HAVE you ever held a glass of champagne to eye level and, for a moment, seen everything through its gilded, shimmering filter? More than an elegant pour, champagne is shorthand for luxury and celebrations of the most opulent kind.
The drink’s most fabulous unofficial ambassador, former magazine editor and fifties fashion icon Diana Vreeland, once suggested rinsing “your blond child’s hair in dead champagne, as they do in France”.
Other recommendations for leftover fizz include shining your shoes, as per Parisian shoemaker Olga Berluti, who finishes a shoeshine with champagne, said to cut the fat in the polish and reveal the natural colour of the leather.
Or, you could use a sip’s worth on a cotton pad and swipe it across your face as a natural toner. American make-up artist Michelle Phan extols its “detoxifying properties and ability to fight free radicals”.
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