How to get the perfect night’s beauty sleep – guest post

We all want the fresh-faced, bright-eyed look that comes from having plenty of beauty sleep, but what if you can’t seem to nod off at night? Lots of things can get in the way of enjoying a decent night’s kip. Luckily though, help is at hand. Here are some simple but effective tips that should help you sink into peaceful slumber when the lights go out.

Casper – Sleep

Sleep is such a vital part of everyone’s life. It’s the time we take out to recoup and regenerate so a comfy mattress is quite important, right? Right. Casper is a company who ship mattresses straight to your door in boxes as small as a mini-fridge. I find that pretty cool but I’m kind of a sad act. They have come up with a graphic describing their favorite sleeping types, and want to know what kind of sleeper I am personally in celebration of Sleep Awareness Week which they have extended to a month!

If I’m going to be totally honest, I’m not a massive fan of sleep. When the moon comes out, I am most motivated to do things as I’m 100% left to my own resources and thoughts. Yet it’s too late to actually do anything so I’ll sit up in bed, listening to music or scrolling through Tumblr, texting any nocturnal friends that are enduring the lonely hours of the early morning in their own beds. This either makes me an iSleeper or The Night Creature, according to Casper’s list of sleeper types.  This is mainly because I love coffee and never think before I drink it at half eleven at night and start bouncing off the walls and I also feel like sleeping is very unproductive when I could be doing 1001 other things. Is this just me?

Casper have made a list of different sleeper types and I found it quite interesting to read. There are six types, starting with The Bed Hogger – stealing the sheets and starfishing on the whole bed is never comfortable for the person you’re sleeping with, if you’re not sleeping in your own bed that is, if so, starfish all you like. The second is The Cat Napper, sleeping with your pets in your bed, no matter how hard you try to shut them out. Thirdly, The Night Creature – going to bed as the rest of the world is waking up. The fourth kind of sleeper is The Party Animal which is someone who comes in at the early hours of the morning and usually wakes up either half a slice of pizza stuck to their face. Second to last is The Lover, sleep is usually the last thing on a Lover’s mind, wink wink, nudge nudge. Lastly, the final kind of sleeper is the iSleeper, someone who can’t stay off their phone and dreams about Apple.

So which kind of sleeper are you?