FALL IN LOVE WITH YOUR TRUE COLORS

THE Korean glass skin, the Asian drunk blush, the return of glitter—last year was filled with all sorts of beauty trends. Yes, they were great creative outlets. However, these trends hardly felt natural for Filipina skin.

It is time to go full circle with a fab palette that shows who we truly are. Luckily, the No. 1 makeup brand in the Philippines makes it easier to embrace #EveryShadeOfYou. Avon (www.avonshop.ph) has just come up with a new line of nude lipsticks from Avon True Color, and it is as gorgeous as it gets with our natural skin tone.

The new Avon True Color Perfectly Matte nude lipsticks come in six new matte shades, covering a full range of Filipina-friendly tones. Go light with Nude Suede, or deep brown with Chocolate Crush. Explore the various creamy tans in between, including Marvelous Mocha, French Toast and Lush Cocoa. You can even wear a hint of red with Divine Twig—glam it up while staying true to your tone.

Whatever your shade, you are guaranteed fuss-free color that never cakes, cracks nor compromises. It is so easy to wear as Avon True Perfectly Matte Lipsticks give you intense color in just one swipe. FITTINGLY FOR SUMMER

WORKING toward a fit and fabulous summer bod has gotten easier, as global brand Miniso Sports makes available a wide range of items that will help you in your everyday fitness routines.

Summer, after all, is the best time to try new workout routines, engage in various physical activities, and aim for six packs and beach-ready bodies. Miniso’s fashionable and affordable workout essentials are perfect for getting healthy and happy at your own basic at-home gym. Miniso stores can be found in most SM Supermalls nationwide.

Rebuild your strength and increase your balance with various resistance bands like loop bands, Pro-8 Shape resistance bands and yoga stretch bands. These will help improve your strength, flexibility and mobility in the glutes, knees and hips areas.

For core-strengthening exercises, there are abdominal wheels that allow your core muscles to work together and sculpt tighter abs. Push-up bars, on the other hand, also help strengthen your core, chest, arms, shoulders and back in just one single motion.

Meanwhile, hula hoops are fun and exciting when used for aerobic activities. These can also help burn fat and achieve a firm and toned body.

Other workout essentials and accessories like foldable yoga mats, gym balls, sports waist packs and armbands are also available to make your workouts more fun and efficient this summer. ❷

IN the mid-2000s, the Vienna-born Cindy Kurleto was an MTV VJ, cohost at ASAP and Eat Bulaga, and consistently on the top 10 of FHM Philippines’s list of the “Sexiest Women in the World.” As Cassiopea in GMA’s Encantadia (2005) and Etheria (2006), Cindy cemented her status as one of the most captivating actresses to ever grace the local screen.

At the peak of her colorful career, Cindy fell in love and left for Peru in 2007. “The person I fell in love with got offered a job abroad and we left for new experiences. We like new adventures. We had that in common, so Peru was our next adventure,” she said via a virtual interview. “The life there was very different, very beautiful. I have lived in Europe and 10 years in Asia, so I was very curious to experience life in another continent and that’s exactly what it was like [in Peru], very different but very nice.”

Being a wife and a mother, Cindy stressed, is a full-time job twice over. “Besides that, I was busy with self-love, meditation, yoga, gym, hiking and also researching on nutrition and what recipes or food that’s good for my body and for my family. It all ties again with being a mother. I think becoming a mother has shifted my priorities. I am not so focused on making a business or making money. I am more focused on creating good memories and a healthy lifestyle not just for myself but for my family. I take that responsibility very seriously.”

But when her father, Friedrich, fell ill, she went home to Austria. “I wanted to be there for him, and I was at the end of his life. We buried him in 2016 and I also gave birth to my second daughter. We are now based in Austria because it’s a very safe place to raise girls, especially. Vienna is a very small city so I can get around quite easily and conveniently,” she shared. It’s also where Cindy was raised single-handedly by her mother, Faustina Verdillo.

After these life-changing events, Cindy began missing the Philippines. And by coincidence, an offer to endorse the new dietary supplement, Myra Ultimate, came her way. “That’s how it is with the universe. As soon as you throw your energy out there, the same month, the Myra question came in. For me, when things like that happen, when you think of something and then the universe answers you, it’s parang meant to be,” she said.

Myra Ultimate, priced at P20 SRP per soft-gel capsule, is the latest addition to Myra’s range of supplements. It contains astaxanthin, vitamin E and lycopene, a combination of ingredients that help reduce signs of skin aging (fine lines, wrinkles and dark spots) with continued use, proper diet and exercise. Astaxanthin, as per www.myra. com.ph, is a type of carotenoid pigment from freshwater microalgae. This powerful antioxidant is found to be 6000x stronger than Vitamin C.

Cindy remembers Myra when she used to live in Manila and knows of the brand’s previous celebrity endorsers, such as Iza Calzado, Angel Locsin, Judy Ann Santos, Sarah Geronimo, Isabel Oli, Eula Valdez, Jessy Mendiola, Kris Tiffany Janson, Valerie Weigmann, Hillarie Parungao and Gerald Anderson.

“The are all very wholesome and they all fit into the image of what I would like for myself. So I started researching even closer about the ingredients of the new Myra Ultimate and it is exactly what covers my concerns because I am 40 now and I look after my kids a lot, so I don’t have the time to think about myself but I do take supplements. It’s a very easy way for myself to take control over an issue that I was worried about,” Cindy explained.

During what pageant fans call the Dark Ages, when we failed to crack even the semifinal stages at Miss Universe, Cindy was someone I knew who could have represented us well. But beauty contests were not on her radar. Still, she has shared her thoughts on beauty.