"Stay Off The Sunbeds!"

Amber Day, beauty therapist at Boyd Hair and Beauty is promoting safe skincare this summer!


With the warmer months fast approaching, and with the sun already breaking through the clouds, it's more important than ever that your skin is protected!


Amber says: "When it comes to skin care, the best thing you can do is wear an SPF daily. They can be found in moisturisers, in sun creams and foundations. All you're doing is protecting your skin from the sun and it can having long-term benefits on you skin."


This is sound advice, and of course sensible but it's easy forgotten and with the warmer months approaching, a tan is going to be essential for wearing shorts and dresses!


"I would never advise anyone to use sun beds. We all know of the risks people face when they use them and they simply aren't worth it," says Amber.


Instead, Amber showed me the ranges that they carry in Boyd. 


"Fake Bake is a popular fake tan that people use regularly and of course we do spray tanning here at Boyd.


"We have a new tanning product coming into stock soon. It's from the Guinot range and it's a capsule that you take two weeks before you go on holiday, and two weeks when you come back and it increases the levels of melanin in your skin," explains Amber.


Amber also says the capsules are completely safe - there was a lot of controversy not too long ago about tanning pills. The capsules are going to retail for £30.


She adds that they will be really effective on pale skin (like mine) and will help improve sensitive skin in the heat as well.


Guinot is a French make and they do a lot of creams and gels which work in the treatments available at Boyd.


Amber said: "We have a few different facial treatments on offer. We often use a machine to penetrate the layers of skin and give a really deep cleanse. Sometimes that's all the skin needs!"


Using the Guinot products, you can see and feel the differences in the skin after the first use. 


The products are more expensive than the other types of skincare on the market but the results are immediate.


I have a very pale complexion and rarely tan in the sun, so with Amber's instruction, I'm going to leave the sun beds alone for a while and stick to my fake tan for now, and not forget the SPF!