Decleor & Macdonald Hotels bring you…. Paradise!

Decleor & Macdonald Hotels bring you…. Paradise!
Hello lovelies,


I was recently invited down to London for the launch of what sounds to be an awesome new spa experience from the Macdonald hotel chain. Sadly the pesky old day job got in the way so I was unable to attend but the lovely people at Decleor sent me a sample of their Relax Intense Fruit Seed Scrub to try… with a review to follow soon!


I’ve stayed at the Macdonald Holyrood hotel in Edinburgh numerous times and I absolutely love the place and other hotels in their chain certainly do not disappoint. If you get the chance to check out this treatment, I strongly urge you to. 

I know I am ready to experience it, booked up for Pay Day!


  Exclusive Paradise Escape’ with Decléor
Journey from the Sunshine State, home of the Orange Blossom,
to the Avenue of the Baobabs in Madagascar

Macdonald Hotels & Resorts, the largest privately owned hotel groupin the UK, has introduced its ‘Paradise Escape’ signature treatment across its Spa Collection nationwide.

Available at the hotel group’s 24 Spa Harmony & Serenity locations (from February 2012), this exotic spa experience is an incredibly decadent and relaxing face and body treatment created to provide the ultimate ‘dayscape’ or overnight ‘spacation’.
Inspiration from Paradise
Developed by Cosmetic Aromatherapy experts, Decléor, the spa journey begins with a full body exfoliation using the seeds from the Madagascan fruit known as a Boabab. This powerful fruit has six times more vitamin C than one orange and is grown from trees that are 80% water and live for over 100 years. When applied topically, its intense properties smooth and rejuvenate tired skin. The journey continues with a beautiful expert massage using warm body balms drizzled over the legs and the back with the aid of Decléor’s unique natural massage tool, the Acacia Massager.  This innovative tool enables the therapist to work deeply across the whole body, hands and feet to effectively relieve muscular aches and tension.
A gentle facial massage follows using an exceptional elixir of Orange Blossom, the national flower of the sunshine state Florida. With numerous benefits, the Orange Blossom helps to restore the skins youthful glow by aiding skin cell regeneration, works to normalise enlarged pores and is an effective sebum balancing remedy for dry and oily skin conditions.
Whilst the warming face mask cocoons and nurtures the skin, the treatment is completed with more massage to the legs, feet, hands, arms and shoulders easing every ounce of tension from the body to leave you feeling like you have escaped to Paradise.
The Macdonald Spa Experience
Guests to Macdonald Hotels Spa Collection can complete the wellbeing encounter with a pampering session in the spas’ wet and dry facilities which include an aroma steam, rock sauna, salt cave, ice fountain, experience shower and heated pool loungers. For the active, visit the state-of-the-art Technogym® to work up an appetite before retreating to a comfortable relaxation area for a gourmet lunch, presented in stylish bento boxes.
All Macdonald Hotels & Resorts within the Spa Collection are located in desirable settings, from the rolling hills of Scotland to the splendour of the South of England. Each hotel has its own charm and character and offer a range of activities, such as a round of golf at the Macdonald Portal Hotel, Golf & Spa, Cheshire or hill walking within the 44 acres green lad at Macdonald Inchyra Hotel & Spa.
Other notable spa hotels include Macdonald Randolph Hotel, Oxford, the leading 5-star hotel in the area, offering first class accommodation, award-winning food and a sensuous spa that was voted among the world’s Top 50.  The Macdonald Bath Spa Hotel, is another hidden haven of beauty and timeless excellence in the heart of historic Bath. Or for a luxury stay in the heart of the city, Macdonald Manchester Hotel & Spa provides the perfect opportunity to explore Manchester‘s stylish city centre and spoil yourself at the world-class spa and award-winning restaurant.

‘We have a genuine passion and dedication to making each guest’s experience unique, this is why, together with Decléor we have designed the ‘Paradise Escape’ spa journey. This new treatment, exclusive to the Macdonald Hotels Spa Collection, allows visitors to enjoy an unrivalled spa escape as well as award winning cuisine, a range of activities indigenous to the surrounding environment and first class accommodation should they choose an overnight stay. We pride ourselves on offering the perfect complete break”
           
Jeanette Jones, Managing Director of Golf, Leisure & Spa, Macdonald Hotels & Resorts

The ‘Paradise Escape’ signature treatment costs £110 from Monday to Thursday and £115 from Friday to Sunday.

For a full list of Macdonald Spa Hotels please visit www.macdonaldhotels.co.uk/spa-fitness



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Philip Kingsley giveaway reminder

Philip Kingsley giveaway reminder

Hello Lovelies,


Don’t forget, you have just 7 days left to enter my awesome Philip Kingsley giveaway.


Details can be found HERE



Don’t forget the check the rules and get tweeting about the giveaway!








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Japonesque – The perfect concealer brush

Japonesque  – The perfect concealer brush
Hello Lovelies,

I am a bit of a bugger when it comes to using things for their intended purposes. I like to find new and inventive ways to use things, just to be a bit different and get the very best results. I like to use a thin angled foundation brush to apply setting powder under my eyes and along my brow bones rather than to apply foundation!


With that in mind, I’d like to tell you all about my new find, the perfect concealer brush from Japonesque!

The brush itself is marketed as an eye shadow crease brush, from the shorter handled travel line. 



You can see from the shape of the brush that it is bulleted and not like most other concealer brushes…. That is what I love.

This brush can handle just about any kind of concealer you throw at it, liquid, gel, stick forms, the lot. I find the finer point perfect for really dabbing on small amounts of cover on to small areas and then conversely the angled sides give great application to larger areas.

I find the pointed tip of the brush also gives great reach and application to areas such as around the nostrils and in the inner corner of my eyes. It’s the perfect multi fit shape.

The brush is so versatile I always then run the tip in to my MAC MSFN to then set the concealer.

The brush quality itself is also really good. The ferrule is nice and strong and well glued, the bristles are tightly packed and feel lovely against the skin with no shedding. The handle, with it being classed as a short handled travel brush, is nice and thick yet compact. It is perfectly usable on a daily basis, none of that pathetically small useless tiny brush size here!

You can buy the Japonesque travel range in Boots and John Lewis. This brush is £12.75 in Boots and on offer, if you buy 1, you get the 2nd brush half price – brilliant!!

Have you tried Japonesque brushes? Do you use things for a purpose it wasn’t intended for? How do you apply concealer?

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New! Cherry Batiste Dry Shampoo

New! Cherry Batiste Dry Shampoo
Hello Lovelies
 
Well lookie here, look what I found hiding away in my local Boots. Cherry Batiste! 




I tweeted about it on Tuesday night with glee at finding something so cute in the can and cherry flavoured (looove cherry prints and smells) and it turns out a lot of you lovelies had never heard of it, seen it or knew it was coming!

I thought that was a bit odd as the furore surrounding Batiste Wild was quite widespread. Wonder if my Boots have done a woopsie and stocked it out too soon? Who knows.

The can is a beautiful ditzy cherry print and the smell… well it isn’t as cherry-ish as I would have liked, I can’t really detect much of a cherry smell to it but it is sweet and fruity and that’s good enough for me!

As I’ve mentioned before, being a bit of an ‘alt girl’ and rockabilly fan, anything with a cherry print on gets the thumbs up with me so this can will take pride of place in my bathroom along with her new partner in crime… Batiste Wild.

Will you be trying Cherry Batiste? What is your favourite scent?
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Boots Skin Clear Ultra Treatment Cream

Hello Lovelies, 

This is a Holy Grail product for me.
 
It takes a lot for me to say that but I never leave the house without a tube of this. There’s one in each of my cars, handbag, desk at work, desk at home, make up bag, bathroom, bedside table.. You get the picture!
Whilst I don’t suffer with your typical spots, I suffer a lot of reaction flare ups. When my facial skin comes in to contact with something it doesn’t like such as perfumes, products etc it goes mental and breaks out in to nasty red itchy lumps.
I suffered with this for a long time untreated and then I started to try anything I could think of and nothing worked. It wasn’t until I stumbled upon this, and it’s non ultra predecessor that I had success in calming down my flare ups.
Using this creamy gel as a spot treatment (geddit?!) you can target the product on to the affect areas for a hit of calming. In about an hour it has reduced the redness, taken the itch out of the area and started to work it’s magic on healing it up.
Being a hypersensitive skinned lady this really has been a godsend and has joined the ranks of my arsenal. It does work super well on ‘normal’ spots as well.
It’s best applied under make up but you can lightly dab it on over the top, if you use a bit too much it does go a bit cakey with any powder but a little works wonders.
For less then £5 ( £4.07 for 25ml, currently on 3 for 2) I won’t be without this gem and it’s quite often on special offer too so stock up!

Have you tried this before? What spot fighting treatments do you recommend?
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