Quite how we hadn’t stumbled into Beauty Edit Mayfair before, we have no idea. Fingers clearly (but hopefully, unusually) NOT on the pulse. Still, better late than never, as it’s one of the nicest London beautique/salons that we’ve been to in a long, long time.

Opened by Sherrille Riley, whose career spans two decades in beauty, Beauty Edit Mayfair is just a couple of doors down from Nails & Brows Mayfair (also firmly now on our radar, for future nail and grooming appointments).

Let’s start here, before we toddle up Berkeley Street (it runs south from Berkeley Square) to report on that fab facial. What appealed to us instantly? The fact that in Nails & Brows, it’s possible to get a manicure using the Kure Bazaar, the brilliant Beauty Bible Award-winning natural nail brand – and we’ll definitely be back for one of those, and a much-needed brow-threading/tint. (If we were braver, we could have microblading, the technique for ‘tattooing’ brows which has been embraced by so many of our beauty editor colleagues. But we are NOT that brave…)

Sherrille’s credentials are great. After training as a beauty therapist, she moved to London and worked for the late-lamented Elizabeth Arden Red Door Spa, in Mayfair (we STILL miss that place!), before moving to Harrods Hair & Beauty Salon. Later, she moved to Daniel Hersheson’s Mayfair salon, owning and running the treatment area. Following the success of Nails & Brows, Beauty Edit Mayfair opened its doors in 2017.

Upstairs is a well-curated edit of some stunning brands, several of them favourites of ours (Altesse hairbrushes, Ateh Jewel’s blushers, Bastille fragrances), as well as some new-to-us names (prettily pastel-packaged Darling SPFs, the Mimi et Mina scalp product, Annabelle Minerals…)

Writes Jo: ‘Tucked in the basement is a cosy, cocooning facial suite. The room was spacious enough for my therapist to do her job beautifully, but not vast. Because my train had been hideously late, I didn’t have time for the full 90 minutes – but to be honest, that’s a l-o-n-g treatment for me; after an hour, I start twitching and working my way through my “To Do” list, which I know is absolutely contrary to the spirit of the treatment, but… that’s the reality. Next time, I know that the 55-minute facial option will be just the ticket.

What I loved particularly about this facial was that my therapist used COSMOSS by Kate Moss, from the supermodel’s (really rather good) skincare and fragrance line. Your first moment, during the facial, is a gentle misting of the room with the COSMOSS Sacred Mist, a fragrance I have in my own scent wardrobe, and which I find incredibly grounding and relaxing. A great start, accompanied by some welcome, calming deep breathing after travel hassles getting there.

The facial had everything you want: a deep but not harsh cleanse, gentle exfoliation, a mask, plenty of firm and intuitive massage (yes, I DO carry all my tension in my jaw…), and a good, 15-or-so minutes blast of radiance-boosting red light, which I love. And you know what I liked especially? It was all my skin needed, but none of the extra bells and whistles that frankly, I have been known to get annoyed about, thereby completely undermining the purpose of the treatment.

I really like what Sherrille says about her therapists, who she hand-picks. “They’re more than skincare experts,” she says, “they’re spiritual healers and grounded in holistic knowledge.” My shoulders were duly unkinked, my brain slowed down, and I emerged with radiant skin (commented on at my next meeting).’

And all round, Beauty Bible couldn’t agree more with Sherrille’s fundamental philosophy. As she puts it, ‘Beauty is confidence and kindness. Being beautiful is being comfortable in your skin and owning every part of you. Being beautiful is being kind to the people around you but also being kind to yourself and taking care of yourself. Most importantly being beautiful is being able to stand in front of the mirror and not pick at every part of your body and remember that you are blessed with your body.’

Hear, hear. So, even if you can’t get to Mayfair for a fab facial, you can hold onto that nugget of Sherrille’s beauty wisdom...

55-minute COSMOSS Reset + Restore Facial/£115 – book here

90-minute COSMOSS Reset + Restore Facial/£245 – book here

33 Berkeley Street, Mayfair, London W1J 8EN/020-7244 8371

beautyeditmayfair.com

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