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She was photographed recently arriving on the set of her movie Just Go With It, wearing a skin tight cream dress that left the tabloids asking: how does she do it? Jennifer Aniston is proof that with a lot of hard work and the right beauty treatments plus a good hair stylist it's possible to transform your looks. From her first appearance in Friends in 1994, she was described as 'slightly frumpy'. Today, she weighs two stone lighter and according to the Daily Mail is "the woman all women want to look like".

Dissecting her health and beauty regime reveals how she does it: hard core fitness routines including martial arts and yoga, a strict protein heavy diet (cutting out carbs), power-walking twice a day. Her beauty regime also includes a rumoured annual spend of £40,000 on hair cuts!

Tweens are said to spend $1,260 on hair (salon haircuts six times a year), $3,900 on their face, and $2,010 on their hands and feet (including manicures and pedicures). Teenagers and twenty somethings spend $15,761 on hair (including highlights at $177 per session three times a year, blow drying at $35 a session six times a year for young adults. Newsweek also state this age range spend $32, 684 on their face (including beauty treatments such as eyebrow shaping and lip plumping), $10, 586 on their bodies at the beauty salon (bikini waxing and laser hair removal) and $6,834 on pedicures and manicures. The figure gets higher as women get older with women in their 30s and 40s spending $158,160 on their beauty regime and the 50 plus age range spending $217,932 (with the vast proportion of income going to their hairdressers!)

Celebrities who have proved that short hairstyles can look more striking include fashion icon Victoria Beckham. In fact style savvy women know that a short haircut can take ten years off their look. The TV show Ten Years Younger frequently chopped off long locks instantly lifting the face. Long hair can be heavy and dour. But finding the courage to go to a hair salon – no matter how inviting the salon furniture and head massages may be – isn’t always easy.

If you need inspiration think of the likes of Nancy Dell’Olio who swapped her tumbling tresses for a pixie cut, looking every bit the chic, sassy woman. Katie Holmes followed Victoria Beckham with a summer bob last year that looked modern and youthful. Nothing is more ageing than long hair for women who hit that certain age. One woman who avoided trips to the hair salon for 63 years knows too well how a haircut can make all the difference. Val McAleenan’s hair grew by a metre, taking her seven minutes each day just to tie it up in a bun. She put this down to being scared of changing her hair, but it took three girls to wash it for her son’s wedding day. In her sixties, she decided it was now or never – transforming the grey mess for a dark blonde textured bob, channelling the graceful glamour of Helen Mirren.

Hairdressing offers more fulfilment than being a teacher, doctor or lawyer. But why do they score so high on job satisfaction? The job is creative and there is a lot of interaction with people (who on the whole are happy to be lounging in the comfortable salon furniture). Celebrity chopper, Nicky Clarke has said before that being a hairdresser is “incredibly lucky” because of the instant gratification the job offers: “A client comes in with an unruly thatch and at the end of the appointment they are smiling.”/p>

Hair salons are sociable places too – research by the University of Bath into job satisfaction found that jobs that were well paid with supportive colleagues and that offered employees an opportunity to express themselves on the job were the ingredients for a happy workplace.

There are hundreds of post holiday treatments to choose from so it up to you to choose the essentials. With everything from a mani-pedi to facials there are beauty treatments to leave you feeling pampered from top to toe. A mini makeover will have you beach ready in no time.

The top five treatments include a manicure, a pedicure, an eyebrow shape, eyelash tint and a hydrating facial.