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June 26, 2020|Health & Wellbeing

Make-up to stay looking young

Make-up to stay looking young! By award winning, freelance make-up artist Sonia Schofield. Most of the ladies who come to me for skincare and make-up lessons usually ask me to make them look 10 years younger- wouldn’t that be amazing?! We need to change the way we apply our make-up as we age, because what suited us before can now make us look older. We start wearing make-up that suits us in our teens and early twenties and sometimes don’t know how to adapt it when it’s no longer working for

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June 24, 2020|Lifestyle

Ask the expert

Our resident expert hairdresser Andrew Barton has been indundated with your "lockdown hair care" questions and has taken a break from his busy schedule to answer some of them today. Q1. From Annabelle: I’m a professional woman and spend lots of time on Zoom calls lately and have long hair which is looking somewhat bedraggled. Rather than simply put it into a pony tail, are there any other ways I can put up my hair to ensure that I look smart and well presented? A. With the amount of zoom ca

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June 16, 2020|Health & Wellbeing

Editor discovers The Governor

Whilst watching an episode of Julia Bradbury's Best Walks recently when she headed to Corfu, as a fan of Olive Oil I was interested in her visit to an olive grove where the family run business produce some of the finest olive oil in the world, The Governor. The Governor Premium EVOO is the first in the world to be classified as a health oil due to it containing extremely high levels of the beneficial health promoting polyphenol compouunds, particularly Oleocanthal and Olecein. These compound

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June 5, 2020|Entrepreneurs

Harrogate barre instructor supports multi-tasking women

A fitness instructor from Harrogate is doing her bit to help stressed out women from across the region and beyond, unwind and reconnect with their minds and bodies whilst in lockdown. Elishea Boswell, a 32 year old entrepreneur who usually runs her business, Barre and Body out of the Barre and Body studio on Cheltenham Mount in Harrogate and Studio Sixteen in North Leeds has responded to lockdown by expanding her services after 100% of her income disappeared overnight. She is now teaching her l

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June 3, 2020|Health & Wellbeing

As cycling doubles, bike week celebrates health & wellbeing

Cycling UK’s annual bike celebration runs from 6 to 14 June, with online events themed around the health and wellbeing benefits of cycling * Cycling has doubled in England and Scotland during the Covid-19 crisis * Cycling UK has helped almost 3,000 health and social care workers onto their bikes with free membership * World Health Organization and UK government advise cycling and walking whenever possible for short journeys * Two-thirds of car journeys in London could be replaced by a

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June 3, 2020|Health & Wellbeing

Spa Life

Spa Life after lockdown - Vicky from VJW Holistic Therapies shares why it’s going to be crucial to take time out when some kind of normality resumes. Are you looking for ways to develop a healthier lifestyle post lockdown? Your healthy living plan should be a sustainable balance of physical activity, healthy eating and maintaining a holistic approach to a good health and wellbeing. Visiting the spa right now isn’t possible but when some sort of normality resumes and only then, we should inc

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May 29, 2020|Health & Wellbeing

Beauty Finds

Sonia Schofield is an award winning wedding make-up artist based in York. She works in tv, film and fashion. She gives private skincare and make-up tutorials at her studio in York and is currently doing online make-up lessons via ZOOM. Here, Sonia shares with us some of her recent beauty finds. My favourite skin pampering products https://www.soniaschofieldmakeup.com/ Most of my time is spent ensuring everyone looks fabulous, with glowing skin and flawless make-up. I decided to use the extr

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May 28, 2020|Health & Wellbeing

Celebrate Bike Week

Celebrate this years “Bike Week” and get out on your bike. National charity “Cycling UK” wants to get even more people riding and is looking forward to celebrating this year’s week long initiative. They appreciate that in these uncertain times, helping people to come together to ride will not be possible, so they are holding a series of fun Bike Week events online this June. Why not make cycling your daily exercise during Bike Week 2020. Can you get on your bike for seven days in a row betwee

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May 21, 2020|Health & Wellbeing

Holistic Health

Holistic health is the connection between our body, mind and soul and Vicky from VJW Holistic Therapies shares her expert knowledge with us during "Mental Health Awareness Week". Our wellbeing is something that we can easily overlook in ‘normal’ day to day life. But in these current circumstances it is more important than ever. At VJW Holistic Therapies our approach is always holistic - the treatment of a person as a whole. So, Abbie, Ciel and myself have taken the time to collectively give s

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May 20, 2020|Health & Wellbeing

Behind the scenes

What a make-up artist does on lockdown! Sonia Schofield is an award winning wedding make-up artist. She also works in tv and film and is the head of hair and make-up for York Fashion Week. Here she tells us what she has been up to during lockdown and shares with us her latest video on how to do make-up as we return to our normal lives. Being a hair and make-up artist felt like an impossible career to maintain during the Corona virus pandemic. I have a very up close and personal job so my bus

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May 18, 2020|Business

Mental Health Matters

Jodie Hill, Managing Director and Solicitor from multi-award winning Thrive Law shares with us her expertise during "Mental Health Awareness Week". Is the workplace about to face a Tsunami of mental illness after lockdown? Whilst many people report that their mental health had got worse since the pandemic, let’s be real and acknowledge that we were already in a global mental health epidemic. With that in mind, many psychiatrists are predicting a surge of people coming forward with new or de

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May 15, 2020|Health & Wellbeing

Top to toe tips

How many of us dream of the day when we can visit a Spa or a beauty salon again? All thanks to Vicky and her team at VJW Holistic Therapies in Huddersfield, here are some really useful tips that will enable us to temporarily "Spa from home" in readiness for post-lockdown pampering. At VJW Holistic Therapies, we have spent countless hours doing what we love but we appreciate that you won’t have. So, we have taken time as a team (virtually!) to put some top yet simple ‘at home’ tips together.

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