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AS SEEN ON THE RUNWAY
Fresh Takes on Classics
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NAIL COLOR FOR 2009:
Oooh La La! See page 2
PACKAGE AND SAVE ON SPA SERVICES
See page 2
ENHANCING YOUR COMPLEXION:
Ten Lifestyle Choices for Glowing Skin
See page 3
CAN A MASSAGE MAKE YOU SORE?
See page 4
Welcome Back!
We’re all excited to have Laura back at Samsarah after her maternity leave. In addition to her mommy duties, Laura is seeing clients Mondays & Tuesdays from 3-8, and Wednesdays from 11:30-4:30.
Ella Nicole came 3 weeks early on October 13th. She was born very tiny at 4 pounds 12 ounces but is a very healthy little girl.
“I am loving my new role as a mother. I am also looking forward to reconnecting with my clients and taking care of them again.”
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N E W S L E T T E R • J A N U A R Y 2 0 0 9 |
  Out with the Old, In with the New!
It’s the New Year and everyone wants to put their best face forward and make a fresh start. It’s the perfect time to inventory your cosmetics to evaluate colors, formulas and freshness. It’s easy to become a pack rat with make-up and before we know it, some of it has been around well beyond its prime.
No matter how hygienic you attempt to be it’s very easy for contaminants and bacteria to find their way into your make-up products, especially eye make-up. What’s ok to keep and what should you toss? Here are some guidelines.
Foundations – Water-based foundations can be kept for 1 year; Oil-based have a longer life, generally 1 1/2 years.
Concealer – Toss after 1 year.
Face Powder – Can be kept up to 2 years.
Mascara – must be disposed of most often, every 3-4 months, regardless of whether or not the tube is empty. It is the cosmetic product most likely to harbor bacteria.
Eye liners – can be kept up
to 3 years. To maintain eye
pencils sharpen them every
week and spritz with
alcohol to keep bacteria
production down. If your
pencil crumbles as you
sharpen it, it’s time to
toss it.
Eye shadows – can be kept
for up to 3 years, however most get chalky and difficult to apply after 1 year.
Lip liners – follow guidelines for eye liners.
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Lipstick – is good for 1-2 years. Lipstick will develop an “off” smell when it has gone bad – if yours does, toss it!
Blush – can hold up for 1-2 years. Definitely toss out if a powder blush or bronzer breaks. Don’t try
to salvage the chunks. They’ll be difficult to blend and will give a caked on appearance.
Brushes should be shampooed monthly and sponges washed every week then thrown out every month or two.
If you can’t remember how long you’ve had a product, chances
are you’ve had it longer than is recommended. Give yourself a fresh start – it feels good and is good for you!
Happy 2009!
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Nail Color for 2009 …Ooh la la!
Nothing completes a look more beautifully than impeccably groomed nails sporting this season’s most significant colors. Nail polish colors are always inspired by fashion. This season’s colors are elegant, bold and suit women with strong fashion sense.
Popular colors for nail polish this winter...
Purples, Eggplant, Aubergine
Dark Reds, Burgundy, Bordeaux
Gray, Concrete, Steel
Browns, Chocolates, Espresso
This season, nail trends signal the return of strong sophistication. Healthy, round-shaped nails covered in darker nail polish are very IN.
A word of warning, however, to avoid looking like a punk, quite literally, be sure to keep nails short and beautifully groomed to ensure the overall effect is chic rather than shocking.
Come in and check out the OPI La Collection De France. It’s full of rich blends of chocolate, eggplant, and gray. The colors feel very elegant and modern.
 Rich jewel-tone hues on nails exude luxury – copper, wines and bright and deep reds will be also popular this season.
Right: OPI “Eiffel For This Color” is a sophisticated wine shimmer.
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Enhancing Your Complexion
Ten Lifestyle Choices for Glowing Skin
by Cathy Ulrich
The old saying “beauty is only skin deep” isn’t exactly true. Recent studies estimate that U.S. sales of anti-aging products are approaching $30 billion a year. While these products may play an important role in the fight against aging, lifestyle choices grounded in maintaining overall health are the best ways to achieve glowing skin.
Looking healthy is about being healthy – there’s just no getting around it. Following are 10 suggestions for a healthy body and, consequently, glowing skin.
1. Get Adequate Sleep
More than any other factor, lack of sleep shows in the face. The nightly sleep cycle is the time when our skin cells regenerate and our nervous system resets. With busy schedules and constant demands on time, getting the right amount of sleep takes discipline. Most people need about eight hours of sleep, so plan your evening activities such that you’re in bed at a reasonable hour. To get the best sleep possible, avoid caffeine after 2 p.m. and alcohol three hours before bed. Work to go to bed and wake up around the same time every night. Your body appreciates routine.
2. Avoid Cigarette Smoke
Smoking causes premature aging by robbing the cells of life-giving oxygen. Smoking triples the risk of squamous cell skin cancer, and being around smokers can produce the same effects. Also, the habitual act of drawing on a cigarette puckers the lips, producing wrinkles around the mouth. There’s no getting around it: Smoking hastens aging for the face and body.
3. Drink Tea
We’ve heard about the battle between bad free radicals, which damage cells, and good antioxidants, which neutralize them. Green tea has long been known as a potent source of antioxidants. While black tea also contains antioxidants, an even better choice is red tea or rooibos. A caffeine-free herb from South Africa, rooibos contains an even heftier dose of antioxidants than green tea. Red tea also |
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has been shown to balance blood-sugar levels and nourish the liver – both essential for healthy skin.
4. Drink Eight Glasses of Water Daily
The best way to moisturize skin is from the inside out. Our bodies are 70 percent water, and cells require water to function properly. Water is also essential for cells to absorb nutrients and eliminate waste, which could otherwise manifest as skin conditions, like acne and eczema. By drinking eight glasses of water a day, we give our skin what it needs to stay healthy.
5. Eat a Complexion Conscious Diet
Foods rich in beta-carotene – such as spinach, apricots, peaches, sweet potatoes, and carrots – provide the raw materials for the body to produce vitamin A, essential for cell growth. Citrus, tomatoes, and berries contain vitamin C needed for collagen production, and protein-rich foods such as lean red meat, chicken, and fish are also necessary for healthy collagen. Avocados, nuts, and whole grains contain high concentrations of vitamin E, which has been shown to protect the skin against pollutants.
6. Get Regular Exercise
Exercise promotes circulation as well as healthy perspiration. Skin cells need adequate circulation to reproduce, and perspiring helps the skin eliminate waste and flushes the skin and body of toxins. Of course, regular exercise is an important part of a general health routine, and our skin reaps the benefits. The American Heart Association recommends 30-60 minutes of moderate to vigorous exercise, such as brisk walking, swimming, or cycling several times a week.
7. Use Sunscreen Daily
You’ve heard it before, but it’s worth repeating: Sunscreen is vital. Harmful UVA and UVB rays from the sun cause premature aging and wrinkles and increase the risk of skin cancer.
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8. Consider Skin-Savvy Supplements
While it’s best to get nutrition from diet, supplements can be an important part of a healthy skin lifestyle. Vitamin E protects skin from air pollution, and vitamin C fights free radicals.
Most American diets are deficient in essential fatty acids (EFAs), which are the building blocks for cell walls. Supplementing your diet with 300-400 mg of GLAs (gamma linoleic acids) from borage oil and taking two tablespoons of flaxseed oil daily can give your skin what it needs to regenerate.
9. Get a Monthly Facial
Getting a monthly facial helps slow signs of aging, improves skin quality, and can help ease skin conditions, including acne. Facial deep cleansing aids the skin in its ability to eliminate toxins, exfoliation rids the face of dead skin cells, making room for new cells to grow, and facial massage stimulates circulation, easing puffiness.
10. Adopt a Daily Skin Care Regimen
Just from being out in the world, our skin picks up dirt, dust, and pollutants from the environment. Cleansing twice a day, moisturizing daily, and exfoliating three times a week keeps skin toxin-free and healthy. Your skin care specialist can  help you find the best products for your specific needs and teach you how to use them.
ANN Samsarah’s Aesthetician
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Can a Massage Make You Sore?
Shirley Vanderbilt
Budgeting time and money for massage at consistent intervals is an investment in your health.
You’ve just had a wonderful massage, and you go home feeling both relaxed and rejuvenated. But the next morning, you wake up with twinges of muscle soreness, maybe some fatigue, and you just don’t feel yourself. What happened? Chances are it’s the massage, and it’s perfectly OK.
Keith Grant, head of the Sports and Deep Tissue Massage Department at McKinnon Institute in Oakland, CA, says, “It’s very much like doing a workout. If the muscles aren’t used to it, they often respond with some soreness.” Grant notes this should last for no more than a day or two. Just as with exercise, when your body adjusts to having this type of workout, your physical response will also be less intense.
Your massage therapist can find all the kinks that have built up from daily stress and too little or too much exercise. The whole point of a therapeutic massage is to release that tension, work out the kinks, and help your body relax so it can function at an optimal level. All of this work stretches muscles, pushes blood into them, and gets things working again.
A Closer Look
There are several theories, in addition to muscle function, as to why people sometimes experience after-effects from massage.
Massage can stimulate the lymph system, which is comprised of several organs, hundreds of lymph nodes, and a multitude of vessels that run throughout the body. These lymphatic vessels carry a clear fluid, known as lymph, that circulates around the body’s tissues, absorbing fluid, waste products, dead cells, bacteria, viruses, fats, and proteins from the tissue. Massage can sometimes stimulate the lymph system, helping to eliminate toxins from the body. And if the body contains a high level of environmental or dietary toxins, you could feel some mild, flu-like symptoms. If this is the case, make sure to drink plenty of water and perhaps take a slow walk. Movement creates a greater
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lymphatic response and will hurry the process along. Another theory being closely examined by experts is neurological sensitivity, or “sensitization.” Massage provides a significant amount of input to the central nervous system and the body responds to that increased information. Pain and other occasional after-effects may be the result of a system that has received more information than it can handle at that particular time. Because the amount of sensory input we receive during any day or week is always fluctuating, sometimes we may be overloaded and other times not. It depends on the total stress (emotional, spiritual and physical) being experienced by the body at that moment.
Minimizing Overload
What can you do to minimize the sometimes uncomfortable side effects? It’s important to communicate with your massage therapist regarding your expectations, as well as your current state of health. Your therapist can then make adjustments in intensity or technique as the session proceeds. In some cases, a shorter or more soothing session may be more appropriate.
In addition to communicating clearly with your practitioner throughout the session, following a few simple steps will help ease tenderness and maximize benefits:
- Understand that every body reacts differently. Your body is an organism made up of complex systems that react to a constantly changing influx of external factors.
- Maintain good health practices. This means keeping your mind free of negative clutter.
- Drink plenty of water immediately following your treatment. Continue to do so for the next day or two. This will rehydrate your tissues and ease the effects.
- Take it easy after your massage. Go home, relax and just allow your body to find its balance naturally.
Getting a massage can do you a world of good. And getting massage frequently can do even more. This is the beauty of bodywork. Regularly scheduled self-care |
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Budgeting time and money
for massage at consistent
intervals is an investment
in your health.
can play a huge part in how healthy you’ll be and how youthful you’ll remain. Budgeting time and money for massage at consistent intervals is an investment in your health. And remember: just because massage feels like a pampering treat doesn’t mean it is any less therapeutic. Consider massage appointments a necessary piece of your health plan, and work with your practitioner to establish a treatment schedule that best meets your needs.
Like exercise, making bodywork a habitual practice is good for your health. And if you wake up the next morning a little sore, it’s probably because you had a really good massage.
 
KELLIE and ANN, Samsarah’s Massage Therapists |
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