When your skin is happy and fresh-faced, you feel happy and (yes, you guessed it) fresh-faced! A happy and healthy face is personified in your aura and not only improves the way you look, but the way you feel within yourself. So start the new year with a ‘new you’ or a ‘new face’ and let’s ease into it with some simple steps!

Wipe away your festive face and bin that morning-after-the-night-before look with one of the best skincare brands on the market. Forget make-up wipes – throw that packet in the bin with your used cotton pads! These are notoriously known for making your skin feel greasy after regular use. A favourite skincare brand of mine, and not just for its self-explanatory name, has to be Simple. Simple’s Purifying Cleansing Lotion does exactly what it says. It’s the perfect blend of ingredients which gently – and the keyword here is ‘gently’ – cleanse drier skin, which helps keep it smooth and softened. I have quite sensitive skin myself, so this product is perfect for me.

An essential step to cleansing those pores

The step between cleansing and moisturising is often forgotten, but is an essential step to cleansing those pores! Just because you can’t see the remnants of the night before staring back at you in the mirror, doesn’t mean they’re completely gone. Don’t be fooled by the invisible dirt – use a toner to take away anything hidden in those pores. Simple’s Soothing Facial Toner helps keep your skin toned and refreshed, and rids your face of any dead skin cells.

Now your face is make-up free, there’s two things that can follow, which not only care for the skin but also resist the early signs of aging – and who doesn’t want to do that? Firstly, protect your skin with the age defying Regeneration Night Renewal Cream, which revitalises and restores your skin with its green tea goodness, fighting the signs of premature aging throughout the night. This leads me onto the second prevention of early aging – sleep. Let the cream work its magic while you get those all important zzz’s, which we all want to catch up on after the Christmas holidays!

Brighten your complex during the post-Christmas blues

Make this your night-time routine every night before you go to sleep and you will feel the noticeable difference on your face when you wake up. However, for those dull and dreary nights where taking your make-up off the right way just doesn’t cut it, there is something you can use to brighten your complexion during the month of those post-Christmas blues.

If you haven’t tried a collagen mask yet, then make this the year you do. In a nutshell, collagen facemasks are infused with a variety of nourishing ingredients, not the least of which is collagen. Collagen gives young skin its firm, supple appearance. These facemasks come pre-packaged in a foil pouch and are drenched in beneficial ingredients that maintain a tight seal on your face when worn.

Embrace aging as gracefully as you can

Aging is (unfortunately) inevitable, so we might as well embrace it as gracefully as we can! Apply the mask at least two to three times a week to improve your skin’s texture and firmness, as well as reducing the size of those inconvenient pores, fine lines and wrinkles. Unlike other facemasks, which require preparation, application and post mask clean up, paper collagen masks are applied quickly and easily and without the unwanted mess.

With minimal effort involved, you can concentrate on enjoying a soak in the bath, watching TV or simply chilling with a good book while the mask works its magic! For a fuss free treatment, I would recommend Beauty Pro’s Brightening Collagen Mask with Vitamin C for your very own spa treatment at home! In 15 minutes you can visibly see the stress disappear from your face, leaving you feeling rejuvenated and refreshed.

Start 2017 with a carefree attitude, a carefree feeling, and above all a carefree looking face!