AXA PPP healthcare–Dental through the ages

 

As you may be able to tell from my blog, I love to smile. I am a very smiley person, if you were to meet me in real life you will spend half your time wondering what I’m giggling about, as apparently I laugh a lot! I think this is a nervous trait that I have, but at least it makes me appear cheery. So as I am a naturally cheery and smiley person I thought it was suiting to talk to you about AXA PP healthcare and their drive to celebrate the impact of a healthy smile throughout July.

This month AXA PPP healthcare want to inspire people to actively improve their dental health and highlight the development of dental though the years. You can see below some rather gruesome yet interesting facts about dental care in times gone by. My favourite from their dental health fact sheet is that in Egyptian Dentistry animal teeth were used as replacements… fangs anyone! And that the first electric toothbrush came around in the 1960s!

AXA PPP are also running two amazing competitions to win some dental related prizes, Their Facebook competition has the grand prize of the chance to win a trip to Barcelona or one year of dental cover. All you have to do to be in chance of winning this amazing prize is head over to their Facebook page and upload an image of a smile hidden in an object. You can see my entry above!

Their second competition is over on Twitter where AXA PPP healthcare are running a competition to win a Beam Brush- the first ever smart toothbrush which monitors your oral health, simply follow the instructions from @AXAPPPhealth to retweet or use the hashtag #AXAPPPSmile to win. Terms and conditions apply bit.ly/13C8OO8

Finally onto the most serious matters after all these competitions. AXA PPP healthcare are holding two, free dental clinics, giving anyone who might have a question on their dental health, an opportunity to discuss it with their dental experts. A talk on Health and Dental will take place on the 11th July at 2PM-4PM and a talk on Teeth Cleaning Products will take place on 25th July 2PM-4PM. You have the chance to submit a question prior to the live date here.

Are you are going to take part in some of these amazing opportunities? What do you think of my entry compared to the others?

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Summer Body Preparation| Hair Removal

 

With all this freezing cold weather we’ve been having I’m sure a few of you have ben thinking and planning your summer holidays. As amazing as summer is, girls seem to spend forever getting our bodies ready for it, and one of those preparations is hair removal. We all have it and we all want to get rid of it. Thankfully there are many different ways to rid ourselves of it, but which method is your favoured option? I am a massive softy so can only ever manage shaving or waxing, but after speaking to my friends and family it seems that many of them are considering laser hair removal. In fact a few of them have already tried it, my mum being one of them.

She had been considering laser hair removal for some time and decided to have the treatment in the run up to her wedding day. Like many she was unaware that laser hair removal is process and for the treatment to work there needs to be a series of sessions. This is because the laser that destroys the hair’s root causing it to fall out does not have immediate effect. The laser weakens the hair root and it falls out over time. This tends to happen after around 5-6 sessions, so it can be a costly process,

A large proportion of my friends get their eyebrows threaded and judging by my twitter it seems that this is the favoured hair removal technique amongst beauty bloggers. However I also see many statuses amount how painful it is and after seeing girls in the middle of Fenwicks and Debenhams crying with pain I don’t know if this would ever be an option for me.

What I want to know is if you have ever tried laser hair removal or threading? I am intrigued by them both but want to know if it really is as painful as I hear. Are they more or less painful than waxing?

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