Today, for Great Britain at least, is mother's day. It's a day in which Interflora is as busy as Father Christmas and we quickly scrawl truisms and messages of thanks onto the interior of a cool, hard facade of a glitter-fronted card. And those thanks can come in many guises - for putting us through university, for buying us a set of Le Creuset for our first flat, for mopping up our mascara-stained tears when Take That split up (that still hurts). 

But what we probably don't offer enough gratitude for, nor even realise the profundity of, are the beauty lessons our mothers taught us. No matter how overt or subliminal, we owe a lot of the way we look to our mothers. And I don't just mean genetically, those little foibles and idiosyncrancies - a flourish of the wrist when applying mascara, the power of a fringe, the buoyancy of bold lipstick - that we once watched our mothers performing in front of the mirror. Well, they kind of stuck. In a good way.

So, here, the Never team reveal the most seminal beauty lessons we learnt from our mothers. Warning: awkward 80s haircuts ahead.