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Get in touch with your inner teenager

8th May 2008 by Helena 8 Comments  

I am lying on a bed, eating almonds, covered in fake tan, reading Tatler. The last time I did this I was child-free and about 19.

I am having an evening in after an exhausting day, which started with breakfast with the Features Director of Red Magazine and ended with a massage from Nari, who is based near Notting Hill and claims to give the best massage in the world.

Nari

Not having tried them all, I can’t say he’s right, but he is extremely good. He has incredibly soft but strong hands which he uses to expertly pummel your body. The treatment ends with a head massage which apparently children in India are given as a matter of course, their mothers tell them it makes them brainy.

I may not be any brainier, but instead of feeling exhausted after a glass of champagne and two glasses of delicious (English) rose at a lunch with a Daily Mail editor I skipped home, relaxed and invigorated. Actually Nari (bless him) insisted on driving me home (a service he doesn’t offer to all his clients but you might get lucky, check him out at www.thismassageworks.co.uk).

Despite my hectic schedule I have had time to go to M&S four times and can confirm that it’s as blissful as ever. The threading at Harvey Nichols went well and pink seems to be the colour to be seen in, which is lucky for born-again teenagers like me.

Copyright: Helena Frith Powell 2008


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8 thoughts on Get in touch with your inner teenager

  • Miko says:
    8th May 2008 at 8:33 pm

    Hi Helena . A stupid question , what is threading and is it painful? It sounds like it’s something to do with nål och tråd.

  • helena says:
    8th May 2008 at 8:52 pm

    Hejsan
    Inte nal och trad men bara trad. Dom tar ut haren med trad some dom glider (?) mellan fingrarna, jag har forklarat on previous blog in English. It hurts a bit, not too bad.
    Hx

  • Tom says:
    9th May 2008 at 1:51 pm

    Who is the old codger? Doesn’t look like a teenager at all…

  • Miko says:
    9th May 2008 at 3:04 pm

    Ok , now I know, like they do if you have a hair cut or a shave in Turkey.

  • helena says:
    9th May 2008 at 3:50 pm

    Tom – that’s Nari you nana
    Hx

  • GHCH says:
    9th May 2008 at 4:48 pm

    Dear Helena.

    I loved the shop window photo on your massage parlour’s website. What mysterious pleasures are to be found behind this cunningly disguised curry emporium, ironmonger and bookmakers? The photo of Kilburn tube station added a frisson of exoticism too. Must be handy for a kebab, late-night onion bhajee and a keep-fit pub car park punch-up after a night out.

    I’m surprised you even dared set foot in the place. Not exactly Renew is it? Or Harvey Nicks.

    You do have some fun don’t you? Keep it up.

    G.

  • Barbara says:
    10th May 2008 at 8:42 am

    Pink? You mean clothes rather than eyebrows?
    Mine are pink after waxing but wonder about the comparative ouch levels.
    x

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Helena Frith Powell was born in Sweden to a Swedish mother and Italian father, but grew up mainly in England. She is the author of eleven books, translated into several languages including Chinese and Russian. She wrote the French Mistress column The Sunday Times about life in France for several years. She is a regular contributor to the Daily Mail, Mail on Sunday, The Times, Daily Telegraph, Tatler Magazine and Harper’s Bazaar.

Helena has been the editor of four magazines, including M Magazine, a supplement for the Abu Dhabi based National Newspaper and FIVE, a high-end fashion glossy, also published in Abu Dhabi. Helena was also editor in chief of 360 Life, a quarterly glossy magazine published with the Sports 360 Newspaper in Dubai, part of the Chalhoub Group.

Helena contributes regularly to UK-based newspapers and magazines and holds a Masters in Creative Writing from the University of Cambridge. Helena is working on a thriller called Thin Ice that will be published in 2021 as well as a novel about the relationship between Virginia Woolf and Katherine Mansfield called Sense of an Echo.

Her latest non-fiction work Smart Women Don’t Get Wrinkles came out in hardback in 2016 and in paperback in April 2018.

Helena, who was educated at Durham University, lives in the Languedoc region of France with her husband Rupert and their three children.

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More France Please, we’re British; Gibson Square 2004

Two Lipsticks and a Lover 2005; Gibson Square (hardback)

All You Need to be Impossibly French; (US version of above) Penguin 2006

Two Lipsticks and a Lover; Arrow Books (paperback) 2007

Ciao Bella Gibson Square; (hardback) 2006

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So Chic! (French version of Two Lipsticks) Leduc Editions 2008 (also translated into Chinese, Russian and Thai)

More, More France; Gibson Square 2009

To Hell in High Heels; Arrow Books 2009 (also translated into Polish)

The Viva Mayr Diet; Harper Collins 2009

Love in a Warm Climate; Gibson Square 2011

The Ex-Factor; Gibson Square 2013

Smart Women Don’t Get Wrinkles; Gibson Square 2016

The Arnolfini Marriage; Amazon Kindle December 2016

Smart Women Don’t Get Wrinkles (paperback); Gibson Square spring 2018

The Longest Night; Gibson Square spring 2019

 

 

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