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Beauty and Fashion Director, MODERN SALON
MODERN's Beauty & Fashion Director is the NYC based Editor and Art Director for Modern Salon Magazine and modernsalon.com. Maggie joined MODERN in the 1980's and has spent more than 3 decades covering the professional beauty industry around the world. In addition to writing articles, Maggie travels globally as a journalist to report on the latest trends, products and techniques in the professional beauty world. Known for a keen eye, Maggie has judged hundreds of national competitions including NAHA, and international competitions such as Wella International Trend Vision and Goldwell Color Zoom among others. As an Art Director, Maggie is responsible for hundreds of magazine covers and thousands of inside pages and features for Modern Salon and her sister publications. Among her many professional passions is ARTIST SESSION, the 2-day workshop she founded which offers direction and inspiration to hairdressers interested in learning how to do successful photoshoots. A graduate of Boston College, Maggie is the author of Great Looks (Doubleday) and, in the few minutes of spare time she has left, is working on a book for children that has NOTHING to do with beauty.
Have you seen the December issue of Vogue? It features some of our industry top colorists showing the results of their models after each has been transformed using L’Oréal Professionnel's INOA. It is a rare occasion when so many high profile artists come together to celebrate one brand and create looks side-by-side. But for Vogue, Ted Gibson and Jason Backe, Oscar Blandi, Joel Warren and Eva Scrivo joined forces to create the beautiful advertorial.
IGP Beauty and Ed Hardy have teamed up to put the fun back in styling tools. The Ed Hardy Vintage Collage Hair Tool Line features a blow dryer and iron covered with the vivid and bold designs created by Don Ed Hardy himself.
Last night was one of the most exciting nights EVER in Hollywood and I was there! It was the premiere of Burlesque, the new film starring Cher and Christina Aguilera. And starring great hair…and great nails….and great make up and music, dancing. This movie offers some of the best eye candy ever seen on a screen.
L’Oreal Professionnel Products invited almost 100 international beauty editors from more than 25 countries to the L’Oreal Academy in Paris to learn from famed session artist Malcolm Edwards as he transformed models before our eyes. Using the Spring Summer 2011 collections as his inspiration, Edwards offered his techniques in creating perfect, runway worthy shapes including twists, updos and ponytails.
Huge News! The winners were just announced for the Wella Professionals 2010 International Trend Vision Awards! The United States received the Bronze in the highly competitive COLOR category. Congrats to Eric Wennberg of the Coupe Rokai Salon of Seattle!
I am at the combined shows of Hair World and Mondial in Paris. This is the craziest event I have ever attended. The combined show takes place every four years and more than 90,000 people are expected over the three day event. See some PHOTOS of the hair so far!
Josh Wood, Global Creative Director for Wella Professionals, presented a new color collection to members of the International Press in Paris today. Entitled Awakening 3D, Wood created the looks using an innovative color application from the 3D Color Techniques.
Just about everyone at our most recent Artist Session used hair pieces to either bulk up or enhance his or her models hair. We decided to check in with Michael Napolitano, President of HairUWear, to find out the latest in this ever popular and important segment of the industry.
The press launch of Liquicolor Permanente, the reinvention of the iconic color line, Miss Clairol. Members of the beauty press attended a power presentation of models at Clairol headquarters in Rockefeller Center in New York City. Officially “revealed” November 1, the power of soy has been put to the test. “Soy4Plex technology is used to infuse color while conditioning the hair from the inside out,” says Danny Lapointe, Artistic Director for Clairol Professional. “The new formula offers more conditioning, shine, multi-tonality and longlasting, natural-looking results.”
Dr. Howard Murad, famed Dermatologist, pharmacist, researcher, author and founder of the Murad line of products, makes himself accessible to all beauty professionals in order to help YOU help your clients.With winter approaching, we asked Dr. Murad if there was anything estheticians and beauty professionals can and should do to guide their clients to maintaining and perfecting their skin during harsh weather.
EMPIRE EDUCATION GROUP just opened it's 100th school in Springfield, Pennsylvania. To celebrate the milestone, Empire CEO Frank Schoeneman, Empire Education Group's Chairman and CEO, took Modern Salon Media on a tour of the pristine center which already boasts 100 students. "We are most proud of how 'green' we were in creating this school," said Frank to Modern's Beauty and Fashion Director Maggie Mulhern. "We worked it in to everything from the low wattage lighting to the floor which was created with old tire rubber." Among the many "pluses" at the new school, the tour includes a focus on updated classroom design and the Empire created "right brain" focused textbooks. Most importantly Frank emphasizes the power of Empire's core purpose: "To create opportunities for people to improve their lives".
Mizani’s Supreme Oil was launched to the blogging press this week at the L’Oreal Academy in the Soho area of New York City. In addition to VIP’s and key stylists, bloggers were invited to experience the new styling treatment just introduced by Mizani.
Check out this pink duo by KEVIN.MURPHY! It's a volumizing shampoo and conditioner that transforms color-treated hair suffering from damage into hair with luster!
Spending a day with Beth Minardi, co-owner of Minardi Salon and Joico Vero K-Pak spokesperson, is like taking a crash course at Harvard. It’s non-stop education, both in her terminology, her applications and formulations. While Minardi’s team (“The best in the world,” says Beth of Color Assistant Gion Vincent, Senior Stylist Tammy Laimos and Executive Morgan Wentworth) and those of us who have attended any of her classes are used to the intensity, it’s fun to watch the reaction of the first-timers.
I just met up with Mike Karg, an old friend, international platform artist, educator and inventor of the KARG line of shears. "Most people don't realize I INVENTED dry cutting shears," says Karg. "I saw the need about 9 years ago and have since developed 9 different shears including texturizing, precision and slicing shears." Karg went on, passionately, to talk about each shear in the line, but ended up spending the most time on the KARG SHEAR K-11 Royale.
New Jersey is clearly an exciting state and the Emiliani family is helping to make it a beauty destination as well. EDUCATION ROCKS, the Emiliani Beauty Expo, was held October 10 and 11 at the New Jersey Convention & Expo Center in Edison, New Jersey. Here Maggie interviews Nancy Emiliani Dugenti and gets a breakdown of the show.
Fashion Fights Cancer, a fundraising event held in honor of the late Dr. David DePasquale who succumbed to cancer in the fall of 2009, was held this week at the DePasqaule Salon and Spa of Morris Plains, New Jersey. More than $50,000 was raised for St. Claire's Hospital of Denville, NJ through ticket sales and a silent auction. A highlight of the afternoon was a "fashion and beauty" battle, where 5 teams from the DePasquale Salon and Spa presented a fashion show offering the latest in fashion and beauty for fall/winter 2010.
