If you are planning to attend the ReVive skin care workshops or consultations today and tomorrow (Friday and Saturday), please be aware that Nordstrom has announced that Dr. Gregory Bays Brown is feeling under the weather and will be unable to be here. However the delightful Hylton Lea, Dr. Bays Brown’s right hand man, will
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When I first wrote about Devra Wathen of Kahala, creator of Etsis hats , the fledgling company was just getting started. What a whirlwind the past few months have been for Etsis! Devra and her able executive assistant, Jennifer Lindsey, have been traveling and showing the innovative hats and fashion panels at trade shows  in
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If sun protection is on your list of New Year’s Resolutions – and shouldn’t it be – be aware there will be some great leaps forward in the science of sun protection in 2012. Soon the FDA will be taking the guesswork out of sun safety. I have interviewed many dermatologists over the years and
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Dr. Gregory Bays Brown is not just a media doctor. He’s the real deal. A well known plastic and reconstructive surgeon, he applied his scientific and medical knowledge and his research techniques to the Nobel prize-winning Epidermal Growth Factor (EGF)  to create ReVive, a high tech line of skin care products. EGF came to Dr.
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In a lot of exercise classes participants look grim and determined, serious and somber. Not in Nia. In Nia classes, especially those taught by Shar Bliss, a very youthful 55,  there are grins all around, as well as whoops  and giggles. Shar and I go way back as exercise friends. In the early aughts we
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Perhaps it’s the strong Asian influence in Hawaii that makes us think about scrubbing, polishing, culling and cleaning our homes for the new year. We often attack our floors, windows, cupboards and carpets, but there’s one thing we may overlook: our cosmetics. It’s just as important to clean and sanitize the stuff we put on
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GLO/Brilliant How does Dr. Jonathan B. Levine, a NYC dentist with a state of the art practice that includes the likes of Dr. Oz, Tina Fey, Christie Brinkley and Mariska Hargitay – also manage to be a visionary inventor? Answer: He bikes. For miles. Around  NYC. Or the Kona Coast of the Big Island where
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Okay, so I don’t look – or feel – like Emmy Lou Harris this holiday season. With deep, dark and saggy circles under my eyes, sallow skin from holiday neglect and rosacea kicking up from stress (and, ahem, red wine), well, I feel ugh and ugly. Just in case you might be feeling a little
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Lara Leimana Fonoimoana was crowned Mrs. America on December 15. Lara, a 30-year-old Kahuku resident, assumed the crown when the former Mrs. America was crowned Mrs. World. Lara is the mother of two children, Athena, age two, and Titus, age one. She is married to Vance Fonoimoana. A dancer with the Polynesian Cultural Center, Lara
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Sugar overload. Buffet bloat. Aunty’s rum cake. Mom’s apple pie. Tutu’s fruitcake. Dad’s fried turkey. You name it, you just may eat it this weekend. If not, there’s always next weekend, Christmas weekend, right? Most nutritionists will tell you that it’s normal to gain a pound or two during the holidays. However if those extra
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