author

 
Menu
Search
 
November 22, 2024
 

Today's print edition

Home Delivery
Subscribe for more access

Meta

Michelle Leigh
LIFE / Style & Design / BEAUTY EAST AND WEST
Mar 15, 2001
An audacious urge for color
Shimmer and glimmer have been around long enough for their glint and sparkle to start to seem a bit boring, don't you think?
LIFE / Style & Design / BEAUTY EAST AND WEST
Mar 1, 2001
International spa secrets
Some of the best recipes for a do-it-yourself spa come from those cultures known to go in for a bit of sybaritic pampering. Japan is high up on the list: A highly developed sense of aesthetics, a long tradition of bathing and a sublime appreciation of ritual have helped beauty practices here evolve into...
LIFE / Style & Design / BEAUTY EAST AND WEST
Feb 16, 2001
Scrub a dub dub: DIY spa treatments
Though spring isn't far off, it's that time of year when even the last dregs of winter seem to be lingering too long. To cheer yourself up and conjure up a sense of renewal, give yourself a DIY spa treatment.
LIFE / Style & Design / BEAUTY EAST AND WEST
Feb 1, 2001
Beauty standard takes a new shape
The big news from the Paris collections is that the hourglass figure is back. Perhaps it was the only direction the silhouette could take -- the fashionable form had become so super-skinny that it couldn't go any further without vanishing. With the preferred dress size in Hollywood recently reported...
LIFE / Style & Design / BEAUTY EAST AND WEST
Jan 18, 2001
Oranges for body and soul
Continuing with our citrus theme from the previous column, today we'll discover a few more uses of the spiritually potent, beautifying, healing orange and its citrus relatives.
LIFE / Style & Design / BEAUTY EAST AND WEST
Jan 4, 2001
Festive citrus delights to brighten up the new year
If there is a companion plant to the evergreen that is so characteristic of this time of year, it must be the orange or one of its immediate relatives: the tangerine, the clementine, the mandarin, or even the citron or grapefruit.
LIFE / Style & Design / BEAUTY EAST AND WEST
Dec 21, 2000
Refresh your soul with the scent of eternal rebirth
For me the special warmth, freshness and magic of this time of year is beautifully embodied in its piny scents. The pine of Christmas trees and wreaths segues nicely into the pine of Japanese New Year displays.
LIFE / Style & Design / BEAUTY EAST AND WEST
Dec 7, 2000
Counting down to Christmas in gold and silver
When you're getting into a Christmas mood, nothing expresses this festive state better than sparkly, shimmery, glimmery things, and when it comes to buying special gifts from the beauty realm, there is plenty of that sparkly stuff out there to choose from.
LIFE / Style & Design / BEAUTY EAST AND WEST
Nov 16, 2000
Spoiling yourself with beauty treats and baubles
Sometimes a girl needs to indulge herself -- or, better yet, be indulged by some generous other. (You could always clip this column, color-highlighting your most-desirables, and leave it lying around in some conspicuous spot to drop the perfect hint.)
LIFE / Style & Design / BEAUTY EAST AND WEST
Nov 2, 2000
Essential oils for happiness
In addition to St. John's wort and Bach Flower Remedies, there are other natural means of lifting the spirits.
LIFE / Style & Design / BEAUTY EAST AND WEST
Oct 19, 2000
Restoring health with flowers
To continue with our rather jolly theme of happiness-inducing strategies, today we take a look at the Bach Flower Remedies.
LIFE / Style & Design / BEAUTY EAST AND WEST
Oct 5, 2000
The power of St. John's wort: A herb to make you happy
In these days of miracle medication for nearly any psychological complaint, the botanical alternatives are getting a lot of attention. There have been happiness remedies around for millennia, of course; as with most botanical treatments, the knowledge is ancient.
LIFE / Style & Design / BEAUTY EAST AND WEST
Sep 21, 2000
The healing power of ginger
This is a good time of year to bring out the ginger. As we move into autumn and the days get shorter and the air cooler, ginger is a great way to replace sunshine and summer heat and warm things up a bit. I've written about ginger before, but like a few other special classics in the botanical medicine...
LIFE / Style & Design / BEAUTY EAST AND WEST
Sep 7, 2000
Tattoos: painful to acquire, but even harder to remove
More and more people are getting tattoos, so perhaps it is not surprising that more and more people are getting tattoos removed.
LIFE / Style & Design / BEAUTY EAST AND WEST
Aug 17, 2000
The tawdry charm of the tattoo
Tattoos are everywhere these days. What are we expressing with this new vision of beauty, that calls for the tattoo to complete it? Until a few decades ago in the West, tattoos were associated mostly with sailors, prisoners, gang members, soldiers and carnival performers.
LIFE / Style & Design / BEAUTY EAST AND WEST
Jul 20, 2000
Haute couture for your face
Along with Terry de Gunzburg's new haute couture beauty venture, By Terry, discussed in the last column, which is perhaps the most high profile and exclusive of the current custom beauty lines, there are some others worth having a closer look at.
LIFE / Style & Design / BEAUTY EAST AND WEST
Jul 6, 2000
Cosmetics with the personal touch
One of the most interesting new trends in the world of beauty right now is the development of the personalized product. This is a phenomenon that started to emerge some years ago, along with the trend toward fresh beauty products, the sort of things sold by companies like Lush: refrigerated face packs...
LIFE / Style & Design / BEAUTY EAST AND WEST
Jun 1, 2000
Losing weight the intelligent way
In my last column we had a look at some of the substances now on the market as fat-fighters: chitosan, bromelain, caffeine, Fucus vesiculosis, aromatherapy diet pens, Urtica urens and St. John's wort. Today we'll consider a few more options in our hunt for what might work and what probably doesn't.
LIFE / Style & Design / BEAUTY EAST AND WEST
May 18, 2000
The facts you should know before trying to take it all off
More people than ever are overweight, and I would guess that the percentage of people on diets has gone up proportionally as well. Add the number of dieters who really do need to lose weight to those who diet out of some misguided desire to be skeletal, and you've got a lot of people. Weight loss is...
LIFE / Style & Design / BEAUTY EAST AND WEST
May 4, 2000
How to hang on to luscious locks
Rakugami, kuzume: When you're happy, your hair grows; / when sad, your fingernails -- Japanese proverb
Two of America’s biggest debt holders are dumping Treasurys
The U.S. Treasury building in Washington. Investors in Japan and China sold a pile of U.S. debt in the last quarter, just before the U.S. presidential election.
Ishiba aggravates his own political failures with diplomatic faux pas
Prime Minster Shigeru Ishiba is greeted at the APEC summit in Lima by Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau on Friday. The Japanese leader was criticized for remaining seated while meeting several world leaders at the event.
Japan's 3.31 million visitors in October set monthly record
Kiyomizu Temple in Kyoto in December 2023. Famous autumn leaf colors contributed to increased tourism demand last month from many markets across Asia, Europe and North America, the Japan National Tourism Organization has said.
Japan ranks last in romance satisfaction for second straight year
In a survey of 31 countries, Japan ranked last in terms of those who felt loved, with just 51% of respondents saying so.
Ruling coalition and DPP strike last-minute deal over economic policy
DPP policy chief Makoto Mahaguchi speaks at the party's policy gathering in Tokyo on Wednesday.
Japan, U.K. and Italy discuss inviting more countries to joint fighter project
A new concept model of a next-generation fighter jet to be jointly developed by Japan, Britain and Italy is on display in Farnborough, Hampshire, in July.
Haruki Murakami's 'The City and Its Uncertain Walls' gives deep deja vu
For “The City and Its Uncertain Walls,” translated into English by Philip Gabriel, Haruki Murakami confronts the ghosts who won't leave him alone.
Japanese expats in Asia find community through rugby
The Taiwan Fivewoods celebrate their victory at the 2023 Asian Japanese Rugby Cup in December of last year.
In Fukushima, a weekend of prose, poetry and translation
Aomori-based writer JJ Carter presented on tabletop gaming as creative inspiration for building characters and narratives.
For Dr. Nakamats, aging is just experience in action
Though he didn't win the recent gubernatorial election in Tokyo, the 96-year-old Dr. Nakamats' run was seen as inspirational in Japan's aging society.

Podcast

One of the many entrances to the Kabukicho neighborhood in Tokyo’s Shinjuku Ward.
Kabukicho: Tokyo’s ‘stadium of desire’

Longform

Construction takes place on the Takanawa Gateway Convention Center in Tokyo, slated to open in 2025.
A boom for business tourism in Japan?
By Kathryn Wortley

SUSTAINABLE JAPAN

mission sustainability vol.12 : Kose Corp.Kose takes pride in creating beauty in the world
mission sustainability vol.12 : Kose Corp.Kose takes pride in creating beauty in the world

SPECIAL SUPPLEMENTS note

Read more

SUPPLEMENTS BINDER