Beauty Box: Naturally beautiful hair with Dessange

MANILA, Philippines - Jacques Dessange knows how to enhance a woman’s crowning glory. Dessange, the newest hair care range, is designed to enhance the beauty of all women naturally. 

Sophisticated and elegant, Dessange House draws its inspiration from nature, a source of beauty and youth, which provides many of the active ingredients for its product lines. Combining the benefits of nature, the products and packaging are environment-friendly. 

Dessange Paris is a line of hair care and styling products as well as makeup and accessories reflecting the brand’s House of Luxury spirit: feminine, refined, elegant. It combines lavish textures and innovative formulas with the effective Black Pearl Resides, known for its fortifying, remineralizing, and anti-aging virtues. This range also has an airy texture, lightly scented with jasmine, white musk, and precious woods.

Hairstylist, colorist, and makeup artist Camille Albane offers customized services for every woman’s needs. The Camille Albane line reflects the brand’s Rive Gauche spirit and its identity of femininity, boldness, modernity, and conviviality. Camilla Albane’s range of products has ingredients that zero in on the various needs of a woman’s hair: henna argan for all hair types, citron for color-treated and highlighted hair; orange and honey for damaged, dry and brittle hair; henna and pomegranate for hair that’s weak and stressed; fig for unruly and frizzy hair.

Offering customized services, the Camille Albane line keeps hair healthy and radiant with unbelievable moisture and manageability.

Dessange is available at Rustan’s The Beauty Source.

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Truly fab falsies: Maybelline’s The Falsies combines a unique formula and a new type of brush that together instantly create the look of false lashes.

The truth about Maybelline’s ‘The Falsies’

Maybelline New York, the mascara expert, unveils a revolutionary new type of volume with its latest addition to the Volum’ Express franchise: “The Falsies.”

The Falsies combines a unique formula and a new type of brush that together instantly create the look of false lashes.

The exclusive kera-fiber formula is a carefully selected balance of volumizing agents and lengthening ingredients that deliver immediate results. Soft fillers allied to color-intense pigments, emollients, waxes, and lash-softening oils are combined with film formers and fibers for the perfect texture, delivering buildable volume. These ingredients were chosen for their ability to highlight each and every lash, delivering volume and visible intensity instantly.

The formula works in conjunction with Maybelline’s exclusive spoon brush for ultimate product deposit.

The Falsies is available at all leading department stores for P449 so you can go false lash fab every day in just a wink.

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Nail matters: Enjoy nail pampering at Nardene Nail Avenue, a beach-inspired nail salon.

Nail it with Nardene Nail Avenue Day Spa

Experience a much-needed R&R with Nardene Nail Avenue, a beach-inspired nail salon located at the north side of the metro. Aside from natural nail care services such as manicure, pedicure, hand spa, foot spa, foot massage, and nail art, this getaway offers a wide range of aromatic treatments. Enjoy the pineapple scrub for whitening, milk and almond for anti-aging, lavishing lavender for aromatherapy, extreme peppermint for mint lovers, grapefruit and papaya extract for the signature spa, espresso for the gents and strawberry ice cream spa for kids. 

A to-die-for service is the Sweet Escape hand and foot spa where you get to experience the ultimate caring for your hands and feet.

Visit Nardene Nail Avenue at 2/F Unit 2B and 2C, AJF Building, Lot 1-C Regalado Avenue, West Fairview, Quezon City. It is open every day except Thursdays, from 10 a.m. to 10 p.m.

Like it on Facebook atwww.facebook.com/NardeneNail.Avenue and check out its full list of services. Call 430-2513 for appointments or inquiries.

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Strip tease: Kylie Padilla is captured by lensman Miguel Miranda in next to nothing but lavish jewelry at a Strip event.

Strip teams up with PETA: So fur, so good

Strip teamed up with PETA (People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals) in UnFURgivable, a bold campaign that discourages against the use of humanized fur — be it on bare skin, bags, coats or shoes.

Stripped before fashion photographer Miguel Miranda were models Jasmine Curtis-Smith, Isabel Roces, Phoemela Barranda, Nina Estaco, Kylie Padilla, Ornusa Cadness, Roshni Hemlani, CJ Jaravata, Xtina, Kit Barraquias, Laureen Uy, Xeng Zulueta and cheeky radio Djs Sam YG, Slick Rick, and Toni Tony of Boys Night Out who were captured in next to nothing but lavish jewelry, bags and accessories created by Martin Bautista, Gabriel Martel, Nicole Whisenhunt, Joyce Makitalo, Trousseau by Reshma, and Princess Peacock. The shoot was styled by Gerick Ortiz.

Guests were welcomed by host and Prive co-owner JM Rodriguez. The grand launch continued with a fashion show by Wanderlust, Maggie Wilson-Consunji’s line of daring swimwear.

Until March 31, Strip will donate P50 to PETA for every Brazilian wax treatment done. First-time customers enjoy a special discount on Brazilian waxing treatments for supporting the anti-fur movement, too.

Strip is located at 2/F Serenda, Bonifacio High Street with telephone number 19010892 and 4/F Greenbelt 5 with telephone number 501-3997. Visit www.strip-manila.com for more details. For info on PETA, visit www.Peta.Org

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Your beauty vitamins: San San Matte Finish Liquid Foundation contains vitamins A, C, and E that nourish skin and SPF 15 for sun protection.

San San Foundation matches Filipina skin tone

Get impeccable skin with San San Cosmetics Matte Finish Liquid Foundation from Pinoy personal care retailer HBC, Inc.

San San Matte Finish Liquid Foundation is available in four variants — from nude to natural — that match most Filipina skin tones.

Each bottle of San San Matte Finish Liquid Foundation comes in a matte frosted glass container with a spatula for easier application. And each contains vitamins A, C, and E that nourish skin and SPF 15 for sun protection. It sells for P132 (35ml) and is available in all HBC stores nationwide.

“Proper blending is the key to working with liquid matte foundations. The color of your foundation should match your skin perfectly,” says Maureen Joy Tiquia, San San brand manager.

For more information on San San Cosmetics, visit www.hbc.com.ph/facebook.com/myHBC or call the HBC Customer Care at 984-5555 local 228, 09189215520.

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YFor every body: Olay pampers the body with its new range of body washes.

Younger-looking skin with new Olay Body Wash

Olay pampers the body with its new range of products.

Olay Age Defying Revitalizing is infused with the same vitamin complex A and E found in the Olay facial skin regimen, and refined with a firming cream to penetrate deep into the skin and prevent aging from within.

Olay Hydrating Moisture Daily Refresh provides long-lasting moisturization with its Level One formula, which means it is easy to rinse off.

Olay Hydrating Moisture Daily Renewal is a Level Two formula, which means it has a creamy feel and lather, for long-lasting moisturization.

Olay Natural White Radiant Fairness contains coconut oil to moisturize skin and exfoliating beads to reveal skin’s natural fairness.

Olay Natural White Exfoliating has pearl essence and exfoliating beads to reveal skin’s natural fairness.

For more information, log on to Facebook.com/Olay Philippines.

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Fun in the sun: Ocean Potion Sun and Skin Care is a comprehensive line of sun care products enriched with sea botanicals and antioxidant vitamins.

Be beach-ready with Ocean Potion

Ocean Potion Sun and Skin Care is a comprehensive line of sun care products enriched with sea botanicals and antioxidant vitamins. It is formulated to protect, moisturize, and enrich your skin under the scorching heat of the sun.

Ocean Potion has a gentle citrus scent that’s so refreshing. It has a light texture that glides smoothly and is easily absorbed by the skin. Best of all, it provides higher protection against UVA I, UVA II, and UVB for extreme sun exposure.

The broad product line fits any lifestyle and skin types.

Ocean Potion Anti-Aging Sunblock Lotion SPF 50 contains seaplant extracts and antioxidant vitamins A, C, and E that aid in the reduction of cell-damaging free radicals for younger-looking skin.

Ocean Potion Anti-Aging Sunblock Instant Dry Mist SPF 50 6oz provides the highest sunscreen protection without rubbing onto the skin. 

Ocean Potion Face Potion Clear Zinc SPF 45 1oz has zinc oxide known worldwide for its sun protection qualities.

Ocean Potion Sun and Skin Care range is available in select leading beauty stores and supermarkets. Exclusively distributed by RPG Distribution Services, Inc.

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Scentsational model: Actress Carla Abellana is the new face of Zen Zest.

Carla Abellana adds zest to Zen Zest

Intelligent, confident, elegant, vibrant — that’s model and actress Carla Abellana, the new face of Zen Zest. From fragrances and body care to aromatherapy and ambience products, Zen Zest has everything that a modern woman needs to pamper herself.

Thrilled to be representing a successful, proudly-Pinoy label, the alluring actress shares that she was already using Zen Zest products way before she was approached for an endorsement deal. Her favorite items from the extensive lineup are the fragrance diffusers, Cocktail Collection body sprays, and aromatherapy massage oils. “I usually end my busy and tiring day with a massage. Zen Zest calming massage oil makes all the stress vanish,” she attests.

Michelle Asence-Fontelera, Zen Zest founder, reveals that Carla was chosen as endorser because she embodies the brand. “Carla possesses both beauty and brains, she is the total package. She is soft-spoken and always composed, yet her mere presence commands attention, that’s very Zen Zest,” she concludes.