Know your skin cycle

Like it or not, we are all made of hormones. But far from being the inconvenient party-pooper crazymakers their bad rap might have you believe, hormones are in fact highly intuitive chemical messengers that regulate our organs and tell our body how to function. Oestrogen, progesterone and testosterone are the three main sex hormones that control the menstrual cycle and, in the most part, they play an efffective balancing act, rising and falling in beautiful symbiosis. But, as skin is an outward visible manifestation of all that our body is going through, it’s little wonder that what our hormones are getting up to is often written across our faces.

“Women most definitely have a skin cycle relative to our hormones,” says skincare expert and Pai Skincare founder, Sarah Brown. For some, it’s a random blemish or dried