V A is a long standing and recognised digital creative; her voice resonates with many. In the last ten years, the site has developed into an online destination for fashion, beauty and lifestyle advice. Her sense of style, editorial flair and practical counsel offers an inspired and graceful approach to living.

V A is a long standing and recognised digital creative; her voice resonates with many. In the last ten years, the site has developed into an online destination for fashion, beauty and lifestyle advice. Her sense of style, editorial flair and practical counsel offers an inspired and graceful approach to living.

Edit by: Vicki
Mar 10, 2017

Pia Gronning: Another Beautiful Face:

Another Beautiful Face: Pia Gronning on vickiarcher.com


Pia Gronning, is another beautiful face.

I am immediately drawn to her style and ageless beauty. Here she is, with her gorgeous locks flowing, dressed in a way we can all relate to and playing with the most heavenly cashmere throw from Catherine Robinson.


Pia Gronning is certainly blessed with beautiful looks but what I notice in her many photographs is her natural approach to beauty. The shades she chooses to dress in and the simplicity of her make-up against her sensational grey hair are notes we can all add to our style diaries. Whenever I feel shaky about the length of my hair and thoughts of growing it even longer, I look at other women of mature age age with the same hair goals for encouragement.



Beautiful faces apart from a full smile and a joyous disposition require a little TLC.

This week my daughter, Venetia, involved in the beauty business introduced me to the products she loves from Darphin, a French beauty brand that goes way back. She works closely with Darphin to create bespoke at-home beauty treatments for Ruuby London’s digital beauty concierge.


I am familiar with some of their products having found it many years ago on my first trip to Provence. I have mentioned the delicious cleanser I never, ever, go without many times.


My newfound love for facial oils and the blending of them with my night cream is no secret. V introduced me to the Darphin facial oils and all I can say is, sublime. As much as I like my other oils, the 8-Flower nectar is finer, more delicate in scent and hydrates beautifully. I combined it with the Exquisage Beauty Revealing Cream at their recommendation. This is a sensational mix for hydration and one I have been using day in day out. The art is to use the tiniest drop and blend with warm fingertips. A little goes a very long way.



So far, apart from the cleanser, this is my first foray into Darphin. As and when I need I am going to experiment little by little, so I will let you know what’s next. xv



Another Beautiful Face

darphin 8-nectar facial oil  ||  exquisage beauty revealing cream  ||  darphin intral cleansing milk



images pia gonning via cashmere lover

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