KAYE & FREDDIE TINGA: The whole Korean 10-step, including a moisturizing mask
Freddie Tinga is a regular at the Henri Calayag Salon; he gets his hair cut and colored every three weeks, says his wife, Kaye. So, did Freddie have no choice but to let Kaye do the salon rituals for him during the eight-week lockdown?
More on that later, because what Kaye is proud of is that the no-nonsense Freddie — a businessman who served as Congressman of Taguig — allowed Kaye to put a mask on his face and joined her as she did the whole Korean 10-step skincare ritual.
“Freddie is not very fussy about moisturizing and skincare rituals, but once in a while, when I do my own spa at home, I ask him to join me,” says Kaye, a woman of style and one of the entrepreneurs behind W17.
“But of all his wellness activities, he probably misses massages the most. No problem at all, because we have this Theragun, which is a godsend,” smiles Kaye. “It allows deep-tissue massage, especially for not very strong people like me.”
When Freddie asked Kaye to cut and color his hair, she was at first hesitant and held off until quarantine was extended a second time.
“I was able to find a pair of clippers at Watson’s, and after 10 hours of watching YouTube videos on how to cut hair during a lockdown, I was pretty nervous, so I asked him to start on the front part of his hair, while I worked on the sides and back.”
The result? It looked like the Banaue rice terraces! “No problem, because whoever he meets on Zoom can’t really see it. And anyway, hair grows back.”
Kaye says the hair-coloring part was way, way easier. It took less than an hour.
“I’m proud to say this came out well,” she says. “This was really a lesson in teamwork.”