September! The season of self-improvement! The best time of year time to re-set and re-invigorate your routine – and yourself! The energy stored from the summer months continues to put pep in your step and you are keen to keep that feeling alive all winter long. Getting enough exercise, eating healthily, paying attention to your appearance, taking time for a little retail therapy to update your autumn wardrobe – it’s all important when it comes to thriving rather than just surviving in the more challenging autumn and winter months.

You can make life very easy indeed by using Frascati Blackrock as THE single south county Dublin destination to keep your life on track in all these areas. From the weekly shop at Aldi and still more delicious food and wine at Marks & Spencer, to fashion, footwear and fitness, plus hair, beauty and grooming, it’s all ready and waiting for you under Frascati’s very smart roof, an airy, light-filled space, with plenty of convenient parking outside. Frascati is fully accessible too.

You can visit the dentist at Shields Dental, the doctor at Centric Health’s Blackrock Medical and pick up your prescriptions and supplements at Boots or Pure and The Health Store. Have your car valeted at Crystal Clean, or sort all those life admin bits at AIB, Murray Mobile, or Vodafone. Forgotten a gift? Lots of lovely things in lots of lovely stores. Pick up something sweet at Bannon Jewellers and add a pretty card from Bookstation, for instance. Pick up a quick lunch at Camile Thai, McDonalds, or Caffe Nero and take home some delicious cheese from ICIAR – The French Cheese Company and some fresh bread from The Natural Bakery Company.

And because you are not just thinking about yummy food, but also thinking about reinvigoration and self-improvement, Frascati Blackrock’s Tip to Toe Transformation 2022 will interest you too. Now in its third year, Frascati’s Tip To Toe Makeover has gone from strength to strength, with more retailers and service providers in Frascati Centre contributing to the incredibly generous prize. This competition is an opportunity to encourage friends or family to enter – or you can nominate a friend or family member yourself. Or you can nominate yourself – sure, why not? You might be the very deserving winner Frascati is looking for.

Simply put, the prize is fantastic! The amazing elements of the prize come from the participating retailer brands in Frascati including Shields Dental, who opened a fabulous state-of-the-art facility in May (the prize is composite bonding), Sisu Aesthetics (Sisu’s Shine Package includes three areas of Botox and two Profhilo® treatments), Sugar Coated (signature Sugared manicure, pedicure and brow treatment) and Peter Mark (a complete hair makeover.) But that’s not all. F45 gym are also involved, signing the winner up to a stimulating 8-Week Challenge. Yogahub is taking part, where the winner will undertake a deeply restorative month-long programme, and so is the Hart Gallery, with owner Jennifer Hart is awarding an original painting to the lucky (and deserving) winner. And as if that wasn’t enough, the winner will receive shopping vouchers from Aldi and M&S and a gift card for Kay’s Kitchen.

Imagine winning this incredible prize – or nominating another woman who really deserves some extra care and cossetting. Imagine how great they would feel to experience this life-transforming makeover. They’d feel it was summer, all winter long, that’s how good they’d feel! Enter now, or nominate, at www.frascaticentre.ie.