Beauty Box Derma E Clear Vein Crème: Vein, vein go away

MAINLA, Philippines - If bad veins run in your family, it is best if you start preventive care at a young age. Eat skin-enhancing foods, including those rich in vitamin K, and dietary supplements approved by your doctor, before the spidering occurs. Some exercise, like putting your legs up against a wall while lying on the floor or bed, may also take pressure off the legs and reverse blood flow, thereby helping prevent and calm swelling in leg veins.

Some of the supplements that are known to help enhance skin and overall wellness are bioflavonoid complex and grape seed extract. Bioflavonoids can support capillary strength and increase absorption of vitamin C.

If you would rather apply a topical cream, Healthy Options recommends Derma E Clear Vein Crème. It naturally reduces the appearance of spider veins and bruises, through ingredients that include horse chestnut, grape seed extract, witch hazel, and pycnogenol.

Health Options has branches located at level 1 of Shangri-La Plaza Mall, Mandaluyong City; Rustan’s Supermarket, Makati City; level 2 of Festival Supermall, Filinvest, Alabang; ground level of Ayala Center, Cebu City; lower ground floor of SM City, North EDSA; level 2 of SM City Manila; level 2 of SM Megamall B, EDSA, Mandaluyong City; SM Pampanga; SM Sta. Rosa; SM Mall of Asia; SM Clark; Bonifacio High Street at the Fort; Trinoma in North EDSA, Quezon City; SM City Davao; Rockwell-Makati; “The North” at SM City Cebu; and at the lower ground floor of Greenbelt 5, Ayala Center, Makati City. For more information, visit the Healthy Options website at www.healthyoptions.com.ph.

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Covergirl’s guide to a vibrant, high-shine look

The cold, rainy season may bring with it a gloomy, despondent mood, but that doesn’t mean your look should follow suit. Brighten up the season with looks that spell out vibrancy and vivacity. Covergirl helps you cop a note-worthy look that’ll definitely make you stand out this season.

Here’s Covergirl’s guide to a vibrant high-shine look:

• Start by creating a perfect canvas. Even out your skin tone with Covergirl’s Fresh Complexion Pocket Powder Foundation (P495), an oil-control foundation that keeps you fresh all day long.   It is enhanced with vitamins B3, B5, and E plus UVA/UVB SPF15 protection so your skin stays nourished and protected.

• Open up those peepers for a more defined, wide-awake look. Covergirl Smoky ShadowBlast (P525) lets you create fun, colorful smoky eyes. It’s a clever two-step system for creating big, bold smoky eyes with amazing results. The double-ended shadow stick features two precision applicator tips — one for base and one for liner or crease — so you can easily apply, smudge, and blend shadow to a smoky perfection.

• Don’t forget the brows. Perfectly framing your face, well-groomed eyebrows can make or break your entire look. Carefully line them with Covergirl’s Brow and Eye Makers Pencil (P325) for a defined, most natural arch. This versatile twin eye pencil also doubles as an eye liner. Softly line your lower and upper lash line — and you get a dramatic effect in an instant.

• Get that instant glow on the cheeks with Covergirl’s TRUCheeks Blush (P425), a three-color blush palette that you can mix and match to get a natural flush that most complements your skin tone.

• Finally, finish off the look with a luscious, high-shine pout. Covergirl’s ShineBlast Lip Gloss (P445) sculpts your lips with curve-accentuating shine and a fun flash of iridescent color to deliver a brilliant, glossy finish and perfectly polished pout.

Covergirl is exclusively distributed by Rustan Marketing Corporation and available in leading department stores nationwide.

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Body Shop’s Moisture White collection: Spot the difference

Enjoy skin that looks luminous from within, using a skincare collection to target freckles and brown spots, whitening, brightening and boosting skin confidence. The Body Shop launches the Moisture White collection, a specialist collection of skincare whitening products containing the power of shiso to improve the appearance of dark spots and discoloration at their source, even before hyperpigmentation begins.

The groundbreaking Moisture White is formulated especially for women who want clear-looking skin and uniform skin tone with a translucent complexion. It provides full regimen from start to finish — from a serum to a treatment mask, and targeted perfector — and even including the final touch: the new Moisture White Perfecting Foundation SPF 25/ PA++, which comes in a choice of six shades to suit your needs.

The key ingredient, shiso extract, has been especially chosen for this sophisticated collection. This shiso plant has been used in the Moisture White collection, as it can reduce early melanin-making signals even before the hyperpigmentation process and melanin production cycle starts — helping prevent uneven skin tone, brown spots and freckles. Shiso extract is combined with vitamin C, liquorice, and Community Trade organic aloe.

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Make Up For Ever: The waterproof expert

Professional Make Up Artists need products that are suited to the extreme conditions of television studios or fashion shows and resistant to water and the heat of the spotlights. To address these needs, Make Up For Ever, the expert in waterproof makeup, has developed the Aqua range: from the Aqua Smoky Lash mascara to the Aqua Eyes and Aqua Lip liners, including the eye-liner Aqua Creamliner. This wide range of faultless and long-lasting colors and products has wowed women the world over. Today, the saga continues with the multi-purpose Aqua Cream shadow.

With 22 shades, Aqua Cream is the widest existing range of cream eye-shadows. A real artist’s palette, its variety has no limits: deep colours, pearly shades, illuminators. Eight of them can also be used as lipstick and six as blush.

The multi-purpose Aqua Cream can be used on the eyes, the cheeks and the lips. It is rich in pigments and pure mother-of-pearl particles. Aqua Cream is also stable and non-transferable, the makeup does not run and settle in the creases of the eyelids. A simple touch is all you need for an instant result which lasts all day.

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Shinagawa Lasik & Aesthetics: Through your eyes clearly

Japan’s number one cosmetic surgery chain and the world’s largest Intralasik eye surgery provider is now in the Philippines.

Shinagawa Lasik & Aesthetics offers various medical procedures using the most advanced technologies and updated methodologies.

On the Lasik end, Shinagawa’s main thrust is the treatment of presbyopia, a visual impairment condition that diminishes the ability to focus on near objects. To address this issue, Shinagawa utilizes a pioneering technology called Kamra, in which a special lens is implanted into the cornea.

Shinagawa also boasts Liposonix, a non-invasive and non-surgical cavitational treatment that burns away fat; Fractional G treatment for stretchmarks; and skin care treatments.

Shinagawa Lasik & Aesthetics Center is at the Mezzanine, Tower 2, The Enterprise Center, 6766 Ayala Ave. corner Paseo de Roxas, 1226 Makati City.