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  • Eye Brow Product News
    I noticed it has been quite a while since we have done our last article on eye brow care. When I saw the good news that Chanel is bringing back it's great product Chanel Prefect Brows, I jumped at the chance to write about it....
  • Hair Stylist is Not Your Mother's Hair Stylist
    Hair stylists that are showing up at today's hair stylist conventions are a different breed. Today I had a chance to attend one of the bigger hair stylist shows in this area. It's been a while since I have been to one of these shows and was quite sur...
  • Hair Cuts Coupon on Your Cellphone
    The Regis owned Supercuts franchise is offering $2 off hair cuts and $5 off of color serves in a unique partnership with Cellfire mobile coupon services. No more hassles with paper coupons according to Todd Kushnir, managing partner at HK Enterprises...
  • Beauty Salon Casting Call For Reality TV Show
    Bravo's Shear Genius reality TV show is spinning off a beauty salon makeover show featuring the feisty Australian hairstylist Tabatha Coffey. Tabatha was one of the Sear Genius contestants, not the winner, but clearly one of the most interesting pers...
  • New Beauty Stores Coming to Your Mall
    You will soon be seeing a new European looking, beauty-boutique store opening in a location near you . . . that is, at least if you have a major mall that has a "Trade Secret" or "Beauty Express" store currently in it. Regis Corporation has recently ...
  • Heads Up For Long Hair Readers
    Make a life wish and Pantene will donate $1 to Beautiful Lengths a campaign that provides real-hair wigs to women with cancer. Plus you will be entered into a contest and just might win your wish. Its an interactive page that asks users what their wi...
  • Hair Style News Round Up 12/28
    Shear Genuis is Back ~~ Bravo has just announced that it is bringing back it's popular hair styling reality TV show, Shear Genius for a second season in 2008. The press release does not indicate an air time but I'll watch it and let every one know we...
  • Should Your Hairstylist be a Therapist?
    There is a disturbing trend recently to get your hairstylist to become an amateur shrink. I have written in the past about the hairstylist as therapist in the article Your hair stylist knows more than you think, But one such recent attempt is right o...
  • Rejuvawand Laser Light Skin Treatment Therapy Trial-Week 6
    I was hopeful that I would be able to post before and after pictures for you to make your own conclusions of the results I have seen with the RejuvaWand Laser Light Therapy Treatment. Sorry, but my before picture was not detailed enough to show the w...
  • How to choose a beauty school
    Snip 'n' smile ~~ Carolina D'Souza of gulfnews.com writes about how hairstylists have topped this year's annual survey conducted by a UK-based company, City & Guilds Happiness Index. ...
  • RejuvaWand Laser Light Treatment - Week 4 Trial
    Have I been reliable in my pursuit of fewer wrinkles? You bet. The next question is do I see a lessening of wrinkle depth and severity in my skin? The answer is yes, I think so. ...
  • Hairstyle News Roundup 11-29
    Here are some hairstyle articles you might want to stay tuned to....
  • Hairstyle News From Around The Web November 2007
    Here are some hairstyling, beauty and fashion articles that you might have missed recently....
  • Rejuvawand Product Review Week 3
    I must say I have been quite diligent in my pursuit of less wrinkled skin with the RejuvaWand laser light skin treatment product review. In 3 weeks I've only missed my morning routine of laser light therapy about 4 or 5 times. The directions suggest...
  • November Celebrity Hairstyle Trend Alert
    Victoria Posh Spice Beckham Gives up the Posh Bob Hairstlye ~~ My good friend and fellow Glam'er Fabien Montique at the BOSH is reporting that Posh Spice Victoria Beckham was seen on October 26th spending eight hours having her hair dyed dark brown a...
  • Laser Light Skin Treatment Therapy, Week 1
    In one week I have used the Rejuvawand laser light skin treatment therapy 5 times. There were two days that I fell off program and by the time I thought to use it, I figured it was too late, or at least I thought it was. I need to contact the compan...
  • Hair Care Salon Job Postings
    The hair care industry has just taken another giant leap forward with the creation of Salonjobs.com. With some ingenuity and hard work these people have put together the largest network to date of an online recruiting network for the hair care salon/...
  • Laser Light Skin Treatment Therapy at Home
    I'm a lucky girl! I've been asked to try out a new anti-aging device, the Rejuvawand. I thought I would let you folks follow my experience. I'll be posting updates weekly for the next 4 to 6 weeks of my progress and thoughts along the way. ...
  • Hairstyle News From Around The Web 8-16-07
    Here are some articles that you might have missed recently....
  • Hairstyle News From Around The Web 7/30/07
    Here are some articles that you might have missed recently...
  • How to Shape Your Eyebrows
    According to stylist Maria De Los Aneles of Kim Lepine Salon in New York City, shaping your eyebrows is a beauty routine you shouldn’t skip. “It opens up your eye, giving you an eye-lift,” she says....
  • Hairstyle News From Around The Web 7/11/07
    Celebrity Hairstyle Trend ~~ Fellow blogger Simple Hair Care observes that Jessica Biel, Reese Witherspoon and Shakira have all been seen lately with hairstyles that clearly are intended to let roots go without a touch up. Could this be the start of ...
  • Hairstyle and Beauty News 7-6-07
    Here are some hairstyle articles that you might have missed recently...
  • Hair and Beauty News From Around the Internet
    Here are some articles that you might have missed recently...
  • Shear Genius the Final Episode
    Anthony surely conducted himself wonderfully throughout the entire competition and was well deserved of the title of Shear Genius. I think Ben and Daisy should have been given some type of 2nd and 3rd place awards for their accomplishments in this co...
  • Did Making the Cut get Cut?
    Episode 2 of Making the Cut was scheduled to be aired last Friday night. I forgot to record it. On Saturday I went to the TLC Website that originally contained the schedule to find out when it was going to be aired again so I could record it. Nothing...
  • Shear Genius - Episode Seven
    One more time the producers came up with a great show. Two excellent challenges that had me on edge for all four stylists. The elimination challenge was awesome. The four stylist were to create a specific "look" for a photo shoot with world renown fa...
  • Making the Cut . . . Doesn't Make the Cut
    "Making the Cut" is a new series the TLC channel premiered on Friday, May 18, 2007. The documentary will be covering typical days in the lives of students and staff at the Vidal Sassoon Academy, in Santa Monica, California. The school has a lot to li...
  • Vidal Sassoon Joins TV Fray
    The big dogs are moving into the hairstyling reality TV craze. TLC announced that the new reality TV show Making the Cut will air its premier episode on May 18th. If your counting that makes four hairstyling related reality TV series to be announced ...
  • Hairstyle and Beauty News 4-15-07
    Celebrate with Style has an interview with Celebrity hairstylist Cristophe titled: Celebrity Hairstylist Cristophe Reveals Spring and Summer's Hottest Hairstyles. Bottom line . . . Headbands, ponytails, bangs and simple looks are going to be hot this...
  • Dana Gets My Vote in Episode One
    Reality TV comes to the hairstyling. Hair dressers are thrown into the ring where they'll either make it or break it. And that they did in the first episode of Bravo TV, "Shear Genius," which aired on Wednesday. ...
  • Hairstyling Comes to Reality TV
    You knew it had to happen . . . a reality beauty show. Quite frankly I'm surprised it took this long. While I must admit that I am not a big reality TV fan, but I'm exited to see this first episode just because it involves my field of expertise. ...
  • Hair and Beauty Internet News
    SheFinds has a nice review of Mario Russo’s Double Strength Gel that she says will keep the wet look for at least a couple of days....
  • Scented Oils Cause Boys Breast Enlargement
    A Colorado hormone specialist has found three boys between the ages of 4 and 10 suddenly experiencing a hormone imbalance after they boys had been exposed to scented oils which contain lavender and tee tree oils....
  • Travel'N Baby Hair Dryer Recall
    This is the 3rd or even maybe the 4th hair dryer recall that I've passed on to you folks. They all seem to fit a pattern all are in the inexpensive category and they all have been recalled for the same reason . . . Electrocution hazard. This particul...
  • Hair Salon Extortion
    A controversy about gender price discrimination in the hair salon industry for years, about whether a hair salon should charge women the same price for a haircut as they do for their male counter parts. Which quite frankly is ridiculous, when was the...
  • Internet Hair Style Sites Aren't Even Safe
    Call me naive, but somehow I just thought that you could avoid a lot of the dark side of the Internet if you took some reasonable precautions. It breaks my heart when I hear the stories of how our children get this stuff stuck in their faces. ...
  • American Idol - Minneapolis Disaster!
    I was watching as American Idol began their new season showcasing hopefuls from my area of Minneapolis, St. Paul. Hooked, like so many others, apparently 37 million others, I was confident I could do a twofer that night. Thought I could catch some go...
  • Hair Care Products and Your Skin
    It will come as no great surprise to those of you who are regular readers, that I read an awful lot of hair information, press releases, Websites and articles. Generally these articles are rather routine and boring, as not very often do I encounter m...
  • Hair Styling Business Opportunities
    They just keep on coming, I'll bet I have reported on at least 6 new franchise opportunities in the hairstyling business in the past year. This is the second recently, in the kids hair arena. All of them sound like great opportunities to me. If you a...
  • Overhyped Hair Care Product Site
    We've all heard the advice . . . don't always take what you read on the internet as gospel. Well I found a perfect example of that axiom. Early in November I got a press release from a company by the name of Hairflix, I scanned the headline it talked...
  • Questionable Beauty Products
    I'm always on the look out for news on dubious beauty products. Well quackery exists out there as this article hints, NewBeauty Magazine might be a questionable source for information about the right products to buy. ...
  • What Price For Beauty?
    Now comes Eye Lash Transplants . . . Not something that I would do. Sounds painful and is very pricey coming in at $8,000. Even by cosmetic surgery standards this procedure will be beyond the reach of a good many of us. ...
  • The Sally Beauty Saga Continues
    Now comes news that Sally Beauty Supply is losing the exclusive rights to market the L'Oreal line of hair care products. Looks like the French three piece suits are going to be letting their new offspring The Body Shop in on some of the action. Also ...
  • Hair Styling Books Make Good Gifts
    Over the past couple of years I have done several reviews of the beauty books that are in my library. I'm giving a couple of them this year as Christmas presents....
  • Hair Trend That We Can do Without
    Regular readers know that I am a fan of the European hair styling industry. Many new and exciting hair styles come from across the pond. It won't be long and we'll be seeing lots of press releases on the hot 2007 hair styles and mark my words many of...
  • Hair Salons - Be Thankful
    Many moons ago I wrote Hair salon on the battlefield it was an article on how important hair salons had become to our female troops overseas. When I wrote it, hubby pooh-pooh it and thought it was kind of silly. I tried to explain how much better tho...
  • Curly hair success story
    There is plenty of opportunity left in the hair business I'm sure you've met these negative Nelly's who all bemoan the success of others with an off hand comment like "there aren't any more real opportunities for success in the hair care industry"...
  • Another Hair Dryer Recall
    “Monica” and “Turbo 1200” handheld hair dryers by Style Tronics Lacks an immersion protection plug to prevent if electrocution the hair dryer falls into the water. ...
  • Sally Beauty Supply Soap Opera
    From the I don't really believe it file . . . comes more new about poor Sally Beauty Supply. I must admit that I have had fun creating my little stories of the almost fairy tale type of story that has occurred to this fine company over the last year....
  • Human hair extensions
    I don't know about the rest of you, but I have never been comfortable with this human hair extensions issue. There is just something unnatural about selling something so personal as your own lovely long hair, regardless of where it comes from. ...
  • Another business opportunity in hair styling
    What an exciting time to be in the hair styling business. New business opportunities are everywhere. It seems like not a month goes by that I don't see some new concept. Many of which really excite me with their potential. For example the mobile hair...
  • How much time do you spend hair styling?
    This article is one of those that I have to do a reality check, most often the conclusion is . . . "I don't think so"....
  • Men only hair salons
    Looking for a new business opportunity? Back on July 3rd I wrote New hair salons for men only about a men only salon concept. Looks like this concept is catching on in pockets the country, but nobody has gone national yet. I can't believe my friend R...
  • Rock n Roll are Hair to Stay
    My favorite things are mixed up in the creation of this new hair establishment. They have used creativity, art, music and a unique concept all their own, in putting this new hair digs together. Owners, Michael Portman and Jayson Rapaport, are cor...
  • Hair salons get their own credit card
    Do you find it too easy to put all your energies into the creative and public relations side of the hair business and skimp on the financials and paper work? I know you do, it’s just the way it is with the creatives' of the world....
  • Hair stylists slow to adopt technology
    I love it! I laughed out loud when this popped up in my mailbox. In my world, these guys DO know how to market! The words hair stylist and geek in the same sentence may best be described as an oxymoron . . . wouldn’t you agree? ...
  • Sales must be down for Des Moines hairstylist
    From the Des Moines register, I find this curious article. I don’t know who comes away looking more foolish, the newspaper for running this really stupid attempt at journalism, or the Des Moines hairstylist who participated. ...
  • Love hairstyling? Got an entrepreneurial itch?
    Consider a hair franchse . . . but the only two worth considering is Great Clips and just a couple of weeks ago, I wrote the article, New hair salons for men only. Today I received a pitch for a job opportunity with the Sports Clips organizationand t...
  • Sally Beauty Supply has had a bad year
    For regular readers of this space you've probably followed the story of one of my favorite sources for hair care supplies. Sally Beauty is a fine company and doesn't deserve abuse that it has taken at the hands of its founder, parent company and othe...
  • New hair salons for men only
    I knew it . . . Just wrote about it about a week ago. I knew we would start seeing new variations on the theme of salons for men only hairstyles and it’s about time too! Now not only have we got the high end mens barbershops opening, but a low...
  • Teens with short hairstyles wanted
    If you know a teenager with a short hairstyles, make sure you send them this post. Here is a chance to make the cover of Seventeen magazine. Upload your photo of any teen ager with a short hairstyle and sign the authorization and who knows maybe your...
  • New hair extension technique announced
    If you live in Northern California or the San Francisco area you’ve got a chance to try out a new hair extension technique that sounds pretty cutting edge. The rest of us will just have to wait until we start hearing good things about this new tech...
  • Hair styling salon franchise goes back to the stone age
    Way back in my very earliest days as a hair stylist I remember on a rare occasion meeting men who were timid about coming into a hair styling salon because they thought hair styling was something the ladies did. But that died out well over twenty yea...
  • Hair styling schools by Paul Mitchell are a hot franchise
    My hubby Gary wrote an article this week about how owining your own business, means more happiness a study shows. He has spent many years in the franchise business and knows franchising, when I showed him this piece from behindthechair.com he instant...
  • Sally Beauty Supply, nobody wants her
    Back on January12th I wrote a piece about the ugly divorce between the founders of the Alberto Culver, Carol and Howard Bernick. This story continues to get weirder and weirder as each new development evolves. In what has become one of the ugliest bu...
  • Sally Beauty Supply - Regis deal is off
    I have an emotional investment in this story. Sally Beauty Supply is one of my favorites for buying hair care products and Regis is a hometown corporation us here in the Twin Cities. But alas, it looks like they’ll be no honeymoon for SallyAlas, it...
  • Regis and Sally Beauty Supply
    There is lots of corporate happy talk, blah, blah blah coming out of Alberto Culver these days over the reason behind the merger with Regis. Chicago Tribune staff reporter, John Schmeltzer and James P: Miller, reported today of the separation of the ...
  • Become the next fashion Diva

    According to Jennie, many fashion careers can be home-based. Having known many successful home-based fashion designers and photographers, she implies that pursuing a fashion career from the home is a wise decision. "Working from home allows them t...

  • Celebrity Hairstyist Shereese Slate Launches New National Hair & Beauty Magazine

    Celebrity Hair Stylist Shereese Slate is formally introducing her new magazine. Shereese Hair & Beauty Magazine is the quintessential hair and beauty must have! The premier issue's articles will include, "How To Care For Your Hair When Your Stylis...

  • Swap gift cards online
    Sheryl and Dale Huber have saved hundreds of cats and dogs in the last few years, but recently they discovered a way to save hundreds of dollars. The Hubers scour the Internet for store gift cards that can be bought, sold and traded online at deep di...
  • Long hair? Getting a haircut?

    Locks of Love is a not-for-profit organization that provides hairpieces to financially disadvantaged children under the age of 18 with medical hair loss. These custom-fitted hair prosthetics are provided free of charge or on a sliding scale to chi...

  • New hair perm technique announced
    Jesse Briggs, hair pioneer, co-founder of Haircolor USA and founder of Yellow Strawberry Global Salons, has invented a new hair wave technique called the S Wave Thermal Set? that industry experts say heralds the end of the traditional perm. ...
  • Celebrity hair stylist puts skills on Ebay for charity
    Going once, going twice — sold! To celebrate the debut of its fashionable brand makeover, Fresca has teamed with Stacy London, celebrity stylist and popular television host, to give people across the country a chance to receive the ultimate “fre...
  • Lynne Greene Named President of Clinique
    The Estée Lauder Companies Inc. is one of the world’s leading manufacturers and marketers of quality skin care, makeup, fragrance and hair care products. ...
  • Become a hair stylist
    Find answers to commonly asked questions and learn more about careers and education in the beauty arts. Choose an area of study, or a question category using the Q&A box on the right. ...
  • Hair Care Product Labels . . . Are They Truthful?
    It's a good question, but you'll find if you ask, as I did . . . you're not likely to get a straight answer. Depending on who you ask the answer you get will still leave loose ends. ...
  • Professional Hair Trade Organizations
    While doing my usual morning coffee surfing on the Internet this morning I came across this great site that has a list of all of the trade associations that affect the hairstyling industry. ...
  • Manicure, Pedicure - Was your last one safe?
    In the past couple of years California has gotten lots of press on bacterial infections, which seemed to be caused from unsanitary manicures and pedicures. It always helps to have a celebrity stand up for a cause. Paula Abdul did that by testifying f...
  • Welcome Color & Style Magazine Readers
    I'm really excited . . . after long last my collaboration with Harris Publication has become a reality. My new regular feature article "Barb's Hair Blog" is on page 44 of the most recent edition #46 of Color & Style magazine now available on your ne...
  • Hair Salon on the Battlefield
    As a hair stylist, I am especially aware of the inference of the job as one of being frivolous or lacking in importance. I came across an article the other day that confirmed to me what we in the business intuitively know and understand. That is, how...

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