Some weekends are made for adventures, some weekends are made for home improvements and others are simply for relaxing and recharging. This past weekend was certainly made for relaxing as I had been invited to Debenhams in Cardiff to try out a couple of treatments and to join the Debenhams Beauty Club. My first appointment of the day was at the Clarins Skin Spa for a balancing facial:
The Clarins Skin Spa is easily missed if you’re just popping into the store but is a beautiful oasis in the middle of the mayhem of the beauty department. It is easy to forget you’re in the middle of a department store until you step back outside again after your treatment. I immediately felt all of my week’s worries slip away as I walked in and met my therapist, Bridie, for my facial and consultation. The rooms are off a small corridor and are dimly lit. The facial itself was a dream. Bridie explained the treatment and what I would be having done at every stage and then I lay back in between the heated towels and sheets and tried not to doze off!
After my facial I was shown the products that had been used and some that I might think about incorporating into my dail/weekly skincare routine. I’ll write more about this in another post, suffice to say that apparently the biggest beauty “product” missing from my skincare routine is water!
So after a couple of glasses of good ol’ H2O, I was ready for my store tour. Chris, the lovely Beauty Department supervisor, showed me around the more established beauty brands at Debenhams, like MAC, Clinique, Clarins, YSL, Chanel, etc and onto some of the newer brands who have been in the store for as little as a few weeks, e.g. Philosophy, Wild About Beauty and CK Colour.
We also visited the various stands that offer treatments. As well as the Clarins Skin Spa, Arch Angelz Eyebrow Bar offers threading and waxing, whilst St Tropez offer a tanning service right in store, behind the silver door below:
