Ensure your skin is glowing this season
The party season is here and whilst we may be enjoying ourselves, it generally leaves us feeling a little worse for wear. So here we have some beauty problems and how to fix them.
Not only are we helping you tackle the dreaded beauty problems that pop up at this time of year, we’ve got some helpful products to help you with them too.
Dark circles
Try: Collection Lasting Perfection Concealer
A favourite amongst make-up artists including Lisa Eldridge, the Collection Lasting Perfection Concealer is perfect for erasing tired circles and blemishes. The formulation provides incredible coverage to ensure a clear and radiant complexion.
Available from Boots and Superdrug, £4.19.
Colds
Try: Cuticura Anti-Bacterial hand serum
There’s nothing glamorous about a cold. The Cuticura Anti-Bacterials Serum forms a long-lasting, invisible glove to protect hands from germs for up to eight hours, when soap and water are not available. This fast drying, handbag essential kills 99.99% of bacteria and protects against both flu and norovirus whilst being extra-kind to sensitive skin. Containing scents of crisp Green Cucumber, juicy Pink Watermelon and refreshing Garden Mint for a fresh, uplifting fragrance to stimulate the senses and help keep skin soft.
Available from Boots, Tesco, Sainsbury’s and independent pharmacies £2.49
Chapped lips
Try: Eau Thermale Avene Cold Cream Lip Cream
Create the perfect base for your favourite lippy with this extremely rich lip care cream provides immediate relief and protection against very dry, chapped, flaky and cracked lips, thanks to four active ingredients: Cold cream, well-known for its softening, nourishing and restorative properties. Sucralfate, a healing agent used in medical products which allows for rapid tissue regeneration. Avene Thermal Spring Water, clinically proven to have soothing and anti-irritating properties. And finally, shea butter, a natural ingredient to nourish and repair damaged skin.
Eau Thermale Avène Cold Cream Lip Cream is £8 for 15ml from boots.com
Blemishes
Try: Witch Blemish Stick
Fix the skincare hiccups that the seasonal overindulgences might bring with this much loved beauty hero. The old favourite Witch Blemish Stick will get work instantly, breaking down excess oils and drying out imperfections. Packed with the natural goodness of witch hazel, this pocket-size product is perfect for popping in your clutch for 24/7 protection.
Witch Blemish Stick is £3.19 from Boots, Superdrug, Tesco and Asda
Ingrown Hairs
Try: Australian Bodycare Exfoliating Body Wash
A refreshing and moisturising body wash that gently exfoliates with a blend of non-abrasive particles that won’t scratch or irritate the skin that can become sensitive in cold weather. The formulation removes dead skin cells effectively, whilst Tea Tree Oil and glycerin cleanse and hydrate the skin for a top-to-toe glow!
Australian Bodycare Exfoliating Body Wash is £11.99 for 200ml from australianbodycare.com
Sweat Patches
Try: Triple Dry Active
Make sure you look good on the dance floor with the Triple Dry Active range. Offering 72 hour protection for perspiration and new odour counteracting technology, it's ideal for those with heavy perspiration as well as those looking for extra protection and is available in both a spray and roll-on formula.
Triple Dry Active is £5.10 for the 150ml spray and £7.14 for the 50ml formula from Boots
Dull Teeth
Try: Rapid White Dissolving Tooth Whitening Strips
Stains are so not chic. Take the fast-lane to a bright white smile with the Rapid White Dissolving Tooth Whitening Strips, offering a gentle way to whiten teeth in just 7 days. The first of their kind in the UK, the innovating bilayer dissolving strips get to work on stains the minute the minute they come in to contact with teeth.
Rapid White Dissolving Tooth Whitening Strips are 22.99 for 28 strips from Boots
Long Cleansing Routines
Try: Eau Thermale Avène Cleanance Cleansing Water
Labourous cleansing rituals are the last thing on your mind after a late night. Micellar waters are taking the beauty world by storm, and it’s no surprise as they offer quick effective cleansing. The new Cleanance Cleansing Water contains the signature Avène Thermal Spring Water for its unique soothing and anti-irritating properties alongside a combination of ingredients to target oily or blemish prone skin.
Eau Thermale Avène Cleanance Cleansing Water is £3.00 for 50ml or £16.00 for 400ml from Boots – Launching October
Cold Feet
Try: CCS Foot Warming Cream
Bid fair well to chilly feet with the CCS Foot Warming Cream. This seasonal must-have is ideal to keep skin smooth, supple and protected from the harsh cold weather. The professionally inspired formulation from works with your body’s natural defences to provide comfort and to condition skin. With a blend of renowed warming ingredients, including Pepper Extract (Capsicum), Camphor, and Methylsalicylate, the Swedish formula also includes 5% Urea, the moisturiser found naturally in the body to help soften and condition your feet. The preferred choice of podiatrists.
CCS Foot Warming Cream is £7.49 for 100ml from Boots as well as all local chiropodists, Podiatrists and pharmacies.
Shiny skin
Try: Corn Silk Translucent Powders
To help balance shiny areas and bloat excess oil, try a translucent powder which will blend to skin tones and match your skin tone. Corn Silk Translucent and Press Powders are a beauty vintage secret, used by women since the late 1960’s. Corn Silk is the ultimate weapon against shiny complexions, with a natural walnut formula, the ingredients are designed to work with, not against oily skin giving you a long-lasting, flawless finish that won’t clog pores, ideal for the dance floor!
Corn Silk translucent powder are £7.40 from Boots and available in original satin or semi-matt finish
Dry, Flaky skin
Try: Mudd Sea Mask
Fight flaky winter skin with Mudd Sea Mask, which blends a unique formula of natural marine protein with extracts of sea kelp, seaweed and Irish moss designed to help provide hydration and recovery for the skin. A lack of moisture can cause the skin to feel dull and rough in texture. Mudd Sea Mask can help replace essential minerals and vitamins to leave skin feeling refreshed and revitalised.
Aimee Adams, make-up artist to the stars including Fearne Cotton, Pixie Lott and Elle MacPherson knows about the importance of keeping skin clean and hydrated. Aimee says: “Mudd Face Masks are a great weekly treat for the skin and I often recommend the range to my celebrity and model clients.”
Mudd Facial Masks is £1.01 for single application packs or £3.05 for five application packs and £5.10 for 10 application packs from Boots, Asda and leading pharmacies.
Itchy eyes
Try: Artelac Rebalance.
After all the dressing-up, make-up and late night celebrating your eyes might be left feeling tired, itchy and gritty. Artelac Rebalance provides relief from the symptoms of dry eye and is suitable for use with all types of contact lens.
It is available from large pharmacies and costs £6.95 (RRP). www.artelac.co.uk
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