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THE WEDNESDAY REVIEW: RAHUA DETOX RITUAL
I love the packaging. Simple. Clear instructions. You mix half a bottle of oil into a pot of cream, then stir with a little wooden spatula. There’s something very gentle, almost ritualistic about the mixing process; and it smells as if you’re standing a little too close to a bonfire – it’s slightly smoky, it’s […]
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MY WEEK IN BEAUTY: INDIA CALLING
ON THE WISHLIST “You move like an old person.” The doctor sitting opposite me in a fancy Devonshire Place clinic has just delivered his diagnosis. There’s nothing wrong with me specifically, nothing that two weeks’ rest and relaxation couldn’t cure at least, but when Dr Mathai speaks; I listen. Visiting from his home – a […]
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MY WEEK IN BEAUTY… SWEETS AND SEDUCTION
LONDON: A 30 MINUTE LUNCH WITH SARAH WILSON, AUTHOR OF I QUIT SUGAR “Britain has a snacking issue.” So says Sarah Wilson, author of the best-selling book, I Quit Sugar, who is on a whistle-stop tour of the country, and – because I turned up at the wrong restaurant by accident and we’ve therefore lost […]
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MY WEEK IN BEAUTY: POPPIES, PROVENCE and PEACE
PROVENCE IN CHELSEA: L’OCCITANE’S GOLD MEDAL WINNING GARDEN “On the way to the nursery in Provence I saw all these gorgeous grasses, so I stopped, ripped them out and stuffed them into my car until it was filled with plants.” James Basson is explaining how he created the incredible Provencal garden, complete with wild grasses, […]
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My Week in Beauty – Sticking Together, Sticky Bodies, and Sticky Situations
LONDON – TEA WITH ALEX The Chantecaille family is one of those legendary beauty families, like the Sisleys or even the Lauder’s, where mother, daughter, sometimes grandmother and granddaughters seem to work harmoniously with each other. Taking tea with Alex Chantecaille, the daughter of founder Sylvie, who was in London this week to do a […]
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