É na madrugada deste domingo, 25 de outubro, que quando forem 02h00 em Portugal continental e na Região Autónoma da Madeira, os relógios atrasam 60 minutos, passando para a 01h00, entrando assim no dito Horário de Inverno.

Na Região Autónoma dos Açores, a mudança será feita à 01h00 da madrugada de domingo, passando para o relógio para as 00h00, ou seja, para a meia-noite.

Sobre esta mudança de horário, no último domingo de outubro e no último domingo de março, entrando neste último no Horário de Verão, vários estudos têm associado a mudança da hora a efeitos nos padrões de sono, na produtividade e na saúde mental e cardiovascular.

Fim da mudança da hora continua sem acordo

As teorias não são consensuais, mas a prática revela por vezes dificuldades na adaptação aos novos horários. Por outro lado, a dita poupança de energia, também não é consensual, e por isso os países da União Europeia não se entendem sobre o abandono desta prática que já foi abandonada por vários países, incluindo o Brasil.

Recorde-se que em março, fonte da Comissão Europeia disse à agência Lusa que seria apresentado este ano um estudo com vista ao fim da mudança da hora, caso para questionar: Mudança da hora vai mesmo acabar?

A Comissão Europeia considera que é possível e vai apresentar estudo. O debate sobre o acerto sazonal tem acontecido na União Europeia desde pelo menos 2018. Em 2019, o Parlamento Europeu votou a favor do fim da mudança horária até 2021, na sequência de uma consulta pública da Comissão Europeia, em que 84% dos 4,6 milhões de inquiridos manifestaram essa posição.

A medida nunca avançou por falta de consenso no Conselho da União Europeia, onde os ministros dos estados-membros não concordaram numa posição comum própria para responder à proposta legislativa. Resta esperar, sabe-se lá até quando, que os ministros se entendam.

• Makeup and beauty routines have never been very important to me.
• My daughter is obsessed with self-care and knows a lot more about products than I do.
• I'm always happy to indulge her interests in this area; it gives us a nice way to connect.

"Can we go to Sephora?" my daughter asks, with her rather flawless teen reflection in the mirror standing on a blush-stained rug. Excited that she asked me into her room, I think, "Sephora again?"

With no room for more makeup around her cluttered sink, I question the need for any more beauty products. At the same time, my daughter is asking to spend time with me. "Pick up the towel off the floor and pull up your Oliva {Rodrigo} playlist," I say, smiling as I walk out the door. "We are leaving in five."

I learned to embrace the suck

As the true definition of a tomboy, now in my early 50s, my makeup knowledge ends with applying lipstick and mascara — without smudging.

Walking through the aisles of makeup and skincare products, I read the labels, dumbfounded. What even is skin milk? Would I apply that before or after serum?

Just as I tell my daughter the coined elementary school phrase, "The power of yet, you can't do it yet," when she struggles with things, I have learned to accept that I don't feel confident applying makeup or following my skincare routine yet. Not long ago, she flipped those words back on me, the ones I so often tell her, as I struggled to apply eyeshadow while we got ready for a concert together: "Accept that struggle is part of the learning process." If embracing the suck means more quality time with my daughter, please sign me up over and over again.

I let her lead

Life lessons, especially in the tween and teen years, come fast and often. Relating to teen interests and experiences is also harder than it used to be in this modern, technology-driven world. My daughter's obsession with self-care has given her a chance to teach me a thing or two about what matters to her. She's created a space for us to share experiences on a platform she understands and values.

On a recent trip, I fumbled through the 20 or so shades of skin tint with SPF. Putting up my I-give-up hands, I watched my daughter take my wrist and rub a shade of tint on the back of my hand. "You need something a bit darker," she said, grabbing a darker shade and taking the lead with the confidence of a well-trained beauty store employee.

Who would have thought the back of your wrist was a good place to match your face foundation? I sure didn't. I'm not raising my hand in the back to say I know the difference between essence and face oil, but ask my daughter, and she'll exude self-assurance and rattle off the answer with a smile.

I have savored our time together

Between work and school commitments, friends, and extracurriculars, it's hard to find time to just hang with my teen. Besides a before-school Starbucks run, a trip to the beauty store is one date my daughter never says no to.

I know the last time we do our Sunday self-care routine of gossip, masks, and eye patches will come. Some day she might even want to shop for makeup just with her friends. For now, I'll keep singing Olivia at the top of my lungs with her in the car on the way to and from the store. Even if I always feel like a fish out of water in a beauty store's sensory overload, I will embrace it all for some one-on-one time with my daughter. Plus, my skin has never looked better.