The Malta Independent on Sunday
Lierac Sunific Suncare event at Vivaldi Hotel
Alion industry, many have other ideas. These treatments are to them also a nurturing of the soul, I suppose.
The Lierac products which were being launched earlier this month are non-invasive; they are anti-ageing and anti-dark spot products. In her excellent presentation at the Settimo Cielo terrace of the Vivaldi, Dr Zarb Adami gave a convincing analysis of the dangers of staying for too long in the hot sun and how these Lierac products can help us to get a tan without ruining our skin: ‘The formula combines sweet orange citrus lthough the Season at the Manoel Theatre is over for the summer months one’s social diary is still overflowing with cultural and other events. A great deal happens on these islands throughout the year. Elisa McKenna emailed to ask me to ‘save the date’ weeks ago. Her company, PharmaMT Ltd. was going to launch a range of Sunific products by Lierac Paris, in time for our sunny summers. Dr Raina Zarb Adami, the surgeon with qualifications in aesthetic surgery as well, and with a practice both in London and in Malta, was going to do the presentation at the Golden Tulip Vivaldi Hotel in St Julian’s.
We know that our looks depend on our DNA first of all. However the way we have looked after ourselves over the years is important too: too many cigarettes and too much alcohol and of course hours of baking in the sun take their toll. Those who are regular users of beauty salons and cosmetic surgeons may also hang on to their youth longer I suppose. Perhaps you can divide society into those who look good for their age, the half-way house ones like me, who care but are not obsessive and then the let-themselvesgoers. I wonder what Naomi Wolf author of that bestseller The Beauty Myth, does these days that she is no longer young? Does she have bee-stung lips and multiple facelifts or does she, like me, have anti-ageing boundaries, let nature take its course but still will not let everything (in my case except my waistline) go?
Most people stay schtum about the various treatments they indulge in to keep their looks and hang on to a few more years of relative youth. But once you start on Botox or whatever else there is, where do you stop? Anyway, I would rather spend the money on something delicious to eat or a holiday with my family. But thankfully for the multi-bil- bioflavonoids and fresh carrot cells that stimulate and trigger melanin production for a rapid golden tan,’ she explained, while also stressing again and again how harmful the sun is to our skin. The whole range is made up of products to use before starting to tan, during and after the beach.
It was a most pleasant evening and an occasion to talk to these two successful young women. Elisa loves what she is doing and it wasn’t long ago that she was pregnant with her second child, now almost a toddler. Raina comes from an intellec- tual family who are all high achievers. He brother is an astrophysicist at Oxford or Cambridge. There were so many intelligent women in my class at school who are domestic goddesses but who could have done equally well in the intellectual or academic world, given the chance. Autres temps, autres
moeurs, as they say. I am glad that times are achanging for women who want more than a husband and children. Now there are no excuses. They have so many opportunities and the choice is entirely up to them if they are determined enough.