Where do the ELLE beauty team go when we need a really great manicure? Well from now on we’ll be going to see Marina Sandoval, manicurist to Elle McPherson (if she’s good enough for Elle, she’s good enough for ELLE), Claudia Schiffer and none other than the Duchess of Cornwall.

Yesterday, we were treated to a Christmas manicure by the lovely team at Bourjois, who’d enlisted the help of Marina to get the nails of London’s beauty journalists ship-shape for the holidays. We were told we’d get a mini-manicure – what we in fact got was a nail overhaul, complete with buffing, trimming, shaping and the best paint job we’ve had in a while. Our nails look spick and span and set to last ‘til the last of the turkey’s been polished-off.

The good news is Marina’s based at Jo Hansford, Mount Street, London, so you can book in too.

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