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Synopsis:

Skin Queen: Maverick facialist Eve Lom reveals her recipe for great-looking skin.

Eve Lom is scrutinising my face. "I think you are very sensitive to acidity - metal, definitely, and strong smells - which go directly into the sinuses and you might have a slight problem with wheezing. You get quite deeply intoxicated whatever you breathe in - and it reflects on the skin."

Wheezing? Ooh, lovely and glamorous. But she's spot on. How can Lom tell all this just by looking at me?

The Czech-born skin guru, who splits her time between Paris and London puts her hands on my jaw and diagnoses further trouble. "You have a slight problem with the breathing and the gastrooesophageal junction, where it joins the stomach, because of the slight red blotchy areas. I think you could benefit from craniosacral therapy to release any restrictions."

Seeing my expression, she laughs: "I'm not a witch." ...

Publish date:

26 August 2008

Author:

Liz Hoggard

Source:

Evening Standard

Media:

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