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Helping women glow from the inside out with Nutritional Therapy, Natural Skincare & Beauty Business Coaching. Diamond Exec @ Tropic.

Let’s glow—and grow—together! Welcome to Glow With Cat May—where beauty, wellness and opportunity meet. I’m Cat May, a qualified Nutritional Therapy Practitioner and proud Diamond Executive at Tropic Skincare. Here, I blend evidence‑based nutrition, hormone‑balancing strategies, and award‑winning natural skincare to help busy women feel vibrant, confident and radiant from the inside out. But I don’t stop there—I also mentor ambitious women to build their own beauty businesses, creating flexible, meaningful income while sharing products they love. Whether you’re seeking clearer skin, steadier energy, hormone support or a path to financial independence, you’ve found your community.

✨ Real‑food meal ideas & nutrition tips
✨ Skin‑loving routines & Tropic favourites
✨ Behind‑the‑scenes of building a Tropic Diamond business
✨ Supportive coaching for your own Glow‑up journey

Ready to glow and grow? Send a message or comment “GLOW UP” below, and let’s get started!

11/03/2026

Your winter skincare routine won’t work in spring. Here’s why.

3 Things Change in Spring (especially in perimenopause):

🌡️ VASODILATION INCREASES Temperatures rise. Your body’s temperature regulation is already compromised in perimenopause. Spring warmth = intense flushing, reactivity, and sensitivity spikes. You need calming, barrier-supportive formulations.

☀️ DAYLIGHT DISRUPTS CIRCADIAN RHYTHM Longer days affect your skin’s natural repair cycle. Your evening skincare needs to work harder to support nighttime regeneration.

🌿 POLLEN + ALLERGENS SPIKE Spring triggers inflammation. But in perimenopause, oestrogen decline weakens your skin barrier. You’re more vulnerable to irritation. Your routine needs allergen defence AND barrier reinforcement.

What to add to your spring routine:

✅ NIACINAMIDE — Bolsters barrier, addresses uneven tone, anti-inflammatory (morning + night)

✅ HYALURONIC ACID — Deep hydration + barrier support (apply to damp skin)

✅ BROAD-SPECTRUM SPF 30+ — Non-negotiable. Perimenopause = more prone to hyperpigmentation and sun damage.

Perimenopause doesn’t mean accepting reactive, irritated skin.

It means being intentional about supporting your skin through each season.

DM me ROUTINE for a FREE audit of your current products. I’ll tell you exactly what’s working and what needs to switch for spring.

08/03/2026

International Women’s Day 🤍

It’s funny to think how much can change when the right people come into your life.

Before I found Tropic, I was incredibly unconfident.

I didn’t own a dress.
I would never have worn a bold lipstick.
And the idea of standing up and speaking in front of a room of people would have absolutely terrified me.

If someone had told me that one day I’d be running a business that helps women grow in confidence, build something for themselves and step into their potential… I genuinely wouldn’t have believed them.

But this business has a way of changing people.

Not because it asks you to become someone else, but because it slowly shows you who you were capable of being all along.

Through Tropic I’ve met women who inspire me every single day.

Women who start quietly, unsure of themselves… and then slowly begin to realise what they’re capable of.

Women who grow in confidence.
Women who start believing in themselves.
Women who support each other in the most incredible way.

And honestly, getting to witness that transformation in others is one of the greatest privileges of what I do.

So today, on International Women’s Day, I’m feeling incredibly grateful for the community of women this journey has brought into my life.

Women supporting women will always be one of the most powerful forces there is. 🤍

And if you’re someone quietly watching, wondering if you could ever do something like this…

Just know that once upon a time, I was that woman too.

✨

07/03/2026

This made me laugh today :)

Anyone else relate?

It’s no joke ladies. We gotta laugh or we’ll cry 🤣

03/03/2026

At 42, everything changed.

Softer jawline. Deeper eye bags. Fine lines no matter what I tried.

Most women over 40 use routines built for 25-year-old skin — stripping, over-exfoliating, irritating when they should rebuild.

I rebuilt mine instead.

The Evening Protocol:

Tropic Renewing Cleanser → barrier restored

6-8 drops Juicy Greens → press into skin

6 drops Rainforest Dew (multi-molecular HA) → deep hydration

1 pump Organic Retinal (11x faster than retinol) → collagen without irritation

Swipe eye lift above and below eyes following socket line. Work from centre of face out.

1 pump Skin Dream Night Cream → rebuilds + locks in

5 min Rose Quartz Gua Sha (light pressure) → enhances absorption, lifts

Every step supports the last. No fighting. Just rebuilding.

Two Months In:

Jawline firmer. Eye bags gone. Skin lifted and bright.

I’m genuinely happier with my skin at 44 than at 34.

Not fighting aging — aging better.

Sourcing products separately costs time, money, and 2+ months of guessing.

Your skin keeps aging while you experiment.

Here’s What Works:

Stop treating 40+ skin like 25-year-old skin.

Barrier support first. Collagen second. Everything else follows.

Your skin isn’t broken — it just needs something different.

Book a free virtual consultation.

I’ll look at what you’re using, identify what’s working against you, and show you exactly how to reach your skin goal.

Comment SKIN GOAL — let’s get you there. ✨

27/02/2026

Your jawline is still there — it’s just buried under loss of elasticity and collagen. After 40, your skin loses firmness and starts to sag. A basic moisturiser hydrates, but it doesn’t rebuild the structural support your skin needs. You need actives that actually stimulate collagen production and tighten sagging skin.

At 42, my jawline softened. I looked in the mirror and barely recognised myself. I thought it was just aging, something I’d have to accept. Then I revamped my evening routine to include organic retinal and a firming night cream specifically designed to rebuild elasticity and lift sagging skin. Within 4 weeks, my jawline started coming back. I could see definition again. That one change made me feel like myself.

Perimenopause destroys elastin and collagen production. Your skin loses structural support, and gravity wins.

A basic moisturiser can’t rebuild what hormones just stopped making. You need retinol to stimulate collagen AND a firming cream with peptides and elastin-rebuilding ingredients to actually lift and tighten. 💔

Here’s the 5-step evening routine that brought my jawline back:
• Ceramide cleanser (gentle removal, barrier preservation) • Exfoliating toner (prepares skin for active ingredients) • Hyaluronic acid serum (deep hydration plumps sagging areas) • Organic retinol (stimulates collagen, firms and lifts skin) • Firming night cream (rebuilds elasticity, tightens jawline overnight) • Eye lift product (targets under-eye sagging and bags) • 5-minute Gua Sha massage 2x daily (lifts jawline, enhances firmness)

Visible jawline definition and lifted skin by week 4. ✅

If you want the exact evening protocol that brought my jawline back — the one that combines gentle cleansing, exfoliation, deep hydration, retinol, AND a firming cream designed specifically for lifting sagging skin — I can show you the routine that took 5 minutes and gave me back my face.

24/02/2026

Weight gain in perimenopause isn’t about eating more or moving less.

It’s about oestrogen becoming unstable, progesterone dropping, muscle declining, and cortisol rising.

Your body starts storing fat in your belly. Your sleep gets worse. Your cravings get stronger.

Willpower won’t fix a hormone problem.

But THIS will:

🔸 LIFT HEAVY (3-4x per week) Progressive resistance training preserves muscle and lowers visceral fat. Walking is great, but it’s not enough on its own.

🔸 PRIORITISE PROTEIN (30-40g per meal) Aim for 1.6-2.2g per kg of bodyweight daily. Protein stabilises blood sugar, reduces cravings, and keeps your metabolism up.

🔸 MANAGE BLOOD SUGAR + STRESS (not calories) Eat balanced meals. Sleep 7-8 hours. Stop undereating. In perimenopause, calorie restriction raises cortisol and actually SLOWS your metabolism.

The biggest mistake? Women keep doing the old playbook—eating less, doing more cardio. It backfires. They get hungrier, more fatigued, more frustrated.

Because they’re fighting their hormones instead of supporting them.

Your body doesn’t need less food in perimenopause. It needs smarter food.

I created my exact strategies I use to stay lean in my 40s to help women feel great from the inside out during perimenopause.

It’s the full protocol—heavy lifting, protein timing, blood sugar management, everything.

Comment LEAN and I’ll send it to you.

Your hormones didn’t betray you. You just needed to support them differently. 💛

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