Her Favourite Things Beauty Tips 1-20

Beauty Tip 1

 As from today i'll be posting a different useful beauty hint each day.
Today: Collagen.
Collagen is found naturally in the body. it decreases as we age. Thats why we get wrinkles. Imagine your youthful face like a well sprung mattress...the ageing effect that creates the lack of collagen makes it saggy, basically, causing wrinkles etc.
Many beauty products contain collagen. DO NOT BE FOOLED. Collagen molecules are too large to penetrate throught the skin!!! The best way to increase collagen levels is healthy living and encouraging your body to produce its OWN collagen. There are various ways to do this which i will post tomorrow!
Cat x

Beauty tip 2

  Yesterday i mentioned why collagen creams are a waste of money. Here i divulge some good ways you can increase your bodies' own production of collagen levels:
!. Collagen supplements.
A bit of a no brainer, really. Collagen supplements can be found at good health food shops as well as chemists.
2. Creams that contain retinol or retinoid....
A derivative of vitamin A, retional increases cell turnover, thus stimulating collagen production.
3. Stop smoking!
Yes i know this is a boring one, but smoking creates enzymes that damage the collagen in your skin.
4.another boring one...stay skin safe in the sun.
UVA rays penetrate skin and damage the skins support system.
5. up your vitamin C intake.
6.Take antioxidant supplements/source foods high in antioxidants and eat more of them.
Antioxidants protect against free radicals (damaged skin cells) that fgeed off healthy skin cells.
7. Exfoliate.
Using products such as glycolic acid/lacitc acid, etc , we are not only sloughing off the dead skin cells, we are "shaking up" the skins support system, triggering us to produce more collagen.
8. cut back on sugar.
.excess sugar in the blood attaches itself to lipids and proteins (collagen especially) which advances the ageing proces.
9. Massage...
again, like no 7, it literally stimulates your lymph glands which not only gives a good rush of blood to your skin but also encourages cxollagen production.
10. visit your beautician! There a number of other methods well worth a try...copper peptides is a recent succes story for skin renewal, but to really finds out whats best for your skin, its worth visiting a beautician. Nopt only that but certain cell renewal procedures, like scuptra, radiesse, etc, can only be performed by a qualified practioner. My recommendation is Botastic in Willerby
Cat x

Beauty tip 3

The majority of beauty products, for hair and face, work on a negative premise. By this i mean that most skin and hair care products, for say, greasy hair and skin, contain acidic properties that strip the skin/hair of the excess sebum produced...which is great! Result...less greasy skin/hair! Except...what you TAKE from the body, it reproduces, often at an increased rate. Strip away the oil, your body will go into overdrive producing not only its usual rate, but that which makes up for what you have stripped away. You only end up exacerbating the problem. You CANNOT alter your skin or hair, on any permanent basis, from the outside in. Tomorrow: ways to alter your hair n skin permanently.
Cat x