Super Beauty Center

Hot namedroppable Sadao Abe, dahlings, who happens to be Shiseido’s Senior Exec. Director-in-Charge of Int’l Operations, opened the country’s first Shiseido Beauty Institute in Glorietta 4 during a new moon, which will house Shiseido’s complete line of skincare and cosmetics and will have trained Shiseido aestheticians who will give "Facial Rx Massages" combining massage along the muscles, veins and lymph with the "tsubo" stimulation technique. Four other types of facial massage based on skin type are also available, plus the appropriate Shiseido products to compliment the skin, palanggas.

Hot shot executives from Shiseido Japan who jetted in for the opening, palanggas, included Pres. and ceo Ryoichi Hara, Asia-Pacific GM Toru Okawa, Creative Director Takshi Tsuburaya, Regional Training Director Michiyo Onishi and Phil. Area Manager Tatsuya Nagai.

Shiseido has dedicated itself to enhancing beauty, health and well-being. Check them out, dahlings! You just might find what your skin needs at this beauty center.

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The bidding was as hot as the items up for bid and the hotshot design personas who donated their works. BluPrint magazine’s third anniversary auction, to benefit Phil. Business for Social Progress (PBSP), drew namedroppables like Rachy Cuna, Joel Paraiso, Tina Fernandez, Gerry Contreras, Johnny Hubilla, Anna Sy, Jones Lanza, MEGA boss Gerry Tiu, and more who marvelled at the artworks of masters like Malang, Bencab, Natonal Artists Arturo Luz, Ang Kiukok and Billy Abueva, fine furniture pieces by Movement 8 regulars Kenneth Cobonpue, Renato Vidal, Carlo Cordaro, Tes Pasola and Ann Pamintuan.

The event was a celebration not just of a magazine’s anniversary but of Filipino craftsmanship and design, palanggas, something we can all be tres proud of!

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Remember, palanggas, "The fear of the Lord God can always deliver us from the fear of others." Smile. See you.