FACE VALUES

While many of us were stressing over sourdough starters, I spent my lockdown trying to perfect my pigment correction treatment - from first formulation thoughts to eventually launching my Yellow Peel mask (with many iterations along the way, I must add).The road to launching your own skincare products is fairly uncharted and is normally a long one with many bumps along the way. This episode is a look down this road, with my thoughts, tips and learnings on the tricky but truly exhilarating process.

With temperatures plummeting, heating blasting and frosty winds causing everything to dry up and crack, winter can bring a host of skin woes, including skin barrier, dryness, flakiness and other skin issues. Today I'm getting knit-ty-gritty on sensible winter skincare wardrobes, the treatments to clear up summer skin damage and how to capitalise on the cover up season, with game-changing procedures that come with a little more downtime.

In the hot-seat today we have the brilliant Dermatologist, Mary Sommerlad, to sharpen your skin skills when it comes to protecting, preserving and improving its health. Get back to basics on the essential skincare ingredients we all should be using, and pencils out for a pigmentation 101 - this is your fast track to straight A skin results. About Our Guest: Dr Mary Sommerlad is a UK trained, Consultant Dermatologist based in London. She is passionate about Dermatology and in particular empowering people to have the best skin they can by offering an inclusive patient centred, holistic approach to skin care and skin health. As a consultant Dr Mary’s interests are Eczema, Acne, Rosacea, Pigmentation problems such as melasma and post inflammatory hyperpigmentation, Hyperhidrosis, moles checks, paediatric dermatology and skin care. She performs a variety of dermatological procedures including skin surgery and steroid.

Today is about saving face. Possibly your face - that is, from the all-too-common occurrence of fillers gone wrong. More than just chipmunk cheeks or looking like you've lost a fight with a bicycle pump - in the wrong hands, this ever so popular treatment can have negatively life-changing, or even ending (as recent news has so sadly revealed) effects. So today is filled with facts - filler facts.

Needles down - today isn't filled with Fillers or plumped with Profhilo. We have Jane Green, an acclaimed author and columnist, in the hot seat, and we're celebrating the gift age gives us. For those of you who feel you're flapping around an empty nest or sleepwalking through life trying to fit into neat little boxes, today is for you. Dear Jane may have the true anti-ageing key: radical self-acceptance, unbridled honesty, and taking up your rightful space in the world.Magic mushrooms, wanting what you've got, and going grey - 're-wilding' is not always an aesthetically pleasing journey, but it may get you onto a very joyous new path in life.About our guest: With 18 New York Times Bestsellers and over 10 million books in print, Jane Green is constantly reinventing her career, most recently as the hugely popular columnist "Dear Jane" in the UK national newspaper the Daily Mail and its popular Mail Online website. Now based in Marrakech, she is busy looking for a riad to renovate as her new home, procrastinating on writing a new novel, while trying hard not to rescue every street kitten in the medina.

Brain fog. Mood swings. Anxiety. Stress. What do these worrisome woes share? Hormone fluctuations. 'Feeling hormonal' isn't just about chocolate cravings and the odd chin pimple – even a small shift in our complex hormonal balance can throw our health and wellbeing off course. Our guest today is the brilliant Pippa Campbell, expert Nutritionist and Weight Loss specialist. She's here to help you truly understand your hormones, particularly when navigating the myriad changes that occur during puberty, pregnancy, and perimenopause. From broccoli sprouts to box breathing, you'll learn a host of nutritional tips and strategies to restore your balance. As the saying goes, "To control your hormones is to control your life." About our guest: Pippa Campbell is a leading Functional Hormone Nutritionist, Author, Women’s Health Expert & Founder of Pippa Campbell Health and the innovative Pippa Campbell Health Supplement range. Her dedication to improving gut health, hormone balance & solving stubborn weight issues comes through highly bespoke nutrition, weight loss & lifestyle programmes.

When it comes to choosing your aesthetic treatment (surgical or non-surgical), it can feel a bit like Tinder; swiping left and right over highly edited images from a huge portfolio of 'expert' practitioners, to find your perfect match. But just as we know how disappointing your date so often is in real life, so too do you risk underwhelming and even downright-dangerous results by taking a non-expert approach to treatment choices.Enter Olivia Falcon, former beauty editor at Tatler, architect of the Tatler Cosmetic Surgery Guide and now the founder of The Editor's List. Think of it as your expert aesthetic concierge service. It takes the guesswork out of finding the safest hands and most skilled practitioners in the business.Today, Olivia is giving us her expert view on the changing face of the cosmetic industry, both in the UK and across the pond in the States. She'll discuss everything from trending treatments to risk factors, and why you should never treat cosmetic habits like your handbag habits - instead, think "less, but better". This episode is all about arming you with the knowledge to make savvy, sensible, and safe decisions for natural and effective results.

You know what you're going to get at McDonald's - some immediate satisfaction perhaps, but long-term you'll probably be left feeling a bit grim. Well, in the world of anti-wrinkle injections, it's very much the same (meal) deal.Arguably the most popular aesthetic treatment, this procedure is widely available - from the back of your nail salon to your hairdresser's waiting area. But here's the catch: if you want to avoid looking perma-surprised, frozen or just plain weird, it's essential to understand how this treatment works, and more importantly, that the practitioner treating you does.So today, we're talking toxin truths - how to ensure natural results, the risks of overdoing it and why a Michelin-starred approach to muscle relaxing is really the best way to go.

There's no denying the transformative effects of a professional brow treatment; shaped just right, they'll frame your features while adding structure and definition to your face. But you only have to step onto the tube to see the victims of 'over-doing it' (think two fat sausages sitting atop your eyes) or having 'under-done it' (the 90s plucking era, we'll never forgive you).Luckily, we have The Queen of Brows, Suzanne Martin, creator of the Couture Brow ™️ and the artist behind most of the A-listers' arches, with us today, to talk us through what it really takes to enhance your individual beauty by creating the perfect, eye-opening and symmetry-centric eyebrow.Tweezers and brow pencils down - this is the real 'Brows 101'.About Our Guest: Suzanne Martin, creator of the Couture Brow, has an esteemed history as a makeup artist (working in-house at Christian Dior, no less) and is now recognised as the leading authority in eyebrow artistry. Working exclusively at the Lanesborough Club & Spa, Suzanne has a star-studded clientele thanks to her stellar reputation for creating beautiful and only ever natural-looking results. You can see some of Suzanne's fantastic work on her Instagram channel: @suzannemartinaesthetics.