Robyn Malcolm

tend to our skin without it becoming our obsession or our focus right that's not our worth is not in our skin but it's still it's still a part of us and we can care for it um apparently you're either a shoe woman it's a stupid thing to say actually you're either a shoe woman a lingerie woman or things and bottles i don't know where i read that probably in the 80s i love things and bottles

I love that.

Okay.

When I first was on Shortland Street and I bought my first house because the theatre actor Bruce Phillips said to me, buy your house now.

So wise, so wise, so wise.

And then about six years in, I renovated the bathroom and I renovated it in the colours of the skincare products.

which was you know and then I got over that skincare product so that was there was a problem you know okay that's bad okay but in terms of stuff like like I've got sun spots everywhere and particularly I've got gardeners hands and

And it is.

It's the life you've led, isn't it?

There's this fantastic woman I follow on Instagram called Jenny Howis.

Have you come across her?

I haven't, no.

Oh, my God.

She's an ex-model.

She was like a super-duper-duper-duper Vogue model in the 80s.

And she's very English in that kind of really brilliant, lazy, posh, swears a lot kind of way.

And she's got dogs and a house out in the country.

Of course she does.

But she's smoked all her life.

Her face, there is not one part of her face that is not lined.