LIFESTYLE

A margarita is a great cocktail at any time but the winter margarita is the cool aunt in a room full of sweet drinks, clean, sharp, refreshing, and sophisticated.

We all have high standards (if you didn't you wouldn't be reading this) and can be a little bit extra at times so the following list it going to make a lot of sense.

Full disclaimer, we love a real Christmas tree, the magic, the lights, the smell, but let's be honest they come with more drama than the latest season of Selling Sunset.

A modern reimagining of Christmas traditions, for anyone who wants something a little lighter, with less obligations, less over spending, less stress and less chaos. Over the next few weeks, we’re releasing our Christmas With a Difference series on shaping the festive season to suit you.

Here are the extra, elevated, almost unnecessarily luxurious ways to do completely normal everyday activities. Because why settle for ordinary when you can be extra ordinary.

We overestimate how much time it takes to feel good. If you treat luxury like it needs a full weekend, a spa day or a 27 step plan then you're missing out. But most of the things that genuinely shift how our life feels don’t take a day, they take intention with the time you have.

We love a good dinner party and there’s something quietly luxurious about one done well. Not something overly curated, Pinterest-perfect, but the sort that feels full of conversation, laughter, connection, a table that tells a story.

We all look back at our past years and cringe, the makeup, the hair, the clothes. And whilst a certain generation of us are grateful that era wasn't permanently recorded on our social profiles, we’re still quietly glad we lived through it (except maybe the 90's eyebrows).

There’s a particular kind of loss that doesn’t have a name, when a friendship starts to dissolve. Not with drama, not with betrayal, even rarely with an argument, but it starts to drift apart. A growing distance when before you didn't go a day without speaking.