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Newer and Better: Crème Simon Relaunches its Beloved Bestsellers
Iconic French beauty brand, Creme Simon, relaunched most-loved bestsellers - Daily Defense UV Protector SPF50 & Brightening Multi-Benefits Eye Treatment
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My top 6 facial toners
Expaters, do you use facial toner? I always tone (my face, not my abs). I was chatting to some friends about skincare and most said…
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My top 6 facial toners
Expaters, do you use facial toner? I always tone (my face, not my abs). I was chatting to some friends about skincare and most said…
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The Art, Science and Mathematics of Beauty
Partnering with Art Basel Hong Kong for the second consecutive year, La Prairie proves once more that art and beauty are the perfect pairing
The worlds of beauty and art have long been intrinsically linked, and that connection is very much alive today in the continuing partnership between two leading Swiss brands: La Prairie and Art Basel.
While the cosmetics industry may be driven by science and innovation, beauty itself would not exist without art. La Prairie’s approach is to use science as an art form, uncovering the factors that contribute to our skin’s glow. Most recently, it has developed a formula that reveals the relationship between light, luminosity and the ageing process: the Equation of Light.
Essentially, our skin is affected by pigments that turn white light into coloured light, decreasing the appearance of luminosity to the naked eye. Whether it’s grey dust, brown sun spots, yellow oxidative stress or red inflammation, these tones interfere with the colour of light reflected off our skin, while uneven texture and loss of collagen interfere with and impair the amount of light reflected.
La Prairie’s White Caviar Illuminating Pearl Infusion and White Caviar Crème Extraordinaire work in tandem, specifically targeting and eliminating grey, brown, yellow and red tones so that the skin can reflect clear, white light.
Each product has its own merits – the Illuminating Pearl Infusion with its exclusive Illuminating Compound and the Crème Extraordinaire featuring the patented Lumidose – but they also share Golden Caviar Extract, an ingredient that is enhanced with an exclusive Cellular Complex to rejuvenate cells with energy and firm skin so that it can better reflect light.
Any artist understands the importance of light and clarity, and while these products are surely a construct of science, their effects are pure art. Softer, silkier and more luminous, your skin will look like it’s lit from within.
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What to expect at the new SK-II Boutique Spa by Senze Salus
With their "We Love Your Skin" campaign, the spa brand will be offering treatments done with water purified in-house, and tea sommelier-curated sencha.
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What to expect at the new SK-II Boutique Spa by Senze Salus
With their "We Love Your Skin" campaign, the spa brand will be offering treatments done with water purified in-house, and tea sommelier-curated sencha.
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How Celebrity Dermatologist Dr. Vicki Belo Built Her Beauty Empire
"Belo means beautiful in Portuguese, it’s bella in Italian. I’m so convinced that I was born to be a doctor of beauty because my name is so perfect for it.” Celebrity cosmetic dermatologist and surgeon Dr. Vicki Belo is so renowned in the Philippines that she’s a household name. Her award-winning Belo Medical Group is the most respected in the country, but she commands a faithful following that spans Asia, the Middle East and beyond, and includes in its ranks such Hong Kong KOLs as Bryanboy and Tina Leung. The city’s wealthy socialites are said to flock to her in droves, though names are kept strictly under wraps.
“People say that I’m a branding expert because of Belo,” laughs the remarkably youthful-looking 63-year-old when we meet in her Makati clinic. “In the Philippines, Belo is already a verb -- people joke that if you have something wrong with you, you should ‘magpa Belo ka’, which means you should go to do a Belo.”
Today’s technological advancements have ushered in a new era of beauty treatments and cosmetic surgery. The popularity of anti-ageing skin treatments like Thermage and the Enerjet Kinetic Facelift offer a more natural youthful look with minimal invasiveness.
“People are liking really natural beauty,” says the doctor, and in terms of shifting trends and ideals, women are more into “a smaller face or a baby-face look."
“What’s come in big is definitely the Korean style of beauty. And more people are accepting their skin colour, not wanting to be so white any more but wanting skin just to be even.”
Her clients in the past few years have been getting younger, “I think because of digital media, which makes people more conscious of how they look.” And though beauty trends tend to unify more across cultures in the digital age, Belo tells us that despite the rising popularity of curves, most of her Hong Kong clients still worship a stick-thin ideal.
Not everyone will be receptive to the idea of cosmetic treatments and procedures. But if anyone is a bold advertisement for her company, it’s Belo herself. Dressed in a designer jacket and white cigarette pants, coiffed hair and heels, at first she seems more 40-year-old glam socialite than a skin doctor in her sixties with almost three decades of practice -- that is, until you get her talking about lasers, lipo and medical tech.
Despite now being a regular on TV and in Philippines society and gossip columns, Belo says that hers was definitely not always a life of glitz, glamour and galas.
“How did I get into this profession? My story began whenI was five years old,” she reveals. “I was adopted and here in the Philippines they kind of put this down, they would say, ‘You’re not a real child, you were adopted.’ I would hear that all the time being said behind my back.”
She would spend afternoons in tears because of bullying from classmates who said that she was given away “because she’s so fat ... because she’s so ugly”.
But part of her psychological make-up has always been seeing problems and trying to solve them. “In a way I’m grateful that I had so many problems because I’ve been able to solve so many. So my five-year-old mind thought, this is what happens when you’re fat and ugly -- people don’t love you and give you away. I figured that I’ll make everybody beautiful so that no one is given away,” Belo adds.
Weekly visits to the dermatologist started at 11 years old when she was ridden with acne: “Though I’d lost weight, I then had this super-bad skin and was so embarrassed going to parties.” A decision was made to become a dermatologist during those painful hours waiting in clinics as a pre-teen.
She studied medicine and dermatology at Thailand’s Institute of Dermatology in Bangkok, and then at Harvard under the tutorage of Dr. Jeffrey Klein, inventor of the tumescent liposuction method, a radical departure from traditional lipo.
When she started her practice in beauty-pageant-obsessed Philippines in 1990, she was an instant hit. Today, with 28 years of practice, she has outwitted local competition with her pioneering approach to medical beauty, expertise and national exclusives on new tech entering the market.
Of course, there’s also powerful branding and celebrity cachet. It would be remiss to not mention her 1.8 million Instagram followers (@victoria_belo). To put things into perspective, the world’s “most famous aesthetic doctor is probably the one who does the Kardashians -- he has over 2 million followers. That would be a dream for me,” she quips.
The Belo brand is so successful partly because it’s become about more than just cosmetic surgeries, botox, liposuction or the latest in anti-ageing tech -- it’s become a whole lifestyle in the Philippines. There are the celebrity endorsements, high-society friends, media appearances and even legendary themed parties for her staff; the day I leave Manila, she and her handsome 38-year-old husband Dr. Hayden Kho hired a helicopter to host a glamorous aviation-themed do, dressed in full regalia.
Then there’s also a new addition to the family -- three-year old daughter Scarlet, conceived via surrogate with Kho. Scarlet is arguably one of the most famous children in Asia, already a cover girl for local magazines, starring in TV campaigns and with 2.9 million followers on Instagram (@scarlettsnowbelo); she just launched her own prayer book for children. I find out that evening at the Belo household that Scarlet can already belt out more songs than most adults. As her parents and their friends dote on her, it seems that life is currently quite beautiful in the Belo household. But the doctor’s ambitions go far beyond her family, friends and beauty empire. She has grand ambitions of making her native Philippines a top destination for medical tourism.
“Thailand became the hub for this in Asia, but my dream is for the Philippines to take over.”
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Iportant Skincare Tips for Your Summer Vacation
At this time of the year, many people start booking their summer vacation, so they have something to look forward to over the coming months. Of course, there is a lot of planning that has to go into organizing your vacation, so the earlier you get started, the better. However, in addition to arranging things […]
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Awaka Ciera, An Exceptional Beauty & Celebrity Make-Up Artist
Makeup artist, Awaka Ciera, has captured the attention of publications around the world including Glamour Mexico, Vogue Italy and GQ Mexico amongst others. Ms. Ciera’s tireless work ethic assisting other lead artists on major productions including Coca Cola and Pink by Victoria’s Secret to Tommy Hilfiger, and Victoria Beckham has paid off, affording her the […]
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Valentine’s Day: Gift ideas for the well-groomed man
Bathroom essentials for the well-groomed man in your life.
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Valentine’s Day: Gift ideas for the well-groomed man
Bathroom essentials for the well-groomed man in your life.
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Beauty Tips for A Glowing Skin A Week Before The Wedding
Wedding bells are ringing! Who does not love some extra pampering? Everyone wants glowing skin before walking down the aisle, but how to achieve this? Planning the biggest day of your life can get a little stress, but this stress can affect your skin. Being nervous is okay. But since on the Wedding Day all […]
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