Guest Experts
Learn more about our resident experts who appear regruarly on Shine!...

Amber Ja Lee
Spiritual Expert

Amber is a self proclaimed psychic medium and spiritualist healer as well as a therapist with qualifications in counselling and reiki.  

Using her gifts and skills she claims to be able to heal your mind body and spirit, also releasing the build-up of toxins in your body caused by stress that can lead to serious illnesses such as heart conditions, cancer depression and unhappiness. 

Amber says she was born gifted with psychic spiritual and healing powers, in particular ‘absent healing’ whereby she can heal an animal or human from a different place or country using energies that tune into the positive electromagnetic, though patterns that are part of the earth, universe and astral plane.

Visit Amber's website... www.spiritualwaters.co.uk

  
Candy Nicholson
Crafting Expert

Candy has been crafting with a passion dating back to when she was a young girl, her grandmother would teach her fabric crafts before growing up and learning paper crafting and scrapbooking.

That passion for crafting extends to retail as Candy run’s a traditional sweet and gift shop in Houldsworth Mill, Reddish. Here you can see first hand Candy’s wonderful hand-made card creations, request a custom-made card as well as stock up on every favourite type of sweet you could ever imagine.

Candy is no stranger to live television having been a regular face in 2007 on the popular crafting shopping channel, Create and Craft as a guest demonstrator.

Visit Candy's website...www.sugarlandsweets.co.uk

 
Ed Bowsher
Money Saving Expert

Ed's career as a financial journalist started in 2000 at Citywire and since then he has worked for breakingviews, The Motley Fool and lovemoney.com. He was Editor of The Motley Fool from 2007 to 2009 and was the Launch Editor of lovemoney.com.

Ed is a well-informed commentator on most financial issues. He has appeared on Radio 4, Sky News, LBC, CNBC, BBC World Service and BBC local stations where his insightful and witty style has helped many people build a better understanding of their financial situation.

Visit Ed's website...www.lovemoney.com

  
Nancy Spencer
Make-Up Expert

Nancy started out working in photography and has now full trained as a freelance make-up artist who has been working in the business for nearly 5 years.

After graduating she travelled to Australia where she managed to show of her new found skills and has since worked in many areas of  the make-up industry  including television, film, fashion, bridal & wedding make-up, retail (MAC Cosmetics) and special effects.

Most recently, Nancy has started teaching make-up lessons in her own studio based in Manchester City Centre where she provides clients with a professional and personal service for their make-up needs.  Having worked with people of all ages, ethnicities and genders, Nancy understands what people want and can deliver results that always exceed expectations.

Visit Nancy's website...www.makeupmanchester.co.uk

 
Sarah Davies
Beauty Expert

Sarah’s initial interest in beauty therapies stemmed from first-hand experience of how a well performed treatment can induce such a sense of wellbeing. So having completed a professional course in Beauty Therapy,  a career in this industry was a natural progression for Sarah. 

With the aim of offering the ultimate beauty experience, a key part of Sarah’s approach is to develop a rapport with each individual client, thus ensuring the client is as relaxed as possible and fully understands the elements of each treatment. 

Sarah was the first therapist in the North West to use Primavera organic skincare and perform treatments rituals which are tailored made for each individual.

Visit Sarah's website... www.absolute-therapies.co.uk