Getting the needle

What is it? Did you think drips were only for the sick or the woefully dehydrated? Get up to speed. Nowadays the incrowd are getting their vitamins straight into their bloodstreams from drips at select medispas and private clinics. Who does it? Everyone whos anyone (magazine editors, models, celebrities) has taken to getting their calm fix at the end of a needle. Cara Delevingne and Rihanna are among those who have done it (and posted the evidence on Instagram). What does it do? You can have all sorts of bespoke concoctions at the Drip & Chill lounge at Londons EF MediSpa and at Nosh Detoxs Infusion Clinic. Their Fitamins drip contains magnesium to calm and nourish the nervous system, and claims to ward off anxiety and irritability. Its combined with vitamin C, Bvitamins (which often get severely depleted by stress) and other trace minerals. The solution runs into the body in about 40 minutes, by which time you are meant to feel completely rebalanced, though presumably not if youre trypanophobic. And the