Time to start thinking about Christmas

I love the sparkle and warmth
of Christmas decorations

Now we've entered November, I think it's acceptable to start thinking and talking about Christmas. I love this time of the year, the presents and decorations, and yummy food. I had my first mince pie of the year last week - the gluten free ones aren't available all year round, so it's a mini celebration when they appear on the shelves again.

I've also just started my Christmas shopping - a mixed blessing (I get to shop! With a clear conscience!) and burden (What on earth should I get for......?!?). It may be no surprise to learn that a lot of my friends and family get massages for Christmas. And guess what, yours could to!

I have gift certificates available for all my treatments - the most popular choices are on my website, but if you want a different time, or a combination, just ask and I can tailor a certificate specifically for you. I can also suggest what might be suitable if you're not sure what someone would like, or I can provide an open certificate so they can choose their treatment.

If you're still not sure, I'm offering buy one get one half price on all gift vouchers up to Christmas Eve. So you can treat two friends, or even get a gift for someone else and treat yourself to the second one! If you buy four gifts, you're effectively getting one for free.

A little bit of "small print" you should know: One of each pair of certificates bought must be for someone else, the cheaper of the pair will be half price, and this offer can't be combined with any other discount.

My Facial Massage

Beautiful  Lefkada

When I was working in Lefkada in Greece last year, I met a lovely lady called Janine, who has become a good friend. She had several massages with me while I was there, and tried out most of my treatments. Towards the end of my stay, she had an oil massage, which included a short section on her face. Afterwards as we were chatting, she said she'd really liked that part of the massage, and for her last treatment before I left to come back to the UK, could I do a massage just on the face?

Which made me think. I'd always learnt facial massage as part of a treatment, how would I make it standalone? It's usually quite a short part of the massage, but I couldn't really offer a 5 or 10 minute treatment, and just repeating it several times would be boring, and I'd imagine would get irritating! But I had to agree with Janine, it is a lovely to have the face massaged, it was something I'd enjoyed in all the types of massage I'd studied.

And there I had my answer. I'd learnt facial massage techniques from Swedish Massage, Indian Head Massage and Thai Massage. I could combine them, drawing on the different approaches to create a unique blend, and offer Janine the half hour facial massage she wanted.

So that's what I did, and she loved it!

She suggested I should add it to the treatments I offered as standard. I sounded out the idea with a few others, who were also enthusiastic, so I did. And that's how my unique facial massage came to be.



To try a facial massage for yourself, get in touch to book an appointment.