The team at L’Oreal have come up with a groovy little self-massage gadget and clinical tests have been conducted on 100 women under the supervision of medical expert. It is a lipo-kneading treatment designed to combat visible cellulite. The bottle features 2 kneading rollers, as shown in the photo below, to intensively massage the skin and body contouring draining concentrate to tone the figure and smooth orange-peel skin. The massage is based on the kneading and squeezing concept used in professional salons for lymphatic drainage.

Here’s a demo on how to use it. Couldn’t find an English version.

Cellulite appears on the parts of our body where we are most likely to store fat – thights, bottom, tummy and sometimes upper arms. It’s estimated that 90% of women will have cellulite at some point in our lives, which is caused when fat cells grow with age and start pushing through connective fibers, creating the dimpling effect.

So now, they claim the Co-caffeine Cx will immediately make your skin look firmer and supple, and the most amazing thing is, you will see improvements after 2 weeks! The self-massager is simple to use, my skin becomes slighly red and warm after use, proof that blood is getting to the surface. It has a lovely holiday smell too! Use only 1 or 2 times a day after bath. Always use the rollers in 1 direction: upwards from bottom to top and do not move it back and forth.

I’ve been told by at least 3 friends that this cool little gadget is very effective, so I though I would buy one and have a try. It’s kinda expensive in Shanghai, cost me RMB220 for a bottle. You can get an additional refill bottle for RMB180.

I bought the pro-massager at Watson and the L’Oreal girl gave me a membership card with some samples.

Here’s how to use it:

• Step 1 (Prepare): Cellulite-kneading massage – The massage rollers actively massage the cellulite area in kneading strokes. The skin is squeezed and rolled. This intensive massage helps to stimulate micro-circulation and encourages tissue drainage. The skin is prepared for step 2.
• Step 2 (Post-Massage Firming Concentrate): The concentrate, enriched with stimulating Co-caffeine Cx, is specially formulated to act effectively post-massage and helps to improve the appearance of cellulite.

Apply on the areas of stubborn cellulite and you can now massage like a pro!

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Ever wonder how you look like in the past?

I couldn’t help resist yearbooking myself at YearBookYourself.com, launched last month which lets you upload a photo (Find a picture of yourself looking straight at the camera) and allows you to see yourself with classic hairdos and vintage outfits spanning five decades. There are era-appropriate music plays while you’re waiting to be stunned. Once Yearbooked, you can save your pics and all I can say is awesome!

The site has style ranging from the 50s to the 90s. The owner, partnered with Colle + McVoy to create an innovative online and in-center experience that allows teens to see what they might looked like when their parents were in schools, all while catching up on current back-to-school fashions.

The site also features pages that allows you to save your favourite yearbook photo and then invite your friends to post their photos as well. You can also print or email your yearbook photo creation to your websites or online social networking sites such as Facebook.

Below are how Ron & I look like decades ago and it cracks me up!! LOL

Have Fun!!

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Yesterday Ron and I went for Hong Kong Cuisine along Dingxi road as I need to go to my bank to get some stuff done. We have been to this place before and the grilled pork was not bad. The service was… well… no comments.

This time though, the very gruff waitress kinda got onto our nerves. Good service in Shanghai is really very very very rare.

We ordered some famous HongKong dishes and a bowl of fish congee. The picture in the menu was rather appetizing with slice fish, nuts and you-tiao (or Chinese cruller). The waitress taking our order immediately snapped “Oh…. There will be no you-tiao in the porridge”. Despite the small disappointment, we were prepared to let it go.

waitress: zhe ge mei you yiu-tiao de ah… (There is no chinese cruller in this congee)

me: wei shen me? (why?)

w: wo men yi kai shi jiu mei you de ya! (We never put chinese cruller in our congee when we started selling!)

me: na wei shen me zhao pian li mian you? (Why is it in the photo?)

w: <<<MEI YOU JIU MEI YOU!!!!!!!!>>> (DON’T HAVE MEANS DON’T HAVE!!!!!)

me: na jiu bu yao fang zhao pian ah!?!? (Don’t show it in the photo then!?!?)

w: …

Why bother to show the photos in the menu when you are not selling the actual stuff. It can be misleading and even if there are any misunderstandings, a polite explanation would have been enough. We find it ok if they have no more yiu-tiao, but they insisted that this ingredient was not included from when they started business!?!?!

Things in China are improving and some things here are way better than they are in other parts of the globe. Service line isn’t one of them! Lesson that we’ve learnt, never trust a photo in a menu and don’t have means DON’t HAVE!

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