Theatre, friends & feeling Zen

Hello again 🙂 It’s been a week since my last post, and you’ll be glad to know I’ve taken everyone’s advice and totally relaxed since being off work. Starting to get out and about which is nice, enjoying the fresh air (underrated!) and spending quality time with my nearest and dearest. I have so many pictures to share on here, but I’m trying to post them without it being a picture overload. These next ones are a wee bit backdated, and are actually from quite a few weeks ago. Will get through them all eventually, bare with me 🙂

Standing on the stage at the Kings Theatre during our technical rehearsal for The Prince, The Johnny Thomson Story. This was the play I worked on before my contract at the BBC just there, and it was great going back to a bit of theatre work again. That’s what I trained in and I’ve not had much chance to work in theatre since I graduated, its all been tv and film. So was a nice change 🙂 Would love to get on a panto this christmas, but I’ll see how much time I have left when the Weakest Link finishes in December. Oh, and make sure I have time off for the South West Blogger meet at Christmas 😉 Sharing a hotel room with Gem, and getting to meet the likes of Rosie and Lyzi is going to be an absolute riot ♥

Talking about Gem… I got to meet this special lady again, and her super lovely boyfriend (oops, now fiance, CONGRATS!) Dale, for an Ichiban lunch and a wee wander around Glasgow before they drove further up north in Scotland. Gem was surprised by how tidy our Primark in Glasgow was. Maybe shocked is a better word! Dale went on to propose to Gem when they were on their wee Scottish holiday. So happy for them, one of the nicest couples I’ve ever had the pleasure of meeting (and now I get to make lots of inappropriate jokes about how they need to give their children really stereotypical scottish names)

So these last few are really quite backdated. The lovely folks at Zen in Edinburgh were kind enough to invite me along to their salon for a Visia Facial Scan, and then a full facial depending on the results and my skin type. I went for this just before I was AWOL from the blog for a while not so long ago, but I’ve been dying to write about it because it really was amazing!

As you can see from the picture above, after the scan I was given a breakdown of my skin in terms of spots, texture, UV spots and red areas. This was really interesting, and I was particularly drawn to the UV analysis, as a user of sunbeds in the past (boo, I know) I was interested to see how the sun etc had taken an impact on my skin. All in all, my results were much better than I hoped and I then went on to get the Murad Environmental Skin Shield Vitamin C Facial. It really was fantastic, and the first time I’d received any sort of treatment like this before. The setting and staff were so welcoming and I was totally chilled out from the moment I got there. So much so that I actually fell asleep twice during the facial! Haha. Tad embarassing but it was absolute bliss. My skin felt amazing afterwards (I didn’t even mind gracing the streets of Edinburgh with my bare makeup-less face on the way for the train)

It actually felt like a crime putting makeup on the next day. I included the picture above because I felt like even with makeup, my skin was a lot ‘brighter’ than usual after the facial. As a first time customer I was also treated to a goody bag with a couple of Murad products to try (oh and there was a chocolate in there too but it got scoffed on the train before I got home and took these pictures) I really don’t have an excuse now not to start looking after my skin properly. I think if I’m careful with my pennies I would really like to save up and get a treatment like this every few months or so. Not only that, but I felt so much better after it in terms of my wellbeing too. Nothing better than having some time to get pampered and slip into complete relaxation (now all I need to convince is my bank balance…)

The girls at Zen were so attentive, and really knew their stuff. I was super impressed, and I’ll actually get to meet them again tonight as a bunch of us are off to their Hanover Street salon for a blogger event. Will be sure to post about how it goes, but probs won’t be for a week or so as I’ve still got so much to share before then! (That’s what I get for disappearing off the face of the earth for a wee while eh?)

Off to get ready and meet all the girls, lots of love,

Ayden x