Health & Fitness

Discover 50 common medicinal plants and how to use them for healing and self-care with this sumptuously illustrated card deck. 

Thanks to exceptional photographic plates showing detailed views of all parts of the fresh plant, you will quickly learn to recognise them when out foraging. For any plant lover or green witch, the beautiful photographs make this card deck an absolute treasure.

Discover the fascinating history of these plants, their active components and therapeutic properties, and learn how to prepare safe herbal remedies including infusions, tinctures, oils and lotions. This journey into plant-based wellbeing is guided by a respected ethnobotanist and doctor of phytotherapy, meaning you can grow your knowledge of this natural science with complete confidence.

The plants are ordered alphabetically, and each species has its own card packed with information. You'll find suggested treatments for nausea, coughs, colds and flu, acne, burns, bites and sprains, as well as ideas for pain relief, skincare and aids for digestion, stress, sleep and more.

In the accompanying booklet, you'll find a practical guide for budding herbalists, featuring useful tips for picking and preserving plants while being an environmentally responsible picker, ensuring you always show respect to nature and its 'magical' healing powers. The healing properties referenced for each plant are explained and there's a glossary of botanical terms to ensure that everything is clear for complete beginners.

This magnificent card deck will satisfy all your curiosities about healing plants and become your essential companion to herbal medicines and natural beauty products.

Learn how to create the most incredible make-up looks from an expert in creative make-up, make-up artist (MUA), Rachel Duffy.

This collection of techniques and tutorials will explain everything you need to know about creative make-up whether you are an aspiring MUA, a make-up student or someone who enjoys make-up as a creative outlet.

Author and MUA, Rachel Duffy, encourages you to draw on inspiration from life, film and fiction to get creative with make-up. These fundamental techniques will provide you with the skills you need and help you on your way to your specific creative goals. These techniques and tutorials are an ideal learning base for retail or brand artistry, cosplay, theatre, television and film work, special effects and editorial work.

There are instructions for all the basic techniques required to get started including how to create the perfect base through to more advanced techniques such as eyebrow blocking which is necessary for the more dramatic and involved looks. There is also advice on colour theory and how to use it when developing characters and creating your own designs. Rachel explains how to create the perfect flawless base on which to build your looks and takes you through the process step-by-step. There is also detailed advice about choosing the right tools and materials that you need in order to get the best results.

Once you've got the basics nailed there are 12 incredible looks for you to experiment with all with step-by-step text instructions and photography. These range from 'lighter looks' that can be amped up or toned down, right through to four stunning illusion looks that will completely transform your image and send your social media feed into meltdown.

The 12 key looks cover all the important make-up trends including floating eyeliner and neon eyeliner, through to illusion make-up, animal print and much more. Choose your favourite look from: Spotlight Eye; Monochrome Graphic Liner; Ombre Cat Liner; Limelight Deep Smoke; Rainbow Electrica; Sea Siren; Woodland Fae; Celestial Being; Flapper Starlet; Haunted Skull; Space Bot and Circus Horrorshow. Your creative make-up play time starts here - you just have to let your creativity flow!

Get ready for a positive perimenopause with The Perimenopause Journal, a gorgeously illustrated, 52 week, undated journal that supports you to refine a bespoke self-care plan to ease you through your perimenopause and into a vibrant postmenopausal life.

• It shows how understanding your ‘inner seasons ‘ is a fast track to self-compassion

• Gives you prompts and enquiries for appropriate self-care

• Charts to track your energy with the moon phases

• Intention setting meditation to clarify your focusYoga Nidra guided meditations to rest, integrate and regain calm

• Each month there is space for reflection and intention setting to focus on small, do-able changes in your life, to ease your symptoms, access your power and find your path.

It’s created for the bold and curious who are interested in personal growth and want to understand and care for themselves while they go through the process of perimenopause. If you go to yoga, but cringe at the chanting or follow your mindfulness class with a glass of prosecco... this is for you.

You are not deficient or in need of fixing. At last, there is a non-patronising, feminist, reassuring guide to managing your symptoms and investing in the self-care you need to blossom into a creative postmenopause.

A beautiful gift for a dear friend, The Perimenopause Journal gives a kind cosy nest to reflect on how we can care for ourselves, instead of what is going wrong with us. Through this emphasis of care, we can nourish ourselves and fill up from exhaustion to see the way forward.