About Sand
Welcome to Sands Beauty & Holistic Therapies
You will find me in Barry, inside Jennies Creation Hair Salon on Winston Road. It is a small, quiet space, and you will always be seen by me rather than passed between people.
I offer skin treatments and skin programmes, massage and holistic therapies, beauty treatments, and emotional wellbeing sessions. Whatever you come in for, you can expect honest advice and no pressure to book something you do not need.
My Story
I am Sand, and my interest in skin started with my own.
As a teenager I had severe acne. I learned early how much your skin can affect your confidence, and how little that has to do with vanity. That is what brought me into this work, and it is still why I do it.
Twenty four years later, I have spent most of my working life with women. Not only their skin, but their bodies too, the tension people carry in their shoulders and never mention, and more recently what is going on underneath all of it.
What I have noticed is that people rarely come to me about one thing. Behind a concern about skin, ageing, tiredness or tension there is usually something else going on. Stress, a life change, menopause, or simply years of putting yourself last.
So I have never been able to treat skin as separate from the person it belongs to. That is what Inside Out means.
I’m a skin and wellbeing practitioner. I work more like a personal trainer than a traditional beauty therapist. I measure where your skin is now, create a personalised plan and sequence the right treatments and home care, then review your progress every four weeks to keep you moving towards your goal.
What I have trained in
I have been a member of the International Institute of Active-Ageing for over 22 years, working with Environ skincare, Advanced Nutrition Programme supplements and Jane Iredale mineral makeup.
Twelve years ago I qualified as an EFT practitioner, after noticing again and again how much mindset affected what I was seeing in the treatment room. Since then I have trained in EMDR-inspired therapies, emotional coding, Time Line Therapy and hypnosis.
More recently I have brought all of it together into my Inside Out Skin Health Programme, which measures your skin properly at the start and treats it in the right order rather than guessing.
On the skin side, this may include microneedling and professional peels, carefully planned and sequenced to work together to maximise results.
The Inside Out Skin Health Programme is the first of my Inside Out Wellbeing Programmes. Others are in development, built around the same idea, that how you look and how you feel are not separate things. If you would like to hear when the next one is ready, join my newsletter
What you can expect
You’ll get honest advice, even when that means telling you that you don’t need the treatment you came in for. A plan that fits your real life, and a calm, unhurried hour where you can switch off, feel listened to.
I am a skin and wellbeing practitioner, not a dermatologist or a doctor. I work on the condition and appearance of your skin. I do not diagnose or treat medical conditions, and if anything about your skin concerns me I will tell you and suggest you see your GP.
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