Using oats is a great method of exfoliation for sensitive skin. Mix the oats into a paste with warm water and gently rub in upwards circular movements. This will be very gentle on the skin and cause no abrasion or irritation. Its great for all over the body including the face.

If your facial muscles are relaxed you receive the rest of the treatment so much better. So warm the face first, either by steaming or a warm towel placed over your face for 15 minutes. Once the face is warmed, then give yourself a gentle face massage, even if only 5 minutes it better than nothing. Then apply your chosen face mask. Your pores have been opened from the warmth and relaxed from the massage. This will help your skin to receive the benefits of the masks ingredients so much better.

This really helps to smooth the skin and help your skin receive the next treatment better. Whether that be applying your moisturiser or a face mask. The exfoliation will help remove the dead skin cell barrier. Exfoliation of the face should really only be done twice a week maximum.

If you don’t have a polish correcting pen, it’s a bit tricky to remove any polish that has hit the skin. You can’t apply polish remover on a cotton pad as the rest of your nails are probably still wet. Always make sure that you have an orange stick to hand. You can dip the fine end of the orange stick into the polish remover and gradually remove even the smallest of mistakes that are very close to or under the nail.

When plucking/tweezing your eyebrows, lip area always make sure that you firstly pull the skin taught. This helps to minimise the sting of the hair being pulled out. Make sure that you always grab the hair at the base and pull only in the direction that it grows. This will ensure that the hair is pulled from the root and doesn’t snap.

To stop your nail polish lids from becoming sticky and hard to open. First clean the inside of the lid, then put 1 or 2 very small drops of oil into the lid. Roll between your hands, then place the lid back on the bottle. Twist a few times to spread the oil evenly around the screw cap neck of the bottle. This will stop the lid from becoming sticky and almost impossibly to open.

Apply a fine dusting of cornflour (I say cornflour because it’s natural) or talc over the eyebrow area. This helps show up even the fairest and finest of brow hair, so you don’t miss any whilst tweezing.

If you use Cotton wool balls/pads to apply a liquid cleanser, toner or eye makeup remover, make sure they are damp first. If your product goes onto a dry pad, the pad soaks up more product than is needed. Use a damp cotton pad and this saves your products, making them last longer.

White spots on nails. There are many myths regarding what causes these.

Calcium deficiency, Zinc deficiency, unhealthy diet, signs of aging. Well the truth is they are bruises. You can bang your nail without even noticing and a little white spot will appear a week or so later. The new nail tissue that is growing has been damaged slightly. It will grow out soon enough and your nails will look nice and healthy again.

When it comes to using you nail polish how many of you shake the bottle before use?

If you answered yes PLEASE STOP!

If you have not used the polish for a while, you may notice the polish has separated in the bottle. All you have to do is hold the bottle upright in between your hands and gently roll it back and forth.

If you shake the bottle it will introduce air bubbles and these can become trapped in the polish, this in turn can prevent the polish from adhering properly to the nail.

So remember Rolling is good, Shaking is bad.