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Caroline Phillips
“Caroline Phillips is a tenacious and skilful writer with a flair for high quality interviewing and a knack for making things work.”

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Medicine man

Condé Nast Traveller | 19 Jul 2014

A rarity: an amazing man who looks like a gap-year student, used to be a zookeeper (he loves gorillas) and is now a healer. Paul Lennard has an uncanny ability to read people’s energy and highlight any issues. Then he addresses them through an eclectic mix of sports massage, Chi Nei Tsang (Chinese tummy massage) and craniosacral therapy.


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Dial H for Healers

Tatler | 18 Jun 2014

Mornings were worst. I would wake with lead in my veins, a jackboot pressing on my chest and my body rigid, as if set in formaldehyde. I’d be beset by a terrible inner loneliness and desolation, paralysed with foreboding. I became destructive, self-sabotaging and impulsive, forgetting that I’m a successful, loved woman with a good life and an exciting future.

This is depression. A crippling depression that has been with me all my life. So who would have thought that the best help would come in the form of a spa therapist?


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At home: your exclusive salon

High50 | 28 Apr 2014

It started with home shopping and home office. Now it’s home everything. You don’t have to schlepp anywhere nor waste time travelling. There’s no need to sit in waiting rooms, deal with receptionists or make small talk with salon assistants. Nor go food shopping, dirty so much as a saucepan or wash up after your dinner guests. 


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A cut above

Mayfair | 3 Jan 2014

Rossano Ferretti is that rare breed: a hairdresser-cum-architect with a good splash of the designer in him. In fact, he has designed twenty salons across the globe – from New York to New Delhi – and is a world-renowned crimper. He’s known for a way of cutting hair that’s not simply described as a ‘haircut’ but instead is dubbed ‘The Method’ – a unique and patented technique of cutting tresses that apparently has something to do with snipping the hair based on its ‘natural fall in motion.’


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Five post-holiday beauty buzzes

High50 | 16 Sep 2013

Time is money. So what price a mani, pedi, foot massage and full head of highlights, administered simultaneously by Daniel Galvin Jr and his elves, all working on you like a team of synchronised swimmers? Remember that then you have a cut and blow-dry while you eat your Ottolenghi organic lunch (all included in the price). It’s two hours from beginning to end, but don’t fret: the white-on-white salon has iPhone chargers and WiFi. Gives a new meaning to ‘power lunch’ – as it should, at £1,200.


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Seven can’t-live-without beauty products

High50 | 8 Aug 2013

This moisturiser is a Beauty Bible Anti-Ageing Award winner, and with good reason, not just because it has gold, truffles and diamonds in it. They’re not a gimmick: the first two are antioxidants and the diamonds give skin a glow. The champagne extract it also contains is a skin humidifier. Dabbing yourself with its phyto-endorphin complex is akin to smiling, and it helps the skin heal (hence its ‘Happiness in a jar’ moniker). This cream genuinely gives instant radiance and brightens the complexion. I promise.


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Tatler Spa Guide 2013

Tatler | 18 Jul 2013

Chiva-som, Thailand – The mother of them all. Chiva remains triumphantly at the top of its game. Come here to scrub your chakras, give up sleeping pills or smoking (or both), lose your post-baby lubber or have accelerated subdermal therapy (ultrasound does battle with cellulite) in the medi-spa. There’s a daily schedule that’s more tightly packed than a tin of chickpeas, from vinyasa flow yoga to gyrokinesis (pilates meets ballet). Plus it’s all run with Swiss-style efficiency.


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How to stop your hair from ageing

High50 | 2 May 2013

A survey of 1,00 women has revealed that one in two women get antsy about ageing hair, which means locks that are thinning and losing body and volume. And it’s all down to geography: the Welsh worry most about going grey (44 per cent) while people in Scotland fret most about thinning hair (62 per cent.) And, FYI, the most age-conscious women in the UK are from Yorkshire and Humberside. Hmmm.


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Rossano Ferretti and the £1,000 haircut: because he’s worth it

High50 | 13 Mar 2013

“A thousand pounds for a haircut?!” I hear you say. “But you could feed an African village for a year… buy two Hermès belts… how can any hairdo be worth that sort of money?” Either you need your head examined, expensively, or you’re tidying topiary for a palace. Who spends a grand on something that’s going to grow out?


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