My journey into the magical world of health and beauty did not follow the usual pathway of leaving school at an early age with dreams of working in a luxury exotic spa performing daily massages surrounded by palm trees, idyllic sands and the gentle soothing tones of the ocean waves lapping on the beach below. In stark contrast it was not until I was in my thirties with a successfully established career and a wardrobe full of luxury clothes, that I made the life changing decision to give up everything I had slogged my guts out for fifteen years to achieve and start again, focusing on a discipline and field that I had limited knowledge of in the middle of one of the UK's worst recessions. Turning back the hands of time, at eighteen when I left school after completing my A-Levels, I had like most ambitious and power hungry teenagers shunned the gates of university and academia, in favour of enrolling in a Swiss style yet London based finishing school, where my fellow classmates and … [Read more...]