Hair Salons who Cater to children

Come on Folks! Let’s Leave our Little Girls out of the Hair and Beauty Salons

Like many of you, I watched in horror this week as the sorry tale of 18 teen aged girls in Massachusetts who were engaged in a pregnancy conspiracy unfolded. It wasn’t long ago and we watched a group of teen aged girls savagely beat a one of their own on video on the evening news

“Hair and Beauty Salons for Children Only???”The epidemic of bizarre eating disorders of young girls is spinning out of control. All the while I kept shaking my head wondering what is going on with parents these days. Now I find out that my own proud hair styling profession is engaged in an insidious campaign to market hair and beauty salon service to girls as young as two years old. Give me a break.

From the UK I ran across this article which quite frankly stunned me. I am ashamed by the behavior of some of my hairdresser peers and I beg forgiveness on their behalf.

It seems that a new trend has evolved right under our noses that I feel has some serious cultural consequences for our girls. A new breed of hair and beauty salons is cropping up on both sides of the Atlantic catering to children only.

Cozy’s a chain of glamorous child hair salons is busy cranking out “Hannah Montana” look alikes while goolishly pocketing the profits from bizarre well healed parents. If this isn’t child abuse, I don’t know what is.

I’m sorry, but my heart bleeds for these poor innocent kids who simply have no way from protecting them selves from a cultural madness that seems to have no shame whatever.

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Hair Care Product Giant Looking for a New Image

Procter & Gamble wants to learn how to sell shampoo to women who shop at Saks instead of at Wal-Mart. The company is trying to spruce up its hair care products division by putting more hair care products into upscale department and specialty stores. Procter will buy Fredric Fekkai Co., a New York hair care products company, was the first step in the strategy.

“spruce up its hair care products”If successful, the move could boost the hair care products division because department store hair care products sell for far higher prices than Procter’s existing ones.

Fekkai sells a 3.4-ounce “Advanced Overnight Hair Repair” serum at Saks Fifth Avenue and Sephora, for $159, for example. Procter’s Clairol Herbal Essences hair color is on sale for $6 this week at Wal-Mart stores.

And women shopping the beauty counter at a department store respond differently to advertising than those who shop the supermarket beauty aisle, analysts said.
“It’s far more about word of mouth and about recommendations from hairdressers,” said Lynn Dornblaser, a senior analyst for Mintel International Group, a Chicago market research firm.

The image that Dornblaser said appeals to department store beauty shoppers is all about exclusivity: They want to be recognized as buying a more expensive product than their peers.

So-called prestige hair care products – those sold in upscale department and specialty stores – make up only a fraction of total U.S. hair care product sales but are growing at a much faster rate.

Stores like Saks and Bloomingdale’s used to focus on fragrance and skin-care products at their beauty counters, but in recent years they’ve added hair care products to keep up with specialty competitors such as Sephora. Recognizing the trend, Fekkai expanded beyond its traditional hair care salon business and aggressively went after department stores.

Procter has made similar moves in its skin-care business, which also is part of its $23 billion beauty division. Last year, it bought HDS Cosmetics Lab Inc., which makes DDF, a high-end line of skin products sold in department stores, spas and specialty retailers.

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Reese Witherspoon Hairstyles with Bangs

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Celebrities with Bangs this Summer!

“Celebrities with
Bangs are Hot”

I’m seeing celebrities with bangs everywhere right now. Cutting in bangs or a chin length bob after having a long hair style forever can be scary, but it becomes easier the more you actually see others like celebrities make successful transformations. Reese Witherspoon was a pioneer celebrity with bangs when she cut straight bangs into her long sleek hair style, and that was my favorite look on her as of late. Reese has a heart shaped face. Sometimes the squareness of her prominent jaw bones can throw you off when trying to put her into a face shape category. I think the bob hair style will look better a bit longer, just above or grazing her shoulders. At that length it will add a balancing fullness to her more narrow chin line.

Check out the new bangs and bobs hairstyles on these celebrities with bangs. It may just give you the push you need for pondering a plan of your own permutation!

Demi Moore Hairstyle with Bangs

Demi Moore is another celebrity with bangs. She just cut in wispy bangs in her new hair style last week. Demi Moore has a dramatic square face shape and let’s face it, she always looks good. (Ok, I had a least favorite look for Demi, which would have been no hair, the buzz look.) I think her new found hairstyle with bangs will look best with her hair style worn in an updo or a half updo. And she wears a full fringe hairstyles great. If she is keeping her hair long with the bangs, I would cut the length a few inches shorter and wear it straight rather than wavy. I also loved her hair short as in “Ghost ” with Patrick Swayze, bless his soul.

Emma Bunton with a new Bob Hairstyle

Another celebrity with bangs is Emma Bunton, Baby Spice, cut her long hairstyle to a bob and told People magazine she loves the ease of it now. With Emma’s square face shape I think soft waves, side swept bangs with the other side tucked behind the ear works well. What you want to stay away from with a square face shape is too much fullness or a full fringe hairstyle.

Aundrina Patridge look great with a hairstyle with bangs

Another celebrity with bangs seen recently is Audrina Patridge looks years younger, and just way cuter with bangs . . . don’t you think? The long, split down the middle, hair on the left, is covering up too much of her beautiful oval (with a round face shape tendency) face shape. The hairstyle with bangs frame her face and draws attention to her most beautiful feature, in my opinion . . . her eyes!

Kim Raver looks sexier in a hairstyle with bangs

Other celebrities with bangs include Kim Raver of “Lipstick Jungle” and “24″ has a oblong heart face shape. The smooth bob with a full bang hairstyle wins best look hands down in my book. It looks classic. The longer hair style looks too long and without bangs contributes to elongating the look of her face shape.

A hairstyle with bangs high lights Live Tyler’s great eyes

Celebrities with bangs, include Liv Tyler who cut close to a foot of hair off and I say, looks better for it! That’s lots of hair to cut off, but, Liv has an oblong, oval face shape and a shoulder length bob hair style does much more for giving the illusion of shortening and adding width to her narrow face shape.

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