Wellbeing
Originally published on Tuesday, 31st March 2009
Special Treatment
Eminé Ali Rushton cherry-picks the best new treatments from the beauty front, and secures exclusive UJ offers in her brand new column, Special Treatment.
Hooray for Hari’s
The entertainment world has Brangelina, TomKat and GyllenSpoon, but it’s the stellar couplings of London’s beauty stratosphere that have got us hyperventilating. Now you may not catch our fair city’s hottest duo on the pages of Heat, but HarWin [that’s Hari of Brompton Road Mecca Hari’s and top session stylist cum creative director Zoe Irwin] more than deserve their column inches. Top of our ‘to try list’ for April is the ‘Fashion Nails’ collaboration between La Irwin, Jemima Frost and Nuno Da Costa. Think the ‘new’ French – that’s Jemima’s French to you – with a buttermilk base and punky black tip; and the piéce de la resistance, Embellished, which takes this season’s catwalk fling with bling and translates it into tips that drip with rainbow-coloured jewels. Wow-ee. Once you’ve been dipped, it’s time to get crushed, with Zoe’s Colour Crush menu, which cherry-picks the latest catwalk colour trends for love-at-first-sight locks. We’re particularly enamoured of The No Colour Colour and the grunge-rooted Cobain Chic. HarWin… we ♥ you!
Hari’s is offering Urban Junkies readers 10% off both services throughout April 2009. Please quote ‘Urban Junkies’ on booking. Fashion Nails cost from £25, Colour Crush from £100. 020 7581 5211
Bag Lady
We love our men, but let’s face it: they’re never going to provide an honest answer to the loaded bottom question, or, for that matter, valid insight into which eyeshadow will perk up our peepers. Which is why it pays to solicit the pros. And Harvey Nichols’ lovely Lauren Hersheson is your woman. She’ll ruthlessly root through your make-up bag, vetoing dated shades and imperfect formulas and share her top cosmetic cheats, which is when I learned how to make my chubby cheeks look ‘chiselled’ in five minutes flat. Once I’d been peeled off the floor that is.
Lauren Hersheson is offering Urban Junkies readers 10% off services throughout April 2009. An appointment costs from £70. Call 0207 201 8797 to make an appointment.
Go West
As the collective tightening of purse-strings continues (I actually saw a woman barter with her waitress the other day), the super-cool KWest Hotel & Spa has introduced a mind-body-and-bank-balancing overnight package, My Time. Imagine a plush, deluxe room, full English brekkie, one hour spa treatment and steam/sauna/Jacuzzi and Gym access in the heart of London. Then, throw in a bill that comes in under £150 – and start packing.
Urban Junkies readers will receive 10% off the package up until 31 August 2009. The usual rate is £144 per person, per night. (Offer is based on two people sharing, and is available until August 31, subject to availability.)
Killer Green
You want a back-busting massage with a top therapist – but you don’t want to nullify your organic bender with the impure base oils used in some London salons. Before you reach for the Rescue Remedy, you might be interested to hear that British beauty company, NEOM , have introduced their Organic Upgrade concept to London’s Berkeley Spa – which allows all customers to opt into an entirely green body experience, safe in the chemical-free hands of some of the best massage therapists in the country. Pure pleasure.
NEOM are offering all Urban Junkies readers 20% off online product purchases until the end of May 2009. Simply enter ‘urbanjunkies20’ on checkout. The ‘Luxury Organic Upgrade’ is available exclusively at The Berkeley Hotel and costs £90 for 1 hour. To book call 020 7235 6000.
