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Beauty
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Local Gem Alert! Cinnabar Beauty
What you are about to read is quite literally a glowing recommendation - I glow as I type! I'm fresh from Cinnabar Beauty in Mylor Bridge, a hidden gem of a beauty salon, with an exciting menu of treatments, including a range of facials to suit every need.
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Hair Haven: Gold Bird, Truro
A hairdresser you love is hard to find, so I’ll let you in on my latest salon discovery…
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Bloomtown Botanicals
Instagram-friendly jars packed with natural skin superfoods – it’s no wonder Cornish-based Bloomtown Botanicals is making waves in the beauty biz.
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Spa Review: The Linen Rooms
Only six months since they opened, the spa at Merchant's Manor nabbed the coveted Muddy Cornwall Award for Best Day Spa. Find out what all the fuss is about...
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Muddy Tries New IonActive Facial
Its been an age since I caught up with Muddy award winning beauty salon Claire at Banburys in Launceston (blame island hoping, face stuffing and general slovenliness) and I heard a rumour that they were about to launch a new immediate results customisable facial – a countywide first no less! What what what? Well, the […]
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New Beauty Salon In Bude To Make You Blush
From the outside an industrial estate might not be the first place you’d expect to find a exclusive beauty salon (with its own training academy) is it muddies? But after successfully gaining a loyal client base operating out of her converted garage, demand for master lash technician Mel’s services required she get her own premises. Mel […]
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The Muddy Manipura Massage Experience
Tresco – what’s not to love? Glorious sunshine, miles of white sand, gorgeous new England style cottages – its every inch the glam holiday retreat for beautiful people. But on the hottest day of summer, I was certainly not looking beautiful. Mr MC had dragged me on an ‘offroad’ bike ride in blistering heat -sweating like a tomato in a […]
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Muddy Tries: B Skincare
I’ve been meaning to write this post for a while – my bad! So back in January, I popped in to see the lovely Chris and Sonya at B Skincare in Bodmin. I was super psyched about meeting them as I was already a fan of their geranium hand cream – a right winter saver. Turns out that […]
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Muddy Tries: Lycon Hair Removal
For me, waxing is up there with teeth removal – or eye surgery. Like many of us, I have more than a few horror stories behind me. I’d avoided waxing my er intimate areas (apologies to all who know me) since a moment of madness at a local college beauty salon had me needing skin grafts. Ok not […]
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Craig Chapman Colours Me Happy
The new year is no time for being pious and sober – it’s grey enough, thanks all the same. Kudos if you managed dry January (what evs), but in my experience self-denial only leads to face-stuffing, hangovers and self-loathing before the month is out (I’m soooo weak!). Much more mojo-sustaining in these grey months is a bit […]
