Share the joys of beautiful skin
Last-minute Christmas shopping can be a nightmare, but fear not, for while the shops may be chaotic, some of the most original and personal gift ideas can be found away from the madness at boutique wellness spa Turn Back Time Beauty.
Located in Somerfield, the spa is New Zealand’s home of the ground-breaking LED skincare treatments by Aduro, which use different coloured lights to reduce wrinkles and acne, restore an even skin tone and provide an all-round more youthful appearance.
The fastest results come from Aduro’s salon-only machine. As a gift idea, Turn Back Time Beauty has vouchers to cover the recommended course of 12 or more treatments.
Alternatively, a slightly less powerful machine is available to purchase for home use. Aduro’s ‘‘7 + 1 LED Facial Home Mask’’ provides the same unprecedented variety of eight colours, each of which produces a different effect.
Turn Back Time Beauty owner Charmaine McFarlane says the home devices are an ideal follow-up to sessions at the salon.
‘‘They’re perfect for maintenance and you can use them whenever you want, on any part of the body.
‘‘Red helps reduce wrinkles, scars and age spots, while blue kills acne bacteria. Green treats uneven skin tone, broken capillaries, big pores and blackheads, and yellow reduces redness caused by things like rosacea, sunburn and much more.’’
Turn Back Time Beauty shares its suburban location with Charmaine’s teethwhitening business Sparklewhite
Teeth.
As with the LED skin therapy devices, there are high-quality home options for teethwhitening that make great gifts.
Then there are the salon’s LED lip enhancers. These spur the growth of new collagen cells to plump up lips and reduce wrinkles around the mouth.
‘‘It’s a mouthpiece with a dome-shaped light on the outside that shines infrared light around the outside of the mouth. The infrared is so effective we’ve even noticed receding gums have started growing back,’’ Charmaine says.
‘‘The RRP is $299 but we’ve got them for $199 for Christmas.’’
Before opening Sparklewhite Teeth and Turn Back Time Beauty, Charmaine ran a salon on Australia’s Gold Coast where she played a role in the development of natural skincare brand Mismo’s popular A-C-E Serum.
Containing vitamins A, C and E, the serum is among a range of Mismo products Charmaine stocks in Christchurch. ‘‘I call it my liquid gold. It’s their topseller in Australia now,’’ she says.
‘‘We’ve also got really nice moisturisers for men, antiwrinkle creams, moisturisers with zinc to make them a natural sunscreen, and moisturisers that don’t have any sort of oily base, which are great for people who suffer from acne.’’
Charmaine has also prepared travel packs of several lines of skincare products that people can take away on holiday or give as a gift. The sample-sized offerings should last 7-14 days and range in price from $29 to $39.95.
❚ To browse products online, visit turnbacktimebeauty.co.nz or sparklewhite.co.nz, or call 03 339
7374 to find out more. The salon is located at 29A Deloraine St, Somerfield. Genoapay is available with
10 weekly payments.