Lockdown may have made us all adapt to remote working, nudged us to discover the real colour of our hair roots and allowed us time to do 1000-piece Jigsaws. What next? Caroline Phillips investigates post-lockdown services we need to know now.
Expect everything from a deluge of divorces (those already unhappy couples who were holed up during the pandemic) through to a mass exodus to live in the countryside, far from the madding, (masked) crowd. Anticipate dealing with your tubby Coronatummy – and body hair (that’s you, ladies) – and possibly finding a new career too.
Here’s our guide to the top dozen services and practitioners for the next steps. Whether you’re after the world’s best off-Zoom yoga, the ultimate post-lockdown facial or mouth-watering new foodie experiences, read on.
Post-Lockdown Services You Need To Know
THE FAMILY LAWYER
Has your marriage hit the lockdown rocks? Have you been channelling Netflix’s Marriage Story, the cry-out-loud portrait of a relationship in its death throes? Enter Camilla Baldwin, family lawyer par excellence and the empathetic and diligent founder of her eponymous boutique family law firm. She’s as adept at negotiating divorces and settlements for royals and Russian billionaires as she is at pro-bono work to help women in prison re-establish their relationship with their children or domestic violence cases for Refuge. Plus, her Mayfair offices are instantly comforting and homely with their sink-into-me sofas. Add to this that Baldwin had her own experience of divorce, before reuniting with her husband – and you couldn’t be in better hands.
THE PROPERTY SEARCH MAN
Confined to the same four walls for weeks of lockdown, you started re-evaluating what’s important. You heard London birds tweeting, the city air was mint-fresh and there was no traffic. With light-bulb clarity, you realised you want a garden, dog, home office… to upsize… to move to the countryside. Step in Tim Barker, independent property search consultant and supremo of Somerset and Dorset, the new must-have country addresses for townies. For a £1,200 registration fee, this blond-haired, blue-eyed charmer will find you the best cottages, houses, farms and estates – many (ssshhh) on the private market. Then he’ll take you for socially-distanced viewings and negotiate on your behalf, charging 1.5 per cent of the price paid. Get him on speed dial.
+44 (0)1935 814719. barkerstourtonpropertysearch.com
THE FOOD PSYCHOLOGIST
Coronatummy anybody? Or perhaps the anxiety and fear about a deadly virus led you to restrict your food? Dr Charlie Baily is one of the country’s leading clinical psychologists and has the ideal credentials (including oodles of experience, a PHD and membership of The British Psychological Society) for treating eating disorders, depression and anxiety. Five-year-olds (with their parents) through to seventysomethings consult him in his bright eyrie in the Wimpole Street outpost of Clinical Partners – a private partnership of premier league mental health professionals. He’s an attentive, insightful listener and has various therapies –including CBT and Family-Based Treatment for Eating Disorders – in his toolbox. Best of all, he’s seen plenty of clients recuperate fully from their mental health difficulties. Book him now. One session, £165. clinical-partners.co.uk
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THE SUPER FACIALIST
She’s known as the Queen of Facialists and the Empress of Eyebrows (for her excellence at threading and shaping). Enter Vaishaly, the woman who’s put glow on the faces of Gwyneth to Sophie Dahl. You’ll arrive sporting a mask (or she’ll give you one) and she’ll wear one too. You’ll glide through the clinic’s temple-like hush (past marble Indian goddesses) midst rose-petal scents to her gleamingly disinfected therapy room. (Cleaned for 15 minutes between appointments.) Best of all, her Signature Facial includes a send-you-to-heaven facial massage – her ‘anti-ageing beauty secret’ – and healing cranial sacral work to calm and re-balance the mind and body. Plus, she’s available for even longer hours post-lockdown, including 10-5pm on Sundays. Who said corona didn’t have a silver lining?
55-minute facial £200. 02045099700. vaishalyclinic.com
THE JOB HUNT COACH
If you’re being made redundant, are a millennial looking for your first-ever employment or are gingerly considering starting a business in this strange new post-lockdown world, James McCullough is your man. He’s a business psychologist and qualified coach who offers tip-top career change coaching and job performance support. After a quick diagnostic chat, he’ll guide you over technology or (hallelujah!) in person – listening intently, bursting with insights, and doing occasional psychometric tests. He’ll help you identify and combine your core strengths – perhaps singing, boxing and event organising – and prepare you to launch yourself happily and unexpectedly into, say, an environmental career. Mustard keen and encouraging – he’s led six high altitude expeditions – he oozes positive psychology. You’ll leave with clarity and job prospects.
£120 per session. james@jamesmccullough.plus.com
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THE HAIR HEALTH LADY
Job loss, home schooling and over-indulging will show in your hair. Shedding? Dandruff for the first time in your life? Aloplecia from having had a Covid fever? Hotfoot it to Mayfair for a hair MOT with consultant trichologist Lisa Caddy. She’ll be sporting PPE, white lab coat, and super lustrous locks. She’ll check your scalp, take an iPad snap of your tresses then peer at your follicles through her trichoscope (digital microscope), ascertaining health, density, and condition. Then – with forensic thoroughness – cover your medical to nutritional history, from hormones to supplements. And sometimes organise blood tests. Afterwards you’ll have a bespoke mask, steam and scalp massage with your trichotherapist. Then buy a wooden vented styling brush and stimulating scalp mask. Ah! The stresses and tresses of lockdown sorted.
£150 for up to an hour. philipkingsley.co.uk
THE EGG AND THE CHEF
Bored of cooking for yourself at home? And not yet feeling the love for socially-distanced restaurant dining? Cue for the Big Green Egg, the best BBQ you’ll have ever owned which, with its convEGGtor, becomes the best outdoor oven ever made. And then hire super chef Sam Ashton-Booth – of two Michelin starred The Ledbury restaurant fame – to cook on it for you. He’ll magic up lightly grilled tomatoes with burrata, raspberries and tarragon, and toasted seaweed sourdough. Plus scallops baked in beef fat with gooseberries – creating four courses simultaneously using its EGGspander system – then roasted lamb saddle so good that your barbecue (and guests) won’t want to see him go. Forget kerbside drop-off and pallets if you buy one, opt instead for the White Glove Delivery and Assembly service. Sally and Alex niftily construct the EGG on site, stay for Q&A, and take away any packaging. Since you probably aren’t going on holiday, what better way to spend your furloughed pound post-lockdown?
Biggreenegg.co.uk and their White Glove Delivery and Assembly from £180. Chef Sam Ashton-Booth 07414763665, £100 per head
Photo by Tonik on Unsplash
YOGA BUNNY
It’s not just that Francesca Quaradeghini is Cambridge University educated, speaks four languages and can do a brilliant Chakrasana yoga pose (think U-bend with tummy in the air) on lockdown Zoom from Barbados while her toddler ‘assists’ by swinging off Mummy’s Lululemon-clad hips. She’s also one of the world’s leading Hatha yoga gurus, teaches meditation in primary and secondary schools, and is an Ayurvedic (traditional Indian healing system) practitioner to boot. The instant all travel restrictions lift, sign up for one of her company’s luxury retreats – from Portugal to Australia – or book her or one of Yogoloji’s wonderful teachers for one-to-one home visit sessions in London. She’s even offering a week’s online ‘taster’ classes for free, and thereafter by donation. Her personal email address, frannylovestheworld (at gmail.com, since you ask) says it all, really.
One-to-one yoga and meditation sessions £90 for 75 mins. Yogoloji@gmail.com
RAPUNZEL NO MORE
If you’d left your lockdown leg hair to grow, you’d have had enough to plait, right? And perhaps you started sprouting a teeny beard while staying home? Oops, I’m speaking to you too, ladies. If you’re hankering after a smooth body once again, every soon-to-be body-hair-free celebrity has Sandra Felicio on speed dial. (Book now in readiness for when Boris says you can go post-lockdown.) There’s enough space in the flower-filled and lavender-scented Holland Park clinic (more like a chic private residence, really) for elegant social distancing. Wearing a face mask and in sparkling hospital-clean conditions, Sandra will tackle your facial hair with Intense pulse light (IPL) and then set about your legs, underarm and bikini too. No more Rapunzel, Rapunzel, let down your hair. You’ll be aerodynamic once again.
From £70. skin-matters.co.uk
LONDON’S HOTTEST OPENING
Did you spy the yummy mummies sitting in a mega queue of socially-distanced chairs on Westbourne Grove’s pavement? One of lockdown’s iconic sights, right? An upside of the pandemic was that the Notting Hill Fish Shop morphed into a flipping-fresh-fish-alongside-artisanal-food hub – think farmers’ market with bells on –teaming up with independent producers to sell HG Walter’s British meat, Neal’s Yard cheeses, and organic, seasonal, fruit and veg. Pop in there to buy rose lemonade, lobster spaghetti and slow ferment sourdough from smiley assistants full of energy and zing. Or bag some wagyu burgers and Happy Endings’ divine malted milk ice cream sandwiches. Even the sushi’s by a chef from a Michelin-starred restaurant. Open seven days a week, they sell online too, guaranteeing delivery within an hour. Indubitably London’s hottest opening.
EDWARD SCISSORHANDS
Not yet ready to hazard being up close and personal in a hairdressing salon? Even though those chatty snippers must wear masks and not talk? Book award-winning Anthony Forde instead. World-class snipper Anthony (of Nicky Clarke and Errol Douglas renown) will be by your side in the blink of an eye to set up an al fresco ‘salon’ in your leafy garden or home. He brings all the kit – including a whizzy Parlux light 385 hairdryer (even better than Dyson’s much-lauded gyzmo). Anthony – who’s half Bajan and puts the ‘oooh’ into cooool – is crazy about hair, loves doing short technical haircuts, and is the go-to man for problematic locks. (He’s also snipped the tresses of royals to pop royalty…). Edward Scissorhands indeed.
From £50. 07493 683288
HEALTH MOT
Time for a post-lockdown top-to-toe health check? Isolation has had social, personal and emotional effects which activated your neurons and impacted on your immune system. All those stress hormones affecting everything from your muscles to moods. A YouGov survey found that 56 per cent of Brits reported a concern with their health during lockdown, with Londoners the most antsy – fretting about diet, losing cardio strength (the gym blues?) and Gen Z’er and Millenials reporting the worst quality sleep. So get private health insurance with Vitality (fast access to high-quality care. Really) and leg it (as soon as they’re seeing folk in clinic) to a Vitality Healthcheck: a screening to check your heart, liver, and kidney health. Plus your stroke risk and other indicators such as cholesterol to diabetes. They’ll measure your waist circumference too. On second thoughts…
Coverage from £35 pcm. vitality.co.uk
WELL-HEELED
Need shoe repairs after all that lockdown walking and cupboard sorting? Anya Hindmarch to Hermes and Dior all use Classic Shoe Repairs, a family-run business estab 1963. You may see Natalie Imbruglia, Nicky Clarke or Jon Snow in there — on the customers’ side of the newly-installed plastic counter shield. Or Manolo Blahnik. Geri Halliwell sent her shoes there for reconstructive surgery after her dog mistook the heels for bones. Another client posts all her Louboutin repairs from Russia. This Islington boutique boasts the finest craftsmen on site – people who’ll do (almost) anything skilled with leather. Boots made shorter? Shoes made longer? Want to mend your favourite leather belt? All good. Afterwards they’ll pop your repairs in a recycled bag. From Lanvin, Fendi or Selfridges, natch…
Re-heeling for ladies’ stilettos starts at £8.95. Email info@classicshoerepairs.com
SHOPAHOLIC HEAVEN
Calling all shopaholics. There’s never been a better time for designer sample sales. You’ll enjoy a (very civilised) one-hour time slot, a handful of shoppers (so Bond Street, darling) and outlets chokka with new stock that brands need to shift — such as Diane von Furstenberg’s liquidation sale exlusivesamplesales.com. (If you’re self-isolating, bag one of their personal shoppers for video shopping.) Don’t miss trendy Hackney’s The Box for staff in face shields and great post-lockdown bargains, including Issey Miyake at 70% off. Keep an eye out for Joseph and Aspinall at Regent Street’s Showcase. Check out aSample (only online for the moment) for niche names, and sign up to the Music Room for everything from Belstaff to Smythson, down 80%. N’oubliez pas Arlettie, the chic French import, for some merveilleux shopping from September. Oh, and don’t forget Chicmi for info on all the current and forthcoming sales. As long as there isn’t a second spike, expect hand sanitiser, face masks and mega bargains.
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