By Judy Johnson
Fashion and beauty go hand in manicured hand, so when Wahanda heard about the Sunday Times Style in the City event in Birmingham, we hotfooted up there to see what the stylistas were talking about in the land of beauty.
Dubbed a city-wide fashion and beauty festival, the event brought together the latest fashion trends fresh from the runways at London Fashion Week with innovative beauty treatments and products.
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Spas across the globe have been waiting with bated breath, hoping they’ll be honored with a prestigious Condé Nast Traveller Reader Spa Award. The well travelled readers of the magazine have been voting for everything from their favourite local spas to far flung retreats. Previous winners have included the luxurious Bulgari Spa in Milan and the modern Bliss Spa in Soho, New York. So, where have Condé Nast readers been primping and preening themselves this year? Read on to find out who was crowned queen of spas…
UK – the best of British spa-ing
The awards confirmed that you don’t have to fly half way across the world to be pampered. London came up trumps with Spa Illuminata in Mayfair winning the prize for Best Day Spa in Britain, while Surrey’s Grayshott Spa also walked away with the top prize for Best Spa Retreat. Up in the North, the ladies’ favourite Waterfall Spa in Leeds was awarded fifth place in the Best Day Spa category for its opulent surroundings where you can relax with a gourmet meal in between treatments.
Not only do we do well with our day spas, but we have so many amazing hotel spas that Condé Nast had to create a whole new category for them! The winner of the first Best Hotel Spa in Britain was the Mandarin Oriental in Hyde Park, London which was awarded for its top accommodation- and with a choice of six pillows and sumptuous Irish linen for guests to slumber in we can see why!
Overseas – Spa, spa away
Iceland’s natural resources were praised when the tranquil Blue Lagoon Spa waltzed away with the top prize for Best Medical Spa. Guests can bathe in geo-thermal sea water and shower beneath a waterfall at the all-natural retreat. Mayr&More in Austria was also awarded for its exquisite food and Adler Thermae in Tuscany for their fitness programmes.
The French and the Spanish are both renowned for achieving their glowing good looks without trying too hard and as a result they have produced some of the best spas in the world. Condé Nast readers especially loved Spa Nuxe in Paris, which won The Best Day Spa Overseas and The Spa at The Marques Riscal Hotel in Spain which won the Best Hotel Spa in Europe.
Scooping four nominations and winning the Best Hotel Spa in Asia and India, The Six Senses Spa chain should feel proud of their achievements. It was their Earth Spa in Hua Hin, Thailand that won the trophy as readers said their body treatments were impossible to beat!
The most important prize of the night for Condé Nast Traveller’s Number One Spa in the World was awarded to the spa at Hotel Marques Riscal in Rioja, Spain (who also won the Best Hotel Spa in Europe.) It seems incorporating wine into your treatments provides a winning formula…
So, next time you’re feeling a bit low and need a spa pick-me-up trust the readers of Condé Nast Traveller and choose one of their recommended spas. You’re bound to leave feeling relaxed, revived and ready to cast your vote for next year’s awards.
Good news, you no longer have to go back to the boring gym and pound the treadmills to keep in shape, as the new way to get fit is dancing. It’s sociable, exciting, different and perfect for making the hard job of keeping fit something fun to do.
The rise in the popularity of dancing lessons is largely due to the BBC’s hugely successful celebrity reality show, Strictly Come Dancing. Fitness fanatics are following in the dance steps of previous Strictly contestants such as Claire Sweeney, Darren Gough and Alesha Dixon to use dancing as a fun and energetic way of getting exercise without the monotony of treadmills and aerobics. Plus with the untimely passing of Dirty Dancing’s Patrick Swayze, dancing is in the spotlight more than ever before.
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At Wahanda we don’t think there’s anything wrong with men plucking and tweezing every now and then to tidy up unsightly bushy eyebrows, but when it comes to full-on waxing or threading to shape, define and create what’s now known as ‘guybrows’, we’re not so sure…
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No need for silicone implants
Forget that amazing non-surgical facelift, lunchtime liposuction and quick tummy tuck over the weekend, because there’s a new op in town. The announcement of a new two-in-one cosmetic surgery treatment has hit the news this week, making that ‘too good to be true’ idea of taking the fat from your hips and putting it back in places you’d much rather have filled out, a reality.
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Get a free Thalgo gift set with every Wahanda voucher over £50
Here at Wahanda we always like to give a little extra when it comes to our valued customers, especially if it involves expert skincare.
Everyone loves a good giveaway and this time we’ve teamed up with the ultimate marine beauty brand, Thalgo, to offer their amazing “Love your Skin” gift pack absolutely free with every Wahanda spa voucher purchase over £50.
Thalgo’s “Love your Skin” gift set includes three lavish creams:
About the products
Delicious Comfort Cream – this is the ultimate nourishing cream for sufferers of dry skin. From the moment it touches your skin, the cream instantly floods it with refreshing and intensive hydration. Combining Wild Rose Oil, Narcissus Flower Essential Wax and Shea Butter, this cream will leave your face feeling wonderfully soft and supple from the very first application.
Relaxing Cream – this nourishing night cream gets straight to work as you sleep, delivering optimum hydration to your skin. As you drift into a pleasant slumber, its active ingredients are hard at work nourishing and hydrating your skin to restore it back to its natural softness, so when you awake the next morning, your skin will be at its silkiest.
Oxygen Cream – if your skin is suffering from the effects of a stressful city lifestyle, then give it a much needed breath of oxygen with this highly effective radiance booster. This is an essential “SOS” cream your skin cannot afford to do without. Marine BHAs accelerate the skin’s natural exfoliation process boosting microcirculation and allowing more oxygen into the skin, which stops the breakout cycle in its tracks, leaving you with a healthy glow that is bound to get noticed.
Known best for creating the original seaweed body wrap, Thalgo’s reputation for being the ultimate marine beauty brand is well deserved. Thalgo discovered the beneficial properties of using marine ingredients on our skin over forty years ago, and have incorporated these into their spa facials, skincare products and body treatments which continue to be very popular to this day.
So whether you ‘re looking to treat someone special, or even to spoil yourself, the Wahanda Gift Voucher ticks all the boxes. With the free Thalgo “Love Your Skin” beauty pack to accompany it, it’s the ultimate beauty and wellness gift.
In the name of all things health, beauty & happiness related, Wahanda has just introduced with the London Vision Clinic an offer to help determine whether laser eye surgery is for you with a free UK Guide to Laser Eye Surgery as well as a free consultation.
As a little celebratory gift, the next 25 people who sign up for the offer will receive a £10 online credit for any purchase from our online Wahanda Spa & Wellness Store.
No need for glasses anymore!
Over the past few months we have added many free offers in the spa, fitness and wellness space, so we are now really proud to be breaking new ground with this offer and expect to have a nationwide offering soon for eyecare. Our goal at Wahanda is to help everyone look & feel better, from the inside-out and the outside-in, so expect to see a lot more great deals and offers soon!
Sign up for a free consultation at London Vision Clinic if you have wondered if laser eye surgery if for you.
Turning back the clock doesn’t always have to mean going under the knife, thanks to the launch of a new range of non-surgical cosmetic treatments at Bannatyne Spas.
To celebrate the new-found friendship of Bannatyne Spas and the UK‘s leading provider of non-surgical treatments Collagenics, the cosmetic giant will be offering special clinics at the spa chain in the coming months. What’s more, with treatments being made available at nine sites up and down the country, including Birmingham, Cardiff, Darlington, Edinburgh, Essex, Manchester, Mansfield, Solihull and York, you’re sure to find one close to home.
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