Get inspired for your new year beauty regime with today’s astral short, captured at Miami Beach’s Standard Spa, and read on below for an accompanying three-step guide to achieving a desirable derriere by author and Financial Times columnist, Kathleen Baird-Murray.

For the perfect posterior, you will need:

1. Two genetically superior parents. Obviously, this is not always possible, and if it were, would we want that? No, we'd rather have the parents we have. Failing superior genes, they should be dancers, marathon runners, acrobats and athletes, the kind of people who are always on the go, so that as our plump little baby bottoms develop into sofa-surfing teenage ones, we will inherit good habits. We will run, not slump; dance, not drive (admittedly, not always practical, but you get the idea). If they are none of these things, take comfort in the fact that you now have something else you can blame your parents for.

2. A brush. Not a hairbrush, but something between a coarse brush that a scullery maid would clean floors with (do people still have sculleries?) and a nailbrush. This is the cheapest, most effective way to get smooth skin. Always brush dry skin upwards, towards your heart, it takes two minutes before your shower and is far more effective long-term than any anti-cellulite treatment going.

3. A tan. Not orange. Just one shade up from where you are naturally. James Read's tanning products are great for making wintry bottoms look more, well, summery. For that: “I've just come back from Mustique look.” Remember to apply while wearing a thong. Perception is all.