Emer O'Callaghan: Six weeks to transform your skin

The words we use in our daily vocabulary have a huge impact on everyone around us,

I no longer watch the news to hear the way some so-called world leaders speak, they use the negative rhetoric of hate and greed, it’s so disheartening and it’s certainly not leadership qualities like I know.

People who speak badly of others think badly of themselves, no person with good self-worth and self-awareness speaks with such negativity.

There are certain words I hear people use all the time that I deliberately choose never to use myself - words like “awful, disgusting, toxic, hate, appalling”, and “horrendous”.

Oh Jeez, that last one drives me nuts, I swear.

Instead, I make a conscious decision every day to choose my vocabulary in the exact same way I choose my clothes, food and mindsets. I love to use words such as “amazing, fantastic, unreal, class, outstanding”, and my most favourite of all is “love”.

In my job, I see how so many people lack self-love, but the most important relationship you will have in this life is with yourself.

You might recall I started a self-care movement back in the pandemic, and this much I do know, people who invest in self-care through facials, massages, hair, nails, exercise classes, good diet, etc, all are investing in their self-care.

They have enough self-love to know they deserve and need these things to help them not just look and feel better, but as a clear reflection of their own self-worth.

To support this, I have launched at Emerald Beauty Clinic my very own six-week skin Kickstart programme, and so many have signed up for it.

This week, I want to tell you more about it, so you too can learn and get educated on your skin and maybe you will sign up for it also - you can start your six weeks at any time.

SIX-WEEK KICKSTART

I am 25 years now working with skin, and this programme has taken me years to fine-tune and perfect.

It’s amazing to see the difference first hand, to see clients sit up post-facial and say ‘Wow’ when they look in the mirror. That is why I love my job so much, my clients get results.

Being naturally competitive, I am all about the results.

On the first day of the six-week plan, you get a customised professional Deep Cleanse Facial, 90 minutes, using our professional grade skincare products, and if needed our new Guinot machine.

Your skin will be fully analysed and layers of dead skin removed, this brightens up the whole complexion.

I will then prescribe your first homecare plan of cleanser, toner, and moisturiser - you will use these every morning and evening at home until your next skin treatment two weeks later. In that second facial, we do a different job tailored to your skin needs, and you will get a new homecare skin plan and prescribed eyecream, SPF, and neck cream if its needed.

You will work these new steps into your first plan and work away at home again for two more weeks every morning and evening.

You come back on the sixth week and we will do the last skin treatment of the Kickstart programme, and depending on how your skin is looking, we will do another facial.

The reason why we do these facials is because this is what is needed to remove dead skin that has built up.

After the third facial, you will be shown the final two steps of how to exfoliate and mask at home and you will be given a complete programme of steps all printed out.

You follow this plan then at home every morning and evening. It takes just a few minutes to do the steps and the results have been scientifically proven to slow down the ageing process and give you radiant, healthy, glowing skin, regardless of your age or skin type.

I did one of my popular beauty videos on my Kickstart plan and you can watch it now on our Emerald Beauty Clinic Facebook, Instagram, and TikTok pages.

INCLUDE DECOLLETAGE AND NECK TOO

In a correct facial, you are asked to change into one of our treatment gowns and all of your decolletage, neck and face are treated.

I cannot for the life of me understand why anyone would pay for half a treatment, and this leaves you susceptible to a sagging neck and decolletage.

If you get a facial done properly, you will instantly see the difference.

You are removing layers of dead skin cells so a radiant, more youthful and healthy skin is clear for all to see.

You should look in the mirror and see the difference, it’s instant and it’s powerful.

SKIN HEALTH

We are almost out of April now, but I know many of you vowed back in January that this would be the year you took better care of your skin and started those facials ya one in The Echo has been banging on about for years!

Yet here we are four months in, and you’ve still not done one facial.

This is why I named it the six-week Kickstart programme, because that’s what most people need - a skin kick- start.

Hopefully, what you learn will stand to you for life.

Knowledge truly is power, and while I know I make no secret of the fact I truly love my job, I also firmly believe that my role is to educate clients on their skin, so that they know better and can choose better products.

We now know scientifically that this education can be life-saving.

We cannot avoid the fact that skin cancer is still a big killer in Ireland, which really only tells us that people are not educated enough on their skin safety.

When I show my clients what key things they need to be looking out for when buying an SPF, that knowledge can be life-saving. They then go home and tell their families and this ripple effect is working, and is why those who do come to places like my clinic are being educated and empowered so much on how to clean, care and protect their beautiful skin.

Skin is the largest organ in our body, and it’s the only organ on the outside, yet it’s also the most neglected at times.

My job is to educate clients more about their skin so they too can fall in love with it.

One thing is for sure, you won’t ever regret the work, the time, the care and investment you put into your skin.

God gave us all only one beautiful face, it’s the one we look at all day and put out to the world.

People spend a fortune on shoes, designer bags, and clothes, but it’s your face people talk to, not your shoes.

Those who invest in their skin look decades younger, far more healthy, and just radiate, and they never regret making their skin more of a priority in their lives.

There really is nothing like a good kick-start in life, regardless of your age, your skin will benefit so much for it. You can start your kick-start anytime, but there is no time like the present, just before summer, so you can glow with radiant skin.

Emer O’Callaghan is a beauty doctor and skin specialist who won Irish Beauty Therapist of the Year and Works at Emerald Organic Beauty Products Ltd, trading as Emerald Beauty Clinic, 021 4365949. A multi award-winning Gold Standard Crown Clinic and Centre of Skin Excellence, 2008-2026, www.emeraldbeautyclinic.ie - follow us on Facebook/Instagram/TikTok.

BOOK YOUR SKIN KICK- START: The great thing about the six-week Kickstart is you can start yours at any time. Simply call Emerald Beauty Clinic at 021 4365949.