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IZO CLEANZE you cleaned me up real good.

February 9, 2011

I DID it.

I mean, almost.  (It's only 3:42.  No, 3:43…and counting).

Day 3 of Izo Cleanze and let me tell you – I get it now, folks.

Cuz yesterday I didn't so much.   They say day 2 of a cleanse can be hardest and it was. My head was pounding on and off and not from being hungry, friends.  I was never hungry for a minute on the cleanse because there is simply SO MUCH to drink (in fact both days I couldn't even finish everything!)

It was the caffeine withdrawal that was sending me into a tizzy.  But when I woke up today, I was totally jazzed and ready to go.  I'm talking Freaky Super Energized.  I've only ever been that jazzed when I'm on my 2nd cup of coffee at 6:45 am.

On my first two days of the cleanse I just wanted to sleep and eat (and guess what,  I DID eat, some salads and raw foods)   And sleep I did.  And it was amazing.  I passed out at 8 and had the best sleep I've had in months.   Same with last night.

Today I've felt insanely awesome, not to mention acclimated to drinking all day.  I now get it when Tim, the creator of the cleanse, says that once you get over the initial hump, it becomes a breeze.

I made sure to get a seriously brilliant lymph drain with Lynn Banfi at Per Amore in Bevvy Hills.  She went over my entire body with her machines to help flush the toxins out, out, out of my bod.

Am I still looking forward to coffee first thing in the morning?

What do you think I'm crazy?  HELLS YAH!  Will I feel totally guilty about it , knowing that I am off the stuff and can do without it now?  YES!  But is a three day IZO CLEANZE every few months a great way to pay the caffeine and Splenda addiction piper?  I think it's a start!    Baby steps, peeps, baby steps.

Most importantly IZO stopped me in my tracks from picking up a filthy habit of bumming cigs from my neighbor.  Cleaned me out and made me feel like a total ass for putting that crap into my body in the first place.  THANK YOU!!

Izo Cleanse was the perfect kick in the ass to get me thinking and feeling like a healthy person.

Oh and my skin is mad-glowing for all the vitamins jam packed in the juices.  YAY!

www.izocleanze.com

 

** update….just broke the cleanse with coffee, splenda and sugar free vanilla syrup.  wanna puke.  feel totally sick. huge mistake.  why on earth didn't i just stay clean and pure?!!

Facial Crush!! Tina at BELLE VISAGE for the Dermafile and LamProbe in Studio City.

February 8, 2011

The other day I popped into Belle Visage Day/Medical Spa in Studio City for their new signature facial called the Dermafile facial.   No one else in LA is doing this treatment.

Belle Visage is co-owned by celeb facialist Tina Keshishian.  Tina's been Kirsten Dunst’s facialist since she was 12, and did such amazing work on her skin, that the actress’s mom, Inez, became Tina’s business partner.

Word.

The DERMAFILE FACIAL exfoliates the skin using a stainless steel hand piece with a crushed diamond Flat tip leaving skin looking and feeling smoother instantly.  Unlike Mircodermabrasion, this wider, flat head gets into every crack and wrinkle.  Sweet.

Tina is my new facial crush.  She's been doing skin since she was…16.  Yah.  A skin-o-phile.  My kind of lady.

This facial is awesome.  Tina's an extracting GODDESS.  She knows her shizzaz about all things skin.  Period.

And when she then went on to ZAP (called LamProbe) every pesky little red broken cappillary on my entire chest, neck and of course, face…well, I was in love.   This was truly a high point in my life.  I had no idea I could get rid of those freaky little red bubbles in less than, what, two minutes?  They have been multiplying like wild fire and totally freaking me out.  I still cannot believe they are gone!  Zapped into the ether, never to return!!  WTF?!

In case you are wondering if you have these, they look like this (click here!)

Deets on the DERMAFILE FACIAL $170

90 min

This facial includes

* Cleanse and Prep skin

* Dermafile face, neck, chest & shoulders.

* Steam and Extractions

* Massage face, neck & shoulders

* Hydrating or purifying mask

* Moisturizer and sunblock

And the LamProbe stats  ($170)

The LamProbe helps to remove those unsightly minor skin irregularities like whiteheads (milias), blackheads (comedones), fibromas(pigmented epidermal growths), broken capillariespimplesblood spots and skin tags that are prevalent on the neck and decollete area.  The LamProbe works on the principle of liquids being attracted to heat which is released by various probes.  Treatments are very quick (some within a few seconds), and may not even touch the skin’s surface. Small skin tags or blood spots disappear immediately and hyperpigmented areas such as liver or “age spots” take only a few seconds. There is minimal discomfort and healing time is short, from a day or two for skin tags to a few weeks for larger skin abnormalities such as fibromas.

 

               www.bellevisage.com <http://www.bellevisage.com>  

(and now for the INSERT CELEB CLIENT NAME DROPPIN HERE part)

Alanis Morissette, Jennifer Love Hewitt, Tajari P Henson(who gets Minx nails done at the Spa) and Faith Evans.

The spa also has a full menu of services, from of facials, massage, peels, manicures, pedicures, microdermabrasion, Laser Hair Removal, Botox, Dysport, Cosmelan, Restylane, IPL Photo Facial, Aluma, Radiesse, Mesotherapy, Sclerotherapy, Juvederm, Perlane and more.

AND OH, THIS IS COOL!

Belle Visage Medical Spa in LA is giving away a free service every month, and all you have to do to be automatically entered is to “Like” Belle Visage on facebook! Their facebook page is here:

http://www.facebook.com/#!/pages/Belle-Visage-Day-Spa/45949783526

 Prizes will include Tina’s Dermafile facial, Youthology facials, 90-minute hot stone massages, a skin-perfecting Papaya Enzyme Exfoliating Treatment, Manis/Pedis, body slimming/cellulite treatments, and much more.
 
And there’s more…if you print out your facebook page showing you “Like” Belle Visage and bring it to any appt, you’ll get 15% off all services! The spa has a full menu of services, including facials, massage, peels, manicures, pedicures, microdermabrasion, Laser Hair Removal, Botox, Dysport, Cosmelan, Restylane, IPL Photo Facial, Aluma, Radiesse, Mesotherapy, Sclerotherapy, Juvederm and Perlane.

Belle Visage Medical Corp.
13207 Ventura Boulevard
Studio City, CA 91604
Telephone: (818) 907-0502 

Send an email 

Hours of Operation:
Monday: 1pm – 7pm (Scheduling only)
Tuesday: 9am – 7pm

Wedneday: 9am – 8pm

Thursday: 9am – 7pm
Friday: 9am – 7pm
Saturday: 9am – 6pm
Sunday: 10am – 6pm

 

Toxic dump that is my body, watch out. IZO CLEANSE here I come!

February 5, 2011

 

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Lemonade cleanse?  Get real, peeps.

You know I don't mess around with any bull when it comes to…well, anything.

 

Mama needs to cleanse.  You know it's time to clean out when your not-yet 5 five year old thinks your favorite food is coffee and your brain is so fried from dumping crap into your body that your posts are filled with typos.

Prob is, pure and simple – I love to EAT.  I think I lasted two hours on that ridic maple syrup, lemon and cayenne pepper bulldinky once, ten years ago.  I'm also a grazer and need to be downing something at least every couple of hours.

In walks, no delivers (to my doorstep), the mother-lode of all cleanses.  The grand-puba.

That's right.  I'm going full tilt boogie starting Monday with the iZO CLEANZE.

Why?  Because it's not a juice fast, but a juice FEAST.  I'm going to be drinking these divine superfood custom formulated raw, vegan, organic juices every couple of hours. And I've been assured by the brilliantly educated on all things health/cleanse related Timothy Martin, who created this, that I will not be, my most hated word in the English language, hungry.

I've sampled them before and they are so insanely yummy, I'm really thinking I CAN DO THIS!!!  

I am dying of excitement.  I'm not sure if I'm gonna make 5 days, let alone 3, but I'm gonna go for it like nobody's bizzy. My body and brain so need a break from the crap (you so don't wanna know)  that I've been inhaling that it's literally crying out: GIMME A FRICKEN BREAK, YO!

Ok, ok, I hear ya!

Wish me luck. 

I'm going to be filling you in throughout the week. 

In the meantime, I challenge anyone to get going on this with me?!

If you want to, hit me up!!  Maybe I'll see if we can get you some kind of Groomed L.A. special!

Until I start on Monday, I'm eating nothing but icing, downing coffee, margaritas, popping Ativan and smoking my brains out.  

Kidding!  I've got 2 kids! (But it does sound disturbingly fun, doesn't it?)

 

iZO Juice Red - Our speciality sweet blend of delicious fruits and vegetables.

iZO Juice Green - A refreshing, sugar-free blend of greens.

iZO Juice SuperGreen - A Master blend of algae, seaweed, and botanicals mixed in iZO Juice Green.

iZO Pro Almond Milk - Scrumptious almond milk with a protein and kidney cleansing superfood added.

iZO Lemonade - Tasty, sugar-free blend of the Master Cleanse lemonade.

iZO Tea: Purify - Powerful Taoist tea for cleansing the blood, liver, and lymph.

iZO Tea: Replenish - Kidney-rejuvenating, anti-aging herbal tea.

iZO Tea: Activate - Spleen-activating, chi-circulating tea.

iZO Tea: Elevate - Reishi mushroom-based Chakra-cleansing tea.

iZO Liver Detox - Powerful blend of liver cleansing antioxidants.

iZO LAX - Gentle, non-habit forming herbal laxative.

iZO Detoxo - Special formulation of fermented Chlorella for heavy metal cleansing. Available only with the Heavy Metal add-on.

iZO Sponge - Designed to draw-in and absorb poisons from the bowel. Available only with the Heavy Metal add-on.

iZO Juice SuperRoot - Deeply nutritive and grounding blend of roots, seeds, herbs, and probiotics mixed in our refreshing green juice.Available only with the Sugarfree and Superfood Plus add-on.

iZO Juice SuperFruit - Potent combination of nature's most nutritive fruits blended in our tasty red juice. Available only with the Superfood Plus add-on.

iZO Parasite Purge - Potent parasite cleansing formula.Available only with the Parasite Purge add-on.

 

 

 

 

 

KELLY MATTSON FOR WISPY, NATURAL, PRETTIEST LASH EXTENSIONS EVER

January 24, 2011

It’s no secret that I’m a lash extension junkie in the real sense of the word. And like junkies of another kind, I share many of the tell tale traits of an addict…it’s been a secret habit I simply can’t quit, it’s cost me thousands of dollars that I don’t have over the years and I’m always on the hunt for a better hit.

Which has brought me to the fabulous KELLY MATTSON

Kelly’s cut her teeth at some of the top lash bars in town before launching her own site and totally mobile service.

She hooked me up on a Friday night in my home with one of the bests sets I’ve ever had.  Unlike many of the lash experts out there, Kelly’s preferred look is uber-natural, wispy, thin and most of all not tacky, attention grabbing and over the top.   

She uses super thin mink, varying the lengths for a look that doesn't scream - I'm wearing fake lashes!   I didn’t want that thick lash and va-va-voom curl where my lashes are touching my brows and fan out like Bambi. Or a drag queen.  Unless it’s for a special occasion, on me that just looks…stupid.  Not to mention, the heavy, thick lashes weigh on my eyes, itch, make me blinky and start to twist and curl after a week.  

Of course Kelly can rock any look, and often that's exactly what most people want, thick, ultra-heavy and sexy.  But if you're like me, and looking for the ultimate beyond natural, not over the top look Kelly is the perfect aesthetician for you.  My new set is the lightest wispy-est that I've had in years.  I'm in LOVE!

She also does permanent make-up (yup, tattoo eyeliner, brows, etc) and will give you a little brow or lip wax while she's there.  She'll even throw on a collagen mask while she's making you lashy.

Mink set starts at $350.  Touch ups in your home $150.

KELLY MATTSON

310.990.8128

KELLY LOGO

I heart a Valentines Day spa special for two…Spa Luce in Hollywood

January 10, 2011

Spaluce SL2

Urban Oasis.

 You've heard of a bicycle built for two.

Why not a hydrotherapy tub built for two?

Spa Luce's Valentine's Day Couples Massage starts with a soak here.  It then incorporates a healing blend of mineral salts into a seductively, relaxing side by side massage, using aromatherapy infused massage oils to soothe senses and souls. Complimentary bottle of Champagne and chocolate covered strawberries included. 110 minutes – $370.

Hello luvah!

1755 North Highland Avenue
Los Angeles, CA 90028-4403
(323) 491-1376