My London: Trinny Woodall

The stylist and beauty entrepreneur loves the skincare serums at Content Beauty and enjoys a workout at Grace Belgravia

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Dipal Acharya

3 May 2018

Home is…

South Ken. I’ve lived there for a year or so.

Bus, taxi or Tube?

I go around London on the Tube, hop in a black cab or Instagram Live from the back of a motorbike doing my make-up or showing my OOTD.

Favourite shops?

Zara on King’s Road, because it’s the best Zara in London. They put things in there that they don’t in any other store. Dover Street Market (above), as I like to see cutting-edge fashion. And Content Beauty (below) is a fantastic little store in Marylebone. It has the most interesting, organic products such as De Mamiel — an amazing acupuncturist who does her own skincare range. The cleanser and antioxidant serums are to die for.

Dover Street Market

Best meal you have had?

When I lived in Notting Hill I went to Assaggi, which has to be my favourite Italian restaurant in London. It does a pasta that makes me drool just thinking about it.

What is your London secret?

There is a little sculpted nose coming out of the wall of Admiralty Arch on The Mall.

Where do you work out?

Grace Belgravia, the women-only club. It has great classes (my favourite is Pilates), it’s not too noisy and I like the female-only environment. Post-workout there is the one time of day I sit down, read the newspaper and don’t talk to anyone.

Biggest extravagance?

Probably skincare — I’m quite obsessed. Sometimes I will buy an expensive mask because I don’t have time to have a facial. The one I go back and buy over and over again is the Lancer Younger Revealing Mask Intense. After, you look at your face and think, ‘Oh, yes!’

Where would you most like to be buried?

The St Columba’s Church in Pont Street — it’s where my family has been buried for years.

Best place for a first date?

Kensington Gardens (above) because I think for a first date you want to have flexibility. It allows you to go for a walk, sit down at a café or see an exhibition if you want. You aren’t dressed up in high heels so they will see you for who you are, and if they fall in love with that, not your dress and heels, you know you might be on to a winner.

Kensington Gardens

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Ever had a run-in with a policeman?

There might have been a speeding moment.

What are you up to at the moment?

Changing women’s perception of make-up with Trinny London, where products are personalised for your skin, hair and eye combination.

If you could buy any building and live there, which would it be?

Sir John Soane’s Museum (below) in Lincoln’s Inn Fields. The man who started it did so in the Napoleonic wars when nobody could travel abroad. He was an unbelievably compulsive collector. It’s a large townhouse and you can see everything from Egyptian times, from architecture to paintings. It’s like going to university for three years.

Sir John Soane

(trinnylondon.com)

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