What Causes Hair Loss In Women?

It could be due to such factors as childbirth, menopause and other hormonal changes, illness, a poor diet and stress.

Any Solution? Are They Safe?

Not all women respond positively to over-the-counter hair-loss treatments or prescribed oral medication. In fact, some topical lotions may cause more hair loss as they sting or burn the scalp, resulting in itchiness and sensitized skin.

Some professional hair care salon is a clinically-proven solution that’s been documented in over 20~30 years of clinical studies to prevent hair loss and promote hair re-growth.

What Is Laser Hair Therapy?

Each half-hour session starts by placing a rotating hood on the scalp area. This stimulates the follicles while reducing the distance between the scalp and the 3o individual lasers, which operate at 67o nanometers, the optimal range for penetration to stimulate dormant hair follicles into re-growth and increase blood flow to scalp cells.

A twice-weekly treatment is recommended for the first three months, followed by a once-a-week session over the next three months.

How Effective Is It?

This FDA-approved treatment has shown visible improvement in about 85 per cent of users, who see healthier, thicker and fuller-looking hair within 15~18 weeks. This treatment is painless, safe and has no side effects.

ORIGINS MAKE A DIFFERENCE SKIN REJUVENATING SHEET MASK

Rose of Jericho and other ingredients hydrate and deeply nourish to heal UV and environmental damage. Your skin will appear younger, with less lines and skin discoloration.

SK-II FACIAL TREATMENT MASK

Infused with SK-Il Pitera, which increases the skin’s metabolism and rate of renewal, for crystal clear skin. It also hydrates skin, so fine lines and flakiness are kept at bay.

THE FACE SHOP VITA-B MASK SHEET

Contains cucumber and broccoli extracts, plus vitamin B to moisturize, brighten skin tone and help fight acne. Gives stressed skin an energy boost as well.

OLAY TOTAL EFFECTS 7-1N-1 ANTI-AGING FACIAL STRETCH MASK

Effectively reduces the signs of aging so skin looks more radiant. Stretch technology ensures the mask fits the contours of your face.

Contains Gamma PGA, said to have 10 times the hydrating power of hyaluronic acid, the mask reduces fine lines and enhances skin’s natural moisturizing ability, leaving skin elastic
and radiant.
FANCL AQUA REPAIRING MASK

Smooths fine lines with ingredients like raffinose and hyaluronic acid that boost skin’s moisture levels and strengthen its barrier function. Leaves skin smooth and plump.

THE FACE SHOP VITA-E MASK SHEET

Contains of milk, eggs and vitamin E to nourish and moisturize skin, fight free radicals and protect skin against sun damage.

Laneige Star White Intensive Eye Mask

Fancl Under Eye Mask

Instantly hydrates and soothes, reduces puffiness and dark circles, and minimizes the appearance of fine lines and wrinkles

ZA Dark Circles Gone Eye Mask
Its radiant complex allows moisture to penetrate deeply while its concentrated whitening essence improves blood circulation and reduces dark circles.

Estee Lauder Stress Relief Eye Mask

Botanical extracts give the delicate eye area a revitalizing pick-me-up, to soothe, refresh, relax and hydrate all at once. Reduces puffiness and fine lines, too.

Shiseido Benefiance Eye Treatment Mask

The cooling gel mask has ginseng to energies, and Bio-Hyaluronic Acid to hydrate and moisturize. The eye area looks lifted, smoother and revitalized.

Skinvitals Eyelift

To lift and reduce fine lines and wrinkles around the eye area, this contains the powerful antioxidant co-enzyme Q10 and soya protein which nourish and regenerate skin.

RED Earth Makeup

Red Earth has captured the hearts’ of makeup lovers, celebrities and top beauty editors from around the globe. Famed for its ‘Premium Beauty Made Easy’ philosophy, beauty is made accessible to everyone. Red Earth offers a distinct and unrivalled combination of professional, premium and stylish products. They are simple to use and feature individual problem solving solutions.

Suisse Programme Skincare.

Dedicated to provide the best skincare products with the most advance technology, Suisse Programme successfully developed a real innovation – the exclusive Biodynamic Cellular Complex (BCC) which increases skin regeneration processes, improves skin vitality, restores skin radiance and reinforces the natural moisturizing action.

BRAUN SILK.EPIL XPRESSIVE 5375Z

Design

Its slightly curvy shape made it the most ergonomic. A bit heavy, but the weight and tiltable epilating head pressed close to the skin for a good shave. Epilates at two speeds, with a bright red light illuminating the skin. Two smaller lights indicate when it’s fully charged.

Function

It comes with an epilating head with three caps — beginner, efficiency (for high speed) and massage (for less pain) — and a shaving head with a trim and shave option. There’s also a cleaning brush, 10 pre-epilating wipes and a pouch. Use it cordless or corded. An hour’s charge gives you 40 minutes of use.

Performance

We liked the choice of heads: the efficiency head removed even fine hair thoroughly while the massage head removed hair almost painlessly. Skin felt smooth and soothed after.

Verdict

Caters to everyone, even beginners.

BREAKFAST

Yogurt with cereal or whole-meal toast with peanut butter and banana, with honey drizzled on top Indulges in sausages, eggs and baked beans with Pierre once a week

LUNCH

Savoury oats with vegetables, mushrooms and minced pork or chicken

DINNER

Steamed cod with fresh ginger, chili and spring onion.

Steamed green vegetables seasoned with a dash of oyster/scallop sauce and topped with browned shallots.

Mixes brown rice with white rice.

Indulges in Pierre’s favorite beer battered fish and chips once every two to three months

Step 1 : Water For Tea

Bottled spring water that’s low in calcium. Calcium and chlorine in tap water affect
the natural taste of tea.

Step 2: Water Temperature

Avoid using boiling water — it damages the leaves, affects its aroma and flavor, and reduces the nutrients. The recommended water temperatures for black and oolong tea are 90 to 95 degrees C; for green, yellow and white tea, it is below 70 Celsius.

Step 3: Pre-Brew

Insert a tea strainer into the teapot and rinse with boiling water. Place a teaspoon of tea per cup into the warmed strainer. Let it stand for a few minutes to let the steam develop the leaves’ aroma. Pour in the hot water to start brewing.

Step 4: First Brew

Chinese tea drinkers discard the first infusion of oolong and black tea, which is meant to rinse the tea leaves. But for delicate teas like green and white, the first brew is drunk for its high antioxidant level.

Step 5: Infusing Tea Leaves

Each type of tea has a specific steeping time to bring out the best flavor and taste.
Black tea — two to three minutes

Oolong tea — three to four minutes.
Green tea — two to five minutes
Yellow tea — three to five minutes
White tea — five to 15 minutes

Step 6: How To Chose Tea?

Whole leaf teas are the most prized. Look for shiny, fresh and fragrant leaves.

Way 11: Aromatherapy

Essential oils affect hormone secretion and your thoughts. For inner calm, choose chamomile, pine, lavender or marjoram.

Way 12 : Green Day

Exposing yourself to a natural environment is perfect for inducing calm. No time to get out of the city? Then potter around in the garden. No garden? Then tend to your houseplants. It’s the interaction with nature that is the key.

Way 13 : Chinese Qi Gong

Related to tai chi, qi gong (“energy breathing”) is an ancient Chinese exercise, combining rhythmic breathing with gentle movements, mental focus and inner stillness. Very little physical activity is involved-meaning you need little space, time or strength to reap the benefits.

Way 14 : Tea Break

Shun the stimulus of high doses of caffeine and try a chamomile flower brew instead, believed by many herbalists to help generate inner calm.

Way 15 : Live For The Moment

Living in the present brings inner calm because it stops you from dwelling on past negatives and fearing the future. A good way of waking yourself up to the present is to change your routines. Take a different route to work so that you’ll pay attention to what’s going on

Skincare.

Methode SWISS creates lines of products with the most advanced skincare technologies of Switzerland, the highest quality natural ingredients and scientific principles. Its various skincare lines offer comprehensive care for your skin, illustrating the pure, simple but effective skincare magic of Switzerland.

MaxiSlim Solution Fully Body Session and one 200 ml Bio-Active Body Firming Cream

BodyPerfect can help you transform yourself with tailored programmes based on your unique needs and lifestyle. To complement its slimming programmes, BodyPerfect’s Bio-Active Body Firming Cream has been specially formulated to help maximize results. Available in pharmacy and departmental store.

Way 6: Let There Be Light

Daylight regulates our bio-rhythm, and is responsible for our psychological equilibrium. If you spend all day in an office and finish late, you could be denying yourself calming, healing light. Get out at lunchtime, and take long walks on weekends to increase your light quota.

Way 7: Balancing Your Brain

Developing your intuition helps you achieve inner harmony by balancing the right and left sides of your brain, using it productively is essential in keeping you rooted and bringing you a sense of calm.

Make creative ideas work, follows your hunches, and actively use visualization and meditation methods —these will all help you connect with your intuitive source.

Way 8 : Herbal Tonics

Look for calming herbal formulas which contain skullcap and passionflower compounds in tincture form, which you can drink. For long-term calm, use herbal tonics with essential oils.

Way 9: Animal

Studies have suggested that over 90 per cent of cat owners find their pet a vital aid to relaxation, while interaction with a dog is known to induce a deep state of calm by slowing heart rate and lowering your blood pressure.

Way 10 : Transcendental

Practiced by five million people worldwide, the easy­-to-master technique of transcendental meditation is renowned for its inner-balancing capabilities. It calms the body, can be learned in days, and removes all stress — replacing it with clarity and a sense of perspective.

Way 1 : Expand Your Vision

Find a point opposite you, just above eye-level, and keeping your eyes on that point, begin to slowly broaden your field of vision to notice more of what’s on either side of that point, so that, eventually, you’re paying attention to what’s visible in the corners of your eyes.

You should begin to feel your breathing moving lower in your chest, slowing down, becoming deeper. You’ll also feel your facial muscles relaxing. This “peripheral vision” technique activates a part of the nervous system that restores inner calm.

Way 2: Healthy Meal

Complex carbohydrates — whole-wheat, cereals and rye — produce serotonin in the body, which has a effect on the brain’s chemistry. Vitamin B6 is also essential in serotonin production, so eat B6-rich foods — bananas, raisins and sweet potatoes — regularly to give your body the necessary fuel to help soothe you the nutritional way.

Way 3 : Music

Never underestimate the magic of music. “Classical music is extremely calming, Baroque classical is particularly effective — it’s very powerful and has been shown to lower the incidence of road rage in drivers.

Way 4 : Take a Short Rest / Nap

Suggest you taking regular “time-outs” when you feel overwhelmed. An easy way is to just shut your eyes. Then, allow your eyes to drift upwards and imagine you’re viewing the sky through your closed eyes. The technique mimics eye behavior when you sleep and tricks the mind into inducing calm.

Way 5 : Off Your 21^st Century Life

Switch off your mobile. Don’t read e-mail. Ignore text messages. Do this regularly to restore equilibrium. New technologies were supposed to help us but, instead, they’ve overloaded us indiscriminately. The mobile and internet revolution makes people constantly accessible, leaving them no ‘down-time’ to relax, reflect and be calm. It’s crazy—and unhealthy.

Black Tea

Assam, Earl Grey and western style breakfast – most of the teas that we drink in cafes are single estate or blends of black tea. Infused to a clear shade of dark red, most black teas are hearty and boast the strongest flavors among all tea. As it’s fully oxidized, it can retain its flavor for several years. It also has the highest caffeine level at about 3%. The best black teas are the young shoots of each branch, with silver or golden tips.

Green Tea

Popular for antioxidant properties, the taste ranges from refreshing and mild, to grassy and full-bodies. The golden yellow brew is the most natural tea – freshly plucked leaves are dried and packed without being oxidized; it retains its green color as chlorophyll is not broken down.

It should be consumed within six months as it loses its flavor quickly. Japanese green tea is pan- or even dried. Well know ones include Sencha and Matcha from Japan, and Long Jing from China. Steep green tea uncovered as high temperature destroys the nutrients.

White Tea

More delicate than other teas in taste and aroma, white tea has a natural sweetness. Uncommon and expensive, it lightly fermented buds and leaves produce a light golden color and mildly sweet aroma and flavor when brewed. Like Green Tea, it’s not oxidized and retains much of its antioxidants. The tea leaves are streamed or fired after being air dried. The BaiHao YinZhen and white Peony are two more well known white tea varieties.

What should I do??? Most people facing the same problem with: Whenever they sit down, their stomach spills over my pants, skirt or jeans. How can they get rid of this roll of fat?

Eating a balanced diet and cutting down on your intake of carbohydrates will help reduce overall body fat. Regular exercise will also help increase energy expenditure and tone abdominal muscles.

Fat that doesn’t budge with diet and exercise can be treated with Slim Laser Body Contouring, which is suitable for areas like the abdomen, love-handles, thighs, arms and back. It is a minimally invasive procedure with minimum downtime. It uses a powerful io-watt Nd:YAG laser to melt and destroy fat cells before they are removed from the body.

But most people also worry about the painful while process?

The entire treatment is performed under skin anesthesia, but if you are concerned about pain, a mild sedative can be administered. Although pain thresholds differ in individuals, most women report minimal discomfort.

Will I have to take time off from work after the procedure?

The entire treatment is done in one session of a few hours, and you’ll be able to return home on the same day. Most people return to work in a day or two.

What kind of results can you expect?

As with any treatment, results vary between individuals, although most people notice a noticeable reduction in the treated area immediately after the treatment.