16 - Sunday, December 5, 1993 - Nort

STYLE NCTES

IF YOU’RE like me, there’s
still trick-or-treat loot lining
the kitchen cupboard, last
year’s Christmas cards are
lying in a box in the base-
ment — addressed yet never
posted — and the idea of
Christmas shopping in
November never made it past
just that: an idea.

But now that December is upen
us, and there are only 20 shopping
days left before Ye Olde Rotund
One shimmies down the chimney,
it’s time to put some thought into
that perfect gift.

The Body Shop offers affordable
gifts that let you give twice: once
under the Christmas tree, and again
to the communities from whence
these unique items came.

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Exquisite hand-made Nepalese
writing paper scented with White
Musk, Fuzzy Peach or Rose Musk,
$2.95: Brazilian beaded bracelets,
created by the women of the
Kayapo tribe, $9.95; and wooden
body massagers from Southern
India, $5.95 and $11.95, are the
product of the The Body Shop's
Trade Not Aid program, set up to
help indigenous people in develop-
ing countries supp-t themselves
while preserving traditional skills.

Also from Nepal, a set of four
scented sachets, $5.95, comes ina
pretty box of recycled paper bound
by rope, and drawer liners. $11.55,
come in one of six fragrances: dew-
berry, musk, peach, juba, cedar or
lemon.

From The Body Shup‘s

men, avaitable at Shoppers
Drug fart, is packaged in a
handsome wooden crate.

Colourings line of cosmetics comes
the perfect stocking stuffer for the
teenage cosmetophile: Lipspice lip
tint, $6.95, a blend of four shades
of red lip gloss, scented with cinna-
mon and nutmeg.

For a more sophisticated beauty
helper, take a trip to the new
Chanel cosmetic counter at Eaton's.
Chanel’s creamy lip rouge can be
snapped up for a tidy $26.

Or consider Les Precieux de
Chanel, $51. a limited edition gift
set that contains “the absolute
essentials for an evening out’: 2
mini-compuct of sheer pressed
powder and a creme lipstick in rich
red, slipped into a petite black vel-
vet pouch with red tassle clesure.

And to artfully apply makeup
for that very same evening out.
there is a gift set of five brushes,
$165, made of natural goat hair and
wrapped up in a quilted black travel
ca

If you are on a budget, the Rialto
Naturals line of bath and beauty
products, available at Shoppers
Dmg Mant, includes a number of
gift sets for under $20.

A reusable Rose Garden decora-
tor tin, $19.95, is packed with an
assortment of bath products includ-
ing glycerine soap, bath and shower
gel, hand and body lotion, aro-
matherapy bath pearls and a terry
bath mitt.

For men, aloe vera shave cream,
an old-fashioned shaving brush and
vegetable soap are handsomely
packaged in a hunter green wooden
crate, $15.95.

And for that do-it-yourself at-

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THE BODY Shop ocffers a selection of items through its Trade
Not Aid program, set up to help indigenous people in develop-
ing ccuntries support themselves while preserving traditional

skills.

home spa treatment, green apple
milk bath, peppermint foot lotion,
bath pearls, and a pumice stone are
packaged with a terry bath pillow,
$17.95.

Or you can be really decadent
and splurge on the real thing.

La Raffinage, Vancouver's
urban spa, located at 501 West
Georgia, offers a number of gift

packages to suit every need and and
pamper every inch of the body.

For an “executive escape,” there
is Evasion en Beaute.

Hydration therapy facial, aroma
body massage, shampoo and hair
styling and makeup touch up are
followed by lunch at Cafe Pacifica

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