MAKE EYES POP

Make-up artist Charlotte Tilbury says if you want your eyes to pop, or enhance your natural beauty, you can do it with your eye make-up. To make your eyes stand out, select a shade opposite your iris’s natural hue. So for blue eyes look for copper shades, brown eyes team with blue, hazel eyes look great with green shades and green eyes look fabulous with maroon. For a more harmonious look, select a colour that is similar to your eye shade. Tilbury has launched its new Eye Colour Magic Luxury Palettes ($80) and Eye Colour Magic Liner Duos ($47) to help light up your eyes.

Most of us understand the gut-brain axis and that a diverse population of microbes in our gut improves our mood and wellbeing, along with our immune system. Few of us know much about the gut-skin axis, and how the microbes on our body’s largest organ are connected to our gut microbiome. Unlocking healthy healing for our skin, particularly for conditions like acne, psoriasis, dermatitis, rosacea and even premature ageing, is connected to what and how often we eat.

As an example, acne is a debilitating condition and can affect you at various stages of your life. I had a lovely 16-year-old girl suffering from ‘teenager acne’. It was affecting her confidence, her weight was fluctuating and she suffered from mood swings and tiredness. Unknowingly, she had an underlying health condition known as insulin resistance that was also triggering the hormones responsible for pimples and acne.

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