Below you'll find a list of all posts that have been categorized as “Beauty”
Being a former sun worshiper ( notice I say “former” ), I know how pleasurable it is to luxuriate in the sun and damn the consequences! Life is for living and enjoyment, right? Well, yes, but then you get home, the tan fades and you’re left with dried out, pigmented and older looking skin. But don’t despair, if your …
I used to love facials but the truth is I don’t have them much any more. Relaxing and lovely as they can be, these days I tend to put my focus on good quality products, supplements and modern treatments that tighten skin and renew collagen. To my mind, the best part of a facial is the massage, which as well …
As people head off for their summer holidays, hopefully armed with lots of sunblock to prevent sun damage, I wonder how many will think to protect their scalp from burning? For women this usually means protecting your scalp where you part your hair and for men, thinning or bald spots. I have to confess, it’s something I usually don’t think …
It was only after I scheduled the article by Philip Kingsley about The 12 Most Common Reasons For Hair Loss that his office told me about his fantastic new product for this very thing! What perfect timing! The product is brand new, having only been launched in June this year but has been seven years in the making. I use …
I’ve written about hair loss before but it’s such a distressing and emotional occurrence that’s it’s worth revisiting. Here world renowned trichologist and hair guru, Philip Kingsley, gives us the most common causes for it and more importantly, practical advice on what to do about it. The incidence of hair loss in women is very underestimated: There are as many …
I’ve written before about how transforming and youth-making a beautifully shaped brow can be. Like a little facelift for sure. I myself tattoo my eyebrows after a teenage brow hatchet job went horribly wrong and left me with mismatched skinny tadpoles. However there is now a company, HD Brows, that specialises in making the most perfect brow, tailor made to …
It’s truly alarming how many people are having bad reactions to skin products. I have a number of friends who have to be very careful of what they put on their skin. Some people will break out in spots and others have an allergic type reaction coming out in hives or getting red swollen areas, itching or dermatitis. I have …
Philip Kingsley, trichologist to the stars and many many others, has now coined my favourite phrase. Closet colourer!! He is assuming that all these closet colourers are men, that they don’t like to admit they colour their hair. I’ve always thought that you can tell a colour job a mile off on a man, because it’s always so obvious. Obviously …
I’ve written about the dangers of toxic chemicals in skin products and how I switched to natural products in the 1990’s (which was quite a challenge as there wasn’t much to choose from). Now there are so many of these products that it’s all quite confusing. However, the quality of these products varies enormously. Many of them have good ingredients …
Since I started this website, one of the most frequent questions I get asked is to know more about what I do, what I use and what is my secret because surely there must be one? Do I think it’s my genes? And the answer to this is…every single thing I have written about or posted on this website is …
Since I started this site, I regularly get sent skin products for me to try. Much as I’d like to try them all, it would wreak havoc on my skin if I did. I also have my own routine with my own products ( I’ve written about my favourites) and don’t like to disrupt it too much. So it takes …
Exfoliating is a great skin boost and peels are a very effective way of doing this. They can be gentle or they can be extremely intense with down time required. I’ve always loved a good peel! I started with gentle glycolic peels when they first came out and then progressed to ones done in Dr Hunters’ office which leave you …
