HONG KONG Grand Hyatt Hong Kong's Plateau Spa has just brought a new Korean skincare brand to the city, and it arrived with more than enough clinical credibility to make us curious. VENN, developed over more than 25 years of dermatological research in South Korea, is now available exclusively in Hong Kong through Plateau Spa's treatment menu and retail counter — and with pigmentation, dullness, fine lines, and general dehydration all on our own list of concerns, the brand-new

HONG KONG We visited PRIVATE i SALON's Central Building location last year for a balayage refresh, and it left enough of an impression that there was never really a question of where to go when it came time for another round. This time, though, the starting point was rougher: months of growth had left my roots extremely overgrown, and the length itself had gone dry and brittle — the kind of texture that makes you nervous about adding more colour on top rather than excited abo

HONG KONG Could a 60-minute IV session and a sweat in the sauna be the reset Hong Kong's busy professionals need? We visited Central's Restore Integrative Medical Clinic to find out. First Impressions Located on the 16th floor of 1 Duddell Street in Central, Restore Integrative Medical Clinic feels more like a wellness sanctuary than a medical clinic. I walked in from the bustling Central lunch hour, sweaty, frazzled, and slightly damp from the rain, but the warm, welcoming s

HONG KONG Hong Kong's decorated day spa has a new address. Sense of Touch — the homegrown wellness brand that's been a fixture of the city's beauty scene since its Hollywood Road beginnings in 2002 — has officially opened its doors in Causeway Bay, marking yet another expansion for a brand that already spans Central and Southside. And to mark the occasion, the new outpost is running a limited-time launch menu that mixes brand-new treatments with a curated edit of the brand's

Halle Berry turns 60 today, and she has spent the better part of the last year making sure everyone knows she isn't dreading it. The Oscar winner rang in the milestone early from Fiji, and looks as amazing as ever. Here's what that looks like in practice — from her trainer-approved workouts to hormone therapy. The Workout: "Movement As Medicine" Berry has trained with celebrity coach Peter Lee Thomas for years, and by his own account she has the discipline of someone a third

INTERVIEW As a Hong Kong-based mum and frequent traveller, I’ve been lucky enough to stay at some beautiful hotels around the world. Here are five memorable stays that have stayed with me, from a honeymoon in the Maldives to family getaways in Shenzhen and staycations closer to home. All images courtesy of @JessJann. Joali, Maldives Joali was such an amazing resort! We went for our honeymoon, and it was my first day in the Maldives. The weather was gorgeous and it honestly wa

PARTNER CONTENT Thinning hair doesn't happen overnight. Neither does regrowing it. If you've recently added a hair growth oil to your routine and you're still waiting for results, weeks in, nothing visible, you're not alone. Most people expect a difference within a few weeks and get genuinely frustrated when nothing seems to shift. Here's the thing: hair grows slowly by biology, not by brand failure. Knowing how long hair growth oil takes to show results on thinning hair mean

HONG KONG I'd heard genuinely amazing things about Zeva Hair Spa for a while before I finally booked in this summer. Zeva has been operating since 2017 and positions itself as Hong Kong's foremost destination for holistic hair and scalp wellness. What sets Zeva apart on paper is trichology: the clinical study of the hair and scalp, as opposed to purely cosmetic hairdressing. Its team is built around IAT-certified trichologists, a credential that specifically trains practition

HONG KONG Hong Kong sleep brand Hush Home has introduced the Hush Duo Mattress™, an 11-inch hybrid design built to solve one of the most common complaints among couples who share a bed: two people rarely want the same firmness. Body type, sleep position, and support needs vary enormously from person to person, and a standard mattress only ever offers one fixed feel — which usually means one partner is quietly compromising every night. Hush Home spent time developing Hush Duo

HONG KONG EstheClinic, the multi-award-winning Hong Kong beauty clinic with locations in Central, Tsim Sha Tsui, and Sai Ying Pun, is offering a HK$880 trial price on its Skin Renewal Advanced Microneedling & Peel Duo — a combination treatment aimed at acne scarring, fine lines, enlarged pores, pigmentation, and uneven skin tone in a single session. All images courtesy of EstheClinic. What the Treatment Involves The Advanced Microneedling & Peel Duo pairs two established skin

HONG KONG EstheClinic, Hong Kong's number one aesthetic clinic with two decades of experience, is running a buy-one-get-one promotion on EstheCryo, its non-surgical fat freezing treatment, which the clinic positions as the only pain-free version of the procedure currently available. All images courtesy of EstheClinic Hong Kong. How Fat Freezing Works EstheCryo is built on cryolipolysis, a technology that applies intense, localised cold to targeted areas of the body in order t

HONG KONG All About You, the Sheung Wan-based wellness and hypnotherapy centre founded by Sonia Samtani, is running the first level of its flagship self-development programme, Be Your Own Master, over three days this August — a foundation course built around identifying the subconscious patterns that quietly run people's daily lives. Sonia Samtani is the founder and managing director of All About You, and has worked in hypnotherapy, coaching, and regression therapy since 2005

Thunder Massage bills itself as Hong Kong's only silent massage, and we booked 80 minutes to see what that actually means in practice — not just as a gimmick, but as a genuinely different way to get a deep tissue massage.

HONG KONG In a city where five-star hotel spas and hole-in-the-wall reflexology parlours compete for the same overworked clientele, Ora Spa has staked out curious new territory: personality-driven aromatherapy, paired with sound healing and a face-lifting treatment performed by a therapist with serious pedigree. I left with a bottle of oil that smells uncannily like my own personality and a relaxed face and body. Here's everything you need to know before booking. The Location

HONG KONG Three minutes in a cryo chamber, 30 minutes breathing pressurised oxygen, and a facial that works on your skin at a cellular level — all in one visit, all in the same Central building. That's the pitch at Be Earth Wellness, and we went in to test as much of it as we reasonably could in a single sitting. Here's what each treatment actually felt like, what it's meant to do, and who it's for. All images courtesy of Be Earth Wellness. Where We Went Be Earth Wellness is

HONG KONG Central isn't short on wellness studios promising to make you feel like a new person, but most ask you to commit to one thing at a time — a facial here, a float tank there. °CRYO Hong Kong takes a different approach. It's a full recovery-and-beauty circuit under one roof, and on a recent visit, we decided to move through as much of it as we could in a single afternoon. Here's an honest account of what we did, what it actually felt like, who each treatment is really

HONG KONG Male grooming has quietly become one of Hong Kong's fastest-growing beauty categories, and eyebrows are no exception. Brow lamination — the treatment that sets unruly hairs into a fuller, more defined shape — has moved from a "women's beauty" service into something men across the city are booking too. One salon that regularly comes up in that conversation is Xtreme Lashes Hong Kong. What Xtreme Lashes HK Is Known For Xtreme Lashes was founded in 2005 by registered n

HONG KONG Somewhere along the way, intravenous vitamin therapy quietly slipped out of the hospital ward and into the world of red-carpet wellness. Kendall Jenner and Hailey Bieber have both been open about their fondness for NAD+ infusions, describing them as a reset after punishing stretches of travel and work, while Harry Styles, Gwyneth Paltrow and Rihanna have all been linked to the same needle-and-vitamin-bag routine. What began as a quiet Silicon Valley biohacking habit

LONDON, UNITED KINGDOM Over the past decade, intravenous therapy (IV therapy) has become one of the fastest-growing wellness trends worldwide, evolving from a clinical treatment into a mainstream luxury reserved for those who demand immediate, visible results from their self-care routines. Unlike taking supplements, IV drips bypass the digestive system entirely, achieving up to 100% bioavailability compared to the 10-20% typically absorbed through oral supplementation. It's a

HONG KONG Years of sun exposure in Hong Kong can lead to freckles, pigmentation and uneven skin tone. M22 IPL at Jolie Beaute in Jordan offers a comfortable, non-invasive way to treat these common concerns. What Is It? The M22 is a medical-grade intense pulsed light device — and not all IPL is created equal. Where older or less sophisticated systems deliver a broad, less controlled burst of light energy, the M22 operates with considerably more precision, emitting multiple wav