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HOW-TO: Weaved Bun
The Rusk team led by Jon Reyman rocked Mercedes-Benz New York Fashion Week with intricate buns at the B Michael show. Creative Team members, Sherri Jessee and Gerard Caruso were on hand to help create the gorgeous looks. See how you can achieve the same look!
Andrea Pomerantz Lustig on Upping Your Profile
Andrea Pomerantz Lustig has been a superstar beauty editor (Glamour and before that Cosmopolitan) for almost twenty years. I got a chance to speak to her during Mercedes-Benz Fashion Week about the best way salon professionals should approach an editor. "Today it's easier than ever," she told me before the interview. "It's a great time for talented professionals." Make sure to watch to the end to learn more about her book coming out in August: "How To Look Expensive, A Beauty Editor's Secrets To Getting Gorgeous Without Breaking The Bank."
Video Interview with Philip Pelusi on his Renaissance Updo
Philip Pelusi of Tela Beauty Organics shared with us his hair design for the GORGEOUS Venexiana fall/winter 2012 collection shown at New Yorkshire Mercedes-Benz Fashion Week. His romantic Updo had an old world feel with multiple textures and a defined center parting.
HOW-TO: Renaissance Crimped Updo
How to create Philip Pelusi's Renaissance crimped updo style.
Joan Rivers at Badgley Mischka
In all of my years covering fashion week I have witnessed lots of drama. However, I was NOT prepared for the frenzy caused by the appearance of Joan Rivers backstage during Mercedez Benz Fashion Week at the Badgley Mischka show.
Congratulations to the Finalists of P&G Student Competition
MODERN SALON Media is so excited to announce and congratulate the 2012 P&G Salon Professional Student Competition finalists! Here are the finalists...
Make-Up Artist Transforms Into a Barbie: Tutorial
YouTube allstar Promise Tamang Phan literally turns herself into a Barbie right before our eyes by loading on concealer to create a flawless, plastic illusion, minimizes her nose by contouring with brown shadow, creates cartoon eyes by lining them with blue and pink shadows, and of course, tops it off with a pink pucker and blonde wig.
NovaLash Eyelash Extensions: Before and After
I arrived at The Lash Co. in Houston, which is owned by NovaLash CEO Sophy Merszei and Sophia Navarro. Sophia is known as one of the top eyelash extensionists and educators in the world—and for good reason. She delivers.
FASHION WEEK: Ricky of RICKY's on his Latest Creations
I caught up with, Ricky, the founder of the hairdresser dream store RICKY's, while he was meeting with Kevin Ryan and Frank Rizzieri of RSESSION tools backstage at Milly during Mercedes Benz Fashion Week. He filled me in on his latest creations.
FASHION WEEK: Janell Geason at B. Michael
Janell Geason for Aveda shares her make up vision at B. Michael during the fall 2012 collections shown at Mercedes Benz Fashion Week.
FASHION WEEK: Orlando Pita for Carolina Herrera
One of my favorite looks at New York's Mercedes-Benz Fashion Week was Orlando Pita's BIG, voluminous finish for Carolina Herrera's Fall/Winter 2012 Collection. Read Maggie Mulhern's blog.
FASHION WEEK: CND at Struts
Wendy Ruiz led a team of manicurists at the Struts Fashion Show on the last day of Mercedes Benz Fashion Week in New York. Wendy and her team gave the models a CND Shellac manicure in assorted shades.
Nelson Vercher for René Furterer at "Real Fashion Real Women"
Nelson Vercher used René Furterer for the Real Fashion Real Women Show at 2012 Autumn/Winter Mercedes Benz Fashion Week.
Enchanted Bride
For this editorial hair story, Photographer Jean Sweet (also the Art Director for the shoot) chose three fairy tale characters: the Evil Queen of Snow White, Red Riding Hood and Rapunzel to be styled in bridal. Griglin was given the chance to create the hair for the Evil Queen in which she executed the hair style with a wire form base underneath a blend of the model's own hair and extensions detailed with multi-textural braids, waves and curls.
FASHION WEEK: Matrix Sponsors STRUT
Matrix decided to sponsor one of the last shows of New York's Mercedes Benz Fashion Week and offered Modern Salon Media unprecedented access to both front and back of house.
Fashion Week Fall Winter 2012 FULL RECAP!
MODERN SALON Media has just returned from a week-long, fashion-fueled binge while reporting backstage and front row at New York’s Mercedes Benz Fashion Week.
TONI&GUY Style Fashion Week: Side Pony Rides
TONI&GUY supplied the styling for designer Corey Lynn Calter's show during NYC Fashion Week on February 8, 2012.
by Anne Moratto