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  Every couple of years or so, some friends and I book a spa day and take ourselves off with bags of magazines and snacks. We hop on some loungers, catch up on each others’ lives, and ignore the disapproving glances as we wolf down Poulain (at one particularly strict spa I thought we were going to get mugged for our chocolate by the starved looking hordes coming out of dinner). For our first few spa visits I booked a...
It’s rare I write about clothes these days, but I am so excited by this dress that I had to slam fingers to keyboard. I’m excited because it’s from New Look, a store I usually avoid like the plague because I assume it’s full of girls barely out of the My Little Pony stage. I assume I’ll feel ancient, and annoyed by the crowds, and appalled by the length of everything’s hemline, and have to queue for three months at...
Can’t pick a team in the battle of the balms? Step this way… Recently, a number of women have asked me which is better: Bobbi Brown’s Extra Illuminating Moisture Balm, £42.50, or Estée Lauder’s Revitalizing Supreme Global Anti-Ageing Wake Up Balm, £46. The slightly annoying but nonetheless honest answer is they’re different, and it entirely depends what you want. Ostensibly, these balms perform the same functions – moisturisation and glowy light reflection. But there are several variables at play here,...