‘Beauty sleep’ is a term we often throw around during moments of exhaustion, but what is beauty sleep and is there really any science behind the concept? Does the amount and quality of the sleep we get nightly, not just after an exhausting few days, really have an effect on our appearance?
Dr Allie Hare, consultant of sleep medicine at the Royal Brompton Hospital, London, certainly thinks so. “Studies show even one night’s sleep deprivation can be perceived in photographs, with observers consistently rating sleep-deprived individuals as looking more fatigued, less attractive and even less healthy and sadder than when they are rested.”
