Simply Abu Dhabi Magazine XXV

1 5 7 S I M P LY A B U DH A B I 9am: I get to the office just before 9am and I spend the morning on catching up with some admin work. I prepare for the coming trainings, events and treatments, making sure everything is perfectly arranged. 1pm: I usually have my lunch at one of the London healthy eatery over emails since I won’t get back to the office until the next day and afternoons tend to be pretty busy! 2pm: I head to one of our current clinics for a refreshing training session with a group of therapists or I prepare the treatment room and welcome a potential new customer for an opening treatment. I always start by doing a skin consultation in order to tailor the facial to this specific person’s skin instant. 4pm: My last two hours would be spent carrying out a VIP treatment for a either a journalist or a blogger who has heard great things about Biologique Recherche! 6pm: I head back home to cook some comfort food to share with my husband before we get to bed by 11pm. A few times a week I also stop at the gym for a quick workout or yoga session – that really helps me to relax after long day. What's the best piece of advice you've ever been given? “Do everything in moderation” – not too much not too little. It always works in pretty much every aspect of your life and especially in your beauty skincare regime. What would you tell your 15-year-old self? When I was about 15, as you do at that age I started trying many different beauty products and makeup. It basically wasn’t suitable for my fragile, young skin and started ruining it, stripping it all of any lipids and hydration, drying it to a crisp and making it extremely sensitive… I would tell myself “Don’t do it! Keep cleansing and hydrating your skin properly and get on the Eurostar and get the Lait U, Serum Amniotique E or colostrum and placenta cream from Paris! Then actually use them twice a day!” What do you continually see people doing incorrectly with their skincare? I think that the most common error is exactly what I used to do as a teenager. With a wide range of products available nowadays we keep searching for the perfect solution and trying an enormous amount of products which are not always good for us for many different reasons. We end up with unbalanced and unhappy skin. You need to give a chance to both – to your skin and to the product. It takes about a month for the skin to adapt to a new product and start showing a difference, so be patient as nothing happens overnight. Don't complicate your beauty regime too much, especially if you have problematic skin – keep it simple and moisturised. Keep hydrated, especially if you have oily skin. Your natural reaction, when having very oily skin, is that you just want this oil to stop coming out of your skin, that’s all you want! So, you dry your skin out. But this doesn’t work – the more you dry your skin out, the more your body wants tomoisturise the area, and so it produces even more oils. The key is to hydrate the skin so that this happens a lot less. Another thing I would say is look at your own skin and don’t copy what others are doing. Your needs are different, so give your skin what it needs.