A beautician with 'perfect hands' is still going strong and working at 100 years old.Thelma Coyd-Cording, 100, from Nottingham was trained by the queen of cosmetics, Elizabeth Arden when she was 42-years-old but is not ready to retire yet.The centenarian says she is blessed with "fat cushions" - referring to her beautiful slender hands - which have given thousands of massages during her long and illustrious career.As Nottingham's oldest beautician, she began her beauty career when she saw a queue for a job at Elizabeth Arden at Griffin & Spalding department store, which was later Debenhams in Nottingham.
Young girls formed the queue as 42-year-old Thelma decided to interview for the job - which involved the examination of hands."If you have double joints, you can't be a masseuse," explained Thelma from her home in Arno Vale Road, Woodthorpe. "I had the perfect hands to be a masseuse - and won the job over 39 ladies in the queue".Army officer's wife Thelma was trained by Elizabeth Arden in London, and her training was checked every year.
She learned a wide-range of beauty treatments, quipping: "I did everything that grows hair". During waxing, they used wax containing honey, which was much kinder to the skin.
She still swears by honey, drinking a mixture of honey and apple cider vinegar first thing in the morning. Apart from catching Malaria once, she has never been sick.
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