Feet ready for Valentine’s Day!

Feet feel dryer in the winter time due to the heating in the house and also because our cold seasons are generally less humid.

To help alleviate this problem try to cream your feet every night with Gehwol Med - which is a thick, very nourishing cream that repairs dry, cracked skin - or use Gehwol Blue for a lighter, yet effective, solution for your feet.

If you are used to getting pedicures every three weeks during the summer time, try to keep up the same pace, or change it to not more than every four weeks in winter. During the periods when you wear no polish it is a good idea to apply Nail Care from Gehwol to restore the natural beauty of your toe nail. If you can resist for one month without nail polish, do it, but not now, for Valentine’s!

With the "celebration of love" fast approaching, it is a good time to get a pedicure with exfoliation and paraffin treatment for extra softness, since feet could be very sexy… Bring your partner for a pedicure too!

Don’t forget to try the new spring shades of OPI!

Happy Valentine’s Day!

Beautiful hands!

During the winter season, in any frigid climate, our delicate hands suffer even if they are only exposed for a minute or so... Keeping them moisturized and healthy is a concern for many of us, not mentioning the condition of our cuticles and nails.

From my experience, what works for me the best is applying hand cream very often. That means having a cream handy everywhere I turn: in the kitchen, in the powder room, in my bathroom, on every desk I work at, in my purse and even in my car (just in case I miss all the other opportunities to cream my hands). Same with cuticle oil, try having one small bottle in your purse and condition your cuticles after each hand wash (even in the restaurant, like my good friend Joyce does).

When you get your manicure, ask for a paraffin treatment. It only takes a few more minutes and a few extra dollars, but trust me, it is worth it...

Try all these tips diligently for one week to start, and let me know how your hands feel! I bet they’ll be pleased! After all, our hands are like business cards, aren’t they? They help us communicate an image. So treat them with the care and respect they deserve…

Weather is changing...so does our skin! What should we do?

During transitory periods in weather conditions we also have to deal with the changes in our skin. Exposed alternatively to the outside cold and the inside heat, our skin may become a little confused... the capillaries - which are the tiny blood vessels close to the surface - are frequently either dilating (becoming larger when blood rushes in) or contracting (when they become smaller because of the cold). Very often we find ourselves with bright red faces, which is cute when you are about seven years old, but ... now, it can damage our skin greatly, if we don’t do something to prevent it.

Firstly, when you get a facial treatment for hydration and desensitization, you should try specialized massage for red, inflamed skin. Great solutions for such skin conditions are the pressure point massage and the manual lymphatic drainage massage.

In the pressure point treatment the aesthetician applies finger pressure to specific points along oriental meridians. Each point is held for at least three seconds. The pressure point massage helps improve circulation, balance the skin and reduce stress.

The manual lymphatic massage is used to treat puffy eyes, acne, rosacea and skin irritations. It is excellent, as well, in pre and post cosmetic surgery, because it aids in the healing process.

Secondly, it is important that these massages incorporate the use of specialized products like: INTRAL SERUM (pressure point massage), CAMOMILE or ROSE AROMATIC OIL (for the lymphatic drainage massage) and INTRAL CREAM and INTRAL BALM as a finishing treatment cream, at the end of the facial. All these products contain soothing active ingredients and are great for redness and also help strengthen the walls of capillaries.

Ask your aesthetician for the best soothed treatment for you and the most effective homecare regime!