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Style Ups and Downs at the SAG Awards
The 2011 Screen Actors Guild Awards showcased hair that had a lot of ups, downs…and ponytails.
Smoldering and Smokey Mossy Green Eyes
Make-Up Designory (MUD), a make-up school with locations in New York City and Los Angeles, has everything you need to re-create this Spring’s must-have look—sultry, smokey, mossy-green eyes!
A Compact Hair Dryer With Power!
When you're on the road it's convenient to have a smaller hair dryer that gets the job done just like your dryer at your salon. I tried out a practical and comfortable compact hairdryer that is both powerful and effective.
LED Light Therapy Brush
I have never seen a brush like this one before! It's called the Light and Massage Therapy Hair Brush. It's a hair brush that uses LED light emitters and massage-action bristles to improve general scalp and hair follicle health.
Matrix Imagination 2011: And the Experience Gets Better and Better!
When I wrote the subject line of this blog about Matrix's 201 Imagination, "And it gets better and better," I meant it...This show is unlike any other manufacturer show, it's NOT AT ALL about the products, it's NOT AT ALL about the numbers, it's ALL about the inspiration and education behind the hairdressers involved and the extreme amount of dedication and passion the Matrix Senior Team has for the industry.
Alison Takes Sam Villa's Textur Iron For a Test Drive!
I just received the coolest.thing.ever. and everyone that uses it falls in love. It is Sam Villa’s Textur Iron—aka, the sweetest little microcrimper you’ve ever laid your eyes on.
Color America Fort Worth: Sue Pemberton
As I shared in my last blog, Color America has been an amazing program and it’s been an honor to be involved with Cosmetologists Chicago and the America’s Beauty Show Team.
Nicole Richie's Modern Finger Waves
Get the look with Sam Villa's "Red Carpet Waves" how-to
Matrix Imagination 2011: Californiaaaa... Here we Come!!!
Today is my second day in Palm Springs, California, where I am participating in my VERY FIRST Matrix Imagination event!Not only am I super excited about getting out of snowy Chicago, but I am ecstatic to be hanging out with some of the coolest peeps in the industry. As you may remember from my previous blogs back in December, I was asked to be a guest judge for Matrix’s Spread the Love competition—in which the Matrix team and I interviewed and selected the 6 winners from the 22 finalists to participate in a 6-month, all expenses paid tour around the country!
Betty White and Dolly Parton Join JPMS Fundraising
For the eighth consecutive year, the nationwide network of Paul Mitchell beauty schools will spend the months of February through April raising money for charitable organizations. In 2010, the schools raised an all-time high of $1.2 million, bringing their seven-year total to over $4.6 million.This year they plan to raise $1.5 million for seven organizations: Leeza Gibbons Memory Foundation, Children’s Miracle Network Hospitals, Andrew Gomez Dream Foundation, Food 4 Africa, Fran Drescher’s Cancer Schmancer Foundation, and newcomers Morris Animal Foundation, represented by Betty White, and Dolly Parton’s Imagination Library.
Skincare for Ages 22-38
So there's skin care lines that focus on the acne years or on rejuvenation and repair, but what about a line devoted for today's younger women—ladies with "in between" skin? It seems like there are few products out there devoted specifically for women between the ages of 22 and 38, but I found one that I had to share with you.
World City Inspired Scents
When I came across a collection called Heaven’s Alchemy Perfumes, I just HAD to show you them. They radiate the feeling of romance, passion and beauty of the world’s most captivating cities. Athens, Alexandria, Milan, New York and Paris are just a few of the scents offered.
Color America Fort Worth: Kimberly Kimble
What an amazing opportunity it is to be involved with Cosmetologists Chicago, the America’s Beauty Show Team, and to be part of Color America. With the huge success of our first Color America in Chicago, it was a daunting thought to plan our second Color America in the Company of Patrick McIvor, but WOW what an outcome.
For Want of a Nail
There is an old tale of how, through the course of events, the lack of one nail, a shoe could not be put on the horse and then a solider could not fight on the horse, and ultimately the battle is lost because of the loss of this one soldier. I recently had a series of unfortunate events that had the opposite effect.
Eva Scrivo on Beauty
I just got my advance copy of EVA SCRIVO ON BEAUTY, the 300 plus guide offering her inside knowledge on what every woman needs to know to "be her most beautiful, confident self".
Kristen Stewart Covers Vogue
Kristen Stewart's blonde, tousled locks made a splash when her first ever cover of Vogue was revealed this month. The man behind the tresses? None other than Oribe. “Kristen is a beautiful young girl, and this was all about softening her hair to go with the clothes she wore on the cover,” he says of his inspiration. Here’s how he added volume, body and movement for the relaxed, but chic style.
OSCARS: What About Best Hair?
The 83rd annual Academy Award nominations were announced this morning! Check out the exclusive coverage MODERN will be doing for the night of the ceremony and afterward.