Hannah Betts’s Better…not younger: Try the clever new mani trend that can blow away the blues

Life is back to normal now, or so people keep telling me. Is it, though? Really? I don’t know about you, but I feel flat, quashed.

The word that keeps springing to mind is ‘anhedonia’, meaning the inability to experience pleasure. The pandemic may be over, but we are so beaten down that in its place has come a listlessness.

There’s a lot of talk about ‘dopamine dressing’ — colour as the currency via which we can improve the collective mood. It’s as if, inspired by all those NHS rainbows, we made a decision to become the rainbow. And this makes perfect sense after so much time spent cruising along in neutrals.

Still, a wardrobe overhaul sounds like a lot of effort. How about starting smaller with dopamine nails? Manicures are always joy-inducing, never more so than when…