Category Archives: Beauty

Leave the Gym Looking Younger

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Leave the gym looking youngerWe all know that a workout is the first step to feeling good, but could a visit to the gym be the key to looking younger too?

Dermatologist and author, Audrey Kunin from Kansas City suggests working up a sweat is the equivalent of getting a mini-facial. “When the pores dilate, sweat expels trapped dirt and oil – meaning smoother, more radiant skin.” Exercising allows the tiny arteries in your skin to open up, allowing more blood to reach the skin’s surface and deliver essential nutrients. These nutrients repair the skin and stimulate collagen production, preventing wrinkles and making skin look predominantly younger.

But breaking a sweat isn’t the only way the gym can benefit your skin — our extensive range of Collin Resultime treatments and products offer a solution for various skin concerns. No matter what your skin type or age, we have the product to suit your skin’s needs.

Specialising in Anti-Ageing and with a focus on constant innovation, Resultime offers a comprehensive array of high-performance treatments and products to give you the means to achieve better skin for life.

Our Collin Resultime Hydro Lift Facial is the perfect way to achieve younger looking skin. Acting on the skin’s elasticity and firmness, this invigorating facial is moisturising, nourishing and regenerates the skin’s active ingredients, resulting in an illuminated complexion and an instant boost of radiance.

Alternatively, you can buy the best-selling Collin Paris Resultime products online at Club CHF and indulge in your own mini-facial at home.

COLLIN Resultime Home Facial: 5 Steps to younger looking skin

  1. Apply Grain Free Soft Scrub to the face, leave for 10 minutes, emulsify and rinse.
  2. Apply Lifting Minute Mask to the face avoiding the eye area, leave for 10minutes, rinse and tone.
  3. Apply 5 Expertise Cellular Eye Contour Cream, smooth over the eye using the fingertips, then gently tap the remaining product into the skin to penetrate.
  4. Apply Regenerating Collagen Gel to the skin in a fine layer.
  5. Finish with the Radiance Renewing Cream, applying to the entire face and neck, avoiding the eye area.

To book a treatment or for further information please call 0118 948 4849 or visit www.clubchf.co.uk

Goes On Like a Polish and Wears Like a Gel

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Shellac Nail System at Caversham Health & Fitness

Shellac is all the rage at Caversham Health & Fitness. You may have noticed a few of our staff sporting the new look nails.

Perfect for parties and holidays – Shellac is a revolutionary polish and gel hybrid. Once applied it lasts at least two weeks and you don’t have to worry about chips, scratches and smudges.

It takes around 30 minutes for the treatment. First your beautician will remove any existing polish, give your nails a tidy up with the nail file and push back your cuticles. A layer of Shellac basecoat is then applied to give a good foundation for the Shellac colour. This is cured with the UV lamp and only takes 10 seconds to dry. Two coats of Shellac Colour Polish are enough to give a great depth of colour and there are plenty of colours to choose from. Last on is a top coat giving you that high gloss shine that Shellac is well known for. Shellac protects your natural nail and is 3-free which means it contains no formaldehyde, no DBP dibutyl phthalate and no toluene.

Looking after Shellac is easy, we recommend rubber gloves when you wash up and a nail and cuticle oil is a good idea to apply every day to keep your cuticles soft. Other than that your nails should look after themselves.

After two weeks the Shellac will have grown out a little leaving a space between the colour and your cuticles. You can either come back to the club to have your Shellac removed or buy some remover and take it off at home.

Shellac can be added to any manicure or pedicure treatment at Caversham Health & Fitness for as little as £7.50 or for Shellac on its own its just £20. To find out more please click here or call us on 0118 948 4849.

Indian Head Massage

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Indian Head Massage is an ancient Indian therapy that dates back almost 4000 years. It has been passed from generation to generation as part of typical Indian family life. The routine would be taught to children as young as three, typically the custom would be for the family to sit in a row one behind the other-early in the morning was preferred-and practice on each other. This would help to promote family bonding but also relaxing mind, body and spirit which in turn would set them up for the rest of the day.

Using their handmade terraces, Indian head massage was easy to execute as it could be performed without oils and while they were fully clothed. The benefits from having Indian head massage would be stress release from muscles, joints of head, neck and shoulders, it could also relieve fatigue, insomnia, headaches, and sinusitis.

The treatment starts with breathing techniques to aid relaxation, various massage techniques are used on the head, neck, shoulders, arms and lower back. Pressure points are stimulated to ensure relaxation and encourage the healing process.

Clients can experience deep calming, feel revitalised and energised after the treatment so better able to concentrate through the day. On a general note, this treatment can help increase joint mobility, flexibility in the areas treated, blood circulation, lymphatic flow, aids elimination of toxins and waste products.

Due to the treatment cleansing the body clients may feel some side effects but these will only last a few hours and before the treatment make sure that you have informed your therapist of anything that may restrict or prevent you from having the treatment e.g. Medical conditions or recent surgeries.

Jenny, Club CHF

Indian Head Massage at ClubCHF – £30.00
To book an appointment with one of our physical therapy team
please call us on 0118 948 4849

Beauty Evening a Great Success

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The bar was buzzing last Thursday evening as 20 ladies gathered for the launch of the CACI Ultimate and a preview of the fabulous Collin High Definition facial.

CACI is The UK’s best selling anti-ageing facial treatment system and the results are remarkable.  The CACI treatment lifts the face by toning facial muscles smoothing away fine wrinkles and sagging skin. Leanna from CACI treated a few lucky ladies to a taster treatment and even after a few minutes we could see a visible difference!

For the next four weeks we have a special ‘CACI Launch Offer’ at CHF. Ten treatments for £450 (normally £500).  Why not give it a try and amaze your guests at Christmas with your new fresh faced look!

Have you ever bought beauty products only to find that they sat on the shelf as they didn’t really suit your skin? With the Collin Skin Scope computerised skin analysis you get an accurate measure of your skin’s hydration, oil level, pore size and elasticity amongst other things which enables your beautician to select the Collin products that are right for you.  This isn’t available at CHF just yet but we do offer a  free skincare consultation with one of our beauticians.

Rachel from Collin demonstrated the new High Definition facial on a very willing volunteer.  The hydrating facial treatment is suitable for most skin types and is great at this time of year as many people’s skin is dehydrated at the end of the summer.  One of the highlights for me was the peel off mask which can be analysed to see which areas of the skin are dry, where the pores are enlarged and whereabouts the wrinkles are lurking!

High Definition FacialIf you are tempted the High Definition facial is now available at CHF with Amy and Lisa and costs £45 for 60 minutes.

Many thanks to the ladies who attended, Leanne from CACI, Rachel from Collin and to beauticians Lisa, Ari and Amy for organising  a great evening.  For more photos please check out the album on our Facebook page.

Sally Albin, Marketing

To book a treatment or for further information please call 0118 948 4849 or call in to Caversham Health and Fitness.

Summer looks give winter a lift.

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I have recently been feeling a bit fat and low with not much self esteem – as I’m sure a lot of the UK is feeling right now.  With the cold weather and dark evenings making us feel that it’s time for a spot of hibernation, it can be really difficult to feel as glowing as we did in the sunshine.

But, even though the summer has passed and winter is, without doubt, here there are still small things we can do to give us a little push!

I had CHF beauty therapist Lisa to give me a long awaited spray tan yesterday – I went a shade darker than I normally would to see what I thought.  I woke up this morning feeling groggy and chilly as usual, but, when I looked in the mirror to put my (now bronzed) make up on it was just like magic! I have a spring in my step!

The spray tan has really lifted my spirits – I look and feel slimmer and I feel I’m getting back to my glamorous self!

Amy, Therapy Manager