UNLESS YOU are swimming in disposable income, your friends and loved ones will know you can only give practical and affordable gifts during Christmas. Here are my favorite Christmas-stocking-stuffers for close friends and family and they are all under P350. There is a nail polish epidemic. I have...
RECENTLY, AN aunt of mine known to turn the car around halfway to Baguio because she could not find her eyebrow pencil in Manila surprised us all when she showed up at a reunion with actual hair on her elegant soft arches instead of the usual harsh stenciled brown line she used to compensate for the...
THERE WERE several holidays in which I had the worst hair, cuticles, eyebrows and skin, all because I had nothing to spare for the beauty basics. All the bonuses I got went to Christmas shopping. The great thing is that I have discovered a salon with services you and your loved ones can benefit...
IT'S NO LONGER enough to have acne- and wrinkle-free skin when in our 30s. That glow associated with youth and bloom starts to slowly snuff out as time progresses, making skin look dull, dry and obviously older. <br />To solve this problem, the beauty industry has come up with products whose...
DOES THIS formerly just-okay celebrity actually look close to gorgeous or have I just gotten used to his/her face? How many of us have asked ourselves that question and just presumed the change to better hair styling and losing weight? That is, until we see reruns of a celebrity’s earlier movies...
SINCE the bulk of my readers from Metro Manila reside in Quezon City, I always jump at the chance to try out skin clinics whenever I am in the area. One is highly recommended in terms of price, quality services and latest machine— the Skin Specialist owned by Dr. Jean Marquez.
EVERYONE HAS traveled either for a class reunion or a big wedding. We usually need two to three days to look our best before the big day. The problem with long plane trips and different time zones is we end up looking stressed-out. If you have balikbayan relatives flying in you may want to make...
THE RAINY season is an ideal bed weather but the closed windows and bundled-up clothing are open invitation for body odor. Here is a list of products to make you smell clean. A sporty aquatic cologne, it helps prevent underarm odor. Guys prefer the stick form. I prefer the deo-spray variant that...
