After hearing L’Onglex could get trim and slim without the pain of endless stomach crunching or the spirit crushing misery of a cabbage soup detox, we have to say we were more than intrigued by Mama Mio Boot Camp. If you haven’t seen it, this is a slimming treatment which aims to improve circulation, de-bloat and then clarify and firm the skin using a sequence of massage, toning creams and exfoliation.
Now before we even start, L’Onglex feels it only fair to place on record our absolute scepticism when it comes to all things slimming related. Especially given the number of celebrity fans of said regime. We’re a bit old school. If you want to slim. Eat less. Exercise more. Not that we do. But that’s how it’s done. Again, not that we do. However, deciding to go along with at the very least an open mind, we booked ourselves in and found ourselves rather pleased that the whole thing twas not what it seemed.
Firstly, rather than being a hardcore military inspired regime involving a shaven headed Sergeant Major, the boot camp is a surprisingly gentle routine. Finding ourselves on a massage table rather than in a dill yard the whole thing began with some reflexology focussing on pressure points around the stomach and moved on to some colon massage. Said to reduce bloating, if you’ve never had your colon massaged before, it isn’t all that nice, but then it isn’t all that bad, and since it does what it says it will do, we guess at the very least it works better than it sounds !
With the massage over the treatment moves on to a fruit exfoliation using citric acids to naturally remove dead skin and prep problem areas ready for a firming cream. By the time L’Onglex’s dead skin had been shorn away and the firming cream had worked its way into the skin things were feeling tighter already and it was time for an algae wrap to get to work at reducing cellulite by speeding up lipolysis. As this is key to helping the rate at which our bodies breakdown deposits of fat being stored we were told this was key to the treatments success.
After being rather impressed with the hour or so we spent being pulled, prodded and generally smoothed over we have to say we were quite pleased with the finished result. Overall Mamma Mio does reduce puffiness, it does help with water retention and although the treatment isn’t really a slimming treatment as such, it did give us a slimmer figure. At about €90 a go the Mamma Mio Bootcamp isn’t particularly cheap, but on the other hand, if you need to give the dieting or the detox a bit of a boost we think it’s well worth looking into.
After hearing L’Onglex could get trim and slim without the pain of endless stomach crunching or the spirit crushing misery of a cabbage soup detox, we have to say we were more than intrigued by Mama Mio Boot Camp. If you haven’t seen it, this is a slimming treatment which aims to improve circulation, de-bloat and then clarify and firm the skin using a sequence of massage, toning creams and exfoliation.
Now before we even start, L’Onglex feels it only fair to place on record our absolute scepticism when it comes to all things slimming related. Especially given the number of celebrity fans of said regime. We’re a bit old school. If you want to slim. Eat less. Exercise more. Not that we do. But that’s how it’s done. Again, not that we do. However, deciding to go along with at the very least an open mind, we booked ourselves in and found ourselves rather pleased that the whole thing twas not what it seemed.
Firstly, rather than being a hardcore military inspired regime involving a shaven headed Sergeant Major, the boot camp is a surprisingly gentle routine. Finding ourselves on a massage table rather than being screamed at in a drill yard, the whole thing began with some reflexology focussing on pressure points around the stomach and moved on to a pretty thorough colon massage. As to what I can say of having my colon massaged I’m not exactly sure. Said to reduce bloating, if you’ve never had your colon massaged before, it isn’t all that nice, but then it isn’t all that bad either, and since it does what it says it will do, we guess at the very least it works better than it sounds !
With the massage over the treatment moves on to a fruit exfoliation using citric acids to naturally remove dead skin and prep problem areas ready for a firming cream. By the time L’Onglex’s dead skin had been shorn away and the firming cream had worked its way into the skin things were feeling tighter already and it was time for an algae wrap to get to work at reducing cellulite by speeding up lipolysis. As this is key to helping the rate at which our bodies breakdown deposits of fat being stored we were told this was key to the treatments success.
After being rather impressed with the hour or so we spent being pulled, prodded and generally smoothed over we have to say we were quite pleased with the finished result. Overall Mama Mio does reduce puffiness, it does help with water retention and although the treatment isn’t really a slimming treatment as such, it did give us a slimmer figure. At about €90 a go the Mama Mio Bootcamp isn’t particularly cheap, but on the other hand, if you need to give the dieting or the detox a bit of a boost we think it’s well worth looking into.
The only gripe we did have ( and as it was a gift it would be rude to have too many! ) was that the formula was a little light on pigment so two to three coats are a must.
But you do still need to wait around between coats which is why we did a double take as well as a hop, skip and a jump when we test drove the new NYC Quick dry polishes. Promising to go from wet to dry in less then sixty seconds , this was just the polish news we’ve been waiting for.
As pastels look set to be huge this summer we must admit that we did justify the €20 by telling ourselves it was all in the name of research. Being the nail junkies we are we normally wait a while before we post on the blog but as we rather liked this we thought we’d just get some pics up and have done with it …
