Careful planning with your beauty specialist, hairdresser and healthcare professional will ensure that you have clear radiant skin, perfect make-up and hair, and optimum health that will ensure that you are glowing on your wedding day.
Perhaps the best maintenance program you can be on is not a regular shiatsu massage or an appointment with your manicurist, but a by-appointment-only Reiki session. “It’s like a massage but there’s no squeezing or physical contact — it’s the perfect way to reduce stress, relax, and take out the negative energy,” he explains.
Reiki (pronounced like “rain”) was started in the late 1800s by a Japanese doctor named Mikao Usui, who believed that the universe is surrounded by positive energy. It is thus up to man to re-channel this energy into the living things (including animals and plants) that need it. What makes Park, 40, a particulary good choice for this treatment is his 20 years of practice in healing methods; prior to his three years doing Reiki, he was into chi gong (which espouses tapping into one’s “inner” instead of the world’s “outer” energy).
Apparently, the latest icebreaker these days is asking people if they’ve tried C-Lium Fibre. In a group of seven, there’s bound to be one who’ll eagerly offering a testimonial about this all-natural, organic supplement that helps clean the intestines of toxins. Originally intended for people who suffer from constipation, the product also helps those with regular bowel movement. As of last count, we’ve already met a model, a writer, an ex-presidentiable’s wife, society babes, and a broadcast journalist who’ve made it their habit to drink a glass of the soluble fiber every morning (before breakfast, to lose weight; during breakfast, to aid “bowel movement”).
Skin Savers
• Dare to go bare, but be sure you moisturize rough knees, elbows, and all-over chapped skin. For major under-the-sun fun, choose a moisturizer with high SPF.
• Not everyone is aware that sunscreens and sunblocks aren’t the same. Both offer broad-spectrum protection from UVA and UVB rays, but sunscreens have chemical ingredients that still absorb harmful UV light while sunblocks reflect rays and provide more coverage.
• Always use sunblock with SPF 15 or higher. Choose from Coppertone’s sun protection line. Coppertone Sport 30, is a non-greasy sweatproof, waterproof sunblock that says on when you play, swim or workout. If you don’t want to tan, use Coppertone’s All-Day SPF 45 Moisturizing Sunblock Lotion with Vitamin E and Aloe.
Nothing can enhance a woman’s beauty like beautiful brows. Well-defined, well-groomed brows flatter the face—they open up, enlarge and brighten the eyes so that you’ll need less makeup. Says Propaganda makeup artist Marlon Rivera, “Nice brows make you look polished and organize the features on your face instantly. People look at your eyes first, so looking at unkempt brows is like looking at a messy painting.”
Tweeze Easy
Tweezing gives you the best control over the shape compared to waxing and threading. Shaving causes faster hair re-growth and may irritate the skin on that area. Tweezing can hurt at first, but you’ll get immune to the pain in time (numb the are with ice, warm water or toothache drops).