This is one of those things where I feel my beauty license may just be revoked for admitting such a thing, but just try and take it, punks.

So, I’m a huge fan of exfoliation, right. Not in a psychotic, getting-medical-grade-peels-every-week-way, just in a like-to-use-a-nice-gentle-scrub-every-couple-of-days, and do a glycolic/salicylic scrub on Sundays. (DAMMIT, I love the song that’s on right now – how good is Let Me Think About It?) And the reason I love exfoliation is because it removes dead skin cells and dirt and grime and sunscreen and silicon that builds up on my skin day after day, which lets the moisturisers and stuff I put on penetrate better, which in turn lets my skin look better. Because I always, always want my skin too look the best it can. (In my role, it’s kind of, uh, expected.)

But do you know what I never, ever did and which has really helped my skin retain the happy little glow it has in the mornings when I put on my creams and there are no dehydration lines or computer face dryness?

And remember, this is something that could have me reported because it’s so mind-blowingly simple:  wash my face in the morning.

I never did it because my thing is to shower before bed and wash my face then, not in the morning, (unless I tanned the night before, or did some strenuous sleep-walking, or went for a run before work) and I figured I didn’t need to wash my face again in the morning, cause that would just dry it out, surely.

No. It won’t. What it will do, however, is make a big difference. (Shut up, shut up, I know I’m behind the eight ball and you’ve all been washing in the morning for 7689 years.)

Cause when you think about it, you put on some heavy stuff at night… Thick night creams and serums and so on, and then, then you go smush your face into a pillow! Madness!

Point: Washing that all off quickly over the basin in the morning (I use Priori facial cleanser cause it offers some mild AHA/BHA exfoliation but mostly it’s just frothing with antioxidant top dog Idebenone) before you launch into your daily skin care routine makes so much sense it makes me want to vomit.