no matter how pretty the packaging.
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just about a week ago, i decided to take skincare and overall health seriously. i want to look every bit the “hip and happening lola” (term coined by my cousin) we used to aspire to back in high school. i’m taking this seriously now because of leroy bell. looking at him, i am convinced that anybody can look that smashing at 60 with great care and responsibility.
last year, for some reason, i figured that marc jacobs would choose dakota fanning to be the face of a lola flanker if and when he ever came up with one. well, he did on both counts. choose dakota and create a flanker, that is.
what smells make you reminisce? my favorite hairdresser gets transported to his home in the province at the smell of damp earth. my husband, who was moved from country to country as a child following his father’s projects, says that the duty free department store smell: electronic toys mingled with fragrance testers brings him back to his childhood. mine is sunblock, specifically coppertone. and plastic pine trees, tinsel and gift wrappers.
i love smelling and remembering. memories jolted by olfactory stimuli seem sharper and more vivid to me than those involving sights or sounds. this, after all, has grounds in science.
therefore, it goes without saying that i am crazy about fragrances. and that a number of them are very close to me since they are invariably linked to certain memories. the most notable of these commercially available memory triggers is lacoste pour femme.
ah yes, the fragrance department. i must say my favorite part of department stores, but for the hard-selling. pushy salespersons aside, i love hanging around fragrance counters, testing new smells until i give rise to a veritable mount everest of tester strips in my bag. scents will never lose their fascination for me.
scents are such amazing things. some can get you refreshed and make you relax. some can energize and even seduce. so what are so many women still doing waiting for special occasions to wear fragrance? any day is a perfect day to smell good!
continuation to this.
when we moved to fiji, one of the things i had to adjust to was how most people took haircut for granted. not to say that people took their hair in general for granted. in fact, many of them obsess over it: they dye, highlight, perm, fix into cornrows, braids, dreadlocks more frequently than i know pinays do. but haircut in particular doesn’t seem as big a deal as what i am more accustomed to.
so if i can’t find the time to experiment with different hair stylists, i decided, what the heck, might as well jump into the bandwagon. besides, this is the immediate solution to my hair’s volume problem. a good old fashioned perm. and i mean not digital.
warning: this post contains self-indulgent photos.
it is no secret that i am a stickler to habits. and that includes hair stylists (i wrote in a previous entry about my search for a hair stylist to whom i can remain loyal). i have been a very avid customer of basement salon since 2007, a few times in rockwell and a ton of other times in shangri-la.
my stylist of choice is cris in shang because he never lets me down. when i always thought my stick straight hair would never account for anything more than a droopy mass of sad, pathetic boredom, which lived years and years and years as a one-length plain heap of lifelessness that fell unhappily below my shoulders with renegade baby hair always escaping from unexpected places, he was able to provide structure and gave it natural body and volume. i was very hesitant to try layers and bangs for reasons stated in the same previous entry above, but i’m glad i trusted someone who obviously knew better.
no products, blow out or camera tricks in the “after” photos! just an expert haircut and air dry c/o our trusty electric fan!
before:
the health benefits of grapes and wine have been some of the best-known and, should we say best-loved facts of nutrition, but do you know that they also have beauty benefits when applied to skin?
in a january issue of a fashion magazine, i read that hollywood stars have now taken to pouring glasses of wine into their baths. it has been shown that grapes, the main ingredient in wine, when applied to skin, more especially if you soak in it, aids in blood circulation and promotes a youthful, healthy glow. the sediments, those fine solid particles that settle at the bottom of your glass, can be used to buff and polish your body which, together with its antioxidant properties, nourish the skin to keep it smooth and supple.
what goes best with the softness johnson’s body care helps you achieve? a soft look collection that perfectly complements your smooth and supple skin.
so j&j teamed up with fashion retailer bayo to give you some of the most luxurious, most alluring pieces. the only softer you can get is a birthday suit.
in a launch last month at the hip encore super club in the fort, taguig, we were privileged to get a first look at the soft look collection from j&j and bayo.
all photos and prices from female network:
johnson & johnson treated bloggers to some summer education-cum-frolic last month: a day trip to the very exclusive anvaya cove in bataan where neutrogena and the philippine dermatological society schooled us on skin safety.
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