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My Winter Skincare

Tea in hand, cosey blanket wrapped around, let’s get settled in to Winter 2014…

So this week I began using the Nuxe Crème Prodigieuse, which although is for normal to combination skin (mine is dehydrated to normal), it’s a super hydrating, anti-oxidant, skin boosting moisturiser.

Being a massive fan of the Khiels anti-fatigue, anti stress, Skin Rescuer daily moisturiser, (seriously, I spent the whole of last year using it to death!) Nuxe’s version is slightly thicker and is more strongly perfumed.

Personally, I don’t think moisturisers for the face should be perfumed (unless it’s naturally occuring) because my eyes can be sensitive to scented products and if I kiss someone I don’t really want to over power them with the florally smell of my face…!

Nuxe’s Crème Prodigieuse is definitely a winter moisturiser, it plumps the skin back up in the morning and leaves it feeling soft, protected, hydrated all day.

Origins Plantscription – I love this product so much! It arrived in a recent glossy box (the Karen Millen Edt.) and I had to buy the full size. I apply this every morning and night, it has a slightly more watery rather than oily texture for a serum which hydrates my under eye area so effectively- the fine lines (yes they are a-coming) appear a lot smoother since I’ve been using this.

Lastly the Nuxe Masque Crème Fraîche- this is brilliant for me. I am quite lazy with face masks and don’t use them often enough. This is a mask you can apply and leave on, after 10 minutes you just rub the excess in. It feels cooling, soothing, hydrating and with a medium application my skin drank it in. For winter skin that’s been out in the cold wind and rain, have a hot shower or bath and then apply this before bed time 🙂

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Bridal beauty…

I love Bridal, truly.

For me it’s not about extreme amounts of makeup, it’s about making the most of the bride’s beautiful features and leaving her comfortable and happy to glow all day.

I’m often asked questions about products from brides in the trial and advice for the build up to the wedding, how to keep your skin clear etc.

One bride came to me at the start of the year and I recently did her hair and makeup for her day, she suffers from a skin condition called Rosacea- it can vary in degrees of severity and can cause flushing, redness, sensitivity to foods products and cosmetics, sometimes small pustules form on the skin.

The following is some advice to her I gave:

For skin preparation for your big day, the following advice would be ideal to go by in the 2-3 weeks leading up to the big day, you may already know most of this but it might help:
1) keep up a good skin routine of cleansing, moisturising and very gentle exfoliation (every 3 days or so). -try to avoid harsh exfoliants that are gritty in texture.
2) avoid simple/ refined sugars, try to only have fruit for sugar fixes.
3) caffeine and alcohol are triggers so try to keep these out of your system for the 3 days leading up to your wedding. (Hen do in advance!)
4) no spicy food the day before! This can trigger heat flushes so best to avoid.
5) take a look at the ingredients in the makeup/ skin care products you use and remove any ones that are oil based rather than water based (oil can be a pore blocker, plus it’s quite heavy- water based moisturisers will be more soothing and hydrating).
6) the most difficult one: try to keep the lead up as stress free as possible!
7) wash any makeup brushes in either baby shampoo or another gentle cleaner before the day so they are clean and germ free.
8) product wise, you might have already looked but the best ones will be ideally organic, paraben free, fragrance free (this is key), mineral, natural and as artificial chemical free as possible.