Coutts Woman Loves…
Welcome the New Year with open arms, a detox or two and maybe a new skincare routine. Coutts Woman counts down our favourite January things to buy, try and do.
Yes to Blueberries is the brand’s first anti-ageing range. Packed with anti-oxidants, minerals and active ingredients, the range offers a clinically proven youth enhancing recipe to reduce fine lines and wrinkles whilst promoting collagen production and skin elasticity. That’s why we say Yes to Blueberries! Visit the Victoria Health website for more information.
Bored of the usual travel fodder out there? Get your mouse onto The Excursionist a brand new website which delivers travel passions and helps you create one-off travel experiences catered to your needs. Like tiger tracking with an animal scientist in India or a private opening of Nefertari’s closed tomb in Luxor. Visit The Excursionist’s website for more information.
If one of your New Year’s resolutions is to learn to cook – get yourself over to Cantina Del Ponte to find out how to make pasta like a true Italian. Head Chef Claudia will show you how to conquer the traditional technique of pasta, plus you get a delicious lunch as well. Courses start from £28.50. Visit the website for more information.
Australian skincare brand Black Chicken Remedies is now stocked in Selfridges. Their Love your Face Serum is bursting with 11 therapeutic essential oils that are not only kind to your skin but also all round wellbeing, including Vitamin E which will protect you from winter winds and central heating.
Desperate for lovely long lashes but don’t want to wear fake ones? Check out this incredible mascara from Japan. DJV Beautenizer (£18) is the biggest selling Japanese mascara brand and now we know why. JV has managed to produce brush-on versions of a lash hair-piece that not only lengthen, but build bulk with a natural clump-free finish. Visit the Cult Beauty website to find out more.
L’Etranger, South Kensington, has perfected the detox menu to help you welcome in the New Year in the healthiest way. Available for lunch or dinner, the three course Prix Five menu uses fresh and exotic ingredients to enhance incredible flavour whilst purifying your body with nutritious dishes. Lunch £32/Dinner £48.
Gelupo, the much acclaimed gelateria from chef Jacob Kenedy of Bocca di Lupo, is offering a two-pronged attack to counter festive overindulgence and prepare for the year ahead with a detox and zen Green Tea with Buddha’s Hand Citrus gelato. Made with green tea, widely known for its detoxifying qualities, and Buddhas Hand Citrus, with its fragrant perfume and resemblance to hands closed in prayer it is given as a religious offering in Buddhist temples. The perfect antidote to the January blues. Available for delivery nationwide from £9 for half a kilo.
Cassis Bistro in Knightsbridge has launched a delicious light menu, perfect for detoxing in January. Designed by leading personal trainer, Matt Roberts, and head chef of Cassis, David Escobar, the Matt Roberts menu is calorie controlled so that each main course is less than 400 calories and a two-course combination never exceeds 650 calories (excluding drinks). Each dish has been carefully devised to ensure bad fats have been kept to an absolute minimum whilst good fats are made available through the types of oils used and the fresh fish. Visit Cassis website.
What better way to celebrate the New Year and beat the January blues than with The Vineyard at Stockcross’ Retox package designed for drinking, feasting and being pampered? After checking in, enjoy a champagne cocktail at the bar before a 7 course tasting menu created by executive chef Daniel Galmiche, with matching wines. Prices start from £450 per person for two nights. Visit the Vineyard website for more information.
If New Year means a new look for you, don’t forget to think about your make-up routine as well as your closet. If you’re unsure how to detox the make-up bag, or you’re just after a new look, give Karen Beadle a call. The make-up artist has worked in all parts of the media industry and well equipped to guide you through the do’s and don’ts of eyeshadows and lipsticks. Visit Karen’s website.
