The body peeling program called Power White is an intensive facial, skin and body treatment that erases pimple, acne and dark wound scars and marks, while whitening every area of the body. The entire program requires a once-a-week visit to the salon for 10 weeks, plus a take-home skin care regimen one has to follow strictly.

How does this work? After the initial five-hour treatment at the salon, you will be required at every waking hour on the hour to apply five liquid solutions evenly throughout the area to be treated. You will not be allowed to bathe for five to seven days.Skin that refuses to snake-peel right away may require up to 10 days of no bathing plus religious liquid application.

The next step would allow you showers, but you are now required to do so three times a day with special soap and creams applied afterwards. Your skin will actually be darker as the surface dead skin dries up and peels.

Step Three requires showers and multiple solution applications every morning and before bedtime.

Step Four is maintenance, done twice a day for the rest of your life as long as you want to keep the white color. Dryness of skin and very fine peeling will settle after 10 weeks, but the whitening will continue.

Those who are very dark will require starting over from step one after step three. Other very dark clients undergo as much as four cycles of steps one to three before reaching the maintenance stage.

It is taxing on your patience and requires a lot of time and money. How much? Around PhP250,000 for the 10-week package (Philosophy by Mikaela, tel.8921574 ). Liquids, creams and bath products are included until first maintenance. Facial whitening includes facials, diamond peel and laser resurfacing.