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COMPETITION
IN 150 words or less tell the team at
Beauty and Beyond about your
dads ‘Close Shave’ and go into the draw
to win some goodies for Father’s Day.
To enter the competition go to
www.beautybeyond.co.nz and visit the
competitions page. One entry per family.
Entries close Friday, August 28 at 1pm.
Community shows support
for Big Latch On event
A combined effort:
Junaya Leask feeds her son
Kymani Leask-Shearer (14
months) at this year’s Big
Latch On event at Lindisfarne
Community Church recently.
BY JANETTE GELLATLY
ABOUT 20 babies and todd
lers were breastfed simul
taneously at the Lindisfarne
Community Church recently
as part of the annual world
wide Big Latch On.
Organised and hosted by a
Southern Breastfeeding
Group, the Big Latch On was
part of a nationwide event to
celebrate World Breastfeed
ing Week, from August 17,
with this year’s focus ‘‘breast
feeding and working for moth
ers who choose to go back to
work’’.
Seven community groups,
including Plunket, Southern
District Health Board, Well
South, Family Works, La
Leche League, Awarua Wha
nau Services and Nga Kete
Matauranga Pounamu Chari
table Trust make up the sup
port group, Southland Breas
tfeeding Advocacy Group
member Nitin Sukumaran
said.
The event’s aim was to help
raise awareness of the bene
fits of breastfeeding and to
encourage support networks
and to normalise breastfeed
ing, he said.
‘‘Breastfeeding is the best
way to provide babies with all
the nutrients they need. The
Big Latch On promotes the
benefits and convenience of
breastfeeding, while also let
ting mums know of the sup
port options in the commun
ity.’’
Mr Sukumaran said the
group ‘‘wanted to provide
support for mothers and work
ing mothers, to inform them of
what was available for them in
the workplace’’.
‘‘It’s knowing as an
employee, what they can do...
we want to encourage and
motivate the working mothers
to let them know there are
various services to support
them, such as information on
the Ministry of Health website
and Breastfeeding Support
Otago Southland website
(www.breastfeedingsos.co.nz
for peer support.’’
As well as an opportunity to
make new friends and learn
about community resources,
participants also took part in a
morning tea and were given a
resource bag.
Award: Patient Lexi Thomas and Southland
Hospital Children’s Ward Playroom play
specialist Allana Bunting, with the Heart
Foundation award for recognition of the
staff’s commitment to promoting healthy
eating and physical activity. The playroom
signed up for the Heat Foundation’s Healthy
Heart Award programme (Tohu Manawa Ora
— Kohungahunga) in March last year. The
programme helps early childhood education
(ECE) services create environments which
promote healthy eating and physical activity
to under-fives and their families.
Photo: Supplied
Mobile beauty treatments
Country visits: Te anau
based beauty therapist
Nicole Campbell treats a
client in her new mobile
beauty salon.
Photo: Supplied
BEAUTY FIXX owner and
beauty therapist Nicole
Campbell began her mobile
business six weeks ago in a
van, customfitted as a top
quality professional beauty
salon.
Having trained in 2001
and worked as a beauty
therapist since then, she is
enjoying bringing her pas
sion for beauty therapy and
a desire to help people feel
better about themselves to
this new service.
‘‘Beauty therapy literally
means ‘therapy through
beauty treatments’. I adore
my job and that I can help
others feel more confident
about themselves, all with a
friendly, downtoearth
approach.
‘‘My clients like the choice
of having the salon come to
them, or visiting the salon at
one of my bases, (near a
cafe),’’ Ms Campbell said.
The van has a fullsized
beauty bed for waxing and
facials, a manicure table,
pedicure spa, mood lighting
and modern cabinetry —
and it’s warm and spacious.
The service is ideal for
individual visits or group
bookings, like hen parties or
weddings.
Treatments also include
waxing, facials, lash and
brow services, red vein and
skin tag removal, and apply
ing makeup and spray tans.
The service is based in Te
anau, (although is unable to
operate within 4km of the
town centre) and travels to a
set location each day, visit
ing clients anywhere along
the daily route.
The mobile salon travels
as far as Manapouri on
Mondays and Friday, Lums
den on Tuesdays, Tuatapere
on Wednesdays, Garston on
Thursdays and Te Anau
daily, depending on pre
bookings.
Although the mobile salon
has a set route, each week
bookings in other locations
are possible by arrange
ment. For group bookings
the service can travel as far
away as Dunedin.
For an appointment,
phone 027 723 2889, or go
to www.beautyfixx.org.