair


Now that the smoking ban is in full force, stale hair is less of a problem when you've been out partying. But working up a sweat on the dancefloor and sitting in fragrant restaurants for all those Christmas feasts is never going to give you Timotei-ad locks.

Fake fabulously fresh hair without stepping into the salon, or even under the shower head, with a rescue remedy hair spray. Products like Kevin Murphy Fresh Hair, £10.95, Phil Smith Be Gorgeous Dry Clean Shampoo, £2.99 at Sainsbury's, or Schwarzkopf Bonacure Styling Treat Refreshing Spray, £7.95 can be used the morning-after-the-night-before, to loosen and remove old products and leave you with a fresh finish between washes.

If your hair has been backcombed to gigantic Winehouse proportions or caked in products, give your unruly party locks a lift the next day with a deep penetrating mask such as ghd Indulgence Treatment, £14.95 for 7 x 10ml.


Sound skin

Your skin is often the first thing to suffer during the party season, besides your stomach and liver that is.

Dr Nirdosh says: "Under a normal skin routine skin cells relax and recover via a growth hormone release, during deep sleep phase. The festive season eliminates early nights and therefore dramatically reduces your recovery hormones levels."

Use a moisture replenishing cream to pep your skin back to life and disguise the fact you've just crawled into work straight after propping up the bar.

Avoid a party-parched complexion with Dior HydrAction Intensive Mask, £25.50. Follow with Vibrant-C Skin Brightening Cream, £36 the visual equivalent of eight hours sleep and two litres of water. No time? Carry The Body Shop's Vitamin E Face Mist, £6, along in rush-hour for instant spray-on hydration.

Don't leave your peepers out of the SOS skin survival mission. Keep give-away dark circles at bay with Origins No Puffery Cooling Mask for Puffy Eyes, £16.50, or Eyesential, £35, a miraculous non-surgical gel that temporarily erases bags, puffiness, fine lines and dark circles in minutes.


Hangover SOS

If you've survived the day after a big night on the festive tiles, kick back and dedicate your evening to some serious recovery pampering. You'll bounce back the next morning looking bright eyed and bushy tailed!

A few drops of Neal's Yard Remedies Revitalise Flower Remedy, £6.50, or Aromatherapy Associates Revive Evening Bath & Shower Oil, £30 in the tub should raise the spirits and bring partied out limbs back to life.

For recovered skin, leave on Elemis Exotic Cream Moisturising Mask overnight for serious rehydration for the face as you sleep, £28.

Still feeling rough? Martin Crisp, Superdrug pharmacist, has this advice for helping out hungover bods: "Isotonic drinks are a good hangover remedy as they have a very similar carbohydrate electrolyte concentration to the body's own fluids. Rehydration sachets are good too for getting the balance of salts right."