What's the best beauty tip you have that works?

[LadyOfTheCanyon]

Just a general question really. I want to know if I'm missing out on any untapped Gold Standard beauty techniques!

The best tip I have currently is to run a little translucent powder through your brows if they look a bit fierce. Settles them right down. Also "Eyebrows are sisters, not twins."

Great thread. I have zero knowledge about skin / beauty stuff but I find that pure almond oil works a treat for my skin and hair: once a week or so I'll slap a load on my face then comb some through my hair. Then, as a big greasy mess I'll go to bed (I have a separate pillowcase for this). In the morning my skin is glowing and soft and my hair (once it's washed) is lovely. Weirdly coconut oil had the opposite effect - I found it very drying.

I have no tips I'm afraid as i look like a wreck permanently but happily going to take some of yours in board,

Just a question though; what is oil cleansing? What do you cleanse with? Olive oil? Baby oil? Engine oil?! Serious question, I need to know a it sounds like it works brilliantly.

Superflyhigh - I agree with your comments re overdone eyebrows - but it's not just eyebrows, it's overdone everything these days - thick painted, rectangular eyebrows, massive false eyelashes, caked on foundation and over the top contouring - instead of making the ladies look more attractive, it just makes them look like drag artists!

kennycat I use Body shop Chamomile cleansing oil. I really like it, it's light, good for sensitive skins and really takes off makeup well.

Coconut oil on scaly hooves gives you lovely soft feet.

Thanks @Destinysdaughter I will give that a go.
And the coconut oil in feet - my feet have aged by about thirty years in the last 2 years.

I tried the tightlining method of invisible eyeliner recommended on here and it makes such a difference! I got a Rommel waterproof eyeliner (very similar to the wind up Clinique liner) but only £4

'Rimmel'

'Drink gallons of water' isn't basic biology. It's bad biology - peddled by therapists who never even got within sniffing difference of an actual science degree, or advanced qualification.

It's right up there with bleddy 'de-toxing' bogus fuckery...as though we hadn't all been born with a built-in, incredibly efficient and sophisticated 'de-toxing' ability...otherwise known as your liver and kidneys FFS.

Years ago, I spent a couple of years running a wee beauty salon and had to listen to plenty of astoundingly guff nonsense, along these lines from well meaning, but hopelessly uninformed therapists

And, I'm no scientist, I'm a literature graduate. But, I did actually listen during all my science lessons at school, got my 3 science O Levels, and have a rough working knowledge of how your body actually works.

When I was low-carbing I made the effort to drink 3 litres of water a day for a year or so. Made no difference whatsoever to my skin. Possibly people seeing an improvement were also taking more care of themselves anyway, and that's where the improvement came from?

Whenever I've done it the only noticeable difference has been the time spent in the loo!

Well done Ma. Liver and kidneys, if we look after them, work wonders! I always drink water with meals and first thing in the morning, out of habit. If I'm in the 🍷I try to have a glass of water in between bottles glasses.

I drink gallons of tea. Water, not so much.

But apparently tea doesn't count.

After all, just look at the staggeringly huge difference between velvet skinned, lush haired, bambi-eyed Nigella Lawson (who luffs her wine, cream, butter and wine, and cheese, and wine)...and the withered-faced, dusty-haired Gillian McKeith (who luffs her steamed tofu and boiled alfalfa shoots).

I know who I'd rather look like (they are the same age, by the way).

Hmmm.... Nigella's had a lot of "intervention" though.

Of course, tea bleddy counts...it must be 99% water FFS.

'Oooh, it's bad for you, and it's a diuretic' twitters some ditsy therapist....tea might be a (very) mild diuretic, but that is very amply compensated by the fact you're drinking a big mug full of water with it, at the same time

She has always looked bleddy lush, right from the start.

Pretty sure I read somewhere that Gillian McKeith had had some work done, too.

It's akin to all the bogus, Harry Potter-esque names that cosmetic companies attach to their latest wonder skin cream...

"Our new, patented face cream contains plumptering, velvetious, illuminadides to smooth and perfect your complexion.

WTAF

So glad someone said about the water thing. Drives me bloody crazy when people insist on it (it's a big thing in the intermittent fasting world). ..and yes, tea and coffee count!

Especially when they post pictures of industrial size water containers marked off with how much they need to drink every hour or so. ..makes me feel slightly homicidal.

It's all boswellox!

It's biology for the hard of thinking...

For acne sufferers- try cutting out as much sugar as possible. My skin is clear these days but when I start eating sugary things, and drinking white wine, my hormonal acne returns all along my jawline. My acne began in my early twenties when previously my skin had been clear. I also started drinking in my twenties when I hadn't really indulged before. I think the sugars in alcohol played a part in it.

I've found that cutting down on dairy has reduced those angry hormonal spots. I've not cut it out totally, just not having much - a bowl of cereal every day was too much, one cup of tea is fine. I now have porridge made with almond milk instead.

I'm off to Google McKeith. As far as I can remember she looked like an angry, dessicated wasp. I would love to see what work she's had done. Hoping for an Anne Robinson level makeover