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Ready for New Year’s Eve? Perfect Pinky’s Top 3 Nail Services
When you meet someone for the first time, they look at your face first and then your hands. How do your fingernails look? There are so many options today to have beautiful, healthy looking nails. The first thing you have to choose is the look you are after. Do you want your nails to look clean and manicured or glamorous? Usually this depends on what you are doing and where you are going. It's almost New Year's eve. Are your nails ready? Here are Perfect Pinky's top 3 nail services:
What Foods are Best for Your Skin
Selenium is a mineral that is an antioxidant. It helps to protect the skin from sun damage and helps to delay aging by also protecting skin quality and elasticity. It can even help prevent some skin cancers. It is really important to get Selenium from food in your diet rather than supplements. Best Foods for Selenium are:
Does the Salon/Spa you Frequent Display a Health Certificate?
It is that time again that the Ministry of Health is doing their visits to all the beauty salons to do their inspections. These inspections ensure that the salon you are going to is following all of the ministry standards in regards to health and safety. Does the salon you are going to have a current health certificate visibly hanging up in the salon? All salons should be inspected. This includes businesses within businesses as well as home based salons. A Perfect Pinky was very pleased receive another A+ on our inspection!
3 Fall Trends in Manicures
Stay current in the chicest trends in manicured nails. From the red carpet to the runway there are so many choices for a most current look. New colours and techniques are here for the fall and winter. Here are 3 fall trends in manicures to explore.
3 Perfect Pinky Services that Include Massage – Massage Benefits
Massage is such a relaxing, beneficial part of many services that we provide here at A Perfect Pinky. We find that quite often the massage is our client's favourite part! It's a time to close your eyes and completely relax. Here are 3 services we provide that include a 10-20 minute massage as well as the massage benefits:
8 Benefits of Microdermabrasion
Microdermabrasion is a non-invasive form of exfoliation and mild skin resurfacing that removes the dead skin cells from the Statum Corneum, which is the outer layer of the skin. It is the statum coreum that is the layer of the skin affected by fine lines, wrinkles, tone, texture and blemishes.
Signs and Symptoms of Skin Cancer – Melanoma
The largest organ that our body has is our skin and yet people rarely take it seriously when it comes to treating it properly and taking care of it. Yes that is right, skin is an organ!! And one of the most serious diseases is skin cancer - melanoma. Unfortunately incidences of this disease are on the rise. Below are some of the signs and symptoms to watch out for.
6 Contributing Factors to Skin Damage
The pain of a sunburn usually worsens following exposure to the sun and will last up to two days.
Mild sunburns can have small blisters that are almost unnoticeable and can lead to the skin peeling after a few days. Sunburns can also lead to abdominal cramping, flu like symptoms, fever, chills and headaches.