Published: 00:02 GMT, 23 November 2014 | Updated: 00:02 GMT, 23 November 2014
Our weekly Q&A from the Beauty Bible experts Sarah Stacey and Josephine Fairley, whose latest book is The Ultimate Natural Beauty Bible. Their series of Beauty Bible books are now bestsellers worldwide – and this column solves your beauty dilemmas. Visit their website, beautybible.com, for lots more information, tips and exclusive offers. If you have any beauty dilemma you would like them to answer, you can e-mail them there too.
Visit their website, beautybible.com, to source any of the products mentioned below online – and for lots more information, tips and exclusive offers.Q I'm 44 and my skin is really dehydrated (due to early menopause) and just looks dull. I am getting married shortly and have had regular facials which have vastly improved my skin. But I am looking for a serum to help give my skin a boost of 'glow'. Do you have any advice?
A First of all, many congratulations on your approaching wedding day. We hope it is completely wonderful.
Good facials are a great help as you have found and adding in great topicals will also help. We also urge you to eat and drink well, and consider taking well-chosen supplements.
Serums as you probably know are a means of getting lots of nutrients into the skin in a small amount of product. So you only need a very few drops to make a difference – often they are expensive but do bear in mind that they will last for ages. You can mix them into your day and night moisturiser and even into your foundation for a super-boost.
In the latest edition of our bestseller, The Anti-Ageing Beauty Bible, two certified organic products romped in with top marks. These are:
La Claree Oliv Radiance Elixir, a longtime personal favourite of Sarah’s, which gained a stellar average with our ten-woman tester panel.
Pinks Boutique Anti-Aging Serum, another favourite brand and like the La Claree light and easily absorbed.
On the mainstream side, the very close contenders for top serum were:
YSL Forever Youth Liberator Serum, and Sarah Chapman Skinesis Age Repair Concentrate.
Whatever skincare you use, do massage it in very well, working up from your jawline, and out from your nose. You will notice a real difference to the glow factor if you do this regularly. And don't forget that exercise is not just good for your figure, it’s fantastic for oxygenating your complexion (as well as pretty well everything else).
Eating well, with protein and vegetables at every meal, will help hugely and, of course, sipping lots of still water and herbal teas through the day.
Additionally, good supplements can make a lot of difference to the condition of your skin. Pharmacist Shabir Daya at Victoria Health recommends:
Hyaluronic Acid Capsules High Strength by NHS Labs, take one daily. This nutrient, found in many creams and serums, works from within the body to hydrate and plump skin cells aside from helping with collagen synthesis.
Skin Restoring Phytoceramides by Life Extension, £25/30 capsules, take one daily. Ceramides can help to strengthen the skin barrier preventing dehydration.
Beauty Bible loves ? …Clinique Snowflake Dreams Blended Face Powder & Brush, £30
Something for your inner Snow Queen – although in truth, we think this is generally suitable for the face only if you’re 19 or under.Instead, we’re getting very pretty - and very party-worthy - effects using this soft pink shimmer powder on the décolletage and shoulders, in show-off frocks. (We’ll tell you where you can get away with wearing it on the face: a teeny touch, applied with a fingertip to the inner corner of the eye, or even the brow-bone – at the suggestion of Clinique’s UK Colour Artist Florrie White).
The pink doesn’t really show up on the skin, just a light kiss of glimmer, really, with minute starry particles.
And we’re sort of the age now where we hope this is the closest we get to snow, this Christmas…
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