Signature Treatment: Golden Caviar Facial Treatment at True Spa

“Caviar... on my face?” Although your first instinct might be to place it on a cracker and let your tummy enjoy, it’s time to give your face a turn. True Spa takes luxury to the next level, by using caviar’s minerals to revive your face from the everyday ware and tear of makeup, heat, and pollution. Slide past the cheesy foyer and into a private suite to fully enjoy the 60 minute treatment. The caviar scrub is gently massaged into your face and neck, letting the extracts repair skin cells. Don’t try and lick the stuff, trust us it’s not the tasty kind. Next, a lifting mask tones your face and reduces those pesky wrinkles. While you are waiting for the mask to set the therapist gives your arms and legs a mini-massage to make sure the rest of your body is just as happy as your face. Talk about attentive! You can proudly leave sans makeup, with a remarkably smooth, fresh palette to face the day. With two branches, open seven days a week, including holidays, you have no excuse not to go on and treat yourself to some non-stop pampering. Who knows, maybe next time you’ll be swimming in champagne.

Where True Spa Zen, Zen Tower, 11F Central World, Rajadamri Rd, 02-684-8999, www.truespa.co.th BTS Siam/Chit Lom

Open 10am – 10pm

Price B2,899 until 31 December

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Medical Treatment: Thinning Hair Helpers

Is your forehead twice the size it used to be? Constantly reaching for that baseball cap before you head out the door? You’re in good company – the balding have battled their fates for centuries. Ancient Egyptians imbibed a mix of iron, onions, alabaster and honey to keep their locks luxurious. And Hippocrates found that castration before puberty left eunuchs a thick head of hair.

Luckily, the follicularly challenged need not resort to such drastic measures today. Bangkok abounds in treatments for thinning hair, from the gentle to the surgical. What remedy you choose depends on how serious you are about combating hair loss.

Folk wary of going under the knife can lather those tresses in special shampoos containing nioxin (B850). And Bangkok’s army of hairdressers is well versed in the art of hiding the bald spot – the high, lacquered hairdo of the “khunying” is the traditional recourse for society matrons of a certain age eager to mimic an ample head of hair.

Indeed, salons such as Fan Fan on Sukhumvit 31 (02-662-2569) do a brisk trade in perms (B3,500+) for women battling hormonal changes, says hairdresser Jintana Thabchan.For those who are truly alarmed about their hair loss, hair transplants can point the way forward. These minor operations take three hours and redistribute the hair-producing follicles around the sides and back of the head to the front and top, lending the illusion of thicker hair.  

Hospitals well-versed in the procedure such as Bangkok General Hospital perform around 200 a year for B120 per cm², half to foreigners. After a three-day recovery period, feel free to ditch that baseball cap for your brand-new head of hair. www.bangkokhospital.com