Book in for the 2 or 3 service Bliss Package and… Receive 50% off a 60 minute In Your Face Facial

• Power Pedicure
• Natural Nails Manicure
• The 25 min Canadian Massage
• Body Buff  

Our skin never lies. The age on our passport does not always correspond to our biological age, the true age of our body and skin!  Our face, our wrinkles, reveal our history and lifestyle.  Aging cannot be stopped but it can be effectively contrasted by deeply understanding what accelerates it and what can be done to reduce its effects.

Our skin is not only a protection, it is also the reflection of what happens inside our body, day after day. It is the result of what we eat, feel and do: in a word our “lifestyle”.

There are 4 main processes related to our lifestyle that can contribute to accelerating or contrasting aging:

• INFLAMMATION excessive immunity response caused by unbalanced lifestyle consequence: compromised skin health and beauty, visible irritation, sensitivity.
• OXIDATION free radicals attack caused by stress, smog, smoke and metabolic reactions consequence: skin cellular unbalance, wrinkles.
• GLYCATION sugars attack caused by junk food consequence: collagen and elastin damage, loss of tone and elasticity.
• METHYLATION compromised cell replication

Correcting our lifestyle is key: the first preventive medicine is consciousness and self-care.

A new advanced scientific holistic approach is necessary including spa and skin care regimens, customized physical activity, indications of correct nutrition, as well as food supplements to compensate what cannot be achieved otherwise.

Stress management remains a key aspect: this can be achieved thanks to the support of valid professionals, doctors and researchers, but also professionals in the well-being industry.

Zazou offers this new holistic approach to skin care with our In Your Face Custom Facials.

The homecare line is a very active and compact line to be used throughout the four seasons. Thanks to different textures and consistency, SKIN REGIMEN covers the needs of both younger skin with first signs of aging as well as very mature, deeply wrinkled, depleted skin.

Ask your skin therapist for details on the benefits of receiving a skin regimen facial

Greetings!
This is my first weekly blog for Zazou Salon and Spa.

Each week I will be sharing my delightful Zazou spa and salon experiences and giving you insider tips on how you can best care for your hair and spa services after your treatment.

My first spa service was a heavenly pedicure.

When I sat down in the pedicure chair, I was greeted by a friendly Zazou spa specialist. She placed a heated pillow around my neck and I could feel all of the tension quickly melting from my shoulders.

The hot colours right now for spring are pinks and blues! I chose a sparkly pink OPI polish that would make toes twinkle.

I am very active, hiking, biking and running, so my feet tend to have rough patches on the heels. If this sounds like you too, here is a great tip:

Keep a pedicure foot paddle in the shower. The next time you take a bath or shower simply use the paddle to remove any rough patches on your feet. You can do this when you have conditioner in your hair and do double in the same amount of time.

Then when you get out of the shower, apply FootLogix, this gorgeous lotion dries quickly so you can move on with your day and have marvelously fresh feet.

Zazou Salon and Spa carries FootLogix lotion and a line of professional foot paddles you can use to smooth out those rough spots on your feet.

After my gorgeous pedicure, I had another relaxing experience with a blissful manicure.   I had a natural manicure done, and this time I tried the OPI gel polish add-on. The OPI gel polish color is a special lacquer that lasts for 2 weeks.  Perfect!

As I was getting my nails done, my fabulous spa technician shared with me that OPI gel polish is easy to remove but needs to be done by a technician. If I decide to have the polish removed there will be no damage to my nails. How wonderful!

Here are some tips for caring for your nails, so they can look gorgeous in between treatments!

• First Tip ~ Apply OPI Avoplex Nail and Cuticle Replenishing Oil to your cuticles daily. This helps to prevent hangnails.
• Second Tip ~ When maintaining your nails at home and to keep them looking polished, try filing your nails at least once a week. When you do file, move the file in the direction towards the center of the nail. Do not file back and forth, this can damage the nail.

Join me next week when I have my hair cut and share tips on how to care for your hair during the spring weather. I will also give you some ideas on how to best prepare for your wax treatments and care for your skin after waxing.

Have a great week and keep looking fabulous!

Sacha

3Some Package

The event at the Vogue Theatre showcased salons from Vancouver to provide them with the opportunity to demonstrate their creativity, current trends, and interpretation of hair fashion.

Zazou’s artists worked as a team both on stage and behind the scenes to create the award winning concept.  Recognize anyone from Zazou? Our creative team not only worked on styling, make-up and choreography, they were also the dancers and models!  Thank you to everyone who voted for us, we really appreciate your support!

Thanks to all the other participating Show Off 2013 salons: Eliane Hair Spa, Lounge Hair Studio, A Michael Levine Salon Group, Opus Salon, Suki’s with L’Oreal Professionnel, Tonic Hair Salon, Union Salon, and Zennkai Salon & Zinc Hair.

A portion of the proceeds were donated to Look Good Feel Better.  This is a foundation that is Canada’s only cancer charity dedicated to empowering women to manage the effects that cancer and its treatment have on their appearance, and often on their morale. Over 130,000 women have been helped through their workshop. To read more click here….

The event was lots of fun and great job to all the creative teams!

Siegfried Weiser, President and Owner of La Biosthetique and his family have pursued and expanded the values and business culture over the last 5 decades. Focusing on quality products crafted from natural high quality raw materials and intensive research.  To guarantee the highest performance and safety, all products are subjected to the strictest tolerability and efficacy tests at modern laboratories, without testing on animals.
Thanks to their unique and intensive education concept, La Biosthetique offers advanced knowledge and specialized skills to conduct expert and individual consultations and treatments.

La Biosthetique uses pure spa water from the Black Forest that rises from an artisan spring several hundred meters deep.
The individual mixture of minerals and micronutrients in combination with its preserved natural purity guarantee
outstanding product performance.

La Biosthetique is setting a new standard in natural beauty care. Committed to ecological responsibility, their scientists perform
intensive research to develop unique beauty products that combine biological purity and natural goodness with luxury pampering.

Product Benefits:

• Products with up to 100% ingredients of natural origin
• Pharmaceutical rated and controlled ingredients
• Ingredients from certified organic cultivation
• All offices and factories are powered by renewable energy
• Post-recycled & recyclable packaging
• Certified natural cosmetics for hair – Zero impact policy – (carbon-neutral) delivery of their products from their warehouse to their salons and spas – The carbon dioxide emissions generated by the delivery of their products in Europe are offset by the protection and reforestation of nature reserves in Costa Rica.

Colour:

• La Biosthetique colour has the lowest amonia content of all professional colour systems.
• Active ingredients like coconut oil, aloe vera, and chamomile are combined to create results, through the highest scientific methods possible, that are unequal!
• Their new Micro-Pigment Technology enables extraordinary and impressive colour results due to a much smaller colour molecule.
• Their production knowledge is unequal in the industry – giving a gentle and long lasting result while healing the hair structure.

Colour Results:

• Long lasting results
• Vibrant colours
• Gentle and soothing to the scalp
• Strengthens the hair structure
• Outstanding shine and colour brilliance
• Low amonia content
• Up to 92% naturally derived compounds
• High amounts of pure, natural ingredients – amino acid and vitamin E from coconut oils

It is their promise and statement ensuring customers with the highest quality. The european culture and family values reflect their perspective of lifestyle, fashion, art, history and perfectionalizm and believe in a respectful balance of profit, and environmental responsibility.

La Biosthetique is exclusively available in premier salons and spas.

Hard wax is a fast growing trend in North America and is an exceptional alternative method for hair removal (compared to strip wax). Hard Wax is suitable for all skin types, but is particularly beneficial to anyone who has concerns with thin or maturing skin, as well as anyone who experiences extra sensitivity during and after waxing.  It’s a great otpion for everyone and all hair types.

 
Hard wax is applied in a similar fashion to strip wax but does not require a strip to be removed.  Once the wax has been applied to the skin, it is left to harden.  While the wax is setting, the product shrinks and slowly wraps around each individual hair.  At this time, the wax slowly lifts off the surface of the skin and in now only gripping the hair.  No strip is required for removal – the wax itself turns into a strip.  Since the wax is not stuck to your skin there is absolutely NO pulling on the skin, which then ensures less pain and will minimize redness after waxing.

 
Hard Wax is great for any area on the body prone to excess sensitivities, or anywhere on the body that has thin or thinning skin.  It is ideal for all facial waxing, underarms, and the bikini area.

For prices click here!

Here are some great facts about Jane Iredale:

She has long, voluminous weave-in hair extensions, a St. Tropez sunless tan that gives her that beautiful bronzed glow, OPI Gel lacquer applied on her nails, and she is wearing Jane Iredale Mineral Make-up, the number one recommended make up line by dermatologists and certified by the skin cancer foundation.  See below for a list of all the products she has used to achieve her look.  All products and services are available at Zazou.

Eyes: Jane Iredale Eye Shadow – Shell, Allure, Dreamy Pink, Wine & Roses.  To learn more about Jane Iredale click here!

Cheeks: Jane Iredale Blush and Bronzer – Copper Wind & So Bronze 2

Base: Jane Iredale Purepressed – Riviera

Gloss: Jane Iredale Lip Gloss – Sugar Plum

Body: St. Tropez Sunless Spray Tan. To learn more about St. Tropez click here!

Nails: OPI Gel Lacquer Did you ‘ear about Van Gogh?  To learn more about our nail services and OPI gels click here!

Hair: Hair Extensions – Weave in.  To learn more about the hair extension services that we offer click here! We have a variety of application styles to suit your lifestlye installed by expert technicians!

Hair Styling aids: Davines  Oi Oil & Wizard#7 Crystal Fixative