30 November 2005

Stocking Thriller

BlissLondon Mistle-Toes Pedicure

Ribbed socks (M&S ten-pack special). Patterned pants (ditto). Multi-coloured jumbo biro (if you’re lucky).

How does Father Christmas find all those stocking fillers?

He and his saint of a wife (she’s up there with Mrs. Gordon Ramsay in the living-with-a-workaholic stakes) can relax this year, because BlissLondon has come up with a great one: nice-looking feet.

Stockings will love to be filled with tootsies that have enjoyed the new Mistle-Toes pedicure. This isn’t just a quick re-polish; it’s an exhilarating sleigh ride for the mind, body and sole.

You snuggle under a cashmere blanket with Desperate Housewives on your personal DVD screen, whilst efficient little helpers ply you with brownies, flapjacks and mugs of hot chocolate. Your weary trotters are soaked in a bowl of hot milk scented with cinnamon sticks and orange zest, softened in warm paraffin, and revived with a spearmint and orange scrub before your toenails are polished with the colour of your choice.

Where there’s mistletoe, there’s the chance of a snog. It’s always good to be prepared for a little bit more.

Your feet will be presentable, even if the musical, reindeer-printed briefs you’re wearing are not.

BlissLondon, 60 Sloane Street, SW3 (020 7584 3888 or blisslondon.co.uk).