Mod's Hair Societe Magazine - Autumn/Winter 2015

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Contents

From the Publisher

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This free press publication has come about because of my passion for bringing together art, business and “the social”. I believe you can have fun with fashion and art, whilst making the world a better place, and I think it’s important that people can make money and make a difference (whilst looking good too!). The advertisers in this magazine have come on board to share this vision.

We are living in a city which has a unique opportunity to recreate the identity of our community. I want Société to be part of the new conversation for Christchurch, and contribute to

16 Hair by Mod’s 18 Les Parking Des Anges 24 Local Content 31 What’s Happening?

36 Know Your Arts 38 Who Dat? 39 Ask the Experts 45 Must Haves 46 Who’s Changing the World?

48 Global Roaming 50 Mod’s Posse

48 the exposure and connection of the city’s many dimensions from business, fashion and beauty to creativity, arts and sustainability.

These are issues that you will find on the pages of Société. Enjoy!

Julianne Liebeck, Editor-at-Large

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Publication Management Brown Bread

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Introducing...

Olive, the Caravan If you’re in the market for a pop up bar that is not your run-of-the-mill then let us introduce you to Olive. This little beauty is a vintage caravan that can cater to all your partying needs (think product launch, afternoon tea or wedding bar). The 12 foot 1960’s Starliner comes with happy staff, bar essentials and a little bit of styling, and is available for hire in and around Christchurch. somekindofwonderful.co.nz

The Vintner’s Table: Stories, Wine and Recipes from Pegasus Bay Winery The Donaldson family is known in Waipara (and beyond) for being truly excellent wine makers. And it turns out they’re pretty good publishers too. Their cookbook, ‘The Vintner’s Table’ features a selection

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of some of their best, and most delicious, recipes from their award-winning winery restaurant.

Get your hands on a copy and you’ll never want to dine out ever again. pegasusbay.com

Food Worth Making!

Local boy Sam Mannering is best known for his inspiring (and bestselling) cookbook, A Year’s Worth: Recipes from Dunsandel Store. His second and equally covetable book, Food Worth Making has been released via Posh Giraffe Publishing and

is a steal at $50 a pop.

Flick through 240 pages of culinary goodness featuring recipes like Portuguese custard tarts, Massaman beef cheek curry and crumbed sweetbreads with parsley and fennel.

Delish. poshgiraffepublishing.co.nz

Glamping at its Best If you love the idea of camping but don’t want the hassle of lugging around all the equipment, then Canopy Camping Escapes could be just up your alley. The girls at Canopy Camping have partnered with landowners up and down the country to create a network of luxury campsites. With all the upsides of camping (and very few downsides!) there’s a lot to love about this ‘glamping’ experience.

The locations are beautiful, the beds are comfy and yes, you even get running hot water. What’s not to love about that? canopycamping.co.nz

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Flowerhead

London and Amsterdam trained florist NatalieRose Rutherford has recently returned home to Christchurch to realise her dream of running

her own floristry business. Turning seasonal flowers and living plants into ridiculously pretty bouquets, Natalie also has the environment at heart, composting all green

waste and donating post-event flowers.

Buy her stunning bouquets online via the Flowerhead website. flowerhead.co.nz

Bobbin Bikes We’re all learning to live sustainably, right?

And what better way to do it than on an uber stylish and easy to ride Bobbin Bike. These little beauties, which come in all colours and styles, have recently been introduced into New Zealand thanks to Christchurch-based distributor Lyttelton Bikes. Available for purchase direct or via the new online bike store Via Cycles, Bobbins are cool, practical and great for the environment. lytteltonbikes.co.nz 11

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Empowering Women Through Social Enterprise Entrepreneurs in the UK are using fashion to tackle important social issues. A number of clothing labels are offering sustainable employment to women who are either ageing, are refugees or overcoming addiction.

These fashion labels who include Sweet Cavanagh, The North Circular and Who Made Your Pants? have women at their business heart. Their social mission is, through the production of apparel, to tackle social problems and offer women a chance to turn their lives around.

Beauty & Brains An author, human rights activist and lawyer who found fame as George Clooney’s new wife, Amal Clooney is certainly a force. Her international legal career has spanned the fields of international law, criminal law, human rights and extradition, and she is fluent in English, French and Arabic.

This elegant, stylish and ambitious Oxford and NYU educated woman is undoubtedly an inspiration for all women, young and old.

whomadeyourpants.co.uk sweetcavanagh.com thenorthcircular.com

Eyes Wide Open: 100 Years of Leica Photography

Alfred Eisenstaedt: VJ Day, Times Square, NY, 14. August 1945. © Alfred Eisenstaedt, 2014.

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It’s been a hundred years since the invention of the first compact photo camera.

That camera was the now infamous Leica. A major exhibition has just finished at the House of Photography at the Deichtorhallen Museum in Hamburg, Germany which chronicles the course of technological change

and photographic history. Curated

by Hans-Michael Koetzle, the exhibition and accompanying coffee table book ‘Eyes Wide Open: 100 Years of Leica Photography’ offers a “comprehensive overview of the change in photography brought about by the invention and introduction of the infamous Leica.”

With over 400 photographs exhibited throughout the book, by artists including Henri Cartier-Bresson, William Eggleston and Bruce Gilden, as well as a series of essays by international authors, this is a truly captivating display of small-format photography. leica.com

David Cook’s camera was his licence to explore 1980s Christchurch. Punks, boot boys, nuns, the Birdman, bell-ringers, royal watchers, school boys and beery crowds – Meet Me in the Square reveals the people of 1980s Christchurch in a fascinating cultural commentary on a city now changed beyond recognition.

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31 JANUARY – 24 MAY 209 TUAM STREET / FREE ENTRY #MEETMEINTHESQUARE David Cook Christchurch 1983. Photograph. Reproduced courtesy of the artist

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by Mod’s Hair Photographer Guillaume BÊrard Cuts & Styling Olivier de Vriendt Make-up Camille Lutz Stylist Deborah de Groot

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Mod’s Hair Autumn Winter 2015 brings a collection of looks that will shine through the shadows of the colder months.

Raw glamour inspired by the timeless beauty of Grace Kelly and Kate Moss, and the style of Ralph Lauren. So your blondes are bright and your man is tall, dark and handsome.

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First encounter A parking lot. He is tall, dark and handsome. She is The Blonde wearing a timeless cut. They are chic and glamorous. It’s a classic story of seductiveness and mystery. The look: Timeless, seductive, raw glamour.

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The Importance of Being Hospitable in a Developing City The people who work in service and hospitality are essentially the face of a city; they can either make or break a visitor’s impression and experience of a place. So then, the question begs, how do we instill this sense of responsibility in the individuals of a service industry that is tip-less and generally undervalued?

There needs to be an understanding (and there is a sense that it is developing), that Christchurch has the potential to be a world-class city, and that it starts with the attitude and output of its people. But in a culture where service is undervalued, unrewarded, and woefully unsupported we cannot rely on our youth (the majority of our service providers) to motivate themselves to achieve excellence.

Without good role models and mentors how do they even know what excellence looks like? This is the golden trump card that owner-operated businesses hold.

Owners who care as much about the culture of their business and the wellbeing of their staff as they do the bottom line create nurturing and stimulating work environments. They are attuned with their staff’s individual needs and consider it their job to both challenge and support them. They teach through example, performing the same tasks to their own high standard.

They encourage their staff to see the value in their work, and foster growth and development through exercises in trust and responsibility.

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Small owner-operated businesses will be the makers of this city: businesses that respond to the uniqueness of this city, not in an opportunist fashion, but with genuine good-will and ambition. We need businesses that are forward thinking, and self-conscious: aware of their potential to shape and strengthen the image of our city. We are on the map, parts of the world are watching our recovery, and we will be critiqued for it, now and for a long time in the future.

Businesses like The Last Word, Black Estate, Roots, Civil and Naval, C4, Lyttleton Coffee Company, Caffeine Laboratory, Shop Eight, Addington Coffee Company, Hapa and Saggio di Vino reflect the character of their owners and patrons, and are subsequently vibrant, free and fun. They are all owner operated and it is felt.

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About a year ago I decided to challenge myself and my customers by cutting out the refined sugar in most of my cakes.

Being a cake maker, I obviously enjoy food and am an unofficial ambassador for sweet treats.

But as we are all becoming more conscious about what we put into our bodies and more educated about how particular foods can harm or benefit us, it seemed a little dishonest to be promoting a product that I myself wouldn’t indulge in. ‘Paleo’ has recently been claimed as the world’s worst diet, and although I don’t agree with this rating, I tend not to use this term for fear of myself and

Cakes by Anna being associated with particular diets. In regards to cake making, adopting the ‘paelo’ ph81(5 the4(slu3(ar)5o(0 y c)mnl)s20( )]TJy0 -1

Turn oven onto 160 degrees C. Grease a 24cm bundt tin if you have one, otherwise a standard 24cm tin will do. I use silicon bake ware because it’s god’s gift to the bakerman.

tin. Bake for approximately 25 minutes or till a skewer comes out cleanly (be sure to poke the batter, not the fruit!) Leave cake in tin for ten minutes then turn out onto a wire rack to cool.

Combine the eggs, oil, honey or date puree, and zest. Add the almonds, baking soda and salt and mix well. Gently fold in your fruit and spread evenly into cake

To make the icing, whizz up all the ingredients using a whizz stick or processor, then leave it in the fridge for about half an hour to set to a spreadable consistency. When

the cake is cool, spread the icing over allowing the drips to run if they so desire. I like to top this cake with halved strawberries, lemon zest and whatever edible flowers I have in the garden. The world is your oyster with this one, there are no rules, HAVE FUN!

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Across the Border Abigail Egden I was living in South Africa and a boy told me that I was beautiful.

“But” he said, “I have a funny feeling no one’s told you you are beautiful like that before.” That should have felt like an insult, but I realised he was right. I have been yelled at on the street, I’ve had men thrust their numbers at me, I’ve had men buy me drinks.

I’ve had a man in Western Australia grab me as he dribbled out his mouth “Better hang on to that skirt girlie or else I might rip the bastard off you.” I’ve been called all sorts of things, but beautiful? Not really. It always felt more like a bargaining chip than a compliment.

I have found my journey to feminine actualisation definable by two processes. The first was sort of like forgetting about it all together, and the second

was embracing what remained.

These dual processes are forever repeating themselves in all areas of my life; rejecting what I think I know and finding truth in what remains. But just as soon as I think I’ve grasped something, I find it slipping through my fingers again.

In my early youth I had imagined that being an empowered woman meant sleeping with someone different every weekend, wearing high heels, drinking lots of wine and having a high powered job. That was the modern female in my society trained mind, filled with TV and movies and too many hours watching ‘Sex & the City’ before my 14th birthday.

But the longer I spent wandering about the hills and forgetting all the other boxes

and categories I had grown up in, the more I found myself quite naturally rejecting a mould impressed upon me by the media and modern society.

Empowerment actually looked like losing the mould, and finding my own one. Grabbing a horse and riding for the mountains, and leaving behind things like ‘gender’ boxes altogether.

So having lost all I thought it meant to be a woman, what did I find? Something priceless actually, that dies a little inside when it’s treated like exchangeable goods for consumption, accosted by men on the street in India, followed in dark alleys in London, or pushed into dark corners in a bar in Queenstown.

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“...this is about who we are when everything else that made us who we are has gone.

And I’m not sure if what remains could be what we think we know of ‘man’ or ‘woman’.”

Writing about a topic like ‘a woman’s place in modern society’ I found myself at risk of losing the meaning of the whole thing altogether. I’ve never really found many answers in regurgitating and chip chopping and crossreferencing. I find the best sort of answers come when things go terribly quiet and an answer cracks open from somewhere else entirely.

It turns out I am not the ‘object’ the dodgy men in the Aussie outback and the creepy teens at the school dances saw me as. And as I rejected the labels and categories society had put on me, who I really am began to dawn on me. I remembered that before I watched Sex & the City, my favourite movie was called ‘A Little Princess’; (and if I’m really honest it still is) a story about a child who was convinced, against all odds, that every girl is a princess despite circumstances that may say otherwise.

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I’ve travelled a fair bit the last five years, and I’ve thought about things even more. It always leads me back to this horrible thing that I can’t get my head around: sex-trafficking. Children as young as three trapped in brothels being beaten, raped and coerced to meet a demand. This happens in countries like Thailand, and India, in Africa, and America, and Europe (and anywhere you look for it) and people often ask me what sex-trafficking looks like here in New Zealand. And sadly what I see at work here in the society around me is the same consumer driven mindset that created this demand for the ‘rape-for-profit’ industry. Sextrafficking is a rapidly growing global enterprise that earns $100 billion USD annually, fuelled by a pornography soaked, tinder-trained mindset searching for goods to consume on a Saturday night.

The feminine actualisation I’m talking about is not who I think I am, or who I think you should be; this is about who we are when everything else that made us who we are has gone.

And I’m not sure if what remains could be what we think we know of ‘man’ or ‘woman’. I wonder if the human spirit is perhaps a bit more simple than all that gender stuff anyway, because the more I’ve forgotten about a world that consumes and disposes and uses people for all it can get out of them, the more I’ve discovered a priceless, simple quality to human life beyond any idea of worth or value. Something I’ve never found in the mirror, on Facebook or in my self-doubt, but an actualisation that lay beyond the city limits, across the border and past the horizon-line: a pricelessness worth fighting for until the world we see reflects it.

Photo by Grey Area Productions

what’s happening

Coffee Supreme’s Largest café Opens in Christchurch Coffee Supreme’s latest (and possibly greatest) café is opening in March in Christchurch. The largest of their own branded cafés, Supreme Supreme is licensed and open evenings so you can enjoy your espresso, Chemex or cold press into the wee hours.

Head chef Tania comes with the most excellent credentials – she’s worked at Nikau, Floriditas and Maranui Café in Wellington as well as Batch in Melbourne. coffeesupreme.com

Neat Places at Your Fingertips

Hotel Montreal The luxury five star boutique hotel Hotel Montreal is a fine example of how we all should live. The stylish 25 bedroom hotel is spectacularly designed, and is equipped with the ever popular Polo Bar. Book a room for visiting friends or take a mini break away. You won’t be disappointed.

363 Montreal Street hotelmontreal.co.nz

The New Zealand city guide has released their free smartphone app which will help you discover all the best places to go in Auckland, Christchurch, Dunedin and Wellington. The app locates where you are on the map and shows you the ‘neat places’ closest to you. Download the app for iOS and Android on the Neat Places website. neatplaces.co.nz/app

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A Foraged North Canterbury Dinner

Black Estate dinner.

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Earlier this year, seven of North Canterbury’s best vineyards got together and hosted seven international wine writers to show their special guests the essence of North Canterbury, its food and wine, all in one day. The purpose? To show Christchurch the North Canterbury way of eating, drinking and living.

The mission began by splitting the guests into seven groups, each hosted by a vineyard, chef and eager band of foragers. By 2pm each group had canvased North Canterbury and returned to Black Estate with an unbelievable bounty.

Lamb, venison, crayfish, tua tua, a plethora of amazing seaweeds, paua, corn, honey comb, wild fennel, borage, lentils, grain, barley and truffles had been uncovered. The second mission? Get 10 chefs into one kitchen to prepare a feast within three hours. The chefs came from Logan Brown (Wellington), Harlequin Public House (Christchurch), Shop Eight (Christchurch), Roots Restaurant (Christchurch) and Orphan’s Kitchen (Auckland), and were accompanied by local chef Kate McMillian.

New Regent Street dinner.

Angela Clifford from one of the participating wineries, Tongue in Groove remarked that the beauty of the day was that it “wasn’t a staged event, it wasn’t manufactured. We wanted to show our guests how North Canterbury people live our lives”.

If this isn’t enough to get you into foraging, the group then took the idea into Christchurch to share with the city. Orphan’s Kitchen, Roots Restaurant and Shop Eight took the leftover North Canterbury produce and topped it up with food found in urban gardens, community gardens and the red zone. The result? A spectacular outdoor seven-course dinner with seven North Canterbury wines on New Regent Street.

Local ideas company Brown Bread made it all happen and will look to do more events like this in the future. brownbread.co.nz facebook.com/northcanterburywine

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know your arts

Nostalgia Festival — 7 March 2015 A daylong independent music, food and wine festival set amongst the Ferrymead Heritage Park, Nostalgia Festival is the hot ticket for the end of summer. The vintage-style festival, now in its second year, celebrates a culture of pop up cuisine, craft beer, wine, market stalls and art, whilst the

country’s finest indie musicians provide the entertainment. Taking the stage are legendary Kiwi band The Bats, Fabulous Arabia (a collaborative project

by Mike Fabulous and Lawrence Arabia) and Sal Valentine & the Baby Shakes. nostalgiafestival.co.nz

Christchurch Art Gallery After four years of operating as ‘a gallery without walls’, Christchurch Art Gallery Te Puna o Waiwhetu will finally open its doors again in December.

The Gallery’s Foundation has launched Together, an ambitious project which aims to build a five million dollar endowment fund and 36

secure five great works of art over five years to tell the world a little about Christchurch through this time.

Mike Stenhouse, Foundation Chair, says “Together is structured in a way to engage new donors at lower levels while also appealing to established philanthropists at a higher level. We are seeing a new generation

of ‘givers’, ranging from age 25, who want the opportunity to engage with the Gallery and come together with likeminded thinkers.”

Together provides the opportunity be part of something that makes a difference in the city and to be with Christchurch Art Gallery from the start. christchurchartgallery.org. nz/together

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Arts Centre Update 2015 will see over half of the built area of the Arts Centre site restored and opened.

Following on from progress made in 2014, expect some big milestones this year with the completion of the ground water well drilling and centralised plant room areas to enable power and heating provisions to the site. The Library and Common Room

buildings will be opened as will College Hall and the Clock Tower building including the Rutherford’s Den visitor attraction.

The Arts Centre will welcome a new generation of students when the University of Canterbury’s Music and Classics departments move into the restored Chemistry building, bringing with them, the James Logie

Memorial Collection, an extraordinary collection of classical artefacts.

Audiences will be engaged and entertained by the World Buskers Festival in January 2016 and the Christchurch Arts Festival in August / September, while Free Theatre Christchurch will continue to provide an exciting, contemporary programme of performance and events

in the Gymnasium building, throughout the year.

It is the Arts Centre’s vision to become the creative heart of entrpreneurship in Chistchurch. We look forward to seeing people back on site enjoying a stimulating range of experiences within this pristine heritage environment. artscentre.org.nz 37

Who Dat? Name: Johnny Gibson — Director, Nostalgia Festival.

7 March 2015. Ferrymead Heritage Park.

Place of Birth: Christchurch.

Can usually be found: New Regent Street bouncing between the quality hospitality businesses within the street.

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How you spend your time: Favourite piece of art: Working and traveling around NZ, ‘Les Voyageurs’ sculptures by and then spending some good Bruno Catalano quality time here in Christchurch Favourite place in with family and friends. the world: Hopes for Christchurch: Nepal, amazing culture and To embrace the opportunity people amongst beautiful of a new city, to be exciting landscape. and sustainable, and for the creative industries to flourish nostalgiafestival.co.nz alongside our youth to help form a unique new identity and culture for the city.

Ask the Experts Healthy Mind Beauty Treatment as Self-Care Reflections from a Psychotherapist

I believe inner beauty should always come before outer beauty.

Indulging in some playful pampering: having your hair or nails done; a massage; lunch with a friend; some lovely clothes or a little make-up, all of these can be expressions of healthy self-care which make you feel relaxed and vibrant.

Inner beauty is reflected through qualities such as trust, compassion, sincerity, acceptance, truthfulness, generosity and authenticity. It cannot be bottled, bought or sold, applied or injected. Your innermost being cannot be enhanced by any external procedure.

Plastic surgery has its origins in the medical profession, in helping the truly ill recover from burns and injuries, etc. I personally draw the line for myself at needles and knives. Instead, I believe that as a society we can start to cultivate our inner individual beauty by looking to our friends and family for love, support and acceptance.

Psychotherapy can help in addressing the cause of insecurity.

Psychotherapy goes beyond ‘fixing’ and is geared toward developing a thorough understanding and deep acceptance of who you are. Suppressed feelings and forgotten knowledge get a chance

to be made conscious, and in this process you may well come to feel younger and fresh and lighter!

No therapy can bring about lasting change unless you also address life-style patterns. Enjoy an early morning walk, fresh air, gardening, wholesome food, watch the sunset, listen to the rain on the roof. Anything that brings you close to nature is also therapy.

Paul Baakman is a Christchurchbased Registered Psychotherapist.

Psychotherapy: The treatment of a patient’s mental health problems by talking with a psychiatrist, psychologist, or other mental health provider.

During psychotherapy a client learns about their moods, feelings, thoughts and behaviors and how to better respond to life’s challenges.

Psychodrama: An action method, often used as a psychotherapy, in which clients use spontaneous dramatisation, role playing and dramatic self-presentation to investigate and gain insight into their lives.

“Inner beauty is reflected through qualities such as trust, compassion, sincerity, acceptance, truthfulness, generosity and authenticity.

It cannot be bottled, bought or sold, applied or injected.”

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aving recently expanded and remodelled, Nicola Quinn Beauty & Day Spa now has special spaces dedicated to each aspect of the spa experience.

A spacious Nail Lounge for perfect pedicares and manicures.

On the ground floor, a boutique Makeup Studio with Quoi makeup from New York. Not forgetting the Brow Bar where specialists create perfect lashes and brows.

To finish, the Hush Lounge – wines, juices, teas, sweet delights and savoury treats await. A place to just be.

The Spa also offers advanced anti-aging skin treatments and homecare, appearance medicine, DNA skin testing, luxury spa body treatments, Sparties and gift vouchers. www.quinnbeautyspa.co.nz

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Ask the Experts Hair

by Mod’s Hair Grey to Gorgeous What are your grey options when it comes to your hair? Do you ignore it? It could age you. Do you pluck it? You run the risk of going bald.

So, when the grey starts coming in fast and furious or maybe you’ve had a few grey hairs for years and want to look at your options, we can transform you from grey to gorgeous.

If you are considering, or are already grey or salt and pepper, this look tends to work best on skin tones that are pink, olive or dark. If you have sallow (yellow based) or very pale skin, you will probably look washed out so maybe this is not the best option for you.

Above: Create lowlight shadows through the hair for a natural look for a man.

Right: Enhance and enliven your natural grey beauty already existing. If your grey is washing you out then brighten it up by considering highlights or lowlights, sticking to cool tones.

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Above: A natural coverage with multi-dimensional reflections.

Right: Create natural tones with a wood grain effect – effortless and multidimensional.

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Brown hair that’s looking mousy as the grey comes in can be brightened and enriched by weaving in lowlights and highlights of chocolate brown (the depth is needed to add colour back in), honey tones or warm copper browns.

If you’re starting to have reflections of grey in the mirror but not ready to commit, you can try a semi permanent gloss that stains the hair and fades out so you avoid the regrowth line.

Then there is texture, the unexpected visitor to the picture.

Grey hair is usually wiry and dry which makes your mane unmanageable. Combat this with moisture treatments to help maintain shine. Or you could see the grey as an opportunity to be that redhead you always dreamed of being…

Seeing grey is just as much a part of ‘looking the best you can be’. There are now new colours designed especially for grey services featuring @eliminated

by Goldwell technology with multi shine reflections. For the first time ever, a technology that combines remarkable coverage with exceptional shine of elumen from natural coverage to exciting fashion shades, empowering your Mod’s stylist to create gorgeous results.

Left: Create a fashionably red style.

Above: Turn back time for your man with camouflage grey.

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Ask the Experts Beauty

We spoke with Debbie McGregor, the founder and director of Total Body Concept to find out how the owner of a day spa and skin clinic cares for her skin.

In my industry it is imperative to have amazing, healthy and glowing skin. Whilst diet, meditation and exercise are key to having a perfect complexion, the skin will respond well with just products and good treatments. I rely on good products with active ingredients, regular skin treatments and a healthy lifestyle to achieve beautiful results.

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My beauty basics: Cleansing No matter what time of the day or night, whether I’m rising or falling, I’m committed to cleansing. The skin breathes throughout the night and removes toxins from your body.

The skin is the largest excretory organ of your body, so when you cleanse in the morning you are removing the residue of toxins that come out of your skin, on your face or anywhere else.

Toning Toning removes any carbon that sits from the residue of water on your skin. If you have ever seen the residue of water on anything dark, it has white ring around it (that’s the carbon). Toner cleanses your skin and gets it ready to receive active ingredients.

Moisturising In the morning I really activate my skin with Vitamin C and Vitamin A. Vitamin A is my serum concentrate and Vitamin C 23% is my moisturizer. I then apply a tinted sunblock or a sunblock without the tint if I want to do a serious makeup.

I massage the Vitamin C serum in around my eye for three minutes and do some pressure point work on my face. I then massage my Vitamin C active moisturiser in for five minutes.

The minimum is two minutes but I use a massage routine that I really believe is good for the muscular structure of the face.

I teach this to my friends and anyone else who is interested.

At night I cleanse, tone, apply eye cream, exfoliate (with brightening serum) and

then I apply a B2 serum and a nice nourishing rejuvenating night cream.

It’s important to note that this regime is not to be taken lightly. It’s a big time commitment but it costs a lot less than surgery and you look naturally great…

Tips to perfect looking skin: – Use products with active ingredients that you can buy in specialised skin clinics.

– Use IPL and laser treatments for stimulating collagen, anti-ageing, smooth fine lines and improve texture.

– Use Nd:Yag laser for capillaries and vein.

– Regular microdermabrasion to smooth and brighten skin.

– Monthly rejuvenation facials.

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1. KMS AntiHumidity Spray A must have “umbrella” for your hair. Keep it in your purse at all times! Great if you’re planning that trip to Auckland.

3. Mod’s Smoothies Great way to start the day!

Cleanse your sins from the night before or a power through the day smoothie. Get yours at Mod’s Merivale.

2. Parlux White This hair dryer is super light, powerful and looks fantastic.

Great for home and travel.

4. Mod’s Blow wave $45 blow waves Early Bird special. Get your hair perfect before work.

5. Nicola Quinn For a special occasion or to have that extra polished look, get your make up done at Nicola Quinn and your hair blow waved at Mod’s Hair (only 50 metres from each other!).

6. Spider Our best selling men’s styling product.

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Who’s Changing the World

Société believes we have a personal responsibility to deal with the massive social and environmental issues the world is facing.

We believe business has a huge role in that.

BCorp is an international organization that helps for-profit businesses work out how they can make this much needed change. We sat down for a Skype chat with Alicia Darvall, Executive Director, B Lab Australia & New Zealand to talk about the work BLab and BCorp are doing here, in Australia and a broad.

What’s the difference between BLab and BCorp?

What’s involved with becoming BCorp certified?

We are a not forprofit organization that certifies BCorp corporations. BLab is the membership organization and my role is to create awareness of BCorps in NZ and Australia and persuade people to go through the certification and then manage them once they become certified.

To become a BCorp you need to do an online holistic impact assessment which looks at everything that you do in your business.

For example, your relationship with your employees, how you work in your community, your environmental engagement, your transparency in governance infrastructure and whether or not you have a social enterprise business model. We ask

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questions like ‘do you give back?’ ‘do you have a foundation?’ and ‘how do you manage your social mission?’

You go through about 200 questions and you need to get 80 points out of 200 to be certified as a BCorp.

It’s rigorous. There are about 15,000 businesses that have gone through the impact assessment and there’s about 1,200 BCorps internationally.

We’re really looking for the exemplars, and are trying to highlight businesses who have a strong social

and environmental mission and who hold themselves to a great degree of transparency.

We also look at employee peace, what your employment engagement is, what your benefits are, do you give paid volunteering opportunities for your employees. How do you work with your community? Do you purchase from local businesses? There are a lot of ways that any business can have impact.

“So I shine a light on their good work – I like to think of myself as a combination of an enabler and cheerleader.”

Who would you love to see become BCorp certified?

What is it you do in your role at BCorp?

I support a lot of entrepreneurs. One of the big roles we have is to make life easier for social entrepreneurs who have made the decision to do business differently. So I shine a light on their good work – I like to think of myself as a combination of an enabler and cheerleader.

I work closely with businesses who are interested in improving their impact and using our tools to do that. I spend a lot of time introducing one certified BCorp with another, trying to create strategic partnerships and meeting with government and big businesses to see how they can engage with BCorps.

How is BCorp trying to change the world?

We are trying to change the world by social and environmental change. We want to help for-profit businesses by providing a framework for them through the process which will increase consumer and stakeholder trust.

With a BCorp you know that they’re not brainwashing, they are an authentic business with real outcomes.

We work closely with these brilliant entrepreneurs, who are bringing about change and creating opportunities for growth.

It’s about scaling good business. Our ultimate gain is to have business success measured differently, so it’s about durable prosperity for all and not just for your shareholders.

In New Zealand I’d love to see Icebreaker, Eco Store and a bank become BCorp certified. I’m excited to be working with the sustainable business network and to work with their members.

One of the game changers is going to be big consumer brands – we want to work with big businesses that can raise the profile on how businesses can create change through putting our logo on their packaging.

What BCorp business do you admire most?

I’m a big fan of Eagle Consumables who are the Christchurch BCorp, partly because it has been a BCorp business for over two years and was the first in New Zealand.

Steve, who owns Eagle Consumables, is extraordinary in his drive to generate change, somewhat in isolation.

I’m a big fan of his.

Can you provide some advice to businesses who may want to become BCorp certified in the future?

Our online impact assessment is free and confidential and I recommend that any business goes through it because it provides some very constructive tools on how to consider your impact. When are working in a start up or in isolation, you don’t necessarily think of every facet of your business.

I’m an extraordinary believer in community, and one of the great things about being a BCorp business is that you find your tribe. Once you’re certified, it’s the network that you’re a part of both locally and internationally, that is so extraordinary. bcorporation.net

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Global Roaming New Greek Riveria

Saronic Islands and the new Greek Revival If you’re looking for other options other than Myknos or Santorini when you’re in Greece, then head to this cluster of islands consisting of Septses, Hydra or Poros (easy to take water taxis to and from). The Saronic Islands are 20 minutes from the mainland.

Back on the mainland, the world renowned Nikki Beach Club has now opened at Porto Heli.

Think of it as a beach club with hotels and restaurants. It’s a party resort bringing glamour, style and entertainment day or night.

Also the exclusive resort Amanzoe is a part of the Aman chain and is only 10 minutes drive from Porto Heli.

If you want another vibe, take a water taxi to Hydra, an island in a class of its own. The Amphitheatre harbour has a real bohemian feel and your only source of transportation are donkeys and water taxis. The beaches aren’t a feature on this island but swimming from the rocks is like your own seawater swimming pool. amanresorts.com 48

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Poseidonion Hotel Luxury accommodation set in the heart of Spetses, Poseidonion Hotel is a world class holiday experience.

Poseidonion celebrated its 100th birthday in 2014 and has seen meticulous architectural restoration. This place is truly spectacular – dine out in the hotel’s historic ‘On the Verrandah’ restaurant, where traditional Greek cuisine meets contemporary techniques with seasonal ingredients pulled from the hotel’s organic veggie garden.

Enjoy the ridiculously good views with a cocktail in hand from the hotel’s Library Bar, or partake in one of Poseidonion regular events, from open air concerts and tweed runs, to beekeeping courses and natural soap making classes.

Spetses Excursions Avoid the tourist hot spots of the Greek Islands and explore one of the country’s most beautiful areas, Spetses Island, in style. Spetses has a rich history and a unique history and breathtaking mountain views, and does not allow for private automobiles

so your only means of transport is walking, horsedrawn carriages, bicycles, mopeds and motorcycles.

If you fancy a guided tour of the island you can take your pick from a number of customizable tours. Experience

the unique island by traditional kaiki boat where you can embark on a journey to discover secluded beaches and picturesque bays. Or for something a little more comfortable, hire a luxury boat and be treated like royalty for an unforgettable experience.

Dapia, Spetses 180 50, Greece poseidonion.com

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