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Roberta Stimson: 'I've been thinking of taking a therapy course as, increasingly, it's what I do'
TELEGRAPH.CO.UK 12:01AM BST 06 Aug 2004

The boom in alternative therapies is testament to the power of talking as much as touching, says Helen Kirwan-Taylor Britain, once a nation of shopkeepers, is turning into a nation of alternative therapists.

According to a survey conducted on behalf of Yellow Pages, published this week, the number of high street greengrocers has declined by almost 60 per cent in 10 years, while the number of reflexologists is up over 800 per cent.
There are 5,000 as many aromatherapists as in 1994, but 40 per cent fewer butchers. Are we more sick than ever? Have we given up on traditional medicine? Or are we just looking for someone to talk to about our problems?
"I've been thinking of taking a therapy course because, increasingly, it's what I do," says Roberta Stimson, a clinical nutritionist and naturopathic practitioner at the Gonstead Clinic in London. "I have clients who come in just to talk."
Clients usually schedule an appointment because they have a physical ailment, such as a bad back or a thyroid disorder, but somehow, once they get on the treatment table, they can't stop talking. "When people are lying down, they relax," says Stimson. "That's when it all comes pouring out.
"Over the years, I've given all kinds of nutritional advice. I've treated the physical problems, but you are always going to fail to get the patient better until you deal with the issues that are going on in the mind. The people who come to me are stressed and they want help."
In the past, we would share our problems with everyone from a neighbour to the postman. Today, friends, GPs and colleagues are too busy to talk, and our neighbours are strangers across a garden fence. This is where the alternative health community comes in.
"Many of my patients have the same psychological issues," says one London-based masseur who has started a counselling service because of the amount of talking in her sessions. "They have problems with their relationships, or at work. It makes a huge difference when I tell them many of my other patients are in the same position. The problems usually aren't insurmountable, but people don't want to discuss them with their friends. They can unload on me without feeling guilty."
"We're like grandmothers or shamans," says Wendy Mandy, a London acupuncturist. "People who come to me know that I really care. Compared to what I do, traditional psychotherapy can seem clinical."
One of the most important aspects of the alternative approach is the element of touch. The laying on of hands, the state of undress, the smell of incense, all make up an "embryonic" environment, says Mandy. "It feels completely safe." This is why the emotions come flooding out, and it's not uncommon for patients to cry during massages.
Mandy's treatment is all-encompassing: she combines massage with five-element acupuncture, reflexology and reiki, handing out home-grown spiritual advice as she goes.
"Many people are in a rut," she says, "and just need a different perspective. I have clients who are great intellectuals but can't deal with their three-year-olds. They have been trying to hold it all together and I give them the opportunity to let go."
Acupuncturist Robert Ogilvie is another practitioner whose treatment goes far beyond the meridian points. "I spend a lot of time evaluating where people are emotionally," he says. "I base my diagnosis on what they say and how they say it. The tone of voice itself tells me a lot."
Many of his clients book in for a session, but never make it to the acupuncture table. "I'll say, 'The session is almost over, do you want me to give you treatment?', and they will say, 'No, I've already had it'.
"People are flocking to the alternative profession because they want to talk and don't want to be judged. No one fulfils that role in society any more.
"Men, in particular, are desperate. The treatment room is a safe place to unload. And, of course, you're being touched – something that rarely happens in our politically correct society."
Touching and talking have now been combined in what is called Somatherapy. This new form of therapy, which will be available at Unlisted London this September, combines psychology and massage.
"The treatment starts with questions that are repeated throughout," says Unlisted's marketing manager, Kerrin Wallace. "There are also visualisation exercises. After that, the massage can begin."
The effect is so powerful that the therapist often hands out her mobile phone number at the end of a session so that the client can keep in touch.
"We understand that the treatment doesn't end when you get up and get dressed," says Wallace.
This is not to say that traditional psychotherapy is dead but, like most things, it is an evolving business. Researchers are, for instance, studying the effects of exercise on the mind.
Keith Johnsgard, a clinical psychologist, former professor at San Jose State University and author of Conquering Depression and Anxiety Through Exercise, believes it can be beneficial to take the patient out of the sedentary setting of the therapist's office.
For some years, he has performed therapy while hiking with his clients. Exercise, he found, increases the flow of blood to the brain and improves patients' state of alertness and concentration, prompting a far more intense and interesting discussion.
"We've been discussing the mind-body connection for over 20 years," says Stimson. "Finally, people are waking up."
Phillip Hogan, a former personal trainer to Diana, Princess of Wales, Andre Agassi, Clive James and several Olympic athletes, founded the organisation Healthy-Escape with a view to combining therapy and exercise in an outdoor setting. He takes burnt-out professionals on long hikes in remote parts of Britain, Europe, Patagonia and the Himalayas with no luxuries (or mobiles). The hikes release all kinds of emotions, and any problems can be discussed with a resident psychologist.
"Hiking is draining, both mentally and physically," says Hogan, "but it helps to remove layers of defence that have built up over time. This shedding process has the effect of opening people up mentally, creating a window for real change and a chance to adopt new ways of dealing with stress, pain, eating disorders and poor motivation, among other things."
Hogan advocates "a simultaneous, multi-disciplined approach, involving medicine, psychology, physical therapy, fitness and nutrition to resolve issues such as back pain or stress, which have a knock-on effect on mood, performance and confidence. You have to look at the root causes of physical problems: sometimes, a backache will be a symptom of depression. You have to look at the whole picture."
This confirms what many alternative therapists, yoga teachers and personal trainers have long known. Talking helps, but walking, touching and talking – at the same time – help more.
· Roberta Stimson, 0845 094 6016

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My ME story

Evening Standard

Roberta Stimson, a clinical nutritionist and naturopathic practitioner who works with Trinny and Susanna is on the receiving end of burnout victims in her Uxbridge clinic. 'I can see it as soon as they walk into the office,' she says. 'They are high achievers who set enormous goals but just don't have the constitution. Or maybe they had it once, but it wasn't enough.'
What Stimson has found among her patients is that where there is a discrepancy between outward success and status and inner fulfilment, there is almost always an illness. 'There is an enormous amount of stress to putting up a front,' she says. 'If you are doing it because of peer pressure, and the inward and outward are not in sync, then you are ripe for illnesses like ME', she adds.

HARD LABOUR; Stress, tears, breakdowns and, ultimately, suicide bids... No, we're not talking about Britney Spears, but London's lawyers and traders.These days, how much you earn is directly proportionate to how much pressure you're prepared to take. Is it time to toughen up, asks
HELEN KIRWAN-TAYLOR

At an art opening hosted by a prominent lawyer last week with the legal glitterati in attendance, the conversation was centred on one subject: 27-year-old Matthew Courtney, a trainee at the law firm Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer, who was found dead in a stairwell two weeks ago

Partners from rival firms Clifford Chance and Slaughter and May were huddled in discussion. Their conclusion? It just didn't make sense.

Courtney had complained of overwork and had been working 16-hour days, seven days a week, since joining the firm in 2004. But for anyone who is familiar with legal firms, this is the norm. Burnout is to law what narcissism is to film: absolutely rampant. 'Just go to an AA meeting at 6am in Canary Wharf and you will see them all a lawyer told me.

For all the talk these days about work-life balance and the meaning gap (when workers feel that their job gives them no sense of purpose), it seems that life out there is only getting faster and more competitive.

'One of the consequences of London's success as a financial centre is that those who service global clients, be they lawyers or bankers, often work in different time zones and under considerable pressure,' says Jeremy Sandelson, managing partner at Clifford Chance. 'We have systems in place to monitor workloads in an aim to prevent people working long hours over extended periods.' What doesn't make sense to lawyers is how someone like Courtney slipped through the net. 'People who are hired for firms like Freshfields are type As,' a lawyer said to me. 'We're high-flyers who thrive on exams and stress. We're not earth mothers. I do not believe for a minute (because even the worst firms look out for this kind of behaviour) that Courtney was working 16-hour days (which means billing from the taxi, an American legal habit where every waking hour is billable to the client). There was something else going on.' Some suggest that he may have been on antidepressants.

Regardless, they lay the blame on the Americans. American firms set the standards and now the British, too, are becoming victims of the 24/7 working culture. 'British law used to be considered quite civilised,' says one lawyer. Not any more. An article entitled 'Firms don't recognise lawyer burnout' in the Solicitors Journal in 2005 claims that law firms are not paying enough attention to the wellbeing of their staff.
Much has been written about the large salaries, the partnership golden handcuffs and the all-night dealmaking, but the reality is that law firms are money machines; lawyers are cogs in a wheel and if you don't turn fast enough you're out, either on your own two feet or stretchered out on your back.

Say the word 'burnout' to a lawyer and you can't shut them up. 'I can see why that happened to Courtney,' says Michael, an attorney in his early thirties who works with a rival firm. 'He just couldn't make the grade. I am on the brink myself and I can see that I will either walk or be pushed out,' he says. As we spoke, it was clear that he was highly agitated. 'We are told we have to get so many billable hours per day, the absolute minimum being ten, and if we don't get them, we are put on "probation". If you are on probation, you don't get a bonus or a raise.' Michael was told that he wasn't bringing in the hours and therefore to bill his quota meant he couldn't take a lunch break. 'I can't make a single personal call during the day and weekends are mostly spent in the office as well.' But it's the deal-making that he says pushes lawyers over the edge. 'One of my associates didn't sleep for three nights in a row. When I had my performance review, the senior partners said that was who I should model myself on. When you are doing a deal, you are not expected to go home at all.

My boss sleeps on the floor.' When Michael complained that the hours were affecting his health, his boss told him to 'get the hours or leave'.

The myriad stress management programmes out there all suggest that to avoid burnout, you should take a holiday, speak to your boss, write to human resources, visit the inhouse counsellor, take up yoga, start meditating.
but any of these options is more likely than not to land you with the sack.

'You have to look at the background of these firms,' says Graham Ward, an executive coach with his own firm, Amandla Consulting, who used to work in an investment bank and now regularly treats burnout victims.

'These are very aggressive cultures where the peer pressure is high. If everyone else is working 16- to 18-hour days, you are expected to keep up.

The speed of work means that Abraham Maslow's 'hierarchy of needs' - food, water, shelter - go out the window. You eat on the hoof, you sleep on planes, you smoke and drink.' The culture is almost always led by senior management.

'When the leader is a 35-year-old male executive who hikes up Mount Everest for fun, he sets the agenda and that's when burnout starts,' says Ward. 'The worker feels guilty asking for a holiday or going home on time.' Once you have that ambivalence, the pressure starts to build. Eventually, because you feel powerless to control your life, depression sets in. Burnout is actually another word for depression: the symptoms are inability to sleep, feeling a lack of purpose in your life and helplessness.

When you're in that state you are too tired to call a friend, and certainly too tired to seek help.
In the early Seventies Christina Masclach and her colleague Susan E Jackson devised the Masclach Burnout Inventory. 'Burnout is the index of the dislocation between what people are and what they have to do,' Masclach wrote in The Truth About Burnout. 'It represents an erosion in values, dignity, spirit and will - an erosion of the human soul. It is a malady that spreads gradually and continuously over time, pulling people into a downward spiral from which it's hard to recover.' It was a study conducted by Cordes and Doherty in 1993 looking at healthcare workers that first witnessed the repetitive cluster of familiar symptoms. After a long period of exhaustion, the burnout victim begins to feel 'depersonalised and cynical' or, as one victim put it, 'like a zombie'. Early symptoms may be headaches, insomnia, frequent colds and even tearful outbursts, but it is just as common for a burnout to seem fine to everyone else and then to walk out of the office with no intention of coming back (as did one senior trader from Citigroup, only to return three months later) or, in the extreme, to throw themselves off the top of a 100ft building as the 52-year-old American lawyer Kathy Ward did in London last January.

The Japanese word karoshi, meaning 'death from overwork', struck previously healthy workers and, ironically, it was a group of lawyers who first became aware of it.

Burnout basically means 'I can't do this any more'. 'I think burnout and boredom are the same thing,' says Philip Nixon, a Chelsea gold-medal-winning gardener who left the City five years ago. 'My wife worked with someone who went into a garage and killed himself. For me, it was the sense that I was like a double-glazing salesman and it was never going to end. You were always worrying where your next deal would come from. You would come to your desk and find a wooden spoon on it, which meant you were the person with the lowest sales figures.

'Every morning there were sales meetings in which you were told who had performed the worst. It was a very aggressive culture and to complain was not done. The idea that you go to human resources was unheard of.' One lawyer calls human resources 'human remains'.

A British poll conducted by The Survey Shop found that half of British workers routinely complain of burnout. Thirty-five per cent of those polled said it was a problem in their firm. Kate Keenan, a chartered occupational psychologist based in Bath, has long observed the symptoms of stress.

'Basically, stress is a response to a situation. It's a good reaction because it stimulates fight or flight, but it's a chemical that, once it has entered the bloodstream, needs to be expunged,' she says. Stress sets off a chemical reaction that only exercise can reduce immediately. 'We are meant to use those chemicals to run away from tigers, so I tell my patients just to run around the park.' If stress is prolonged and untreated, it leads to hyperadrenalisation in which the person is constantly exhausted, tearful and depressed. In this state, a run around the park won't do much good.

'Eventually the person feels hapless, helpless and hopeless,' says Keenan.

Roberta Stimson, a clinical nutritionist and naturopathic practitioner who works with Trinny and Susanna is on the receiving end of burnout victims in her Uxbridge clinic. 'I can see it as soon as they walk into the office,' she says. 'They are high achievers who set enormous goals but just don't have the constitution. Or maybe they had it once, but it wasn't enough.' What Stimson has found among her patients is that where there is a discrepancy between outward success and status and inner fulfilment, there is almost always an illness. 'There is an enormous amount of stress to putting up a front,' she says. 'If you are doing it because of peer pressure, and the inward and outward are not in sync, then you are ripe for illnesses like ME', she adds.

I have seen burnout close up. A 40-year old journalist I know, who routinely went without sleep or food, and was accustomed to flying overnight and covering stories the following day, found that he was driving his motorcycle faster and faster at night, often drunk. He called it 'hitting the wall' but he was lucky. His boss had seen burnout before in his professional life and insisted that he be committed to a stress clinic. My friend says it saved his life.

But not all are so lucky. Freshfield's merger with a German firm has led to it becoming ' deequitised' to keep profits up, meaning that partnership ten years down the road is no longer a given. In a culture where the golden carrot at the end of ten years of slog is a high-paying job for life, this would come as a real shock. 'There are huge sums of money involved and the work is often cutting-edge and, therefore, you have to be on your toes all the time,' says a lawyer who worked there as an associate. 'But someone who is 27 has a choice. Some people love it and thrive on it and those who don't, leave.' The City is as close to the jungle as it gets in the modern world.

You either have the stamina and the drive to keep up, or you perish. 'It's one of the constructs of modern society and certainly London,' says Ward, 'that what one earns is proportionate to how much pressure one can take.'

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A gentle manipulation technique that encourages elimination of toxins by stimulating the lymph glands, manual lymphatic drainage can banish cellulite, fight infection and relieve swollen joints.
Phil Brooke discovers how it works

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Little is known about the lymphatic system, therefore it is often overlooked, yet this provides a vital key to your health. Lymph is a fluid which gives vital nutrients to every cell in your body and acts as a dustman, picking up rubbish and throwing it out of your body. Also, the prevention of disease and infection is largely controlled by your lymphatic system as it makes fighting cells or lymphocytes, which make up your immune system.

STRAINS ON THE LYMPH
Practitioners of manual lymph drainage (MLD) believe that the modern Western lifestyle. With its stress, pollution and over-refined diet, places extra burdens on your lymphatic system, overloading it with harmful toxins and impurities.
Furthermore, any lack of exercise will slow your lymph down further until it can no longer do its job properly. This is because it has no pump, unlike your heart. Instead your lymph is merely pushed around your body when you move your muscles.

EFFECT OF BLOCKAGES
If your lymph is sluggish, your body’s dustman will become lazy, leaving pile of rubbish which grow into blockages. This will impede your lymph even further, restricting the nutrients your cells need and hindering the effectiveness of the fighting cells. Headaches, swelling, puffiness, allergies, continual infections or a general feeling of sluggishness are all symptoms warning you that your lymphatic system needs help. And this is where manual lymphatic drainage can help you.

ORIGINS OF MLD
Developed by Dr. Vodder and his wife Estrid in the 1930s, MLD is a gentle all-over body treatment which clears any blockages and kick-starts your lymph-system back into action. It’s claimed to relieve a variety of ailments from acne, arthritis and allergies to constipation, swelling and cellulite.
Your lymph flow can be encouraged by only a very light massage as the lymph vessels are as fine as silk threads. Lymph flows upwards so the massage will begin at your feet and end around your chest. Only an MLD practitioner will know how to clear the blockages, what pressure should be used and the specific movements which make the lymph flow out of the body.
Roberta Stimson, who runs her own clinic in London, is one of the leading practitioners in the UK. She says: ‘It’s the most wonderful treatment because it relaxes you, helps your body build its own energy, fights infection and prevents swelling.’
‘You can’t treat someone with just one session – you have to carry it on at home,’ she explains. ‘Treating the lymphatic system is one of the most holistic approaches to becoming healthier. Your lifestyle is probably the cause, and the cure, of your symptoms.’
So if you want to shift your cellulite for example, its not going to be easy.

BANISHING CELLULITE
Roberta admits that this is a tough one, but if you’re determined, and your cellulite isn't hereditary, then you can firm up those thighs. ‘Cellulite starts when the lymph nodes become blocked, for example in the groin area, which means that the thighs will retain fluid, fat and toxins. The blockages prevent the lymph from flowing up, so it becomes trapped around the thighs.’
To treat cellulite, Roberta will manipulate you to clear any blockages and get the lymph flowing. ‘I squeeze the toxic substances (impurities, excess proteins and waste) that the lymph has been trying to clear which has become mixed with too much fat and water – its quite squashy, like tapioca.’
The gentle pressure will move the lymph and toxins up to the thoracic duct where it rejoins the blood on the way to the kidneys to then leave your body. After the treatment you might feel under the weather for up to 48 hours as the elimination process sets in. Following this, Roberta will suggest a few changes you should make to your lifestyle which will help the process.

TEN-POINT ACTION PLAN
The following action plan, consisting of diet, exercise and distressing techniques, will stimulate your lymph to help banish your cellulite. It will also help you to overcome other ailments and generally improve your immune system.
· Diet. Avoid process food (white sugar, flour, salt), cut out saturated fats altogether (cheese, chocolate, red meat). Eat 75 percent fresh, organic foods such as fruit, vegetables and salad and 25 percent proteins and starch. Drink about seven glasses of mineral water every day. Avoid fizzy drinks – they do you no good in large quantities.
· Exercise. Walking and swimming are excellent. However, rebounding (jumping on a mini-trampoline) is best – as you jump up you are freeing the lymph from the pull of gravity and when you land all the cells in your body squash together, squeezing out waste.
· Deep Breathing. This will help the lymphatic ducts drain your lymph and also shift toxins which hang around your lungs.
· Relieve your Constipation. If you eat three meals a day you should go to the toilet three times a day, according to MLD experts. If your colon is blocked it will put an extra burden on your lymph.
· Reduce your Stress Levels. They can stimulate glands which release hormones which create toxins.
· Dry Skin Brushing. Try brushing your body upwards with a natural dry bristle brush starting with the feet, legs, arms and then your body. It only takes about five minutes. Then, add a mugful of Epsom salts to a bath and soak for 20 minutes. In six weeks you’ll see the difference.
· Vitamins and minerals are often processed out of foods so supplements are worth taking. Vitamin C, especially fragile so that even ‘fresh fruits’ can be deficient, will strengthen your cells so they won’t be stretched by excess water and fat.
· Avoid pollution wherever possible – it is loaded with toxins.
· Avoid tight-fitting clothes as they will inhibit your lymph flow.
· Try herbal remedies. Echinacea and Fenugreek stimulate the lymph by emulsifying fatty globules and shifting any blockages.'

FIGHTING FIT
If you are feeling under the weather, there are lots of things you can do to help yourself. Remember that it’s never too late. According to Roberta, our bodies have the most incredible recuperative powers and MLD is one way to boost your lymph back to life for good health and a great-looking body.

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Evening Standard
As a report shows that women spend £670 Million a year on alternative therapies, one writer reveals
The Price I Have To Pay For My Sanity
By Helen Kirwan-Taylor

Research published today says that women spend £670 million a year on what they call ‘spiritual spending’. Apparently, we no longer book mere holidays any more: we take reflexology sessions for our irritable bowel syndrome and half a dozen Japanese seaweed wraps for cellulite, and only then do we select our country.
What the research doesn’t take into account is what I now have: stress from spiritual spending. Most of us have taken up yoga and pilates in order to combat the effects of our busy lives, only to fins ourselves more stressed than ever trying to fit it all in. And it’s not just the spiritual side we’re talking about; by the time you fit in the bi-weekly appointment with the Endormologie machine at the gym, not to mention the half-hour slot with a physiotherapist to combat the effects of Ashtanga yoga, you hardly have any time left to do the job that is stressing you out in the first place. Last year I suffered a relapse of ME (brought on by stress).
There were days when I would open my Filofax only to shut it again. First there was an 11am with the brilliant naturopath Roberta Stimson (recommended by Trinny Woodall), a lunchtime slot with my Pilates teacher, Amanda Musker; and a 4pm with acupuncturist Robert Ogilvy. Then there was the brouhaha of putting all the tinctures, herbs and pills together that my Ayurvedic doctor, Dr Mosaraf Ali, had recommended, not to mention slicing and dicing all the fruits and vegetables as per Stimson’s instructions. It left me about 20 minutes in which to work or, more important, rest. Even the obvious solution, called D Stress Direct or Unlisted, two of the best agencies that send qualified therapists to the home, didn’t solve the problem. I would book a massage then spend the entire hour craning my neck as I talked on the phone.
As soon as I got up from the table, I would head for the kettle to make coffee so I could muster the adrenaline I needed in the small window I had left to write. I paid no attention to the therapist’s advice, which usually went something like this: “You should take the rest of the day off and drink only filtered water and wheatgrass juice.” Yeah, sure: but I have to earn the £50 that just went into your pocket.
Spiritual treatments are highly addictive. They not only make you feel good but most of the therapists perform amateur psychology as they go along (Roberta Stimson gives me amazing professional advice).
Unfortunately most therapies don’t stop at one treatment: you’re supposed to go at least once a week. Most therapists usually recommend (for your own sake, of course) that you also see an osteopath, a homeopath, a herbalist, an Alexander Technique teacher and a Reiki healer. They call it complimentary medicine, I call it complicated. I’m on a strict spiritual diet these days of no more than two sessions a week, though sometimes I break down and book a massage.

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If you want to rev up your beauty routine for the party season, check out what these 4 celebs buy and do to stay looking gorgeous, 24/7 words Kim Parker

Susanna Constantine
Makeover Queen

Susanna previously worked as a fashion PR for Patrick Cox before meeting Trinny and becoming a style guru on TV. She is married and has three children, Joe, Esme and Cece.

What are your personal skincare secrets?
· My skin is sensitive and needs extra attention in the sun as I suffer from prickly heat. So, I use Institut Esthederm sunscreens on holiday
· I’m a flannel and water girl, and I don’t use a toner
· I like Dr.Hauschka Rose Day Cream, Sisley Moisturiser, Eve Lom Moisturiser with SPF15 and Clarins Gentle Exfoliating Refiner
· Jo Malone Green Tea and Honey Eye Cream is the best

What price to stay healthy?
· I have a naturopathic doctor called Roberta Stimson who I go to see in Harley Street once in a while
· I take fish oils, multivitamins and starflower oil supplements

What price to keep fit?
· I do yoga three times a week with Ann Reilly whenever I’m in London
· I also like getting outside to cycle, walk and ride to keep fit

What’s always in your bathroom cabinet?
· Jo Malone Lime and grapefruit Soap
· Johnson’s Baby Moisturizing Bath
· Diptyque scented candles
· The Body Shop Peppermint Pumice Foor Scrub
· Kiehl’s Creme de Corps

What treatments are in your diary?
· I go to Gina Charalambous at Richard Ward for manicures and pedicures
· I get my eyelashes tinted at the Balance Clinic in Chelsea

What’s your hair regime?
· I have my hair cut by Roger Britnell or Christiano Basciu at Richard Ward
· For colouring I go to Adam Russell or Mario Charambous at Richard Ward

What’s on your Christmas wish list?
· I’d rather receive a good book and a box of chocolates than beauty products!