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To mark June as National Safety Month, the National Safety Council (NSC) is celebrating people’s passions that give them a good reason to stay safe. The NSC’s 2015 theme, “What I Live For,” encourages you to share your ...
Tweeting that her water tip of the day is that she drinks five to six liters of water a day, Khloe Kardashian touched off a bit of a health storm. Even though she added that this amount was recommended by her nutritionist and based on her body ...
How safe is your salon and how healthy is your salon culture? In conjunction with National Safety Month, this is the seventh June designated as Employee Wellbeing Month to spotlight the workplace’s role in helping to create healthy ...
Tell us and you could win shoes!Hairdressing isn’t a sport, but it is physical. Salon work requires stamina, strength, attention to posture and stance, and a fair amount of fancy footwork. The shoes you wear, the floor you stand on and how ...
That runny nose, those itchy eyes and your scratchy throat—is it a summer cold, or do you have allergies? You don’t want to be spreading a cold to every client who sits in your chair, so you may be hoping it’s an allergy. But ...
Davines, an Italian beauty product brand that emphasizes health and sustaining the environment, has developed a video demonstrating six exercises intended to help hairdressers maintain good posture, avoid injuries, eliminate fatigue and shake ...
That week early November 2014 was supposed to be one of the best of her life, but Jenni Burke, co-owner of The Head Shoppe in Lower Sackville, Nova Scotia, doesn’t even remember it.The birth of her second daughter had gone as planned: a ...
It used to be all about Fitbit, but suddenly tracking your fitness has become a competition in itself. The good news is that when the market floods, the prices drop. Still, how can you choose among the many wrist bands and clothing clips you see ...
Last Monday, May 18, salons across the country participated in the Rock the Cure Cut-a-Thon to help City of Hope raises funds to fight cancer. If your salon was unable to hold a cut-a-thon on that day, or if you didn’t know about the ...
“You may know me as the person who introduced eyelash extensions to the world, but you might not know that I have been battling lyme disease, chronic erlichiosis and babesiosis for 30 years,” says Sophy Merszei, founder of NovaLash. ...
There’s been a lot of attention given to the five alarming signs that you may be having a heart attack, when it’s time to call 911:Chest discomfort or pain.Discomfort in other parts of the body—typically the jaw, back, neck, ...
Even on these beautiful spring days of May, some people are feeling low. Fighting depression and other mental health disorders is not easy, but it’s even harder to do alone. The National Alliance on Mental Illness (NAMI) asks all of us to ...
If you’re a woman, you may have been trying to look good for other people your entire life. You’ve aimed for some ideal female body. Celebrity trainer Holly Perkins says that it’s time to stop feeling that pressure, rescue your ...
Chana Gray has always intuitively understood that being a healthy hairdresser would help her to be a happy hairdresser—and increase her chances for career longevity. “I have been a holistic hairdresser since the 1970s,” ...
May Is Posture Month! You may think that standing and bending over clients all day is what compromises your posture, but what you do at home after work may be making things worse. Slumping over a computer, rolling your shoulders ...
For years, Sophy Merszei, Molecular Biologist, Cosmetic Chemist and founder of NovaLash eyelash extensions, has been suffering with Lyme Disease and its attendant disorders (**see photos below). Now she is putting the pain aside, and ...
In 2008, Gina Arakelian went looking for a surgical solution to her plantar fasciitis pain and discovered a new lifestyle. “The doctors told me I was borderline diabetic,” recalls Arakelian, owner of Gi’ara Hair Studio in ...
