5 WAYS TO “DO” HYGGE (AND WHY IT’S HUGE THIS AUTUMN) #helloDenmark
Welcome to a mini-prelude before our HYGGE BEAUTY feature which’ll be up soon (as soon as I turn into an octopus and can type using 8 arms), it’s super busy with the awards entries at the moment but like a lot of you I’m hygge-obsessed this season.
What’s hygge" First, how to pronounce it: hue-geh – sort of. Â Not like “GROUP HUG” or “Getting Hygge”. Hue-ga or hue-geh.
Hygge isn’t generally Scandinavian, it’s specifically a Danish word/way of being/”lifestyle”…roughly translated as the art of cosiness…there’s no one definition, in fact even the Danes can’t pinpoint it in English even though their English is incredibly good.
But if you picture a cabin in the woods with three of your best friends, a crackling fire, huge sheepskin slippers, an AW16 array of cable knit cardies and ladle-fulls of hot chocolate, you’re pretty close! It’s simple, it’s natural, it’s about good friends, frugality, cosiness, comfort food and…candles!!! Yes, apparently according to the Little Book of Hygge which is my pre-hit-the-pillow reading at the moment, the Danes burn more candles than any nation – and they’re more contended (happy"). Forget one candle glimmering in the corner, it’s more like six! (Anyone from Denmark reading this, feel free to correct me by the way).
So before we launch into the HYGGE BEAUTY picks this weekend, here are...
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