As I write, I am staring out at a leaden sky with rain drops plopping irritatingly onto a verdigris drainpipe. This is par for the course in January, naturally, but my God it does make you long for a bit of luxury and comfort. January and June (pre summer holiday) are the most common times of the year for people to go on extreme diets and in my view January is a positively lunatic time to do so. The whole system longs for a warmed up Eccles cake, or a stodgy jacket potato with pesto and cheddar. Cottage cheese and ryvita just aren't going to provide that duvet type of sustenance that is vital when your only choice is get soaked outside or be frowsty and irritable inside.
Looking after your skin and hair can make you feel slightly cosy and nurtured and can delay you charging into Patisserie Valerie like a raging bull. Central heating can make dry skin feel irritated so anything soothing is greatly appreciated by your poor epidermis, and hair can go into abject rebellion at the constant transitions between wet and cold and hot and dry, not to mention the dreaded hat hair. Reve de Miel by Nuxe is a warming, creamy moisturiser for dry and sensitive skin. It smells honeyish and heavenly and is described as "ultra confortable" and it really is. It doesn't absorb very quickly but I don't have particularly dry skin. And it feels so pleasant to wear I didn't mind in the slightest.
And as for the luxurious aspect, it delayed me baking lemon cake by a good hour and a half...oop, hang on, that's the oven timer....
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