Newsmakers

A revitalized you

September 6, 2011 | 12:00am

To rejuvenate one’s looks is to revitalize one’s outlook in life. In its aim to provide the best, safest and most accessible and affordable eye surgeries and other services to the Filipino people, the Shinagawa Lasik and Aesthetic Center opened in the Philippines last year.

Since its grand opening a year ago, the center has successfully made its strong presence felt in the market. With its world-class Lasik and aesthetic services, it now boasts of a remarkably growing clientele.

Now that it is a year old, the center remains committed to bringing only the best to its customers, using the most advanced and safest facilities, which is why it is the world’s No. 1 Intralasik eye surgery provider.

Shinagawa highlights the latest breakthrough in the surgical and non-surgical procedures such as Titan XL, Laser Genesis, Fractional Laser and Candela (Dehairing).

Some of the well-known stars who have already undergone Lasik include TV host-actress Janice de Belen, beauty queen-singer Krista Kleiner and actor-balladeer Ariel Rivera while young actress-singer Yasmien Kurdi and Star’s Raymond Gutierrez have already done preliminary screening.

Japanese monks doing a ceremony for the center’s continued success.ta School Foundation students in 1994.

Concert Queen Pops Fernandez, Ara Mina, Alice Dixson, Vivian Velez, Sunshine Cruz, Francine Prieto, Priscilla Mereilles, John Estrada, Rita Avila, Ate Glow, Jobelle Salvador, Jay-R and Cristina Gonzalez-Romualdez have also tried some of Shinagawa’s treatments.

The center is proud that in such a short span of time, it was able to penetrate the showbiz circle and attract big names who can attest to the A-1 Lasik and aesthetics procedures it offers.

(The Shinagawa Lasik and Aesthetics Center is located at the Mezzanine, Tower 2, The Enterprise Center, Ayala Avenue corner Paseo de Roxas, Makati City. Call 491-0000 and 846-3197 or log on to www.shinagawa.ph)

Being healthy is a necessity

The need to be healthy is of optimum importance. A healthy lifestyle can lead to a beautiful future.

(From left) Simon Greatwich, Misagh Bahadoran, Rob Gier, Health and Beyond president Miguel Garcia, Anton del Rosario and Nate Burkey.

Health and Beyond, a chain of stores offering the widest and best food supplements to health and sports buffs, launched its newest brand ambassadors from the Philippine Azkals namely Anton del Rosario, Rob Gier, Misagh Bahadoran, Simon Greatwich and Nate Burkey in an exclusive media and VIP event held at its Power Plant, Rockwell branch. The event was held to promote living an active and healthy lifestyle.

Members from the local press enjoyed an afternoon as the new Health and Beyond brand ambassadors aided them in choosing vitamins and supplements fit for their personal lifestyle and needs. Hundreds of fans also gathered outside the store, eagerly waiting for their chance to get a glimpse and have a photo op with their favorite players.

Health and Beyond believes in the saying that “being healthy is not a luxury, but an absolute necessity.” A one-stop shop offering the newest, top quality food supplements, vitamins and even products addressing sports nutrition, it provides Filipinos anything and everything the body needs and craves for. It also fuels champions by providing innovative, safe and legal formulations by First Endurance and offers the latest technologies that aid in optimizing and maximizing every athlete’s performance with products from Power Balance.

(Health and Beyond stores are located at Power Plant Mall Rockwell Center, Alabang Town Center, SM Annex North Edsa, Glorietta and Market! Market! For more information, visit www.myhealthandbeyond.com or join the Health and Beyond Facebook Fan page.)

Nate Burkey and Simon Greatwich with Nina Estacio.

Let’s watch out for each other

An art installation is enough to convey this message let’s watch out for each other.

The Bonifacio Art Foundation, Inc. (BAFI), in collaboration with HSBC, celebrated the completion and lighting of Let’s Watch Out for Each Other, an art installation by Robert Alejandro. Robert is an award-winning Filipino designer known for his book designs and illustrations. From commercial to environmental graphic design, Robert is the creative mind behind the 143-ft.-wide and 65-ft.-tall artwork installed on an exterior wall of the HSBC Centre in Bonifacio Global City (BGC) in Taguig.

Let’s Watch Out For Each Other uses electroluminescent lighting technology (EL Lighting), to add another dimension to Alejandro’s whimsical renditions of the country’s endangered species in this call to action to protect the environment. It is the first and only animated art installation in the region to use this technology. EL Lighting does not emit heat and uses 75 to 90 percent less electricity compared to other light technologies.

BAFI chairman Butch Campos and HSBC president and CEO Tony Cripps shake hands at the lighting celebration and unveiling of the latest art installation in BGC.

To celebrate the completion of the art installation, a facsimile of the artwork and a lighting ceremony was held at the HSBC lobby, together with the Kilyawan Boys Choir, who can trace their roots back to the school-based Claret Boys Choir.

The facsimile of the artwork was unveiled by BAFI chairman Joselito “Butch” Campos Jr. and HSBC president and CEO Tony Cripps. who said, “HSBC has always been a strong advocate of education and the environment. The art installation is a reflection of HSBC’s commitment to sustainability, as well as a contribution to the aesthetic environment that BAFI has worked so hard to create here at BGC.”

Other HSBC’s programs in the Philippines are Project Ecokids, an educational program that teaches students the impacts of climate change; Volunteers for Nature, a joint program with Children’s Environmental Awareness and Action Foundation, where HSBC volunteers teach children about the Philippine marine wildlife; and Read With Me, which involves HSBC volunteers teaching students of Pembo Elementary School the value of reading.