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Touch-up-free beauty Dubai UAE

from Life & Style | Beauty & Fashion – Gulfnews.com
Here’s how to let your hair down during the summer holidays with minimal visits to the salon

• By Natalie Long Editor, tabloid! on Saturday
• Published: 00:00 May 28, 2011

Vacations are all about taking time off — from work, chores, commuting — and I plan to take time off from my beauty routine this summer, too. I want to be as far away from my hairdryer as I am from the photocopier this July; I want to pick up my eyebrow pencil and tweezers as little as I want to reach for the red proofing pen, and I certainly don’t want to spend lazy sunny afternoons at the nail salon.

Yet fear not, my highly groomed readers: I’m not resigning myself to a series of frizzy-haired summer snaps on Facebook. I’ve found three ways to cut your beauty routine to zero time—with a 100% pay-off. Read on.

Hair: Brazilian Blowout

Much has been said about the life-changing qualities of keratin treatments, and it’s all true. If you’re looking for manageability, less frizz and the ability to wash and go, the treatment is your key to easy summer hair. My fellow frizzies, picture this: You spend the day at the pool or beach and don’t emerge looking like Medusa once your hair dries on the beach. You head to the hotel, wash out the salt, and five minutes later, your hair is dry, straight (but not flat), shiny and super soft — no straighteners required. I am evangelical about it.

Brazilian Blowout treatment

This summer, it gets even better with the Brazilian Blowout treatment, which gets rid of the pesky 72-hour downtime that used to be the issue with keratin treatments: the product is applied, your hair is straightened — and then washed right away, meaning you can swim, put it behind your ears or even in a ponytail right away (although that would be a waste of great hair). The treatment is available at Ideal Image Salon and takes about two hours for medium-length hair. It lasts at least three months before a re-application is required and wears out, leaving your hair, if anything like mine, back in its depressing natural state but not damaged.

Top tip:

If you’re thinking of colouring your hair, do it before the treatment — otherwise, you have to wait two weeks after the straightening.

– From Dh1,500, Ideal Image Salon, Al Bustan Rotana. Call 04-2828774.

Nails: CND Shellac

It’s not new on the market, but this nail-treatment-sceptic just tried it, and I’ve decided it’s my summertime saviour. While I can generally make my bog-standard nail polish last fairly well on holiday — less typing means much less damage to my manicure — it’s liberating when you know there won’t be any chips for two weeks.

Shellac goes on

Shellac goes on like a nail polish — basecoat, two layers of colour and a topcoat — but instead of drying time, there’s curing time under a UV lightbox, which means they are instantly dry and pretty solid. Because it’s a polish, it stays thin and looks far more natural than other gel nails, although if you’re looking for length and sculpting, you won’t get it here. The polish soaks off with acetone in about ten minutes. The only caveat is that the colour range isn’t huge, although they had a pretty pink coral that I loved. French is also available.

Top tip:

The jury is still out on whether the UV light used to set gel nails and polishes can cause skin cancer (you’ll spend about 2 minutes 20 seconds per hand under it), but some precautionary pre-mani sunblock wouldn’t be a bad idea.

– Manicure, Dh140 (French, Dh150); pedicure, Dh160 (French, Dh170). Removal costs Dh30. At NStyle salons around the UAE.

Eyebrows: Dynamic Brows

This is for the light-haired and lacking brow among us — or anyone looking for serious, long-lasting eyebrow shaping. I’ve always thought that the makeup war is half-won once the brow battle is over. With neat, shapely and, for me, visible eyebrows (I only wish my hair was as pale blonde as my eyebrows), foundation, blush, mascara and gloss are all you need to add for an easy summer face. I tried Dynamic Brows, a new treatment that shapes and colours brows and lasts around four weeks. I’m three weeks in, and it’s still looking good (if I say so myself).

Firstly, choose your shape

Firstly, choose your shape — something salon pluckers don’t always give you the chance to do. Pick from stencils modelled after your favourite celebrity (mine belong to Uma Thurman) although the therapist should also advise you on what will work for your face. The stencil is outlined with eye pencil (hurrah! They match), and then the skin and hair are tinted within the boundaries with the appropriate dye. The last step is waxing away the hair outside the stencil and plucking if needed.

Top tip:

The tinting and waxing mean that you may have very dark brows and redness for about six hours after the procedure. The brow darkness may last at least a couple of days, so there’s a little downtime. We recommend scheduling a How I Met Your Mother marathon the same evening.

– Dh250, at Dubai Ladies Club and Sisters Beauty Lounge, Dubai Mall.

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