Beauty Salon

Socialite Helen Ma opens new beauty salon in Causeway Bay

11 Oct 2012

Heavily pregnant Helen Ma still knows how to have a good time, as she showed when she opened her EviDenS de Beauté salon in Cubus, Causeway Bay.

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Hong Kong urged to clamp down on beauty salon medical therapies

9 Oct 2012

Pressure is mounting on the government to close regulatory loopholes that allow beauty salons to provide risky medical therapies without the supervision of health authorities. This comes after...

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Beauty clinics boss says there is no evidence transfusion treatment works

7 Oct 2012

As three women lay critically ill after paying HK$50,000 for "anti-cancer" blood transfusion therapy, the founder of the DR beauty company that carried out the treatment, Dr Stephen Chow Heung-...

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Blood treatment should not be done in beauty salon, says specialist

6 Oct 2012

The medical treatment that led to three women falling critically ill this week is usually used to treat cancer and should never be performed in a beauty salon, a blood specialist says.

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AHA rapid exfoliator

18 Nov 2011

Some claim manual blackhead removal is the only way to effectively solve the problem of blocked pores. But it can be a painful experience.

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Beauty event turning heads

9 Nov 2011

Deemed as the ultimate crossroads for the beauty and cosmetics industry in the Asia-Pacific region and the second-largest trade show of its kind worldwide, Cosmoprof Asia 2011 promises to be not...

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Opinion

Jake Van Der Kamp

EU fails to adapt to borderless world

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Howard Winn

Ferry companies shouldn't be subsidised while they burn dirty fuel

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Feather Forecast

Steven Tyler, one of the judges on American Idol, could be credited for spearheading the hottest trend of the summer.

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Wants + Needs

River of dreams

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Doing it with style

As a teenager, Tony Li spent all his pocket money on hard-to-get foreign fashion magazines, mesmerised by the colour and verve on display, features that were seriously lacking in the China of the...

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Clean cuts

Chemical-fumed hair salons are not usually considered eco-friendly spaces, so when Emmanuel Faipoux announced that he wanted to open Hong Kong's first green hair salon and spa, quite a few...

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324 complaints in first five months

From the light boxes in MTR stations to lamp posts and building walls, the city is plastered with advertisements and posters put up by beauty parlours promoting their programmes.

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'Lipstick effect' to the rescue

The lipstick effect is one of the reasons the beauty industry is still holding firm despite the downturn, according to one of the organisers of Cosmoprof Asia 2009.

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