Valentine's Day is just around the corner, and romance is in the air! Spoil your loved one with one of our lovingly handpicked gifts.
The Hummingbird Bakery Valentine’s Day Collection
The Hummingbird Bakery, which is renowned for its authentic American flavors and iconic confections has a fabulous Valentines Collection – a delectable array of stunning layer cakes and Valentines treats guaranteed to infuse romance into the upcoming season of love. The highlight of the collection is the 6” two layer Valentine’s Red Velvet Heart Cake, which is covered in decadent cream cheese frosting and a flurry of heart with stunning piping around the edges, and an option to personalize the message on top for an extra special touch. The Valentine’s Chocolate Salted Caramel Heart Cake is an adorable table centerpiece: chocolate sponge covered in chocolate buttercream frosting and a heart of golden salted caramel in the center, topped with pale pink, red, pink and white hearts. Alternatively, the Valentine’s Pink Vanilla Heart Cake, with its pearlescent sprinkles surrounding a simple heart in the center, is a stunning centerpiece, and the perfect surprise for someone special. For cupcake fans, there are two selection boxes available: Valentine’s Cupcake Selection Box with six adorable cupcakes featuring darling heart designs, and Valentine’s Mini Cupcake Selection Box with 12 mini cupcakes featuring heart fondant designs and sprinkles, ideal for little indulgent moments. For something extra special, there is a limited-edition Blush Chocolate & Red Velvets Hearts Box – an elegant treat of two pearlized ruby chocolate shells filled with red velvet sponge and cream cheese, topped with pink and ivory pearls and gold leaf to finish: the perfect luxury gift for Valentine’s Day.
Available to order now for London delivery or to collect from one of their six bakeries in London at www.hummingbirdbakery.com from 15th January-14th February.
The perfect gift for your beloved? A good night’s sleep. Drowsy Sleep Masks are a cult product, raved about by UK beauty editors. Brothers Thom and Rich Hemelryk, who both suffered from chronic insomnia wrought by the stress of running high-pressure hospitality businesses together, went on a mission to design a product to reclaim their lost sleep. To say that they were obsessed with sleep would be an understatement. They were determined to create the most luxurious and effective sleep mask in the world, and the result was Drowsy, a seriously silky, squishy and sexy light blocking mask, which features double padded silk and total face coverage. The Hemelryks spent a year testing every element of the mask, trying out hundreds of fabrics, fillings, and designs, and their painstaking attention to detail really shows. I have tried out numerous luxurious sleep masks, but Drowsy is without doubt my favourite. I gift them to all my friends – it is simply the most comfortable and effective eye mask I have ever used. There is a wide variety of colours – Damask Rose or La Vie en Rouge would be an exquisite choice for a Valentine’s Day gift.
Lush Spa Treatment – The Good Hour £140
A great massage is always a wonderful gift choice, and Lush offers a wonderful array of treatment options at its Spa locations (Bath, Birmingham, Cardiff, Edinburgh, Leeds, Liverpool, London (Oxford Street), and Poole). The Good Hour involves a revitalising and relaxing full body massage using firm pressure to relieve tense muscles. It takes place in a ship’s cabin inspired treatment room, where you can really relax into the blissful 70 minute full-body massage that will work all your major muscles and let your mind drift away. My massage therapist, Sonja, used firm pressure and a range of massage techniques, including trigger pointing, to tease out the tension in my back and limbs, leaving me feeling restored and uplifted. The soundtrack that accompanies the treatment, made by Lush Fresh Handmade Sound, whisked me off to sea with a chorus of sea shanties, and brought me back to shore feeling shipshape. It’s a remarkable treatment, and one that I cannot recommend highly enough!
SmartBuyGlasses has an unbeatable range of styles for every taste and occasion, boasting the most extensive eyewear selection available online with thousands of models available from over 300 premium brands, so you can find the perfect pair to express your individuality. It also provides expert advice from its certified opticians, along with world-class support from its customer service team.
I can attest to the excellent service provided bySmartBuyGlasses. I used the website's easy-to-use virtual try-on service to select my Gucci sunglasses (style GG0035SN, featuring shiny dark Havana acetate frames with shaded brown nylon lenses, RRP £256) from the sleek Gucci sunglasses collection. Less than 48 hours later, my new sunglasses arrived in a gorgeous malachite-coloured Gucci case and look sensational.
Townhouse Valentine’s Day Collection and Gift Cards
Townhouse, the ultimate destination for luxurious nail care and a trendsetter in the world of nail art has launched its exclusive and alluring Valentine's Day Collection. Presenting three mesmerising designs: Queen of Hearts, February Baby, and Cupid Calling, this collection is designed to captivate, infusing a romantic and glamorous allure into your manicure.
Available from 30th January, this collection seamlessly fuses romantic hues and dreamy designs, capturing the essence of love. The Palette, inspired by the classic Valentine's Day colours, transitions effortlessly from daytime elegance to nighttime allure. A Townhouse Gift Card is also the perfect gift for Valentine’s Day.
Memoize London Collection II Gift Set £97
After spending seven years developing bespoke fragrance products at a global perfume house, Holly Hutchinson founded Memoize London to create perfume with a unique approach. The vision was to tailor truly individual and directional perfumes that combine effortless wearability with a personalised, bespoke touch. To achieve this, Holly curated a top team of experienced British perfumers, utilising materials sourced from the world’s most reputable material suppliers, to produce a world class collection of scents.
The Memoize London Collection II Gift Set comprises four beautiful niche fragrances for your loved one –Luxuria, Rose Luxuria, Superbia and Humanitas, which is a wonderful way of sampling a range of fragrances. The 7.5ml bottles are also the perfect size for travel.
lixirskin was created by Dr.Colette Haydon, a doctor in dermo-pharmacy, in her London laboratory. Colette specialises in advanced skincare, and lixirskin focuses on pure molecules with published clinical results. One of lixirskin’s hero products is the Vitamin C Paste, an enveloping paste that melts on your skin, with warming Jasmine and Mandarin. It is designed to be used as a quick morning mask, which protects and corrects in one. It is perfect for use at this time of year when skin can appear dull and lifeless – sapped by central heating and depleted by the harsh winter elements. The Vitamin C Paste neutralises oxidised sebum and proteins to revive greyish, greenish, and dull skin undertones. It scavenges free radicals, provides natural sunscreen against UVA and UVB, and regulates melanin production. It also assists Collagen production and protects Elastin. I have found that lixirskin’s Vitamin C Paste has made my complexion smoother and more luminous from day one, and over the past month my skin has become brighter, more even toned, and lifted.
For kissably soft lips this Valentine's Day, this multipurpose balm is the perfect gift: it can be used on lips, cuticles, elbows or dry patches to provide intense hydration and protect against moisture loss. It is formulated with natural Beeswax to soothe and hydrate, and enriched with softening Rose harvested from Jurlique's own organic farm. The luxurious balm texture leaves no waxy residue and is fragranced with the delicate natural scent of Rose.
