Medik8 one of my favourites

As far as advanced skincare goes Medik8 are a great company to start with, good price and great results, this British based company are well known as the green cosmacutical brand, not only are there products great for your skin, but they care about the environment too!

Beta AOX Oil free Antioxidant gel.

This fab serum is designed for problematic skin, and has advance from the original Blue AOX, which was geared at Acne prone and oily skin. classically if you had oily skin antioxidants particularly Vitamin C, can make the skin oily, therefore many people with this skin type avoid this part of the skincare regime and skip onto an oil free moisturiser.

Well Medik8 have done it again with this product, i have been using it for nearly 4 months, and i can honestly say i have had fantastic results, it is so easily absorbed and my face feels very soft to the touch post application, but this isn't what the gel is for, its designed to protect against free radicals and nasties we come across every day, from sun damage to pollution. Other key ingredients like Copper PCA help the skin to repair rejuvenate.

AOX is a super hero in a bottle and a must have for those with  oily/combination skin. its not cheap at £60 a bottle but it is worth every penny! 

If you were to build a house you would start with the foundations, AOX is that foundation and gives you a great platform to work on, follow with moisturiser and SPF 30 and your ready to face the day!

(well that all depends on how much sleep you have had and if your 2 small children think its normal to want to get up at 5am! but il tell you more about eye creams another day)

Beta AOX can be purchased online from:

http://www.effortlessskin.com/p-3198-beta-aox-30ml.aspx

to find your nearest stockist:

http://www.skinbrands.co.uk/stockist/find_stockist.php

This week featuring on the yummy mummy guide

My rubbish weekend!

We had baby sitters for Saturday night and we had a lovely time at the cinema watching the wolf of wall street.  Brilliant film. Then within an hour of getting home I came down with a sickness bug. I feel awful I'm starving and I miss the kids! Big thank you to my other half who looked after me and my amazing mother in law who looked after the children for me. And still is!

So my blog won't be ready as quick this week. Sorry thanks for reading X

What did we learn from our mothers?

As a little girl i loved nothing more then watching my mum put on her make up ( she wasn't quite so keen with wandering hands all over her much loved cosmetics!). But being a loving Mummy she let me, She didn't have big brand make up, but what she had she used well, and people would always comment on how good my mum looked. so what did i learn?

Take off your make up every day -

Artist start with a clean canvas and before applying cosmetics you should think the same. always always always take your make up off before you go to bed ( and when i say take off, i mean properly, not with baby wipes). 

Keep a core collection of essentials -

Despite her questionable collection of eyeshadows, Mum always had a neutral essentials selection for when she wasn't sure what she would be wearing. I tend to stick to this today, I'm not the most daring of cosmetic queens and i tend to get in a bit of a rut with my eyeshadow colours, but i do believe that keeping an essential collection is a good idea.

Put your clothes on after your make up - 

There were too many times when i was a teenager that i would go to leave the house and mum would notice there was make up all over my top, or foundation powder on my trousers, which when you then try and brush off you end up rubbing in more, mum would then attempt to wipe it away with a cloth, it looked fine till the material had dried and then this stain would reappear!.

And finally ...................

Don't let your 4 year old son watch you putting on make up to often! Leo was watching me ready to go on one of my few girls nights out he picked up my powder wiped it on his face and said " this will cover up the red" he then went and showed daddy which you can imagine didn't go down to well. But on the positive he clearly pays attention to what i say! 

What did your Mother teach you ?