By Chrissy Iley
I’m a fool for a travel kit. I love things in tiny. It’s hard to say why. I like kittens, I like puppies, there’s soothing so overwhelmingly cute about a mini
I’m a fool for a travel kit. I love things in tiny. It’s hard to say why. I like kittens, I like puppies, there’s something soothing and overwhelmingly cute about a mini moisturiser. It thrills me.
I don’t think it’s going to be taken away from me from an over-zealous man at Heathrow or City airport. It’s going to be light. I can carry it and with my new QMS Medi Cosmetics jet set beauty case everything has been curated so that you’re carrying around an ever such tiny, but ever so perfectly formed mini spa. You get the classic collection of collagens in tiny. Day collagen, night collagen, exfoliant fluid, cleansing duo of deep cleansing and freshening tonic and the fabulously revitalising aviator mini travel face mask – I love this face mask. It’s not a cream but an actual mask that you treat and then put on your face. And you get a mini sport active cream which is a tinted moisturiser. You’ve got this and you can face the world.
QMS are launching a new serum. It’s an urban warrior kind of deal. A daily detox that helps protect the skin from pollution. You apply it like a serum. I say like a serum because I’ve actually been using it as a moisturiser and it makes you skin self-cleanse. It’s called EpiGen Daily Detox Serum out now at £167. I recently went for a rejuvenating facial at Liberty’s with QMS Medi Cosmetics guru Rowan. It was Rowan who said you can use it with other serums as a moisturiser. It was Rowan who told me that the lip line corrector which I’d been using to plump my lips also works if you use a tiny dot between the eyebrows and it diminishes the vertical lines there if you have any. It should really be called a vertical line corrector but you only know that if you speak to Rowan who knows everything about her brand.
She travels the world to various QMS spas, from Bangkok to Manchester and is often found in a hotel room perfecting her own beauty regime. Her skin is flawless, in fact beyond flawless. She says she carries some kitchen foil with her and often covers her face with it as a moisture seal as if your moisturiser was a chicken that you’re baking.
Rowan’s healing hands are so dexterous and clever you don’t remember the tips for long. You just remember the amazing way she’s remoulded your face. Liberty often has QMS events where you book a facial and the price of it comes off the products recommended. All the products are innovations. Their Cellular Alpine Eye Cream is eye science in a serum. Their collagens and exfoliants magnificent.
The brand was launched in 1986 by Dr Erich Schulte, a world leading skin carer with vast experience while working as a surgeon. But not just a cosmetic surgeon. He worked in trauma and had to continually evolve the science of what was effective for the future of the skin. His pioneering technologies of how to transport ingredients deep into the epidermal layer are surpassed by almost none.
As a surgeon, he could reconstruct the shape of the face but the skin remained damaged so he tuned his brain to look for solutions of how to boost skin regeneration. That’s the basis. Sometimes I like to think if he could transform a burns victim, the odd fine line or sun spot is nothing to him and indeed that may well be the case. Since I’ve been using this regime which forms the basis of my skincare, I have found it impeccable. I’m very proud to carry my jet set beauty case, not because I want to be thought of as jet set but because I like to carry the QMS flag of excellence.