As a beauty writer, I receive a lot of products for review, and while I couldn’t possibly take everything home to try – my house would look like a branch of Boots if I did – there’s one thing I always make space for when they land on my desk, and that’s sleep masks.

Honestly, I’m addicted – but it’s all my own fault. A few years ago I was given a copper-infused mask that’s said to reduce wrinkles (more on that later) and after trying it in the name of ageing prevention, I’m now dependent on total darkness in order to ease my passage to the land of nod.

The pressures of working environments, the hustle and bustle of city life and the need to get that work-life balance exactly right are just a few things that can leave us feeling at best a bit drowsy and at worst on the verge of exhaustion.

Unfortunately, our face is the first place that shows the signs of fatigue with dark circles and a less-than-perky complexion common side effects of not getting enough shut-eye.