Celebrating Spring

Le Visage - the best advanced skin care therapy on the Shore

Le Visage is an oasis of calm in Milford offering the latest in advanced skincare treatments and products. Channel Mag's Liz Cannon chats to owner Terry Taylor, the mum-half of the dynamic mother-daughter duo.

Channel Magazine: Tell me about Le Visage.

Terry Taylor: We’re Terry and Sarah, a mum/daughter duo who are passionate about skin health. We created Le Visage in January 2014 as a space where we could focus on clients' skin health and wellbeing from an holistic perspective, encompassing gut health as well as lifestyle, along with our Ultraceuticals skin care range and Bestowe beauty supplements to improve, correct and repair from within.

CM: What are you passionate about in your work?

TT: Our passion for skin has led to careful thought and consideration in choosing skincare products and treatment rituals that offer clients the best results, but are also kind to the skin. All our treatments and products are results-focussed and we provide our clients with ongoing support and education.

CM: What do you specialise in?

TT: All things skin… As a bespoke skin clinic our treatments include advanced skin peels for hydration and fine lines, as well as Dermapen 4 for pigment control and acne too, and also IPL and laser for skin rejuvenation. Technology is an important tool for us to ensure our clients get the results they are seeking. Our Observ skin scanner allows us to take a 3D look beneath the skin before we treat or recommend any skin care or supplements. The beauty of this is that we scan at regular intervals on our clients' journeys so they have an ongoing update on where they're at, and input on what they’d like to improve.

CM: Who else is part of your Le Visage family?

TT: As a skin health centre, we are pleased to work alongside Helen, a registered nurse from Beautyfy Me cosmetic injectables, who shares our space and provides cosmetic injectables including Botox, Dysport, Prophyllo, and more. Our clients rave about Helen’s attention to detail and knowledge in her field. Then we have Sharon from Entyce Beauty who also shares our space as a cosmetic tattooist. She is the best at enhancing brows and eyeliner, and she offers lip shading and blushing as well as lash lifts and brow lamination too.

Sarah and Terry Taylor.

Le Visage, Level 1, 161 Kitchener Road, Milford 09 486 6880 info@levisage.co.nz www.levisage.co.nz

Health Heroes NZ

- the well-being super power provider on the North Shore

As we move out of winter, we start to think about getting our minds and bodies ready for the spring and summer seasons ahead. Channel Mag's Liz Cannon chats with Yvonne Gitt about how Health Heroes can help improve people's health and well-being.

Channel Magazine: Can you tell us about Health Heroes?

Yvonne Gitt: Many of our patients know us from our Mobile Massage Service, but Health Heroes NZ has become so much more! Health Heroes is a collective of amazing health professionals such as massage therapists, Reiki practitioners, and nutrition and health coaches, who work closely together with osteopaths and acupuncturists. We are dedicated and passionate about the health and well-being of our patients and we follow a holistic health approach. We not only treat the physical body, but also take care of the mind, as body and mind work and heal together.

CM: What does Health Heroes do?

YG: Primarily we are here to help. Our aim is to enable our patients to live a healthy, relaxed, and happier life. We offer therapeutic massage, nutrition and health coaching, stress management, Reiki, and many more treatment types. We provide home visits, office treatments, nutrition and health coaching in person and online, and of course we also offer treatments in our collaborative practices.

CM: Why should people use the services Health Heroes provide?

YG: At Health Heroes NZ we know that a 'one size fits all' approach is not possible, especially when it comes to health. Even though our bodies are basically built the same, we are all highly individual. Every person has different needs, different goals, and different strengths. We advise each of our patients individually and we work out the best ways and possibilities together, to achieve the desired goals. Our treatments do not end after 60 minutes. We explain to our patients what they can do additionally at home to support healing processes and reach their goals faster and in the long term.

Yvonne Gitt.

Our aim is to enable our patients to live a healthy, relaxed, and happier life.

Health Heroes NZ Phone: 021 0835 8867 Email: info@healthheroesnz.com Web: https://healthheroesnz.com

Partner Clinics: Happipuncture 512a East Coast Road, Windsor Park, Auckland 0630 Peace and Performance Osteopathy Unit M/86 Bush Road, Albany, Auckland 0632

CM: What are your core values?

YG: Health Heroes NZ stands for imparting knowledge and personalised treatments. We pass on qualified health-related information to our patients so they can understand their bodies and regain responsibility and control their health. We believe that everyone should be able to make the right decisions for themselves and their health.

CM: Can you tell us a little more about your areas of expertise?

YG: We are all highly qualified massage therapists, naturopaths, and nutrition and health coaches. We work holistically and causally, not symptomatically, considering both body and mind. For this reason, we have developed a holistic concept in which, depending on the patient's needs, the respective specialties are applied in combination; we call this our “Fusion Health Treatment”. Neck pain, for example, can have multiple causes. Sitting in front of a computer for too long is one of the reasons but many other reasons can add to the pain. If we only treat the neck pain and don't fix the cause, the pain will just come back after a while. We help our patients in a sustainable way.

CM: You're from Germany - what brought you to New Zealand?

YG: I was running my own practice for osteopathy and naturopathy in Hamburg for many years and I loved it. In 2016 my partner said, “Let me show you a place called Godzone,” which as I learnt, is an abbreviation of the phrase 'God's Own Country' that's been used for more than 100 years by New Zealanders to describe their homeland. When we arrived, I immediately fell in love with New Zealand and its people, so we decided to stay, even though there have been tough immigration hurdles for highly qualified professionals from overseas. For me it's really exciting to observe the differences in education between the continents and it’s a great advantage for our patients to be able to receive additional healing methods from outside the New Zealand box too.

Island Interiors opens in Devonport

We love supporting new businesses in the area and are delighted to welcome Island Interiors to the Shore. Channel Mag's Liz Cannon chats to owner and principal designer, Susannah Matheson about the superior service Island Interiors offers their clients.

Island Interiors are really excited to open a beautiful new showroom space at 67 Victoria Road, in the heart of Devonport village. We are a full service interior design business who can help you with any area in your home. A professional team made up of fully qualified interior designers, production managers and showroom assistants, we will help you at every step of the way to update your space.

We love transforming homes and want your home to feel unique to you, your family and your style.

We offer a free measure and quote to all our window treatment clients.

We are happy to visit you at your home with a wide range of samples to give you the best advice for your window coverings; it could be drapes, including sheers or fully thermal lined drapes, blinds including venetian blinds, roller blinds and fabric roman blinds, as well as wooden shutters. We work directly with New Zealand based suppliers and manufactures and provide the best advice for your home and budget. We offer a wide range of fabrics in every style and colour to fit with your vision, or we can work with you to enhance what you already have. As most of our manufacturing happens right here in Auckland we are able to turn your order around quickly and have your window treatments installed when you need them.

We also offer a full interior design service.

This service is bespoke to you and your requirements. It could be just one area that you need help with, or new furniture, decor, rugs or even a full revision of your floor plan and layout. We work closely with amazing kitchen and cabinetry manufacturers plus a large range of suppliers for kitchens, bench tops, splash backs, hardware and more. For all our interior design projects, we offer an end to end service including recommending or managing trades people on your behalf. We can help transform all kitchens and bathrooms from small to large, and can provide detailed advice about where it is best to spend and where to save. Together, we can create the kitchen or bathroom of your dreams.

If you have a vision, we can make it happen!

From our new Devonport showroom we are able to offer our services throughout the North Shore and Auckland wide. Please call us on 021 343 299 or visit our website at islandinteriors.co.nz