Paris Hilton started 'preventative skincare' regime aged eight

Paris Hilton started her "preventative skincare" regime at the age of eight.

The 43-year-old hotel heiress has revealed her mum Kathy began teaching her about the importance of staying out of the sun when she was a child and went on to encourage her to take up a "20-step routine" to keep her skin in tip-top condition.

Paris told Vogue.com: "My mom started teaching me at eight years old; the first lesson was to stay out of the sun. Then it was all about cleansers and eye creams, neck cream, and serum, this whole 20-step routine that I've always loved.

"I'm so grateful to my mom for teaching me that because I've been doing preventative skincare since I was eight, it's pretty epic."

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The socialite went on to talk about her fashion regrets and says one style she will leave in the past is her pixie crop hair cut. She added: "My Tinkerbell haircut was very in back then but when I look at it now, I am like ‘it was just so short!’ I don't think I would ever do that again.

"I love a cute bob, but that was just something else."

Paris recently ventured into the beauty world by creating her own fake tan line with Tan-Luxe - insisting she wanted to create a tanner that included all the benefits of a skincare product.

She told WWD: "So many trends I started were done in an organic, real way. They were just things I loved. My mom always taught me to stay out of the sun, and that's why I discovered spray tans.

"Now, we have a product that has such a beautiful colour, really works and is like putting on skin care that makes you tan ... "I'm an expert on getting tanned, but Tan-Luxe are the experts in tanning products. We put our creative minds together to come up with what we think is the future of tanning."

She added: "It's very different from any other product lines out there for tanning."