BEAUTY KNOWHOW: Give your routine an extra shot... - YOU Magazine Fashion Beauty Celebrity Health Life Relationships Horoscopes Food Interiors Travel Sign in Welcome!Log into your account Forgot your password? Password recovery Recover your password Search Sign in Welcome! Log into your account Forgot your password? Get help Password recovery Recover your password A password will be e-mailed to you. YOU Magazine Fashion Beauty Celebrity Health Life Relationships Horoscopes Food Interiors Travel Home Beauty BEAUTY KNOWHOW Give your routine an extra shot… By You Magazine - April 14, 2019 …by adding these clever little boosters to your skin and hair products. Shots? No, not the boozy kind – the beauty kind! An easy customisable boost to our regular skincare or haircare routine, beauty shots (or doses) are popping up everywhere, enabling us to personalise and adjust regimes as our needs alter from day to day. Whether it’s caused by a change in hormones or environment, the condition of our skin and hair sometimes shifts and regular products may not be enough. This is where a quick beauty shot can ramp up a product’s potency – without breaking the bank or having to buy a whole new solution from scratch. As Alexia Inge, founder of CultBeauty, notes, ‘There’s a growing trend of brands building boosters into their ranges. Our life/work environments create such varied demands on our skin that “editable” skincare is becoming an essential part of everyone’s beauty wardrobe.’ Mollie Manning For instance, at Emulsion you can tailor your products (from £20, emulsion.co.uk). Just enter your preferences on the website and choose from a wide range of bases, be it a face mask, hand wash or scrub, with the option of add-ons from essential oils and extracts to fragrances. Clinique iD Active Cartridge Concentrate can be added to its classic Dramatically Different Jelly, Moisturiser or Gel (£36, clinique.co.uk) to treat your primary skin concerns. Options include Lines & Wrinkles for smoothing and re-plumping, Irritation for calming and comforting or Pores & Uneven Skin Texture for retexturising. Bleach London has a selection of Deep Treatment Shots (£7, bleachlondon.co.uk) to inject life into your hair, which can be used pre- or post-shampoo, added to your usual conditioner or even with styling products. Sarah Chapman Skinesis Overnight Exfoliating Booster (£59, sarahchapman.com) can be used alone or mixed into your chosen skincare to help reduce lines and breakouts. Adding the Kelp Bioferment (£22, haeckels.co.uk) or cold-pressed oils in Haeckels Skin Care Mixology Set to your routine means your daily moisturiser can be customised with whatever nourishment your skin is thirsty for. To give your hair more TLC, try Lee Stafford Choco Locks: Hot Choc Shots (£7.99 for four, boots.com) – an indulgent treat for tresses. If you don’t fancy editing your routine yourself, a new launch from SkinCeuticals (skinceuticals.co.uk) might be more up your street. After a skincare consultation discussing your goals as well as biological and environmental factors, a personal corrective serum is made – after three months you can return to check on your progress and update your formula. It will launch exclusively at dermatologist Dr Stefanie Williams’s London clinic (eudelo.com) this month and in other selected clinics in September. Feature by Edwina Ings-Chambers. Beauty assistant: Alice Robertson RELATED ARTICLESMORE FROM AUTHOR You could get paid to test Liberty’ s Beauty Advent Calendar People are obsessed with this Revlon hair drying tool A new drop of Boots Star Gifts has landed for Christmas 2022 Popular in Beauty 8 of the best sets of press-on nails to see you July 6, 2020 The nail polish worn by Meghan Markle on her wedding day July 27, 2020 Holly Willoughby’ s go-to eye serum is a £6 bargain August 18, 2020 John Lewis has confirmed the line-up for the next Virtual Beauty September 10, 2020 Lush just added to its bestselling Sleepy range with a dreamy September 30, 2020 These are the UK s favourite fragrances starting from just £8 June 22, 2022 These are the bestselling fragrances at Boots right now November 18, 2020 Olay’ s bestselling Regenerist face cream is better than half price on March 8, 2022 This is the £4 90 concealer Holly Willoughby uses to transform her January 20, 2021 Edwina Ings-Chambers Big love for these little labels February 14, 2021 Popular CategoriesFood2704Life2496Fashion2240Beauty1738Celebrity1261Interiors684 Sign up for YOUMail Thanks for subscribing Please check your email to confirm (If you don't see the email, check the spam box) Fashion Beauty Celebrity Life Food Privacy & Cookies T&C Copyright 2022 - YOU Magazine. All Rights Reserved