Health & Beauty

It may be spring time, but with the thermometers lingering around the zero mark, it’s difficult to imagine peeling off the layers just yet. After a long winter of reaching for the same old coats in dull greys and black, it can seem like a chore putting them on each day when all you want to do is wear your brightest floral number.
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Spots, pimples and blemishes affect everyone, men and women, at different stages of our lives. They can appear without warning at the most inconvenient times and, as a result, can affect our confidence.
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Revitalise your skin in time for spring with a trip to The Kingfisher Spa in Renmore, where they have fantastic offers on a range of treatments. Special offers for March include facials that are suitable for all types of skin.
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Do you have any of the following symptoms? -Pain when reaching upwards -Pain putting on a jacket -Pain and waking in the night when lying on your side -Difficulty reaching behind or across your body -Pain and difficulty with overhead activities -Pain or reduced performance with sporting activities particularly swimming, throwing sports, racquet sports, gym Eoin Ó Conaire is an award-winning chartered physiotherapist and specialist shoulder physiotherapist.
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Candleworks in the Eyre Square Shopping Centre is one of the original business enterprises that has grown and flourished in line with the Eyre Square Centre success story Candleworks opened almost 20 years ago and has kept its original ethos of supplying good quality fragrance candles and giftware for all occasions, meeting the needs of all customers.
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Looking for a special gift for Mother’s Day? Charm your mum with a limited edition ‘Best Mum’ charm from Thomas Sabo. The charm is part of the new Thomas Sabo tri-colour love charms collection, which includes gold plated hearts in delicate rose gold and radiant yellow gold, in keeping with the soft spring fashion colours.
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Fed up of torturing your hair? Are you ready for healthier, smoother and shinier hair? Now, thanks to L'Oreal Professional, you can enjoy the benefits of steam styling at home with Steam Pod, the world’s first ever steam smoothing tool.
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A Galway couple are to travel to the UK this month to represent Ireland in the Couple of Year First Round of the Slimming World National Finals. Together Paul and Caroline Greaney from Tuam lost over 11 stone with Slimming World.
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Celebrity fashion collaborations are ten a penny these days. However few garner the kind of hype that Rihanna has for her line with high street giants River Island. The Bajan babe launched her collection with a celebrity filled bash during London Fashion Week but the line has received mixed reviews from the fashion world.
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Searching for a new signature scent? Look no further than fashion designer Tom Ford’s stunning perfume collection. Elegant scent Tom Ford Violet Blonde is an opulent, dressed-up fragrance that revives the glamorous past of perfumery, when the most expensive ingredients in the world were crafted into signature scents of sophisticated beauty.
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When you have sensitive or problematic skin, it can be difficult to find make up products that don’t cause irritation, which is why we love ARTDECO’s new Makeup Innovation collection. Combining medical claims and colour cosmetics, the collection includes miracle working BB Creams, short for blemish balm or beauty balm.
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Plexus Bio-Energy on Merchants Road in Galway City is celebrating 20 years in business this year The Plexus Bio-Energy treatment centre in Galway City was established in 1993 by Michael O’Gara and Tina Forkan.
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Last week, fashion’s biggest names descended on London for the biannual sartorial extravaganza that is London Fashion Week. Top designers from around the globe, including some of Ireland’s best talent, gathered in Somerset House to showcase their creations for Autumn/Winter 2013.
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There’s no shame in admitting that we’re suckers for free beauty sets, and we’re a little bit smitten with Lancôme’s new gift for customers. Worth €106, the gift comes free with the purchase of two Lancôme products.
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