A new year and a new you. With radiant skin, restore balance and optimize beauty to reveal the most beautiful you. Revive, refresh and rejuvenate. Here are ten treatments that will help you attain significant results for complexion perfection from head to toe for 2010.
Smooth Skin
Gentle cleansers, mild skin polishing, and anti-oxidants
Spalicious Treatment:
Skin care is a basic for beauty, so inaugurate this year with a winter smart regime. Cleanse, tone and add a treatment, before you moisturize. And then don’t forget to shield your skin with a sun defense after you moisturize. Use Clarisonic, a gentle sonic micro-massage for clearer healthier skin; This provides six times more makeup removal, but leaves skin feeling and looking younger and smoother. The rotating brush head cleanses gently but effectively enough that products used after, easily penetrate into the skin.
Clarisonic uses products rich in hyluronic acid and anti-oxidants , like vitamin C. This helps to neutralize the dangerous molecules called free radicals, hence improving skin texture by producing collagen and holding the skin taut and firm. Cellex-C Hydra 5B Complex is a gel containing an extraordinary high percentage of hyluronic acid and instantly gives the skin a silky smooth texture.
Radiant Reveal
Energizing masks, hydrating serums, and water therapy
Spalicious Treatment:
The skin’s aging process is associated with a drop in oxygen levels in skin cells. Oxygen therapy is one way to restore and encourage skin rejuvenation. Eminence Plum Revitalizing Masque and toner is a wake up call for fatigued skin. Bless your skin with Bliss Oxygenated Mask for 5 minutes, three to five times a week. This masque instantly restores skin vitality and energizes it with an oxygen boost. Sothys’ Oxyliance Fluid is an oxygenating energizing complex that not only promotes glowing skin, but also improves the skin’s ability to absorb oxygen and is very effective for suffocated and dull skin.
Skin Bright
Skin Lighteners, skin tone correctors, and retexturizer
Spalicious Treatment:
Melanin suppressors, also called skin lighteners are ingredients that interfere with the biochemical process in the skin that produces melanin. Hydroquinone is one of the most popular and safest drugs used for the treatment of hyper-pigmentation.
DDF Doctor’s Dermatologic Formula is a skin lightening and brightening fade cream containing 2% hydroquinone. For a skin sensitive to hydroquinone, try DDF’s Intense Holistic Lightener which evens out skin tone, helps fade pigmented spots, lightens freckles, and has a moisturizing formula. Or, use a ‘Surface Peel’; an excellent source to refine skin with fruit enzymes which exfoliate sensitive skin for those that cannot use acid based products. While using skin lightening products, it is highly recommended to use sunscreen and avoid direct sun exposure and heat.
Using products with AHA (Alpha Hydroxy Acid) help to reduce surface pigmentation by increasing cell renewal rate when used in the evening followed with regular sunscreen in the daytime. A spalicious treatment that includes AHA, a natural fruit extract can be in the form of a peel. This treatment should be done by a professional with a full knowledge of the amount to be used according to the skin type as it includes the process of strong exfoliation removing topical layers of skin.
Wrinkle Defense
Firming masks, lifting massage, re-conditioning serums, and night creams
Spalicious Treatment:
Vitamin A, the strongest wrinkle fighter in combination with C & E, is essential for the formation of healthy skin cells to achieve firmer, lifted and youthful skin. Retinol, is the most usable form of Vitamin A, has been used for the reduction of both wrinkles and fine lines. It increases collagen production and stimulates skin repair. For an intense spalicious treatment, try Retinol Advanced + Matrixyl + Q 10 night cream by GM Collins with retinol that diminishes the visible signs of aging. This product should always be followed by a hydrating product. Hydration for night time is vital – it is also essential to wear a sun protection in the daytime, regardless of whether it is a bright sunny day or an overcast. Retinol based products are usually recommended to be used at night and on clean skin for more effectiveness. Dermalogica offers a unique skin polisher to minimize fine lines with a cocktail of vitamin A, C, & E- called Multivitamin Thermofoliant and can be part of your rejuvenation plan.
Eye Revive
Soothing gels, smoothing creams, and brightening eye masks
Spalicious Treatments:
‘Multivitamin power firm’ by Dermalogica combats the signs of premature aging around the eye area. With green tea and anti-oxidants that repairs, strengthens, and improves the delicate skin. It is important to gently massage in a circular motion from outside to inside around the orbital bone to tone and firm those delicate muscles. Eyes are said to be the first area on the face that shows the signs of ageing, therefore they need priority attention. Get instant lifting and firming effect and youthful glow around the peepers just when you need, by applying Dr. Renud Pure Anti Ageing Eye Contour Patches for 15 minutes and see the difference. This treatment is done in spas and salons by professional estheticians. Use this treatment especially for those special occasions when your eyes need a little more attention like weddings.
Lip Luxury
Fuller lips, sexy sheen, and downy texture
Spalicious Treatment:
Another beauty call – fuller, sexier and smooth lips. As we age, the level of hyaluronic acid significantly decreases in the skin, thus leaving our skin looking less firm and making dehydration lines more prominent even around our lips. For a powerful pout appeal, Fusion Beauty has an exciting product Lip Fusion XL that naturally volumizes the lips by two naturally occurring fillers in one formula. Recommended to be used at night only for maximum benefit. This unique blend of active collagen and hyaluronic acid is a strong combination for advanced plumping power. Smooth the texture with balms and lip care products that nourishes, moisturizes and helps prepare lips for a lipstick and add shine for a glossy full lip. Try Darphain’s – Vitabalm Lip Treatment for a spalicious treatment.
Body Focus
Toned silhouette, silk appeal, and banish cellulite
Spalicious Treatment:
Soak, exfoliate, massage, and moisturize. A good regime for a toned silhouette. For a spalicious treatment go for a body wrap that instantly tones the body and makes you feel good. The Universal Contour Wraps, Home Care Kit by Universal Contour Wrap – Body Beautiful, will help to reduce the inches from the body for 30 days. This immediate temporary inch loss treatment works before any special occasion when looking for instant toning and firming. This is best done in a spa or salon for a more professional supervised wrapping. This is an inch loss and contouring treatment, not a weight loss treatment, but can be quite encouraging to drop weight when your body looks beautiful and you have been longing to wear a dress as you drop a dress size. To restore firmness and get a silky appeal, diminish the bumpy skin with Bliss ‘fatgirlslim’ – this treatment reduces the appearance of cellulite. Massage with a stimulator or a rubber body scrubber to help promote the effectiveness of ‘fatgirlslim.’
A Satin Glove
Gentle exfoliation, nourishing mask and luxury lotions
Spalicious Treatment:
Ever wonder how people judge your lifestyle and personality by looking at your shoes. This is an old cliché, but the new cliché says that manicured hands and nails say a lot about you. So take some time this year to indulge in a mani makeover. A rich moisturizing hand cream after a warm hand soak and gentle exfoliation leaves your skin smooth to the touch that is ready for a warm handshake. Buff your hands with Mani Station by BCL that has sugar and glycolic acid and buffs away dry skin, along with Aloe Vera and lemon to protect. Finally, treat your hands with an opulence of OPI’s rejuvenating serum that nourishes skin with antioxidants.
Feet First
Refining scrubs, relaxing soaks, and protecting creams
Spalicious Treatment:
Your feet need as equal attention as your face and hands. Give them the special treatment they deserve, as they sometimes take more than they deserve. Slough away the dry skin, exfoliate to smooth, massage to relax, and moisturize to condition. L’Occitane’s offers a spalicious treatment called Shea Butter Foot Cream and relieves tired achy feet. Or try Footlogix, a non greasy, foot care mousse that has ‘urea’ as the key ingredient treats and prevents feet from fungal infections and dry chapped skin.
Chic Tresses
Healthier hair growth, nourishing treatments, and chic styling
Spalicious Treatment:
Shinier, smoother strands are vital for hair that says healthy. Argan oil, a Moroccan oil treatment that needs no rinse, applied to towel dried hair or dry hair provides instant shine and leaves hair smooth and frizz free. For an ultimate spalicious hair texture makeover, try Kerastase Resistance Age Recharge Firming Masque for hair losing vitality or experience an overnight renewing of lackluster tresses by Kerastase’s Noctogenist.
DON’T FORGET YOUR FACE Dazzling Before & After 5min Makeup In The Morning
By Sanaa Martinez
With the holidays over and life beginning again – we have less time to get ready, especially in the morning. So, follow these quick and easy tips that are essentially, must do’s before leaving the house in the morning.
1 Use a light foundation or even a tinted moisturizer, like Make Up Forever HD foundation # 155. Apply over your T-zone (nose , middle of forehead), your chin and under your eyes. Avoid under eye concealer if you can, as that can be heavy for the bright office lights or daylight.
2 Lightly powder your face to set the foundation with a powder like Make Up Forever HD Powder
3 Give your winter skin a bit of warmth with a pink blush like MAC’s Mocha Blush. Brush along the apples of the cheek and bring up along cheekbones
4 For your eyes, give them an instant eyelift with a Pencil Eyeliner from Gosh Waterproof in black. Once you apply to the base of the lashes, blend so that there are no hard edges. Use a brush or even a Q-tip.
5 Apply Mascara like Kiss Me Mascara in Volumizing Black
6 Add a soft lip gloss like Thierry Mueglers Plexi Gloss in Pink VOILA! 5 Minutes and you are looking fresh and ready to step out the door.
Sanaa is a graduate of the Blanche Macdonald Global Makeup Program specializing in Bridal Fashion, Stage, TV & Film, and Special Effects Makeup. Her passion for dance and performing has evolved with time to include make-up and hair.
Based out of Vancouver, Sanaa has done make-up for many actors, dancers, and brides. sanaamartinez@gmail.com or 604-614-6670.
