You may know Trinny Woodall as the woman behind the sell-out beauty brand Trinny London. Or perhaps you’ve read her column in the paper, seen her on TV, read one of her books, or just recognise her youthful and luminous complexion from your Instagram feed.
Often using herself as the model, makeup artist and cameraman in her Instagram beauty how-tos, Trinny begins each video sitting under a fluorescent light without a skerrick of makeup on.
And while we’re fascinated to learn all her tips and tricks for applying her dual-purpose Lip2Cheek Pots ($45, Trinny London), it’s the steps prior to painting her face that have us really curious.
Lucky for us, Trinny recently spoke to The Daily Mail’s FEMAIL and broke down the ins and outs of her lengthy skin care routine.
From the ingredients and methods she swears by, to the ones that will jeopardise your health decades from now, here are all of her anti-ageing secrets.
- A consistent skin care routine
If you were hoping to achieve Trinny’s youthful complexion in just a few steps, we regret to inform you that it’s a little more involved.
In discussing her active ingredient-rich and daily facial massage regimen, Trinny admitted, “my skin care routine is complicated.”
She starts her mornings with a cleansing balm and vitamin C serum, followed by her best-selling tinted moisturiser, the BFF Skin Perfector ($65, Trinny London).
While she doesn’t mention the exact brands she uses, we love the Glow Lab Age Renew® Cleansing Balm ($12, Chemist Warehouse) and Alpha-H’s Vitamin C ($71.96, Adore Beauty).
At night, it’s all about the double cleanse and layering of actives. “I clean my skin twice at night – once with a balm and then with an AHA BHA PHA gel,” she said. We recommend Some Bi Mi Real Cica 92% Cool Calming Soothing Gel ($23.90, Lila Beauty) for the latter.
Next, “I will do a little acid, retinol and finish with a peptide,” she concluded.
bh loves: Skin Republic Retinol Hydrogel Face Mask ($12.99, Skin Republic) and BOOST LAB Multi Peptide Anti-Ageing Serum ($29.95, Adore Beauty).
As for the application technique, Trinny goes beyond just a light patting and dabbing of serums.
By hand, with a gua sha or the microcurrent device NuFace Trinity ($449, Currentbody.com.au), Trinny explained “I am always slapping my face around, I do a lot of lymphatic drainage. For me it’s about lifting and continuity.”
And her secret to success? Discipline. “If people use [these] things once every two weeks then nothing is going to happen, don’t bother,” she said.
- Preventative Botox
Refreshingly, Trinny has no qualms sharing about her injectable treatments.
“I’ve done Botox since I was 35,” she revealed. “I started it because I had very, very bad forehead movement when I started in TV and I have a deep forehead.”
Even though it was a relatively new procedure at the time, Trinny credits the injectables for her crease-free forehead. “Back then Botox was embryonic but I thought why not? I’m now 58 and I never got lines on my forehead as a result.”
- Eliminating sugar
Though Trinny relies on many ingredients to support the health of her skin, there is one she insists on leaving out: sugar.
“Most people if they have rosacea or blemishes or anything like that, sugar is a major inflamer,” she explained, adding that sugar’s destructive impact on the skin has been relatively overlooked in comparison to that of alcohol, cigarettes and sun damage.
“When women go through menopause, inflammation is much more noticeable. So if I eat a chocolate full of s**t, my ankles swell because I feel the inflammation.”
But is turning down dessert as easy as tuning in to your body? Well, for Trinny it is. “If my body is telling me not to take the second bar [of chocolate], I do listen. It’s not about depriving people from the joys of life but it is about balance.”
So what does she do to fill the void left by these sweet treats? Dark chocolate and apple slices with peanut butter.
Speaking of the longer-term health impacts, Trinny also revealed:, “I want to be 80 running up the hill and I want to help women appreciate the holistic approach while reducing our sugar levels because the inflammatory markers are the basis of many serious illnesses.”
And at 58 looking as good as she does, we’re definitely taking notes.
Main image credit: @trinnylondon
What do you think of Trinny’s anti-ageing practices? What are yours?
Is Botox skincare? I thought it was Plastic Surgery?
I know what you mean – I’m actually a bit concerned that she won’t eat sugar (fair enough) but will put cow poisons into her for decades! Yikes!
Botox is not plastic surgery. I think it is considered just as injectable treatment for wrinkle prevention. Surgery is more invasive, involves some form of invasive manipulation of bodily structure. People use botox for migraines, sweating etc. No surgery there.
She is in great condition for 58! Wish I had started botox at 35, I wouldn’t have the eleven lines in between my eyebrows. At least she is honest and I think right about avoiding sugar. Another thing I haven’t done!
She is looking great for 58. Avoiding sugar is very difficult and I do love chocolate
I think I saw Trinny at Whitford shopping centre a few years ago doing a make over. She is lovely and her tips are great. Thanks
would be great to see her in real life! I find her quite fascinating and so motivated to keep herself ‘just so’ – way beyond the efforts that I think I’d ever do. I def don’t do the botox thing and it’s just that it seems so unresearched into the long term use for something that may not really be essential.
PS I have never had botox not wish to. Yes botox injections are classed as surgical as there is a toxic substance and several needles and only specially trained people (medical professional) should be doing them. Hit the wrong muscle or nerve and it can get hectic!
It flummoxes me that you can get people who aren’t trained doctors administering doses of botulism toxin!
That is crazy isnt it?!
What is even worse, is that anyone can order it online (and what they order is also not the best quality) and inject it into themselves or others!
I would love to get botox in my forehead line. Just wish it wasn’t so expensive and lasted longer than it does.
Same here!
Love and agree with her about the consistent skincare routine. I’m also trying to have more sleep each night and drink more water each day.
She really is lovely but the idea of Botox so young isn’t something I’d think necessary unless there was a specific medical issue.
I get Botox for my cerebral palsy affected right limbs!
My Mum gets Botox in her neck for a neurological condition, says she needs it for her face too!
Yes I have a friend also gets it for this and works wonders. I would certainly have it for this
Gotta love Trinny! So stylin!
Well, she’s honest. That was an interesting read. Consistency – yes!
She always looks good.
such a motivated lady!
Love her energy the most! And her attitude towards life in general. Love her passion for fashion and keeping it fun and exciting. Same as her I use good skincare with actives. But not avoiding “sugar”. Chocolates, cakes…all those yes…I’m not into at all as they are too high in bad fats and completely processed. Sugar is not the issue. Whole food plant based diet (fruit high) is what helped my skin to get way better than it was 15 years ago. Also nice skincare.
I really try to limit sugar as well but it’s so hard and it’s in just about everything!
Limiting sugar is hard and at first you will go through withdrawal and massive cravings!
I love my chocolate and I have learned to savour the darker chocolates and that is how I can justify a sweet dessert every so often.
But the easiest way to start to cut out excess sugar is in the non-sweet meals you eat. They add sugar to so many ready made meals/sauces/restaurant dishes. Often when I see a Better Homes and Gardens episode and the guy is cooking a normal meal and adds a ‘quarter of a cup’ of sugar, I just ‘nope, that is not a meal that I would ever make’.
But then again some people may say that is not easy as you need to make all of your own food from scratch.
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It is hard when you eat so many ready made meals including sauces and some restaurant meals as they so often include sugar (which they do not need!). I sometimes watch the TV show called Better Homes and Gardens and so many of the standard meal (not dessert) recipes on there tells you to add 1/4 cup of sugar (example, some ask for more, some less) and I would never do that. If I am to consume sugar it better be worth it and be via an actual sweet.
I agree with a consistent skin care routine. The rest, not so much.
She looks fantastic!
Trinny Woodall has amazing Skin and she does have some very good advice, one thing I do have is a consistent Skin Care Routine would very much like to have Botox done around my mouth and some work done on spider veins. Definitely need to reduce my intake of Sugar in my diet.
I would never have picked her age as 58.
I agree consistency is the key. I like watching Trinny do her stuff – I think she’s quite entertaining.
I like her ad on TV
She looks great for her age. I could do with some botox on my forehead but I don’t want to start something that I don’t feel comfortable doing.
She is amazing . I am not that disciplined and would struggle with no sugar treats. I am not keen on injectables but obviously Trinny looks stunning so they work just not for me.
The first think I though about her when I saw her image is that she does not at all look natural.
It is obvious that she has botox and lip fillers and probably countless other ‘enhancements’. So I don’t believe that she is a good example to look at for her recommendations for skin care unless you want to go down that same unnatural path.
Note, she has amazing fashion sense! I love that white top and trouser combination!
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and I wouldn’t look to her for recommendations unless I planned to go down the same path as Trinny.
She does have excellent taste in clothes, I love that white top and trouser combination!
The first thing that went through my mind when I saw her was that she gets a lot of e-n-h-a-n-c-e-m-e-n-t-s done which are obvious (botox, fillers, her lips look really misshapen) and
I just try to be healthy from the inside out, wear sunscreen and use good skincare.