Anais Nin, the ethereal French author who created erotic stories for women, once wrote: 'Age does not protect you from love. But love, to some extent, protects you from age.' Nin, whose sensual diaries detailed her affair with the novelist Henry Miller, is the inspiration for this Health and Beauty edition of Style and it's hard to imagine a better prescription than hers for staying young and attractive. Love, not just of other people but of art, travel, film or music, is a profound source of regeneration. When love courses through a person's veins it does more for the sparkle in their eyes and the glow upon their skin than a truckload of beauty products. Not that we intend to neglect potions and powders. We have feature stories about new trends in makeup, body shape and spas, a scintillating collection of cutting-edge products and an enchanting story about Chinese model Liu Wen, all of which guarantees that this homage to the softer side of beauty is, in itself, something to fall in love with.
