Publication: The Sun. Published: 29 October 2026. Feature: Seven beauty experts reveal the common skin sins ruining your routine, and how to fix them.
Dr Nina Bal shares her expert insight with The Sun on the everyday skincare mistakes that could be damaging your skin and how to put them right. The Sun brought together seven beauty experts to name the habits that quietly undo a good routine, and Dr Nina, founder of Facial Sculpting Clinic, was one of them.
Her section, headed Nail in the coffin, covers the shortcut many people take at the end of a manicure: "Picking or peeling off gel polish can take layers of the natural nail with it, leaving nails thin, weak and prone to splitting." Her fix: "Instead, have it professionally removed or soak it off correctly to give your nails recovery time."
The same panel ran in print in Fabulous on 25 October 2026 as The 7 Deadly Beauty Sins by Jo Hoare, with Dr Nina alongside Alice du Parcq, Dr Sabika Karim, Nadine Baggott, Adam Reed, Annabel Clark-Clements and Lisa Caldognetto.
It is the principle we come back to in clinic. The harm is rarely in the treatment itself; it is in the shortcut taken at the end of it, and in the recovery time that never gets given. That is why a plan here starts at the consultation, where aftercare is settled before anything is booked, and why the patient guide sets out what to ask of any practitioner first. Current costs are on the prices page.
