Rock bathing uses Black Silica stones to heat up your body and detoxify and release negative ions .  The black silica rock comes from only one mountain (Hiyama) in Hokkaido, Japan.  The Iyashi bedrock spa is the perfect place to relax and unwind after a long week at work, to relieve stress and get rejuvenation.  The staff is very friendly and the facility is very clean,  the rock bathing helped my body temperature increase and left my skin feeling very smooth.  I would recommend rock bathing to those who work in an office environment like myself and suffer from stiff neck and aches and pains in the arms , athletes and busy professionals . If your still looking for a mother‘s day gift, they currently have a special:

-60 minute RMT massage + save 50% off rock bathing or hot yin yoga.

-Buy 1 10 session 60 minute rock bathing or yoga pack and get 5 sessions free

- 1st time customers: Buy 1 get 1 free (rock bathing or hot yoga single session).

The benefits of rock bathing are:

• Increases your body temperature
• Burns approximately 700 to 1,500 calories in a 60 minute treatment
• Increased circulation draws the skin’s own natural nutrients to the surface. It improves tone, elasticity, texture and fresh color of the skin.
• Provides pain relief , Sickness Prevention
• Strengthens the Immune and Cardiovascular Systems
• Click here to read more benefits of Rock Bathing 

The Iyashi Bedrock Spa is located:

2662 Yonge Street
Toronto, Ontario
M4P 2J5

Tel: 416.488.ROCK (7625)

Email: info@iyashibedrockspa.com

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Lead esthetician and co -owner of ARCONA Chanel Jenae shares her tips on preparing your skin for the summer months below.

Step 1: Cleanser

Switching from a creamy cleanser to one that’s more balancing can help to keep excess oil at bay during the heat and humidity of the summer months. Make sure the cleanser you choose leaves your skin feeling healthy and fresh, not tight or dry!

•Toner Tea Bar: Antioxidant facial cleanser heals and strengthens your skin as it tones and minimizes pores. Neutralize free radicals, calm and protect skin with antioxidant, anti-inflammatory green and black teas.

•White Tea Purifying Cleanser: Antioxidant facial cleanser purifies as it tones leaving skin pore less and refreshed. Neutralize free radicals, calm and protect skin with antioxidant rich white and green teas.

Step 2: Exfoliation

Regular exfoliation is a must to remove dead skin cells so that they do not dull the skin or clog pores. Choose a formula with Salicylic Acid if you’re oily or prone to breakouts, or a formula with Vitamin C to brighten and even out the complexion.

•Cranberry Gommage: Purifying exfoliant cleanses, tones, and decongests enlarged pores, leaving skin clearer, smoother and more refined. Unclog and minimize pores with cranberry and raspberry enzymes.

•Mandarin Brightening Peel: Synergistic exfoliant clarifies smoothes, and tones, reducing the amount of fine lines and wrinkles for a more youthful complexion. Brightens skin and improves uneven pigmentation and scarring with patented nonapeptide-1 and sepiwhite.

•Raspberry Clarifying Pads: Blemish-reducing toner clears, dissolves, and prevents skin impurities. Cleanse and reduce enlarged pores with naturally antiseptic witch hazel.

Step 3: Hydrator

A nourishing, but light-weight hydrator is a must for keeping skin healthy without clogging the pores or blocking the skin’s sebaceous glands.

•Magic White Ice: Hydrating gel moisturizes deep within the dermis to protect against environmental damage and leaves skin fresh and dewy. Moisturize skin with white cranberry complex, hyaluronic acid and mucopolysaccharides.

•Peptide Hydrating Complex: Daily hydrating complex protects and nourishes depleted and stressed skin with glycoaminoglycans enhancing firmness and moisture retention. Supports repair and deeply hydrates with beta fructan, lecithin, and beta glucosamine.

Step 4: Sun Protection

Now’s the time to beef it up! Choose a higher sunscreen with natural zinc and titanium dioxide and make it a part of your regular morning routine.

•Reozone 40: Full spectrum daily sunscreen helps protect skin from damaging UVA/UVB rays with 9% titanium dioxide and 6% zinc oxide. Soothe and restore skin with sodium hyaluronate.

•Sunsations Mineral Brush SPF 26: Breathable foundation with SPF 26 sun protection brushes on powder-light, yet it offers good coverage. Protect skin from sun damage and premature aging with titanium dioxide and zinc oxide plus antioxidant vitamins C and E.

•Reozone 30: Full spectrum water resistant sunscreen for all over body protection. Shield skin from damaging UVA/UVB rays with titanium and zinc oxide. Nourish and soothe skin with hyaluronic acid and green tea.

Step 5: Free Radical Protection

Keep skin glowing and bright and fend off additional free radical and sun damage with a high potency antioxidant formula that includes ingredients to even out skin tone.

•Youth Serum: Powerful anti-aging serum prevents photo-aging, fine lines and loss of elasticity and repairs sun-damaged skin, resulting in more luminous, firmer, younger-looking skin. Neutralize the damaging effects of UVA/UVB rays; stimulate collagen and elastin growth with Vitamin C-rich L-ascorbic acid and magnesium ascorbyl phosphate.

•Instant Magic Reversal Serum: An innovative omni-formula that both pampers and rejuvenates the skin with firming, brightening, hydrating and antioxidant complex. Osmoprotectants help keep cells plump, hydrated, in nutritive balance and structurally sound, for healthy, durable and youthful skin.

Step 6: Drink Water

Hydrating your body is important year round, but even more so during the hot summer months. Many people are dehydrated on a daily basis without even realizing it!

Step 7: Bronzer

A touch of bronzer will keep you looking radiant and glowing all summer long without the damaging effects of the sun. Make sure to hydrate for an even sunless tan all over!

•Bronzer-Self Tanner: Light, oil-free bronzer/self-tanner creates radiant, natural looking color without the sun. Enjoy natural looking results with effective, non-toxic DHA self-tanning ingredient. Hydrate and nourish skin with shea butter.

•Green Tea Lotion: Intensive nourishing moisturizer for hands and body. Paraguay tea infused with extracts of green tea, ivy, paraguay tea and mandarin leaves skin soft, smooth and revitalized.

http://www.arcona.com/

Daphne Guinness for MAC Cosmetics will be in stores on December 26 2011 and International on January 2012.  View the full price list for the collection over at the Style & Beauty Doctor.

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Check out Burberry artistic director Wendy Rowe as she demonstrates the Burberry natural nude look on Jourdan Dunn and Cara Delevingne.

Smoky jet black eyes, bleached eyebrows and nude lips for the Gucci Spring 2012 make up look by Pat McGrath and team.

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GET THE LOOK

 For Face:

To even complexion and create a natural base, Jo prepped Rashida’s skin with Maybelline New York Fit Me! Foundation in Honey Beige. On the apples of cheeks, she used Maybelline New York Fit Me! Blush in Medium Mauve, a dusty pink blush to complement the rosy color of Rashida’s gown. Next, Jo contoured and highlighted with a shimmery powder.

For Eyes:

Jo used Maybelline New York Eye Studio Lasting Drama Gel Eyeliner in Blackest Black to create a glamorous eye look. She dotted the liner between areas of Rashida’s top and bottom lashes.  Next, to create the illusions of denser lashes, she ran the liner along the top and bottom lashlines. To set the gel liner and line the entire inner rim of the eye, Jo used Maybelline New York Eye Studio Master Drama Cream Pencil in Coal Commander. She then applied a shimmery cream shadow to the inner corners of the eyes and as a highlight over the brow bone. She finished the dramatic eye look with several coats of Maybelline New York The Falsies by Volum’ Express Mascara in Blackest Black.

For Lips:

Jo added rich color and glamorous shine to the lips with Maybelline New York Color Sensational High Shine Lipcolor in Dazzling Plum – the perfect product to achieve Rashida’s deep vixen pout!

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Makeup Credit: Jo Strettell for Maybelline New York

Product Credit: Maybelline New York

Get Beyonce‘s glowing red carpet make up look below with products from NYX Cosmetics.  The reddish-orange Cape-Sleeve Dress by Lanvin is available at Neiman Marcus.

Face 

Step 1:

To obtain the perfect skin tone – in or out of the spotlight, apply a lightweight foundation all over the face.  NYX Cosmetics HD Studio Photogenic Foundation is the perfect foundation for anyone who will be filmed or photographed – whether on the red carpet, or for your Facebook profile picture.  The formula was created with camera flashes and lighting in mind – the ingredients are used by celebrity makeup artists to reduce glare caused by bright lights, making the skin appear dewy but not shiny. The HD Studio Photogenic Foundation is also infused with tri-peptides that promote collagen production, reduce the appearance of wrinkles and help rejuvenate skin.

NYX Cosmetics HD Studio Photogenic Foundation, $15, www.nyxcosmetics.com

 Step 2:

To recreate Beyoncé’s dewy bronzed cheeks, use the new NYX Cosmetics Rouge Cream Blush in Tickled. When applied to the apples of the cheeks, this light coral offers just enough pink to give the cheeks a nice blushed tint, while still keeping the look natural. Beyoncé’s dewy skin and rouge cream blush are on-trend this fall and will be seen on high fashion models during the upcoming Fashion Week.

NYX Cosmetics Rouge Cream Blush in Tickled, $6.50, www.nyxcosmetics.com

Step 3:

To set the blush on the cheeks, while maintaining a bronzed finish, apply a bronzer/blusher such as NYX Cosmetics Bronzer & Blusher Combo in Sunrise in Bali to ensure the blush is set in place and will last through a grueling onstage performance or a long night out.

NYX Cosmetics Bronzer & Blusher Combo in Sunrise in Bali, $9.50, www.nyxcosmetics.com (Available September 2011)

Eyes 

Step 1:

To get a mellow metallic smokey eye like Beyoncé’s, while staying as natural as possible, use a light grey shadow such as NYX Cosmetics Single Eyeshadow in Gunmetal. Lightly spread the shadow from the inner corner of the eye, towards the outer corner, with a slight “cat-eye” extension. To achieve the “cat-eye,” bring the shadow to apoint, at the outer edge of the eye, to create the illusion of longer, darker, lashes.

NYX Cosmetics Single Eyeshadow in Gunmetal, $5, www.nyxcosmetics.com

Step 2:

For a natural eye, Beyoncé used a charcoal eye liner to line her top lashes.  NYX Cosmetics Slide on Pencil in Gun Metal offers the perfect waterproof formula that doesn’t smear or smudge mid-performance, and provides extreme color. It’s like a liquid eye liner in a pencil without the mess.

NYX Cosmetics Slide on Pencil in Gun Metal, $8, www.nyxcosmetics.com

Step 3:

For long, thick lashes like Beyoncé’s, use a lengthening mascara like NYX Cosmetics Doll Eye Mascara in Long Lash – Black.  First, curl the lashes for 45 seconds with an eyelash curler. Next, apply three coats of mascara to the upper lashes and two coats to the lower lashes.

NYX Cosmetics Doll Eye Mascara in Long Lash – Black, $9, www.nyxcosmetics.com

Lips 

Step 1:

To show off your natural pout, while adding a hint of color and volume, use NYX Cosmetics Pump It Up Lip Plumper in Kim.  With one swipe of the Pump it Up Lip Pumper, your lips begin to tingle and the transformation from thin to full will occur instantly, making your lips as kissable as Beyoncé’s.

NYX Cosmetics Pump It Up Lip Plumper in Kim, $6, www.nyxcosmetics.com

NYX Cosmetics

Yasmin Ponnappa of Elite Models India gets different makeup and hair looks (Madame X, Ms Enigma, Ms Avant Garde, & Ms Elegant)  for Vogue India Beauty July 2011.  ”Polished make-up and perfect hair give these times looks a contemporary turn”.  Photography by Susanne Spiel and styling by Petals Deas.

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INSPIRATION: Hair looks sexy and chic, yet refined.

HOW TO GET THE LOOK: Renato began by applying the Fekkai COIFF Bouffant Lifting & Texturizing Spray Gel to wet hair before blowing it out so it was pin straight. He then applied the Fekkai Silky Straight Ironless Smooth Finish Serum to strands for polish and shine. Finally, Renato parted the hair on the side to create a more graphic and interesting style.

ALL PRODUCTS BY FEKKAI: Fekkai Coiff™ Bouffant Lifting & Texturizing Spray Gel ($24),  Fekkai Silky Straight Ironless Smooth Finish Serum ($24). Available at Fekkai.com, Nordstrom, Neiman Marcus, and Saks Fifth Avenue stores.

Image credit wireimage/ Mila is wearing Lanvin Resort 2012

Fatima Siad and others in “The Faces of Summer” by Saks Fifth Avenue.  Get three make up looks from different makeup brands.   Above get Fatima’s evening by Nars look ” A pop of blush or a slick of lipstick can instantly make you look fresher, brighter, awake and polished.”  Shop the look here.

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