Entrepreneur Sara Davies shares her health and beauty secrets
Meet Sara
Davies MBE, 38, appears on BBC’s Dragons’ Den and competed in last year’s Strictly. Come Dancing. Tickets for her tour ‘Craft Your Christmas with Sara Davies’ are on sale now (sara-davies.com)
MY MUM IS MY GURU WHEN IT COMES TO SKINCARE… she is always reading a beauty blog! When I turned 30, she told me I must look after my face now, so she is in charge of the products. I double cleanse daily; I love an oil-based cleanser, which I remove with a flannel. Then I use micellar water and, after that, a serum and eye cream. Over that, I layer oil or a retinol. The Sunday Riley Luna Oil 15ml is brilliant (£45, cultbeauty.co.uk).
I THOUGHT I’D LOSE WEIGHT WHEN I DID STRICTLY. But I didn’t lose a pound! I toned up everywhere instead and dropped a whole dress size – you lose inches when you are doing 10 hours of exercise a day. I surprised myself with how much I enjoyed it and felt so strong and healthy that I’ve tried to retain some of those principles. Now, I run in the morning – I get up at 5.30am for a 5 to 7km run just as the mist is lifting. It’s my switchoff time when I do my thinking.
ALL THE PROFESSIONALS ON STRICTLY SMELL AMAZING! I now wear exactly the same fragrance as Janette Manrara. It’s Penhaligon��
