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Skin in the game - the Kiwi start-up which is turning the beauty industry on its head
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Skin in the game - the Kiwi start-up which is turning the beauty industry on its head

The global beauty industry should come clean about a few things. It could begin with the persistent use of digitally altered marketing images, or its thinly veiled age-shaming. Addressing the long list of potentially toxic ingredients is a good place to start. Greenwashing and th...

Review: Hana - red light therapy and infrared sauna
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Review: Hana - red light therapy and infrared sauna

Tucked away in a back street on the site of a former Auckland salvage yard, Hana is a holistic treatment studio that focuses on the new. Its offering includes infrared sauna and a photobiomodulation (low-level light) treatment using MitoGen whole-body light pods, which use specif...

Review: Auckland's Skintopia beauty spa
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Review: Auckland's Skintopia beauty spa

Are we ready to embrace the open-plan beauty spa, or is it bare-faced cheek?