Skin with Kirsty

Two hours. No phone. No one needing anything. Just you, a warm room, a self-guided Tropic facial ritual, gua sha massage, Donna’s Tibetan singing bowls and an oracle card pull.

Glow & Flow is on Sunday 28th June, 7 to 9pm at The Barn in Willian, SG6 2AL. Just 7 spaces left at £35.

July’s date is 19th back at Gravenhurst Village Hall.

Kirsty x

Three products that won’t get pushed to the back of the bathroom shelf.

If you’ve ever bought a gift set for a man you love and then found it months later, unopened, gathering dust behind his deodorant, you know the feeling. Most men’s gift sets are designed to be opened on the day and forgotten by the weekend. This one is different.

The Protect and Reset kit is just three things he’ll actually use. A Hydrating Cleanser that doubles as a quick face wash. Look Sharp, a sensitive shave cream that doesn’t leave skin tight or red. And Skin Shield, an SPF 30 moisturiser that lives on his bathroom shelf and quietly does the work of two products without him having to think about it. Three steps, two minutes, done.

I’ve had so many conversations about this kit over the last fortnight, and the pattern is always the same. The men who get given this don’t suddenly become skincare enthusiasts. They just start using a few good products every morning, without making a thing of it. Which, when you think about it, is exactly what we all want for them.

The kit is £40, worth £52. Father’s Day is Sunday 21st June, and the Tropic order deadline to get this delivered in time is Wednesday 17th June. That gives you five days to sort it.

If you’d like a hand picking the right thing for your dad, partner, brother or son, message me. Happy to talk it through, and even help you write the card if you’re stuck. x

14,000 tonnes of sunscreen washes into our oceans every year.

UV-blockers like oxybenzone can be fatal to coral reefs and marine life. Around 3,500 suncream brands still contain them. When you swim, shower, or sweat, those chemicals go straight into our waterways.

I started checking ingredients in everything after using YUKA, and sunscreen was one of the biggest eye-openers. Most of the high street options I’d used for years didn’t pass.

Tropic was the first brand in Europe to achieve Protect Land and Sea certification. Zero ingredients known to harm our oceans in any of their sun care. Every single formula.

You don’t have to choose between protecting your skin and protecting the planet.

Shop reef-safe SPF via the link in bio. x

Your shower just got a serious upgrade. 🌿

Tropic’s brand new Gel Body Cleansers are live today and they are genuinely beautiful. Four scents, all created with Europe’s master perfumers, in see-through colour-coded bottles that look as good as they smell.

Natural coconut cleansers for a luxurious lather. Aloe vera juice and kiwi extract to leave skin feeling revitalised. More product in every bottle than before.

Lime Zest and Pineapple, Wild Mango and Blood Orange, White Jasmine and Monoï, Eucalyptus and Black Pepperleaf.

Two of the original body wash scents are being discontinued to make way for these, so if you’re a Mangosteen or Frangipani fan, message me now before they sell out.

£10 | 280ml | freshly made in the UK | link in bio x

This bag. This June. Yours for free.

June is Tropic’s birthday month, 22 years of freshly made, clean British skincare. And to celebrate they’ve made hosting a pamper evening more rewarding than ever.

Invite a few friends round, I’ll bring all the products, everyone gets to try a self-guided facial and find their perfect routine. You get 15% product allowance from everything ordered on the night as standard.

But this month there’s more. Hit £300 in sales on the evening and you unlock an extra £30 product credit. Hit £500 and that gorgeous green Tropic bag is yours too, completely free.

I have June dates available. If you fancy a relaxed evening in with your friends and some genuinely brilliant skincare, just drop me a message and I’ll tell you how it works. x

37% of men say skincare feels unnecessary.

Not because they don’t care about their skin. Because nobody’s ever shown them what’s worth doing and what’s just noise.

The Protect and Reset kit gets it right because it doesn’t pretend to be something it isn’t. Three products. Cleanse, shave, shield. That’s the whole routine, and every product earns its place.

The Hydrating Cleanser is the same one I use, by the way.
Aloe vera, cucamelon and hyaluronic acid, and it triples skin hydration in 20 minutes compared to water alone.
So if his idea of washing his face right now is whatever soap is in the shower, this is a quiet upgrade he’ll feel within a week. Look Sharp is a sensitive shave cream that doubles as a face wash, with black oat and Tazman pepper extract to calm the kind of red, bumpy skin most men just accept as normal. And Skin Shield is your everyday SPF 30 moisturiser in one step. Zinc PCA, cactus extract, green coffee. Lightweight, invisible, and the kind of SPF a man will actually wear because it doesn’t feel like sun cream.

Here’s the honest bit on SPF, since I bang on about this a lot. A dedicated SPF 50 like Sun Day is still my gold standard. But the best protection is the one that gets worn. SPF 30 every single morning beats SPF 50 sitting in a drawer, and for a man who’s used nothing his whole life, Skin Shield is the gateway that changes the habit.

Vegan, cruelty free, freshly made in the UK, with 10% of profits going to charity. Same Tropic values, kit designed around how he’ll actually use it.

Father’s Day is on the 15th of June. The kit is £40, worth £52. The kind of gift that quietly changes a habit instead of sitting in a drawer.

Save this if you’re thinking of buying for the dad, partner, brother or son in your life, and message me if you’d like a hand choosing. xx

Five products in one tube. This is the bit nobody tells you about CC Cream.

Most of us reach for a tinted moisturiser, then a separate SPF, then maybe a bit of coverage on top, and by the time we’re out the door it’s three steps and ten minutes we didn’t have. CC Cream does the lot in one.

Swipe through and I’ll show you why it’s earned its spot in so many makeup bags.

It adapts to your exact skin tone with SkinSync technology, so one tube genuinely works whether you’re fair, deep, or somewhere in between. No shade roulette. It carries SPF 50 with broad spectrum UVA and UVB protection, so your sun defence is built into a step you’re doing anyway. It’s water-resistant, which matters more than people think on a sweaty school run or a warm beach day. And underneath all that, it’s still skincare, nourishing the skin while it sits on it, not just sitting on top like old-school makeup.

Here’s my honest take. A dedicated SPF like Sun Day is still the gold standard if you want maximum protection, and I’ll always say that. But the best protection is the one you actually wear. If a CC Cream is what gets SPF onto your face every single morning without fail, that’s a win for your skin.

Save this for the next time someone asks how to simplify their morning, and send it to the friend who says she “hasn’t got time” for skincare. xx

Eighteen products. One bag. A hundred pounds. And the bit that makes me smile, a free CC Cream on top.

If you’ve got a holiday coming up, or just want your skin sorted for summer without lugging full-size bottles around, this is the one. The Holiday Ready Bundle is everything you actually reach for, shrunk down to travel size and tucked into one little bag.

You get Sun Day SPF 50 for your face, which is my personal hero and the SPF I’ll always recommend first. Great Barrier SPF 50 for your body. A full mini skincare routine with Smoothing Cleanser, Morning Mist, Skin Feast, Rainforest Dew and Elixir. The Hydrate face mask for the flight home. A haircare discovery set so your hair survives the sun and salt. And four mini body washes that smell good enough to make a shower feel like a spa.

Everything is vegan, cruelty free, freshly made here in the UK, with 10% of profits going to charity. The same Tropic values whether you’re spending a hundred pounds or a tenner.

Here’s the clever bit. The bundle is £100, which means it also unlocks this week’s offer, a free CC Cream worth £32 in your choice of shade. So your whole summer skin and hair kit, plus a tinted SPF 50 for everyday, all sorted in one go.

The free CC Cream runs until the 31st of May. The bundle’s a brilliant buy any time, but right now it pays you back.

Save this if a holiday’s on the horizon, and message me if you’d like a hand picking your CC Cream shade. xx

The summer shortcut your makeup bag has been waiting for.

You know those mornings when you haven’t got time for a full face, but you still want to look fresh and awake? That’s exactly what CC Cream was made for. It’s the one product I reach for when I want to do less but still look pulled together.

Here’s why it earns its place. Lightweight, buildable coverage that adapts to your skin tone using SkinSync technology, so you get one shade that just works, no matching stress. It’s got SPF 50 protection built in, so your sun defence is sorted in the same step you’d do your base anyway. And it feels like skin, not makeup.

Right now Tropic are giving it away free when you spend £100 or more. It’s worth £32 and you choose your shade.

If there are bits you keep meaning to reorder, your cleanser, a serum, your moisturiser, this is the moment to top up and let the CC Cream join the order for nothing.

The offer runs until the 31st of May while stocks last. You can shop through the link on my page, or send me a message and I’ll happily help you pick your shade and build your order.

Comment or drop me a message if you’d like a hand. Always happy to talk skin. xx

They’re here. 🌞

If you’ve ever avoided self-tan because of the smell, the streaks, the transfer onto your sheets or the faff of a mitt, these two are for you.

Summer Skin is a brand new gradual tanning serum for the body. Not the old lotion, a completely new formula. 300ml pump, smells of tiaré flower and vanilla, non-sticky and transfer-resistant. 98% of testers said their skin felt immediately hydrated, 96% across all skin tones agreed it didn’t look orange or yellow.

Sun Spritz is a facial tanning mist. Spray and go. No mitt, no mixing, no rinsing. Develops in 4 to 6 hours, non-comedogenic, smells of neroli and honeysuckle, won’t transfer onto your pillowcase.

Both freshly made in the UK, 100% vegan and cruelty-free, and covered by the 30-day happiness guarantee.

Link in bio or drop TAN in the comments and I’ll send you straight there x

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