Party Season Preparations

With the party season looming here are some skincare tips to boost your skins radiance in just a few weeks:

This time of the year we encounter a variety of new concerns with our skin, 59% of women comment that their skin is dehydrated and dry during the cooler winter months. Face, body, lips and hands become flaky, chapped and appear dull due to fluctuations in our environments (warm heating inside, cool and ‘crisp’ outside).

There are two areas to address: your home-care regimen and spa treatment choices. Together with your beauty therapist you can have a productive winter-radiance regimen, so that your skin is silky soft and beautiful, from head-to-toe.

HOME-CARE

1. Start at the beginning, by choosing a milky cleanser (a foaming wash is fine for summer) to soothe and hydrate the skin as it removes the days impurities. Massage the face and neck for 2 minutes with gentle circular motions. Rinse with tepid water (hot water ages the skin), and then wipe up and out over the skin with a cotton pad soaked with a moisturizing toning lotion (skipping your toner is like only half-rinsing your laundry) to leave your skin clean and comfortable.
2. Exfoliate. Removing dry surface skin cells will reveal smooth skin, the ultimate boost to your skins appearance. Choose a product that is not aggressive (even natural ingredients can scratch and weaken the skin), I recommend using a cream that rolls off dead skin cells. Modern ingredients; fruit enzymes, fruit acids, gylcolic and retinol based products, offer great results to renew the skin and leave it fresh and radiant.
3. If there was ONE product that you should buy this season, it is Guinot’s Radiance Mask Essentiel. Why? It is pure bliss for your skin in the winter due to Primrose oil (rich in vitamins and anti-free radicals, to regenerate skin from the inside); jojoba oil (repairs the hydrolipidic film to protect and moisturize), essential oils of thyme, rosemary, and lavender (provide skin with a new energy and vitality). Result: instant healthy radiant complexion. In my 30 years of beauty therapy I have yet to find another mask that is more effective, I love it before a big night-out and always use it after flying. Skin heaven!
4. Nourish and protect your skin from dehydration and protect against external aggressions, free-radicals and ageing with a daily intensive moisturizer that enriches the skin with the precious nutrients it needs for suppleness and softness and a more youthful complexion.
5. You can wake-up in the morning with a refreshed complexion. Whilst you are dreaming, NEW modern skin care treatments applied before bed can stimulate your skins function and reverse the skins logic of ageing. Revolutionary night creams recreate the cellular life of dormant skin, compensating your skins deficiencies to slow the ageing process.

AT THE SPA

1. The ULTIMATE facial for the pre-party season is a micro-current facial toning treatment that will address your concerns with lack of muscle tone, fatigue, stress and ‘birthday’s’. Visible results form the first treatment thanks to the rejuvenating benefits of a facial workout to lift and tone your features, see sharper cheekbones, glowing skin and reduced puffiness.
2. Entrusting your skin and skincare regimen to a professional is a productive step in your skins health, Beauty Therapists are your beauty equivalent of a personal trainer and spa facials your beauty checkup. A thorough dermal analysis and consultation will help address your concerns along with custom-designed
3. Hands, feet and back are often on show during the holidays. A back facial tailored to your skins needs boosts circulation, giving you silky glowing skin. A spa hand and foot facial is more than a mani-pedi, opt for a paraffin wrap to soothe your aching joints, nourish the cuticles and leave the skin smooth and soft.
4. Even the most un-metro of men can’t resist a touch of beauty therapy. Brow grooming (and ears), deep cleansing, exfoliating peels, facial massage to release tension combine to leave your man refreshed and polished. No shaving before a facial, wait until after a spa treatment then the shave is closer than close.
5. Brighten the skin with a renewing facial. Renewing the skin with fruit enzymes and fruit acids via a Double Peeling Treatment that exfoliates, resurfaces, moisturizes, and renews your skin with glycolic, citric, malic, and tartaric acids. These natural elements combine to leave your skin healthy clear and bright.

Together we are beautiful.

Merci!

Sarah