With pedicure hygiene recently getting a whole lot more sophisticated, we jumped at the chance to introduce the new technology into our clinic! High hygiene practise is an integral part of our business operation, so making this technology available to our clients was a given!

Submerging your feet into luxuriously warm water, having a foot and lower leg massage with hydrating oils and lotions, and getting your nails clipped, buffed and painted sounds heavenly! However, this pampering treatment can in some cases, come with some nasty consequences! If your pedicurist neglects to follow high hygiene practises you could end up with foot diseases and infections!

Comfortel CleanSpa Pedicure Chairs have changed the way pedicurists think of ‘clean’ pedicures, and with the arrival of two of these state of the art chairs at our new premises at 50 Grey Street, you can be sure your tootsies are in good hands with us!

So what makes Comfortel CleanSpa Pedicure Chairs different from the rest?

MagnaCleanse Technology, the ‘true’ pipeless magnetic jet, combined with disposable CleanSpa Liners, provide the most hygienic pedicure treatment available!

Disposable CleanSpa Liners. Think Clean!
The new standard of disposable CleanSpa Liners revolutionises hygiene as a visible reminder of cleanliness. Gone is the long disinfection process, the liners are designed for single use, acting as a barrier between the tub and the water. They are easy to dispose of, and for our eco-conscious clients, they are recyclable!

MagnaCleanse Technology. The ‘true’ pipeless jet!
With hygiene in mind, Comfortel has re-thought the way ‘pipeless’ works. This process uses a magnetic jet that sits inside the disposable liner and creates a whirlpool jet. It does not touch the tub and is not connected to external pipes, meaning water does not leave the bowl, unless drained. Hygiene is improved, and cross contamination between clients is a thing of the past!

Further to the two hygiene improvements, our new pedicure chairs offer many features to ensure the most luxuriously relaxing pedicure experience, including wellness Chromotherapy LED Basins, Shiatsu multi-function massage, electric seat adjustment, adjustable leg support and a removeable neck pillow.

So, why have pedicures?

Since it’s winter you may be thinking “what’s the point in making your feet look pretty when no one’s going to see them?”. As feet are tucked away in socks, covered shoes and slippers during the cooler months, looking after our feet often becomes a redundant body care ritual. It’s easy to see why many people forget about taking care of their feet over winter, however, pedicures are not only for making your feet look lovely! There are many benefits to having pedicures all year round!

Reduce your chance of infections

Correct maintenance of your nails (cleaning, clipping and buffing) stops them from growing inward and causing infection. Removing dirt from under your nails, as well as dead skin cells from your feet, also help to reduce your chances of germs taking hold!

Skin health

Pedicures are a great way to identify early signs of corns, bunions and fungal infections. If problems are detected your pedicurist will be able to refer you to a doctor or podiatrist for treatment.

Improve circulation and reduce toxin build up

Massage is the most relaxing part of a pedicure and works wonders to stimulate blood and lymph flow. When lymph nodes in our legs get a build up of toxins they can swell and feel sore. Leg massage is an effective way to improve circulation and in turn help toxins drain more freely.

Soft, smooth skin

The warm foot soaks and massages with oils and lotions help nourish skin and locks in moisture so your feet are less likely to crack and blister, which if this happens, increases your chances of germs setting in and causing infections and fungal diseases. Keeping cuticles moisturised also promotes strong, healthy nail growth.

Dead skin cell removal

Exfoliation is often included in pedicure treatments, which is when dead skin cells are buffed away, reducing your chances of getting corns and bunions. When dead skin is removed, new cells (which create smoother skin) are also able to grow!

Reduce stress

Pedicures are a wonderful way to unwind and relax, and in turn relieving stress and anxiety.

With these factors in mind, winter pedicures are a lovely way to escape the cool weather and treat yourself to some well-deserved pampering.

To celebrate the arrival of our new Comfortel CleanSpa Pedicure Chairs we have launched a new Luxury Spa Pedicure! Pure Decadence for feet, this treatment is your complete foot facial! 45mins $85 / 1 hour $95.

We are also running a super special pedicure treatment for the month of August 2017! Enjoy our ‘Be Bubbly Luxury Spa Pedicure’ for just $55 instead of the usual $95!

‘Be Bubbly’ Pedicure includes:
Luxury Foot Soak while relaxing in our “state of the art” Massaging Pedicure Chair, followed by a full pedicure with
Pure Fiji products & Nail Polish Application.
Plus your very own mini nail polish to take home!

To book your Be Bubbly Luxury Spa Pedicure, phone us on 06 358 8745.

Following a recent client’s healing massage experience from one of our beauty and massage therapists, we wanted to share her story with you and to also let you in on some amazing facts about massage and why it’s so good for you!

One of our clients was recently overtaken by a heavy cold with all the usual unpleasant symptoms (congested sinuses, tickly, mucus cough, fluctuating temperature, fatigue). She was finding the cough, in particular, hard to shake, so Una (one of our master beauty/massage therapists) was called in to help!

Una got to work by first attending to the client’s pressure points on her feet – and much to the client’s surprise, she found it very tender in some of the spots Una was pressing. This was enough to give Una an indication as to what parts of the body the cold was affecting the client as well as the type, length and strength of massage the client needed. After Una had finished the massage, the client revealed “she instantly felt better”, and she “couldn’t believe how her cough practically stopped from then on”. “It was like something was blocked and Una was able to free up the congestion so it could drain away!”

We were over the moon that Una was able to use her skills and experience to help our client feel better!

So let’s start with pressure points…

In Chinese Medicine, feet have numerous pressure points that are believed to be powerful in regulating or maintaining good health. According to this practise, every part of the body is connected to one of the 15 pressure points on feet, and if these points are pressed correctly and for the right amount of time, cold and flu symptoms may be relieved.

When you mix pressure point work with massage, you get an amazing healing combination to improve overall health and wellness!

Now it’s time to find out about the many benefits of Massage and how it can help with winter ills?

Massage can help to stimulate lymph flow, which in turn enhances your immunity to allow your body to fight off, and keep out, bugs more easily!

Regular massage therapy has numerous benefits to help your body function more efficiently to fight off germs that often come about during winter.

Here are just some of the health enhancing benefits that may be gained from regular massage:

• Promotes efficient blood circulation and tissue regeneration,
• Helps to relieve stress, alleviate depression and anxiety,
• Releases endorphins—the body’s natural painkiller
• Improves flexibility and range of motion,
• Improves posture
• Reduces post-surgery adhesions and swelling
• Reduces muscle spasms and cramping
• Relieves migraine pain
• Relaxes and softens injured, tired muscles
• Assists with shorter, easier labor for expectant mothers
• Promotes deeper and easier breathing

It is also proven that stress ages us faster, and since massage helps manage stress, it’s a great excuse to treat yourself to massage! The physical and emotional benefits of even a single massage therapy session is amazing, however, by increasing your visits to make massage a part of your regular wellness plan will in turn help keep you healthy and youthful.

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We offer a range of massage options to relax, rejuvenate or recoup; from back, neck and shoulder massage to scalp massage, hot stone massage to pregnancy massage and more!

If you’re wanting advice on choosing the right massage for you to achieve the results you’re looking for, our team is professionally trained in advising and delivering the best suited massage for your requirements!

Bring on the magic of massage! Your body and health will thank you for it.

So the cooler mornings and dark evenings have set in….autumn is here and winter is looming…but it’s not all doom and gloom…this time of the year brings plenty of fun change to our lives! Not only do the trees glow beautiful golden hues, and we get to bring out our fab winter wardrobes with boots, stylish jackets and warm winter makeup colours, but we also get to revamp our skincare regime! Just like our clothes, we need to swap our skincare products to suit the season so we continue to radiate all year round!

Firstly let’s take a look at how this change of season effects our skin…

Cooler autumn and winter weather tends to be drier and have less humidity than summer. The drier the air the more moisture is sucked from our skin, which is why we often experience dry and flaky skin, as well as ezchema, in winter!

If you work in an environment with a blasting heating system all day, this again reduces humidity, resulting in dehydrated skin.

The cooler seasons can stop us feel as thirsty as in summer, which can result in a lower level of fluids being consumed! This is an obvious one as the less water we drink the more dehydrated we become. If a person is completely healthy and has no physical problems, Cialis 20 mg not cause any significant changes in diastolic and systolic pressure of the human body, if you compare it to a placebo in a lying and standing position. Also, there are no special changes regarding the patient’s heart rate. There is no change in the ability to recognize color differences. Visual acuity, state of pupils and eye pressure remain almost unchanged. Therefore, there is no cause for concern.

Lastly, although hotter showers and baths on chilly mornings and evenings make us feel warmer, and are a lovely way to relax, they can strip our skin of its natural oils, leaving it feeling tight and dry!

So how do we overcome these factors?

Richer, more nourishing skincare product alternatives are key to ensuring your skin is protected from drying out and staying hydrated! And we’re not just talking about your face…your whole body needs nourishing moisture during autumn and winter!

Pure Fiji is one of our miracle workers at not only defending your skin from the elements, but also feeding it the nutrients it needs to be healthy, for a softer, smoother complexion. If you have used this range before you will know exactly what we’re talking about! Check out all the goodness that is packed into this amazing, heavenly scented range…

‘Pure Fiji products are made up of exotic drift nut oils and powerful plant actives! Cold pressed coconut, dilo, macadamia and sikeci nuts revered for their medicinal and beautifying properties contribute pure, unadulterated nourishment, moisturisation, nutrition and protection. Sugar cane, pineapple, papaya, passionflower and green coconut are freshly harvested too and processed within hours to preserve their fresh bounty of naturally occurring nutrients. The blend of Deep-sea plants provide protection from the inevitable aging effects of the sun and the inimitable Ngi grass contribute to the formula for enhanced hydration and drastically improved moisturisation!’

From body sugar rubs to remove dry, rough skin, to deeply moisturising body oils and butters, our Pure Fiji range is most definitely a tried and trusted range for keeping your skin beautiful this winter. If you can’t make it into our salon, you can check our range out and purchase it online here… https://www.paniaryan.co.nz/pure-fiji-products/

As well as looking after our skin from the outside, we must also pay close attention to what we feed our skin from the inside! There’s nothing like tucking into healthy soups and herbal teas when it’s cold outside! Not only do they warm you up and their liquid content helps to keep you hydrated, they’re also a great way to give you vitamins, minerals and antioxidants that are essential for glowing skin! One of our favourite soup recipes right now is Bestow Beauty’s Roast Cauliflower Soup! It is packed with vitamin B5, which the Bestow team explains ‘is an important vitamin for collagen formation and necessary for your skin to have a healthy oil production’. Here’s the recipe…

Ingredients:

1 tbsp olive oil
1 onion, quartered
1 medium size cauliflower – florets
4 garlic cloves
, peeled
4-6 cups vegetable stock (low salt)
juice of 1 lemon
1 tsp cumin powder
1 tsp curry powder
1 tablespoon parsley, finely chopped
salt and pepper to taste

Method:

Preheat the oven to 180 degrees celsius. Shake the cauliflower florets, onion and garlic cloves in a plastic bag with the olive oil. Place all on a baking tray and roast for 30 minutes until the cauliflower is golden brown on the edges.

Remove from the oven, add to a food processor with all the other ingredients and process until smooth. Add more stock if you like a thinner soup.

Pour into a saucepan, heat for 10 minutes over a medium heat and serve.

If you would like advice on picking the best products to suit your skin this autumn and winter, please pop into our salon anytime and have a chat with one of our expert beauty therapists. We also offer a Specialised Skin Analysis & Diagnosis service using our OBSERV Diagnostic Device, which checks the health of your skin so we can prescribe the right treatments and products for optimum results. It is a perfect time to take a closer look at your skin, so if you’re interested in this service, find out more about the OBSERV here https://www.paniaryan.co.nz/specialised-skin-analysis-diagnosis/.

With the start of a new year we have put our thinking caps on about what we want to achieve this year and how we are going to further enhance our services to our clients to help them achieve great results! New Year’s resolutions often include something to do with our health – eat healthier, exercise more, get enough rest and so forth. So here is one of our missions that we are excited about for 2017 to help our clients achieve beautiful skin from within!

With the arrival of our edible cosmetic range, Bestow Beauty, last year we have learnt so much about nourishing our bodies with the right foods to achieve radiant, glowing skin and our overall health. Our bodies are exposed to many damaging effects from today’s environment and fast paced, technology filled lives, so now’s the perfect time to start protecting ourselves! It is evident what we put into our bodies effects our wellbeing, so we are so excited to have Bestow Beauty available to you. Here is a bit about Bestow Beauty and how this incredible range works to bestow beauty and health from within (the natural way!).

Around 10 years ago Bestow Beauty founder Janine Tait was alarmed by the amount of radiation we were suddenly exposed to from new technology, such as mobile phones, tablets and laptops. Knowing radiation increased the amount of free-radicals and how they eroded health and damaged skin by breaking down collagen and speeding up the ageing process, Janine got to work to come up with a way to tackle this problem head on. Discovering it was pretty impossible to escape these devices and their damaging free-radicals, Janine decided to instead protect her body by increasing her anti-oxidant levels. ‘Anti-oxidants are incredibly valuable compounds which neutralise free-radicals in the body’. This was the beginning of something truly amazing – and to cut a long story short, the creation of Bestow Beauty Powder and Bestow Be Cleansed, followed by Bestow Berry Beautiful! We are completely hooked on these delicious, beautifying blends of nutrient-rich plant powders. They are packed with antioxidants to bestow health and radiance to your skin. Full of minerals, vitamins and amino acids, they are beneficial for skin, body, hair and nails. The cool thing about these ultimate health boosting powders is you get to be creative with how you eat them – add them to your favourite smoothie (our Bestow Recipe books and Journals have amazing smoothie recipes!) or juice, yogurt or cereals. Our Bestow range doesn’t stop there too, Janine and her team have produced many more beautifying products including Beauty Oils, Capsules and Organic Teas. The Bestow Recipe books and journals are also packed with healthy, tasty recipes (all refined sugar free) and advice and tips on achieving health from within, using food. Check out one of the many Bestow Beauty smoothie recipes below and if you have a favourite smoothie recipe we would love you to share it with us!

We love Bestow Beauty and all that they stand for and we look forward to passing on to you the goodness this brand brings to our Clinic. To find out more about our Bestow Beauty range check out our online shop on our website, pop in and see us at 134 Fitzherbert Ave, Palmerston North, or phone us on 06 358 8745.

Bestow Beauty Smoothie:

1/2 quantity of filtered water or coconut water

1/2 quantity of apple or pineapple juice

1 banana

1 pear or apple – can be pealed if preferred (optional)

1 dsp of Bestow Beauty Oil

1 dsp of Bestow Beauty Powder

A handful of leafy greens (kales, silverbeet, spinach)

1 handful of frozen or fresh dark berries (optional)

Place all the ingredients in a blender to mix. Rotating your leafy greens each week will give you maximum health benefits.