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Un-fad Your Diet

People like to believe in something and belong to something, and in the weight loss industry that feeds into a series of fad diets, each one with its die-hard fans. They’re vegans or Atkins people or South Beach skinnies. But a book ...

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National Healthy Skin Month: Your 40s and Beyond

Sunscreen is the price of admission for beautiful skin in your 40s and 50s. What else can you do?  Dr. Bethanee J. Schlosser, assistant professor of dermatology and director of Women’s Skin Health at Northwestern University, Feinberg ...

Kathy Cresci: Lessons From Morocco

When Healthy Hairdresser profiled Casey London Keeter, the manager at Intrigue Salon in Atlanta, Keeter told us we should speak with one of her stylists as well. Kathy Cresci has been with Intrigue for 11 years and, like Keeter, makes ...

Own Your Body

Your career as a hairdresser makes you hyper aware of beauty and appearance. Do you feel that team members treat you a certain way based on your appearance? Do clients judge you for the way you look?  Even if you do not feel that your ...

Alternative Medicine

(This is a version of an excerpt from an article published in the Healthy Hairdresser section of the October 2014 issue of MODERN SALON.) Perhaps you relieve your sore back with acupuncture, or maybe your grandmother’s secret brew ...

Casey London Keeter: Manager, Role Model

As a former long-distance runner and a gymnast, Casey London Keeter was accustomed to a regular schedule of working out. Now 38, married, a mom to daughters aged 9 and 3 and the busy manager at Intrigue Salon in Atlanta, Keeter still finds ways ...

Meditate, Not Medicate!

(This is a version of an excerpt from an article published in the Healthy Hairdresser section of the October 2014 issue of MODERN SALON.) “Try to give yourself the gift of meditation every single day,” advises author and ...

Ashley Jael: Coping with Fibromyalgia and Chronic Fatigue Syndrome

She was only nine years old, which is young to get a double-whammy diagnosis of fibromyalgia and Chronic Fatigue Syndrome (CFS), but California hairdresser Ashley Jael now looks back on her nearly 20 years of coping with both diseases as a mixed ...

Happier Life: Oprah’s 8 Little Changes

She may have left her high-profile talk show, but Oprah still supplies a lot of advice through her OWN network, her website and her magazine. Healthy Hairdresser peeked at her eight suggestions for improving your daily routine and living more ...

Sorting Out the Pink Ribbon Causes

Wearing pink and pinning up pink ribbons will show that your salon supports breast cancer awareness. But when you get more involved and stage an event to raise money, check out a charity before you donate. Sometimes you want to contribute to a ...