Clarins Free Great Skin Beauty Gift

Clarins Free Great Skin Beauty Gift

Don’t miss this month’s free gift offer from Clarins (while stocks last!). Buy any two Clarins products and choose your free Great Skin Beauty Collection in a stylish bag. Select from:
PROTECT
Multi-Active Day Cream
Gentle Refiner
Moisture-Rich Body Lotion
Wonder Perfect Mascara
or
FIRM
Extra-Firming Day Cream
Gentle Refiner
Extra-Firming Body Lotion
Joli Rouge Brilliant 7
or
RESTORE
Super Restorative Day Cream
Gentle Refiner
Renew Plus Body Serum
Blush Prodige 02
Autumn Treatment Offer

Autumn Treatment Offer

As Autumn arrives, why not treat yourself to a pampering session with three treatments to set you up for the cooler months ahead? Just £61… book soon and enjoy by the end of November.

Clarins Big Beauty Gift worth £47

Clarins Big Beauty Gift worth £47

Our CLARINS BIG BEAUTY GIFT offer for the summer has just arrived!
When you buy any two or more of your favourite Clarins skincare, body & bath or make-up products at Margaret Balfour Beauty Centre you can choose three Clarins travel-sized products worth £47, yours to take home FREE. Do take advantage soon, while stocks last, as these offers are always really popular.

Looking for product INSPIRATION?
If you’re looking for new ideas on which Clarins products to try next, enjoy this video featuring Victoria, influential UK fashion, beauty and lifestyle blogger at www.inthefrow.com which demonstrates eight simple steps to achieve a smoothing and radiant complexion with Clarins this summer. All the products featured are available in our salon shop – buy any two to receive your free gift!

Gel Colour Offer Fingers & Toes

Gel Colour Offer Fingers & Toes

Until the END OF AUGUST you can enjoy Gel Colour on Fingers or Toes (or treat yourself to both?!) for just £29 instead of £36 when you book with Savannah, who has recently joined our team of professional therapists. Call 01935 816177 as soon as possible to avoid disappointment.

Beautiful professionally pierced ears

Beautiful professionally pierced ears

Perhaps you are thinking of treating yourself, or a younger relative (aged 7 years+), to first ‘proper’ earrings this summer? The moment of having your ears pierced is a very special one and we can help you make the right choices.

Margaret Balfour offers a relaxed environment where our fully-qualified therapists use the safest, most technologically-advanced ear piercing system available. We use a quiet, gentle, hand-pressured instrument and sterile, pre-sealed hypoallergenic piercing earrings for your complete peace of mind.

School holidays offer the perfect time for a first piercing, with weeks ahead for young ears to heal before term starts again. Book now to avoid disappointment – or call us for more information

Top tips for getting rid of puffy eyes

Top tips for getting rid of puffy eyes

We’re sharing with you a feature by Coral Rickard from Woman & Home online about the most popular Clarins product to combat puffy eyes. Read her top tips and come in to see us at the salon to ask about Clarins Super Restorative Total Eye Concentrate

TOP TIPS ON GETTING RID OF PUFFY EYES

Puffy eyes, ringed with dark circles is the quickest way to add 5 years. So it seems unfair that most of us, through not fault of our own regularly wake up with them. Commonly associated with a late night, puffy eyes symbolise excessive tiredness and fatigue, but they can also be caused by allergies, stress, dehydration and natural ageing. As we age the membrane or ‘septum’ that normally holds fat in place in the upper and lower lid starts to thin and the fatty tissue falls forward, causing a bulge or ‘bags’ as we all know them.
So, how to get rid of puffy eyes? Well for starters you could pop two thin slices of cucumber over your eyes but this can take time and the results rarely last. Or you could invest in one our favourite de-puffing products which will slip effortlessly into your daily routine.

New studies have revealed a surprise ingredient that de-puffs eyes: barley. Celebrity dermatologist Dr Ronald Moy claims that derivatives from the grain are something of a wonder-cure for banishing that tired under-eye look. “They stimulate the stem cells in the thin under-eye skin to grow thicker collagen, which then leads to tighter skin,” he explained. In fact, it’s more sustainable long-term than the similarly tightening effect of Botox.

To get the most out of your de-puffing products consider a quick daily under-eye massage. ‘Massage helps de-puff and get circulation moving,’ says says Sally Penford, education manager at the International Dermal Institute. Hydration is everything, so combine both when you apply eye products. You will notice an instant lift, and over time, a longer lasting difference, says the brains behind the mini massage, Nathalie Eleni – international facialist to natural beauties including Livia Firth and Carey Mulligan.Here are her top three tips for how to get rid of puffy eyes at home:

1. Apply some eye gel or cream, then place your ring finger (has the least amount of pressure) just under the tear duct of each eye. Using medium pressure with a pumping movement, slowly press along the under-eye area in about 10 gradual moves until you reach your temples

2. Now massage the temples, which is a lymph node, using small circular, anti-clockwise movements to help drain toxins and fluids from the face. Continue this technique along you eye sockets, round towards your temples again. Slowly repeat three times

3. Finally, place the index finger at the bridge of your nose just under the brow. Pushup and under the muscle, so that you are lifting it and hold for the count of ten. Work your way along the whole brow with this technique and repeat three times.

by Coral Rickard

(Copyright and picture credit Woman & Home online)

Available at Margaret Balfour Beauty Centre, Sherborne