Beauty Rebel

Whether you’re getting married, celebrating a new promotion or planning a great night out, MV’s special occasion skincare routine and expert advice will help get your glow on. There’s something about the excitement and pressure of a special occasion – be it a wedding, anniversary, red carpet appearance or weekend party – that compels people to try and ‘fast-track’ a flawless complexion. Weeks, days or sometimes even hours before a big event, they’ll book in for cosmeceutical interventions that prod, peel and traumatise their skin. Often at times the person ends up traumatised as well. One of the most upsetting...

At MV Skintherapy we’re all about creating products that are simple, versatile, and work for everyone. That’s why we’ve made sure that our Native Power Serum is designed to be the only skin drink you’ll need to illuminate and impart a living glow.  Packed with powerful ingredients sourced from native Australian plants, our Native Power Serum is an homage to First Nations botanical wisdom and also contains Hyaluronic Acid, or HA for short. HA is a naturally occurring glycosaminoglycan found in our body’s own connective tissue. It’s deeply moisturising, helps our skin to stretch and flex and also helps to heal...

As a world-renowned sensitive skin expert, eczema is something MV founder Sharon McGlinchey encounters daily and has years of success in treating.  This month - being Eczema Awareness month - we sat down with Sharon and Nutritionist Emma Flint to discuss their tips for treating eczema from the inside AND the outside. Plus, read on to discover our oatmeal ‘bomb’ recipe and instructions to soothe your skin in a bath OR shower. Eczema is more than annoying.  It can be a debilitating lifelong condition which can impact your confidence and quality of life - and it’s surprisingly common.  1 in...

Just as you wouldn’t be using the same makeup products year-round, your summer and winter skincare game plan should differ accordingly. When the mercury dropped, our skin reacted to the changes in humidity and temperature. Your ‘winter skin’ is notoriously prone to irritation - and things like itchiness, dryness, dullness, and sensitivity are all characteristic of cold weather skin.     What made your skin so unhappy in winter? Compared to summer, there are fewer lipids in the skin barrier in winter. Low levels of moisture in the air during the frosty months tends to trigger greater water loss through the...