Nirvana Spa is an award-winning luxurious pure water spa
near Reading, one of the most top-rated spas in the country. When walking
around the building there is an air of relaxation and complete
tranquillity.
Skincare Workshops
Nirvana Spa provides a variety of three skincare
workshops at no extra cost to your spa day package or treatments. It is a
small and fun little workshop with a handful of people attending of various
backgrounds and ages, this is a great way to learn how people view beauty and
how they use their own skincare products.
We arrived at the spa with the intention to go to the
wellness suite first to have our morning workout, after a quick shower and
change I was on my way to the 'Decléor Paris Unwrap Your Winter Skin Relief'
workshop led by our specialist Becky.
Each skincare workshop is around an hour long. You make
your way to the Crystal Treatment Suite to check yourself in and the specialist
will pick up everybody attending the workshop, then are brought into a room out
back passing the nail salon, the room is a tad cold so wrap up warm.
We started off by going around the group explaining the
types of products we use and the skin type we have. Our therapist was really
lovely, explaining all the products in-depth and suggesting products for us to
try out.
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Our skin care therapist guided us through a range of
products they use throughout the spa, focusing on products that would get us
through the holidays for hydrated, healthy and glowing skin. We are run through
a basic routine of must-have products - Step 1: cleansers & toners, Step 2:
Exfoliators, Step 3: Masks.
Products I sampled (in order of application):
·
Bi-Phase
Cleanser £32
·
Phytopeel
Exfoliator £33
·
Decléor's
Antidote Serum £48 30ml
·
Energy
Youth Mask £60
·
Hydra
Floral Everfresh Light Cream £45
·
Magnolia
Night Balm £65
I discovered a couple new tips, tricks and products I
should be using for my acne-prone, dehydrated skin -
· Use
an oil cleanser, which L'Oreal does a good one apparently, one of the ladies in
the workshop recommended it. I will definitely be buying this soon to try out.
Oil gets to the dirt deep in your skin and oil dissolves oil and excellent as
dissolving oil on the skin.
·
Using
a rose essential oil-based serum to desensitize the skin.
·
When
using eye cream, it should be applied using your ring fingers to the orbital
bone and eye socket, however, not under the bottom lashes or the top of the
lids. It should be dotted on instead of rubbed in as the skin is sensitive
around the eye, keep patting until it is fully absorbed.
·
When
applying products to skin you only need a pea-size amount of product.
Décleor has recently come out with a new anti-oxidising
range powered by Green Mandarin, which a lot of the older women within the
workshop group took to and it smells amazing too.
For more information on their skincare workshops: https://nirvanaspa.co.uk/skincare-workshops/
Dining at Nirvana Spa
If you are considering booking a package with lunch, I’d recommend.
When calling to book your spa day they also want you to book a one hour slot
for your buffet lunch as to lower crowding and due to limited seating, we could
go an hour earlier on the day when asking the maître d if there was
availability. The dining area was not packed at all, with people seated
spread out across the dining area and was somewhat noisy with relaxed chatter
and laughter.
They offer a freshly made, huge salad bar with lots of
choices as well as a hot buffet, however, if you don't fancy anything from
their buffet they also have a separate al la carte menu you can order
from. They offer healthier choices of food reasonably priced, however,
I've had better food for a better price elsewhere so I stuck with the buffet.
Overall, the food for the buffet was good, they offer a
good range for both veggies and meat-eaters. I had two plates worth of food
during my lunch, I started off with the salads then moved onto to the hot food
(well-cooked tilapia fish and chickpea curry, yum) after. What they serve as
buffet does change so they do not have a menu listing the food available on
their website, which is kind of nice as you go in without having any expectations
for the food.
Cons: The other thing I wish was better designed is
the seating area for the restaurant, you must go through past the seating area
to get to the other side of the spa where the wellness suite and Crystal
Treatment Suite is and if you are wearing gym wear incl. trainers you must put
on and remove these puffy blue shoe covers for sanitary purposes. Although I
have no problem with supporting sanitation it just is a little off-putting
strutting around like that around a luxury spa.
One amazing thing about Nirvana Spa is that they offer
their spa-goers free unlimited soft and hot drinks throughout the day and
I took full advantage of this, consuming three lattes and a hot chocolate
during my day there.
If you want something indulgent they have a variety of
sweet things, cakes and desserts on offer at the cafe where you can pick up
your drinks, there is another cafe without serving cakes located near the
colosseum. I treated myself to a mug of hot choccy and a slice of Victoria
sponge cake (hey, why not). I then settled down on one of the beds around
the colosseum pool which I found is my favourite place to relax in Nirvana Spa
and less crowded than the main roman pool.
Nirvana Spa has recently introduced an afternoon tea
option earlier this year. If you want more information on what food they offer,
check it out here - https://nirvanaspa.co.uk/our-food/
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