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Crown Towers Spa City of Dreams

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The Crown Towers Hotel has a Fitness Centre Crown Towers Spa City of Dreams (3)

 And a Spa 🙂

Crown Spa promises the ultimate in private pampering with its team of professional and experienced therapists, plus a variety of spa services to best suit the needs of its guests. This relaxation haven offers different massages, body scrubs, wraps, facial treatments as well as hydro-facilities. Open from 11 am until midnight, the Crown Spa’s facilities include six treatment rooms, including two spacious spa suites, with a private shower, soft seating, soaker tubs and salon services, upon request; steam rooms, sauna and vitality pools; poolside massages; and in-room massage services in all Crown Towers guest rooms.Crown Towers Spa City of Dreams (2)

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My favourite is the couples room – it even has a nail salonCrown Towers Spa City of Dreams (9)

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Crown Spa-Vitality PoolClick below to go to their website

City of Dreams Manila is a lavish integrated resort & casino featuring a dazzling array of entertainment & attractions, 3 award-winning hotels and exquisite dining & shopping destinations, located at the heart of Entertainment City, by Manila Bay.

City of Dreams Manila is a lavish integrated resort & casino featuring a dazzling array of entertainment & attractions, 3 award-winning hotels and exquisite dining & shopping destinations, located at the heart of Entertainment City, by Manila Bay.

Hua Spa

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  Tried a new spa last month in the building of our friend, Lilli Ann, which is in the same building as Gino’s. They were not yet opened then.  They just had their soft opening last Saturday, May 16.

Hua ( Blossom) Spa 131 Finman Centre, Tordesillas cor Bautista St., Salcedo Vill Tel 8331495 09175560401Hua Spa (2)

The therapists are trained in ThailandHua Spa (1)

This used to be a bank before and now converted the space into a spaHua Spa (3)

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My Treatment room.  I had a massage and facial.  You can ask for colon cleansing massage – you just have to specify and they can add it in between your massage treatmentHua Spa (7)

A little pocket garden Hua Spa (8)

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Nail Spa at Azumi

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In the lobby of Azumi Hotel is Nail Spa owned by my friend, Cherina Sy – Sister of the owner of Azumi 🙂  There is access from the main lobby Nail Spa at Azumi  (2)

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Love the comfy sofas 🙂Nail Spa at Azumi  (4)

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 No need to get out of Azumi to have a relaxing satiation.  Blissful feel and blissful hands pampering at Nail SpaNail Spa at Azumi  (6)nail spa alabang contact details

Maison

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In Edades Tower on the ground floor is this beautiful nail spa by my friend, Cherina Sy!  I was able to take a peek and super love the interiors and the ambienceMaison mailer

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12 Years of Posh Nails

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I met this pretty lady, Cat Ilacad, last year when she opened Foot Massage Lounge in BGC. Previous entry:  Foot Massage Lounge by Cat Ilacad  January 7, 2014

 From then on we have been in touch and I love her for always being so thoughtful and sweet.  She is the founder and owner of Posh Nails which has 27 branches!  Today Posh Nails celebrates 12 years!!! Congratulations!!  Cat was only 22 years old when she started this business.  And though her dad wanted her to work for him, she preferred to start her own business and now she’s happy and successful!!  And to all the single guys out there, this super pretty, super hardworking and super nice friend of mine is still single!  Please contact me , I am her agent!! 🙂  🙂  

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“Today I give recognition to two people who are  vital instruments to the success of Posh Nails.  I give thanks to Rico and Faye who have stood by me through life’s ups and downs.  Together we have missed family days, worked till midnight, gone on back to back out of town meetings with no rest, caught the flu together and sacrificed Sundays and even holidays just to provide top notch service to all our clients and franchisees who continue to believe in us all these years.  Thank you for the hard work, time and effort you have invested in Posh Nails.  Indeed it is all worth it.

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 Thank you for always believing in me and helping me achieve our company goals.  Together let us bring Posh Nails to more places, accessible to more posh lovers and enjoyed even by foreign blood.”

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I visited Cat’s Posh Nail branch in Tomas Morato and just like me she loves PINK! which explains pink pink pink for posh nails 🙂

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We had an Italian Mandarin service and enjoyed chatting 🙂  Definitely the best way to bond with friends 

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More power to you Cat!!  

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Click below to go to her website

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Leelu Mobile Massage

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In a few days, this pretty Mummy, Kate Moynihan, will be giving birth to her third child!  A baby girl 🙂  Two months ago, she also gave birth to her most recent venture called Leelu Mobile Massage.  

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I was able to visit Kate in her new home and in the basement she has a set up for training all her MA-ssage Therapists.  This is not the typical P 250.00 home service massage.  

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The massages are of better quality since she uses imported massage oils from the UK and the quality of massage is better since Kate went to school abroad to learn massage and her specialty was really on training 

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Meet the team behind Leelu Mobile Massage 

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Kate and her team of MA-ssage Therapists.  Ma for Mama or Mummy 🙂  I hope that you will all help Kate help these Mummies and more mummies in the future as she grows her business.  I wish you all the luck in everything Kate!!  Good luck and more power!

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Last week I was able to experience a Leelu massage from Mummy Harleen.  She came ready with everything – the massage table, the linens and the oil.  It’s a simple swedish massage but the quality of the massage, the strokes and the oil are really different from the others home service massages I have tried.  I will be trying the foot massage soon 🙂

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Body Sugaring Salon

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Meet Tsin Inocian of Barenaked Body Sugaring Salon!  Tsin is the cousin of my good friend, Lills both very pretty 🙂  and very nice.  Tsin owns Via Veneto and she is the one who brought in Birkenstock in the Philippines

“Sugaring is an ancient Arabic art of hair removal.

Sugaring has been practiced in parts North and East Africa for hundreds of years, even Cleopatra is purported to have used this method! Women of those times did not have the modern day inventions of showers and deodorants to keep themselves fresh and clean and found it much easier to keep personal hygiene levels high in their hot climate if they removed their pubic and underarm hairs. They were so impressed with the effects that the removal of these body hairs had that they experimented on the rest of their body hair. This left them feeling smooth, clean and much surer about themselves. Which in turn led them into helping one another to remove their body hair by sugaring. As a result of this it is now customary that when an Arabic girl reaches the age of 14 and is ready to marry, that she is sugared all over. The only hair she will have left on her body is the hair on her head, eyebrows and eyelashes. From that day on she is regularly sugared until after a period of time the hair growth diminishes and could eventually cease.”

Body Sugaring is an alternative to waxing and has many advantages.  The franchise is from Alexandria Professional Body Sugaring in the States and brought in my the Garcia sisters – Sugar and Cecile.  Yes her name is Sugar 🙂
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We went to the Glorietta 5 Makati branch


This is the sugar which is imported from the States.  They use all natural sugar and it does not darken skin and does not burn it. Bacteria cannot breed in sugar so its always clean.   Even if your hair is 1/16th of an inch, you can already have it removed unlike waxing which has to be 1/2 inches  

Very quick movements and no pain.  Pain will depend on the tolerance of each individual so for me there was no pain.  For others the degree may vary.  There should be less pain because the movement is towards the natural direction of the hair so there is less breakage and less ingrown.    




You can get bible verses on the counter 🙂  

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Posh Nails at Perea Street

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Another business venture of my friend, Cat Ilacad!  Aside from Foot Massage Lounge Previous entry:  Foot Massage Lounge by Cat Ilacad January 7, 2014

She has Posh Nails which was her original business started twelve years ago in 2002.  I went to the Perea street, Makati branch 

I was so happy to meet the franchise owner, Jen Aquino

Because Heart2Heart loves pink and loves anything spa, this is her kind of place 🙂 

A nice and cozy place to have your treatments.  A perfect venue for a private get together with friends or for your daughters 

 They have a treatment room for body treatments

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Everything is pink and purple even until the accessories

 I had the Posh Spoiling for hands and feet with watermelon scrub





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Zenyu Eco Spa at H2O Hotel

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We came mainly to try the spa in H20 hotel

A friend, Eric Tan, invited us to try it! Eric operates and manages the spa.  They showed us how antioxidants helps the blood circulation.  James and I saw how our circulation was and it does improve with antioxidants

So we went to change in the locker room

Inside the locker room is a Full Body Fish Spa!  You can avail of this service for a minimal fee and dip yourself into the tub with fish!!! 🙂

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Then we did the hotbed treatment!  First time for us to do this and I believe this is the only kind of treatment in the Philippines.  We lay down for 30 minutes.  They give you a mug with water so you can drink water.  It is quite hot but I felt very good after!!  I wish there was a Makati branch!

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In the spa, there is a room with Ecoparadise products.  They are also all antioxidizing products with interesting effects.  It’s from Malaysia

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I heard that Kris Aquino bought a lot of these plastic bags to store her bags!!

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Click below to read more about the Ecoparadise Products

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