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Skincare 🤝 Selfcare

Most people are treating the skin they can see.

A 3D scan shows the rest. Sun damage sitting under the surface from summers you've long forgotten. Congestion in pores that hasn't surfaced as a breakout yet. Redness mapping out in places your bathroom mirror will never pick up.

Then we build your routine around what's actually there, instead of what we'd guess by looking.

Our skin analysis machine is ready for you 🤎

If you are still only washing your face once, your skin is missing out.

The first cleanse melts away the day: makeup, SPF, excess oil, and daily grime. The second cleanse actually gets down to work, delivering active ingredients to hydrate, soothe, or target acne directly.

Think of clean step 1 as preparing the canvas, and clean step 2 as treating the skin.

Beauty Expo 2026 — Day 2 ✨

Straight through the doors and directly into the asap skin products stand handing out goodie bags packed with testers… so naturally, we were off to a strong start 😂 We may have also tried our luck at their claw machine more than once. Jayde walked away a winner. Me? Not so much 😅

From there, we did lap after lap of the Expo floor, squeezing in as many live demos as we possibly could — SkinMed® Australia newest lip treatment device, skin needling with Advanced Skin Technology, the Apollo Duet from TADLI | The Australian Dermal & Laser Institute and the newest device from DermapenWorld | Microneedling & Skincare.

And don’t even get me started on the SQT Bio-microneedling | Australian Distributor - Renée Altakrity Bio-Microneedling Spicule Treatment… safe to say, we are officially OBSESSED. 👀

One of my favourite things about Expo will always be having so many incredible people from our industry together in one place. My wonderful business coach Jade from Jade Spehr | Aesthetic & Beauty Coaches & Consultants was MC’ing the Dermal Health & Wellness Stage, where she hosted Isabella Loneragan | Skin Therapist | Bowral & Sydney, my facial massage mentor, and Linda Mitar, one of my lecturers from ACHW. How lucky to have so many talented women in this industry to learn from and look up to!

I was also really looking forward to Otto Mitter presentation on the science behind MonoFusion, and it definitely didn’t disappoint. We managed to catch up afterwards too… which included me completely messing up the video they were trying to film 😂🤦🏼‍♀️

I snuck in another chat with Isabella The Skinformé Academy | Facial Massage Mastery AU + Online — after already accosting her and her husband on Friday night while they were innocently trying to enjoy an ice cream date 😂 — and got to see my beautiful facilitator Gay Wardle | Skin Educator | Online Skin Resources, who I’ve affectionately coined my skin fairy godmother 🧚🏼‍♀️

And just like that, Beauty Expo is over for another year! 🥹 Two very full days, lots of learning, lots of laughs, plenty of new ideas and a few things we may now desperately want for the clinic…

Feeling very inspired, very grateful and SO excited to bring everything we’ve learnt back home. 🤎

Beauty Expo 2026 — Day 1 ✨

What a DAY. We kicked things off with a breakfast workshop hosted by Service and Creative Skills Australia (SaCSA) (Service and Creative Skills Australia), who are currently reviewing the Australian beauty qualifications. It was such a valuable opportunity to be part of the conversation around what our future training packages should look like and what our industry actually needs moving forward.

Then down to the Expo floor, where we somehow spent most of the day learning rather than shopping 😂

We heard from...
• Dr Atafeh Najari from Trulux about PDRN, exosomes, peptides and more (the peptide info was so interesting!).
• Robyn McAlpine | Corneotherapist | Mentor spoke on the importance on consultations and their frameworks for successful treatment plans.
• Jacinta | Perth Holistic Skin Therapist & Educator ✨ spoke on implementing touch points of wellness throughout the client journey (look out for some changes coming your way) - and how important it is to refer clients on when their needs are outside of our scope
• Plus a discussion on buying behaviour in the beauty industry between Kelly Christie, Kimberley Haworth | Beauty Business Coach & Emelly | Skin Clinic Behavioural Strategist
* Followed by demo of the Geneo X device from Professional Beauty Solutions | distributor, and a pretty inspiring talk by Isabella Loneragan | Skin Therapist | Bowral & Sydney from The Skinformé Academy | Facial Massage Mastery AU + Online

Of course, there was some shopping… Jayde picked up some goodies from CHEEKYGLO | VIRAL SKINCARE SOLUTIONS 🍑, including their colour-changing Strawberry Matcha Lip Oil, which is a total vibe and I’m low-key jealous I didn’t grab one for myself 😂🍓🍵

We managed to visit our faves at Synergie Skin and I squeezed in a quick catch-up with my beautiful friend Aimee from GLO HOUŚ | THE REGIONAL DESTINATION FOR SKIN who I met through uni - Apologies to her husband because I may or may not have influenced her expo spending… 😬😂

Then we wrapped up Day 1 at ABIC’s Beauty After Dark drinks. I spent basically the entire night talking to some beautiful and inspiring people in our industry… and somehow only managed to take TWO photos 🤦🏼‍♀️ Thankfully, they were with two pretty special women — my amazing business coach Jade, and the incredibly talented June from Beauty Effects Toowoomba. (June, I can’t wait to finally make my first trip out your way soon for the

Is your skin acting out with sudden dryness, flakiness, or random breakouts? You might be dealing with a compromised skin barrier.

When your barrier is irritated, the best move isn't adding more products, it’s stripping your routine back to the essentials:

Gentle Cleanser

Hydrating Moisturiser

Vitamin B (Niacinamide) for barrier support

From there, targeted treatments like LED light therapy can work at a cellular level:

Blue Light: Targets surface bacteria (great for acne-prone areas)

Red Light: Reaches deeper to stimulate fibroblasts, collagen, and elastin

Infrared: Delivers the deepest skin recovery

Save this post for the next time your skin feels out of balance!