No one has ever needed to talk me into doing exercise. I spent my childhood running around outside playing all sorts of ball games with the local children. I did ballet from the age of three and had to go to class in my party dress as there wasn’t a leotard small enough to fit me. And then there was …
How I’m rehabilitating my knees with Pilates
I started my Pilates journey a few months ago and have been doing mostly one to one sessions with a couple of instructors. One of them is Serkan, who specialises in medical type pilates and injuries. He is working on all the muscle groups in my legs to try and strengthen the area around my knees, which we are attempting …
Your ultimate guide to more youthful and refreshed eyes
One of the things I get asked the most about, is how to help maintain and freshen the eye area. We tend to get lines around our eyes before any other area ( I was 18 when I started getting mine) as the skin is much thinner here. It’s also a very expressive part of the face and I’m convinced …
Why I love these 3 supplements
I do love a supplement. I think they’re an important part of a healthy lifestyle. The world is now so full of pollutants both inside and outside our homes, on your foods and in the air we breathe, that our bodies have much to deal with. Added to that, the soil in which our foods grow, has been much depleted. …
Top tips for losing weight – without dieting
This is the expanded version of my recent article in Hello magazine. Useful tactics to make you more healthy and gain less weight without actually dieting. Society has become a lot more health conscious since I started my Ageless website 12 years ago. Whereas I often felt like a lone voice beating the drum for healthy living, now I find …
Navigating dating apps at 60
It may seem odd that I’m writing about dating and dating apps on Ageless. specially as a married woman, and as it’s not obviously a health issue, but I think it’s incredibly apt. I’m interested in every aspect of a woman’s life as she navigates through life “Navigating” is the key word. If you’re not navigating one thing, it’s another. …
The benefits of tongue scraping
I have to admit that tongue scraping is not something I’ve even thought about, never mind tried. However, Shabir Daya, pharmacist at Victoria Health, has convinced me otherwise. Who knew the benefits that could be had? What I did know, is that oral health is now recognised as being incredibly important. Our overall wellbeing is connected to it, as poor …
New peptide treatment lip glosses
I’m so excited to share that Studio 10, my favourite makeup range for mature skin, has just brought out a range of sheer lip glosses infused with peptides. Peptides are the key to boosting ageing skin What a brilliant idea to add them to a lip gloss to give lips a collagen boost. Also containing hyaluronic acid, vitamin E, jojoba …
Why men do tweakments differently
A recent study said that men are doing more skin treatments than ever. Hello magazine asked me to write about it. My first thought was “are they really?” My husband has never done one in his life and my girlfriends on dating apps are finding men extremely “ungroomed”. I decided to investigate. It’s long been said that men age better …
Three superb everyday skin products
There are so many different types of skin products these days that we can end up having dozens of bottles on our bathroom shelf. The truth is we only need a few core products In the video below, I look at three products that are on the must have list. These three products are basic to our needs and I …
Dame Joan Collins’ secret weapon to ageing with pizazz
Here is my latest article as seen in Hello magazine. I look at the role our mental attitude plays in how we age, as I think it’s the most important factor of all. And the person who has it down to a fine art is Dame Joan Collins. She has long been my inspiration for how to age with pizazz. …
Why I’ve started pilates
There’s a buzz word that’s been growing and growing when it comes to exercise. That word is Pilates. Of course it’s been around for a long time, over a 1oo years, but now it’s grown to global proportions and people are raving about it. It’s true that every person I know who does it, is toned and in great shape. My …