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Budget-Friendly Boutique
Fifi’s Fine Resale Offers Designer Pieces At Affordable Prices
BY MELINDA JOHNSTON • PHOTO BY AUGUSTO PHOTOGRAPHY
Fifi’s Fine Resale in Cornelius isn’t your typical consignment shop. With its bright décor, generous retail space, and only high-end items for sale, Fifi’s is more of a boutique — but with prices that won’t break your budget.
Owner Julia Austin, a nurse for 20 years, bought the store a year ago, trading in her medical journals for In Style, Lucky, Vogue, and other fashion magazines so that she could keep abreast of the latest trends. “In healthcare, you rely on continuing education to stay on top of your game,” she explains. “It’s the same thing in fashion. We’re always trying to help the ladies stay trendy, current, and looking their very best.”
Austin is fastidious about the condition of the items she accepts for consignment, and she sells only mid-range to top-designer (think Ann Taylor Loft and up) pieces that are currently in style. She and her staff are happy to help each customer pull together a chic, one-of-a-kind outfit, whether it’s for a cocktail party, a business-casual event, or a trip. The store carries sizes petite to 3X.
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Healing Au Naturale
Medical Massage Therapy Offers Drug-Free Relief
BY MELINDA JOHNSTON • PHOTO BY AUGUSTO PHOTOGRAPHY
Are you in pain? The Medical Massage Therapy Center in Charlotte’s Dilworth neighborhood can provide drug-free relief for the pain and discomfort of any type of soft tissue dysfunction resulting from accidents, carpal tunnel syndrome, or sports injuries. In addition, massage therapy has been shown to help with depression and anxiety.
Medical massage therapist Andrea Constand also specializes in oncology massage therapy. “There is a lot of secondary pain caused by cancer treatments,” she explains. “We can help alleviate pain for our clients while they are going through the treatments.”
Constand trained in Canada, where massage therapy is strictly regulated and readily accepted as a viable treatment option. This past April, she opened the Dilworth clinic as part of the Charlotte area’s growing movement toward integrated medicine, which uses nature, naturopathic medicine, and other therapies to relieve pain and restore health.
The Medical Massage Therapy Center also offers the only Electro Interstitial Scanner in the area. Designed by European doctors and widely used in Europe and Canada, the EIS is on the cutting edge of diagnostic technology and can generate an overall basic health profile in just three minutes.
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Service With A Smile
Where You And Your Teeth Are Treated With TLC
BY MELINDA JOHNSTON • PHOTO BY JAMES BROWN
The words “comfort” and “ease” don’t typically come to mind when you’re contemplating — and possibly dreading — a trip to the dentist. But if Peleaux and Bailey Dentistry has anything to do with your next dental visit, that may change. Dr. Colleen Peleaux and Dr. Darragh Bailey are committed to helping their patients achieve and maintain good dental health and bright smiles, in a relaxed atmosphere sure to put even the most fearful patient at ease.
The Choice Is Yours
Specializing in cosmetic, restorative, and implant dentistry for all ages, Dr. Peleaux and Dr. Bailey have created a practice that is devoted to making their patients feel cared for the minute they walk into the office and are greeted by name. “We know that everyone has a choice in establishing their dental care provider,” says Dr. Bailey. Dr. Peleaux agrees, adding, “We feel it is a great honor that our patients choose our office for themselves, as well as referring their family and friends.”
Doctors Peleaux and Bailey are also sensitive to economic issues and realize that many patients can’t afford all the dental work that might be necessary or recommended. So that urgent procedures don’t have to wait, the practice provides patients with several options.
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