Beautiful Nails and Bourgeois Beauty

  Autumn is the season where we repair what summer quietly disrupted. By March on the Gold Coast, I begin to see a subtle shift in the skin. It isn’t always dramatic. It doesn’t always present as breakouts or obvious damage. It’s more of a fatigue, a flattening of brightness, a slight roughness to the touch, pigment that appears a little darker, dehydration lines that linger longer than they did in December. Summer asks a lot of our skin. Even when we are careful. Ultraviolet exposure increases oxidative stress. Heat and salt water disturb the lipid barrier. Air conditioning and long days outdoors increase transepidermal water loss. The skin often thickens defensively. Inflammation can sit quietly beneath the surface. And because we live in Queensland, summer is not a brief season. It is months of cumulative exposure. By the time autumn arrives, the skin is no longer in protection mode, but it is not yet repaired. This is where timing matters. Skin Has a Rhythm Skin turno...