Photography: Danny Evans
Beneath the formal air of the United Club, Eve Studios has birthed a collective of women dedicated to female health in what was the Old Registry Office. Their mission is to help women feel stronger and more confident, with founder Trudi Roscouet bringing together women in a range of therapeutic professions. Trainers, therapists, skin specialists, tattoo artists, reflexologists and lymphatic therapists work as a team in rooms that, fittingly, have always been used to record life’s milestones. We caught up with them to learn more about the variety of practices they offer to clients carrying stress or health problems, whether that be boxing classes, brows, massage or yoga.
Trudi Roscouet – Founder of Eve Studios
Trudi Roscouet, also known as “Mrs Menopause,” holds the (not-so-secret) strength of training women back into the mindset of believing in themselves again. Always the trailblazer, she was the first female white-collar boxer for LH Fitness and spent years training. Whilst these days she teaches boxing in a more “female-friendly” setting, occasionally, slipping on the gloves summons her feisty alter-ego.
Despite being long-acclimatised to Eve Studio’s location, she still finds it funny walking upstairs into the United Club in leggings, to suited and booted gentlemen who look up and say “oh, you must be Trudi!” Her home ground sits beneath the old-world energy, in granite rooms seeped in history – so much so, that Trudi is convinced the walls host a hidden presence. To this day, she’s not certain if they are male or female, but if the former is true, she’s willing to make concessions for the dead.
Carrie Ramsay & Colette McGirl – Co-Founders of The Contour Clinic
Carrie and Colette bring a multitude of talents to Eve Studios, including secret ones, such as being practising midwives (note: this is not a service Eve Studios offers, but I wouldn’t be surprised if Trudi decided to go with the flow should the need arise). They specialise in advanced, non-surgical aesthetic treatments designed to improve skin quality while ensuring natural-looking results. Anti-wrinkle treatments to soften expression lines, dermal fillers to restore structure, skin boosters to improve hydration, texture and luminosity, as well as microneedling to stimulate collagen and help with acne scarring are all part of the menu of services that they offer.
The biggest misconception they want to debunk about their service is that aesthetics automatically equate to “overfilled” or “fake”. These false premises are quelled during a complimentary consultation prior to treatment, and fulfilled with a personalised plan based on facial anatomy, movement and what you actually want. If their practice had a soundtrack, it would be Nina Simone’s Feeling Good, because at the end of the day, the final goal is confidence. They hope their clients feel more like people than patients, and know that any divulged stories stay locked up safe within their walls.
Stacey Adams – Founder of Beauty & Glow
Stacey has been in the beauty industry for fifteen years and can honestly say she’s “loved every minute”. Having worked across salons, spas and mobile beauty, owning her own salon was always the goal. Before moving to Jersey, she ran a salon in Scotland for seven years, refining her treatments and shaping her company into what it is now.
Her ethos is simply to enhance natural beauty. She claims this is why her lash lift and brow combo is one of her most loved treatments, with clients frequently surprised WWW.GALLERY.JE 111 BEAUTY&WELLBEING
by small treatments that have a big impact. Brows are her thing, and her famed Brow Rehab process is long-term and collaborative, working with clients over time to naturally build what they want. Working from Eve is a “total vibe,” she says; a space full of supportive women, laughter, inspiration and great energy. “Beauty should feel good,” she explains, “and here, it truly does!”
Lucy Collin – Manager of Eve Studios
Lucy thrives on making exercise feel less like penance and more like fun. She’s a personal trainer and class instructor with a degree in Dance and Choreography, and her passion is making movement feel enjoyable for women of all ages and abilities, whilst still pushing people to test their limits.
One of her proudest wins this year was helping a client hit a new personal best time for a half marathon, by focusing on strength training and postural correction. Outside the studio, she can usually be found in the sea, but inside, she’s fond of the building’s quirks: granite archways and fireplaces that make Eve feel like a modern wellness studio existing in a unique space.
Kat Keelan – Founder of FAB
Kat’s work is a balance of practical and restorative wellness, offering holistic wellbeing treatments for women. Her signature is YOmm, a yoga and massage combination that she’s been developing for fifteen years. Starting with specific exercises to pinpoint areas of pain, followed by targeted massage to ease it, the technique increases blood flow and encourages recovery. She also adapts the practice for the neck, shoulders and head, perfectly suited for those struggling with stress, anxiety or low mood. Her main goal is to teach clients exercises that they can take away with them for when they need it.
Clients come to her for “restoration of peace” in mind, body and soul, and regulars love her tailor-made combinations of reflexology and organic facials. Kat’s also practical about pricing, believing wellness should be an essential, not a luxury, and accessible to all women. She finds being under the old United Club hilarious, with Eve like “queen bees” downstairs “while old men in suits sit upstairs having a whiskey with a stiff upper lip – teehee”.
Janicke Michel – Founder of Atma Reflexology & Massage
Janicke specialises in nurturing, restorative reflexology and massage, with a holistic approach that’s tailored to each person. She’d describe her overall approach to wellness as creating calm, grounding treatments that support the body, mind and emotions. The number one thing her clients come to her for is deep relaxation, to release tension, reset their nervous system and reconnect with themselves.
When she’s not at Eve, she’s outside, “stomping along the beach, wandering through woods, sand dunes and cliff paths, or tucked up with good food and a glass of red wine, sharing time with family and friends.” Her happy place is being under big skies with her favourite people, whether it gives golden sunshine or wild, windy weather. She sees Eve as a calm community space for women to gather and connect, and being beneath the historically all-men’s United Club feels like restoring balance to the building. “These rooms also once held the registrar’s office,” she said, “where marriages, births and deaths were recorded, so it’s full of history, love and life – a special place to be.”
Elizma Lawrence – Founder of Santé et Beauté Face & Body
Elizma is a skin specialist with over 25 years experience in the spa and aesthetic industry, and her niche is anything to do with skin. Whether it’s rosacea, acne, benign lesions or scar revision, she’s got your future healthy glow covered. Clients rave about her facials, and she has “all sorts of wands” to personalise the treatment journey.
The misconception she’s keenest to break about her industry is that you need to get lots of treatments all the time. Her approach is measured, instead focusing on getting the skin working at its optimum, and then supporting it through seasonal and hormonal changes. In her opinion, a good facial once every three months is often enough. She also disdains the social-media skincare noise, which leads far too many down harmful rabbit holes. “Skincare doesn’t have to be complicated,” she asserted, “it just has to be correct.” Her key recommendation for daily care is SPF – protecting against UV whilst protecting collagen. Her favourite quirk of Eve is the granite arches and the old-to-new revival, which is fitting, given she’s in the business of helping skin do the same.
Clare Yates – Founder of CY Lymphatic Drainage
Clare Yates brings twenty years of experience and expertise to Eve as a registered nurse. She works as an Advanced Practitioner, helping people improve and manage their lymphatic system. Her treatments, and the advice that comes with them, supports clients with lymphoedema and lipoedema, and she notes that lymphatic drainage is especially important following surgery, especially cosmetic, because it promotes healing and helps reduce swelling and bruising.
She describes her practice as “powerful but gentle,” with people leaving feeling lighter, less bloated and less puffy through reduced inflammation. Her focus is bespoke, safe care that is underscored by experience and knowledge of anatomy. Nevertheless, her favourite part of the service is working with people, helping them make small daily habits that help them to feel their best.
Caroline Edis – Personal Trainer at Eve Studios
Caroline specialises in strength training and yoga/mobility for women, a combination that helps people feel stronger and more capable again. Her approach is holistic, personalised and balanced, and she’s keen to push back on the misconception that personal training is primarily about looks. Instead, she believes it’s more important that clients feel healthy and happy wit the lifestyle they’re building, keeping a keen eye on their mental health. She sees improvement in body composition and shape as an added bonus, rather than the ‘be all and end all’.
Her secret talent is speaking Spanish, she avoids veganism as a wellness trend, and if she’s not at Eve you would probably find her listening to house music somewhere in London. In her opinion, the aspect of modern wellness that she thinks would most shock the ghosts of the United Club are the post-natal classes and PT sessions where babies are present, as well as women of all ages lifting weights downstairs.
Charlene Hickey – Founder of CH Tattoo
Charlene’s studio is a haven of cosy, calm energy, tattooing in a nurturing, holistic way that is far from the tattoo-parlour stereotype. She specialises in delicate cover-ups, revamps and scar-covers, and sees her space as more of a “healing room” than a “tattoo parlour.” Due to the amount of energy she puts into each appointment, she only sees one client a day, which frees up space to make time for writing and artwork.
Clients love her for her completely non-judgemental space, where secrets can be shared in confidence and good energy can be maintained throughout the tattooing process. Her one-sentence approach to wellness is that “if a woman can be her truest self, she is unstoppable.” Her pre-session ritual lays the foundation for the tone of her sessions, with music and dancing that range from meditation music, “banging house tunes” and 90s RnB (complimented by wax melts and fairy lights). Outside wellness, her secret talent is that she writes books about female freedom, having previously published the memoir No Fear of Depths, which is being sequelled by No Pain, No Stain (a title that feels particularly on brand).
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