BEAUTY BOOST

UNBEKNOWNST TO MANY, THE COMMON MAXIM‘ BEAUTY IS ONLY SKIN DEEP’ FIRST ORIGINATED IN 1613 WHEN ENGLISH POET AND ESSAYIST SIR THOMAS OVERBURY STATED IN HIS POEM, A WIFE, THAT:‘ ALL THE CARNALL BEAUTY OF MY WIFE IS BUT SKIN-DEEP’. EMPHASISING THE IMPORTANCE OF A PERSON’ S CHARACTER AND INNER QUALITIES OVER THEIR PHYSICAL OUTWARD APPEARANCE, THERE’ S NO QUESTION THIS CATCHY IDIOM IS A POSITIVE MANTRA TO LIVE BY, BUT, WITH REGARD TO‘ BEAUTY’ IN ITS LITERAL SENSE – ESPECIALLY WHEN VIEWED HOLISTICALLY IN TERMS OF HEALTH AND WELLNESS – IS IT CORRECT? IN TODAY’ S MODERN WORLD, THE ANSWER IS NO. OUR BEAUTY, IT SEEMS, CAN BE PREENED AND PRIMED IN FAR MORE WAYS THAN WITH A SLICK OF MOISTURISER APPLIED EXTERNALLY. POLLY HUMPHRIS LOOKS AT THE MANY WAYS BEAUTY CAN BE BOOSTED – BOTH INSIDE AND OUT.

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