Products & Services / Reviews by our Editors
A Visionary Woman -
After losing her hair in 1968, a charismatic
woman known for years as Gigi, had traveled
from Rio to the Amazon for research natural
herbs with the help of an Indian medicine
man. After she restored her hair, Gigi’s intention
was to be a pioneer hairdresser using only natural
products to help her clients with the same
problem. She moved to Los Angeles in 1991 and
her vision became a passion which grew into a
business with the open of Gigi`s Vision Salon on
Roxbury Rd. in Beverly Hills. Gigi guarantees to
continue use only all natural products and also
recommends organic products, so that there
will be no side effects for those of her clients using
her natural hair care recommendations.
Now, after more than 17 years she opened
her hair salon in Beverly Hills, Gigi came
up with two new ideas and a vision crystallized:
to create a new restorative business
model. After many trips to Brazil and more
specifically to the Amazon Region, this visionary
woman will start her own natural
product line that includes hair and skin
treatments for women and
men, as well natural shampoo
for babies. The name
of the new product line -
Total Organico, will be
manufacture in Brazil in
partnership with the Foundation
of the Social Project
of the Amazon and will be
available soon at the new
Organic SPA Foundation
to be open still this
summer at 434 N. Roxbury Dr. in Beverly
Hills. This business would inspire the hearts
of many people to believe that business can
go beyond profits, that it can drive positive
social and environmental change.
For more information: (310)273-1816
Spiritual Makeover: Ten Practices for Falling in Love with Your Life by Sirah Vettese
Ph.D. offers a defined practice for exercising your spirit. The dust and grit of our everyday
journey is frequently challenged with issues of livelihood, health, relationships, finances, and
parenting.This book provides you the steps towards that end by offering spiritual and psychological
know how for drawing out the deepest and the highest from within yourself. In
language that’s easy to understand and through the author’s time-tested work with clients you
are offered wonderful tools, deep spiritual wisdom and practical guidance to help you fall in
love with your self and your life. A good tool to take you from outer chaos, to inner love and
connection, 228 pages.
Master Grill Brazilian B.B.Q is a small restaurant at the food court inside
the Koreatown Plaza ½ mile South of Wilshire Blvd. on 928 S. Western Ave. The
new Brazilian option at the Korean Mall is the perfect location to try the Picanha (Top
Sirloin Cap) for affordable $10.95. The Frango a Passarinho (Fried Garlic Chicken)
for only $8.95, the Grilled Fish for also $8.95 or the Churrasquinho (Steak)
Sandwich for $6.95 is great choices and we recommend. Mostly dish coming with
3 sides except the Churrasquinho. My preference was garlic rice, yucca fries and a
spring salad that came with heath of palms, cherry tomatoes and cucumber. I love
palmito (heart of palm)! The guarana or the 100% natural coconut water from
Brazil are great choices as a drink, and the Brazilian flan…hummm. It is a must. If you wanted
to imagine you were in São Paulo around many Asiatic faces (São Paulo have the biggest Japanese
community outside Japan and a bigger Korean population) you can stop by this place easily in
the free parking lot and still have time to shopping at interesting Korean stores, inclusive a very
attractive market in the same level of the food court. For more info (213)351-0099
Better Image of Los Angeles - BILA, is a medical SPA supervised by doctor Michael Malik, near the USC campus and the Staple Center that for affordable rates can improve your health and well being by offering quality non surgical interventions to facilitate your goals in booth, feeling and looking better. The Botox in many locations rage from $15-20 units and up for properly concentrated samples, here you can have a deal for $12 by unit (pay attention that some locations for with advertisements for $7-8/unit dilute the sample or only offer that rate promotionally).Their Medical Weight Loss program is comprehensive and is hundreds to thousands less than commercial programs like Jenny Craig and Lindora which provide less individual attention. For what they offer you will only get the food on some programs. Inclusive, they monitored exercise at the USC track for those interested in the program. The Mesotherapy is an alternative way to lose spotty deposits of fat without surgery by injections of a bile salt. Their wonderful Skin Care lines produced by OBAGI, are all physician grade products, each having a component which only a
doctor can write for. This covers acne, sun damage, and uneven pigmentation. The Laser Intense Pulse Light (IPL) services are 30% less than their competitors on the L.A Westside. For things like Hair Removal the process can result in permanent reduction, which beats the time/hassle/expense of waxing. Best of all, they offer Interest Free Finance. The BILA is located at 2240 S. Figueroa St., Los Angeles, CA 90007. Phone (323)376-2774 www.thebetterimageclinic.com
Store - Unique Aisle in San Clemente, a home decor store and boutique with a Brazilian touch has opened for business last June 9 with a cocktail party for friends and customers. The new store offers items from local antiques and art, lots of paintings from the Amazon, as well as some pieces of furniture from India. They also have many items for your home and garden in general and the boutique in the back of the store features Brazilian items such as clothes, bikinis, jeans, shoes, decorated Havaianas Sandals, and beautiful jewelry that you don’t want to miss. They ship to other states. Interior designers and decorators are welcome. Unique Aisle has lots of items for home staging and also space available for consignments. Please call them to discuss. UNI QUE AI SLE Home Decor and Brazilian Boutique is located at 108 S. El Camino Real - San Clemente, CA - 92672 (on the corner of Del Mar Ave.). More info: (949) 361-2011 – or www.uniqueaisle.com
Restaurant - The pioneer of Brazilian “food per pound” in California and the respective success of the Brazilian B.B.Q specialist Pampas Grill in the famous landmark Farmers Market on Third Street and Fairfax Ave. in Los Angeles have inspired the owners Cezar Brelaz and Francisco Carvalho to open in August the new Pampas Grill 2 at the Culver Center in Culver City. The new restaurant will presents beautiful granite tables on the outdoor patio,
a personalized interior decoration, a precious meatless buffet, authentic Brazilian grill system with the traditional meat variety, and will server beer and wine. For the happy hour lovers, the Pampas Grill 2 will offer an every day happy hour from 3:30 to 5:30pm featuring the B.B.Q Appetizer Sampler Plate – Huummm…great while enjoying a cold beer at the patio this summer! Probably Pampas 2 located at 3857 Overland Ave. in Culver City, will be the new Brazilian Lovers “Pit Stop” in the
Westside! More info www.pampas-grill.com
DVD/Documentary - Force of the Spirit is a 60 min documentary directed by Joe Zimmerman and featuring Brazilian Jiu-
Jitsu master Jean Jacques Machado that born without a functioning left hand, overcomes all challenges to become one of the world’s greatest hand-to-hand combat grapplers. Awe-inspiring and inspirational, Machado demonstrates that it’s not what’s on the outside that determines a person, but rather what’s on the inside. His story confirms that dreams can come true when you’re willing to confront the challenges life deals you. With never before seen footage, witness evolution’s most advanced warrior, his extraordinary fighting art and his influence on the lives of others who found encouragement by his example. A Five Star documentary about courage and triumph faces with adversity.
CD/ Music - Lula and Afro Brazil New Release celebrates 20 years of Lula’s Brazilian Music in U.S. This new project is the lively mix of rhythms and styles that makes Lula and his band, Afro Brazil the fun, contagiously energetic group that it has been since the Lambada explosion of the late 80’s. This current 12-song compilation is a non-stop dance music that spans regions of Lula’s native Brazil, from the “Forró” of the interior communities across all states of Brazil to the “Pagode” music heard in bars and restaurants throughout the capital of Bahia, the city of Salvador. The new CD also includes 5 afoxés/ samba-reggaes and Samba de Roda, with the special participation of recognized Brazilians musicians in USA like singers Ana Gazzola and Sonia Santos, the Father/Son team of Josias & Erock dos Santos and others. Lula sings on four songs including the two forró tunes that celebrate musical mixes of African and European cultures which highlight accordion melodies with percussive accents and catchy vocal phrases, a smooth afoxé and an infectious samba. This happy rhythmic journey is complete with two lambada flavored Merengues performed in the native Spanish of Rica Benavidez and Marta Santa Maria.
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