We’ve already discussed the ceremony, but wouldn’t you like to know exactly how makeup artist Mario Dedivanovic created Kim Kardashian’s gorgeous, glowing makeup for her big day? Perhaps taking inspiration from Kate Middleton’s royal wedding, Kim went for a natural, classic look as she walked down the aisle, playing up her eyes and keeping her cheeks flushed with a rosy pink blush. Here are the products that Dedivanovic used to create Kim’s look: Read More…
Even supermodels look better with makeup. And older supermodels, such as Kim Alexis pictured here, know all the tricks of the makeup trade. They learn them from people such as Lois Joy Johnson, founding editor of More magazine and co-author of the new book The Makeup Wakeup: Revitalizing Your Look at Any Age. We asked her to share her best tips for care of mature skin and hair and for looking as great as we feel from 50 onward.
SUNBLOCK ALL DAY, EVERY DAY: “Many of us have severe sun damage accrued at an early age,” says Johnson. “This is a big issue cosmetically because of brown spots and potentially with more serious conditions such as basil cell carcinoma. Men and women should use a high SPF every single day, rain or shine, and don’t stop at the neck. Protect any visible skin, hands included. Also wear sunglasses to protect eyes and the eye area from wrinkles caused by sun exposure.”
EXFOLIATION IS KEY: Using an exfoliating cleanser is essential for men and women. Read More…
MODERN SALON Media sent a team of five editors—Maggie Mulhern, Stacey Soble, Alison Shipley, Lauren Salapatek, Jan Hillenmeyer and myself—to PBA Beauty Week this past weekend, plus a camera crew and photographer to interview industry icons and cover major events. We covered Cosmoprof and events like NAHA, Beacon, PBA Symposium and City of Hope for MODERN SALON, SALON TODAY, FIRST CHAIR, modernsalon.com, Modern Salon TV, posting stories that span the lifecycle and lifestyle of beauty professionals.
For Associate Editor Lauren Salapatek, who oversees product sections The Goods, Spotlight, Products We Love (online), as well as Style Watch, Ask the Experts and other key departments for MODERN, SALON TODAY and FIRST CHAIR, it was her first time at the show, and she was, quote: “blown away by the scope of it. I saw so many new things and met so many great people and industry experts.”
Yes, Beauty Week can create a “kid in a candy shop” effect for beauty editors and others, with a plethora of brands, sources, launches and events to experience. (And if you stopped by TIGI’s party or booth to check out the company’s latest styling launch, you actually WERE in a candy shop.) For those of us on the team who have logged “a few more” annual Vegas trips in July than Lauren, we too were impressed by the connections we made and the innovation and activity we saw on the showfloor and beyond.
After we returned to our home bases in Chicago, NYC and California late Tuesday evening, then spent the better part of Wednesday dealing with email and deadlines, we dedicated our weekly editorial meeting to a “deep dive” on what we saw as major or emerging trends at the show. Below are highlights of what we discussed. Read More…
MAGAZINES have long been oracles of beauty advice for women. These days, beauty bloggers, celebrities and tweeting makeup artists also dole out tips and tout must-have products — that they may have received free. But Makeup Alley, a 12-year-old low-frills Web site that focuses on user-generated reviews, has quietly come to be the standard bearer for the unvarnished truth about beauty products online.
According to its New York-based founder, Hara Glick — who, unlike most beauty editors, is so low-profile that she didn’t even want to be photographed for this article — Makeup Alley now has 1.1 million members, which is roughly equivalent to the circulation of Allure. They hotly debate the finer points of Clarisonic skin-cleansing gadgets on the site’s message boards, which get 45,000 posts daily (the site had 2.1 million unique visitors in June), Ms. Glick said. They also swap their used blush, lipstick and other items, so no ill-suited purchase goes to waste and something “new” is always in the mail, even if funds are low and outsiders think it’s gross. Read More…
NEW YORK — Turning his head from side to side as he checks his reflection in the barbershop mirror, Terrell Mack seems pretty pleased with his haircut — a tight, neat crop — but he can’t get up from the chair just yet.
The hair-dusted cape is swept away with the usual toreador flourish.
Mack’s sleeve is pushed up and the cuff of an electronic blood pressure machine is tightened around his right arm. It rapidly inflates, as do the numbers on the machine’s digital read-out screen.
“One-twenty-six over 80,” Dennis Mitchell, Mack’s barber, announces, although his 19-year-old client is briefly uncertain what to make of the reading.
“That’s pretty good,” Mitchell explains. Smiles all around.
The news makes perfect sense to Mack: “I don’t really eat fast food,” he says, to Mitchell’s approval.
The machines arrived at the Denny Moe’s Superstar Barbershop in New York’s historic African-American neighborhood of Harlem in May, making it only one of the latest examples of barbers and beauty salons Read More…
Wedding hairstyle with curls
Flowing locks, elegantly framing the face, give the image of romance. This hairstyle fits any of the fair sex and harmonious look with almost any wedding dress. Locks can be decorated veil, Fresh flowers, tiara or a beautiful clasp. But wedding hairstyle with curls can only afford the bride long and medium length hair.
Bridal Hairstyles tips
Girls with heavy long hair wedding hairstyles for the rehearsal to discuss ways of fixing a barber, because locks are not reliable and can lose their shape due to the heat or humidity.
Idea! If you wear medium length hairYou can use the overhead locks for the wedding day. Read More…
Yesterday afternoon, Emma Watson joined the rest of the Harry Potter cast in London to promote Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, Part II. Besides Rupert Grint (swoon), the first thing I noticed was Watson’s piece-y pixie—and the two sections of hair smoothed down strategically in front of her ears.
These are what we like to call “lady sideburns,” and Watson’s were our first non-fashion-show sighting this year. (Not surprising, really: It takes guts to wear man-inspired hair.) But on the fall runways, hairstylists were ‘burning models left and right—especially Guido, who left wispy side pieces loose all over the place, calling them “this season’s accessory,” and also created stronger, more defined sideburns that blurred gender lines. “It’s that whole masculine/feminine thing that is very chic,” Read More…
A perfectly manicured hand is one where the nails are strong and smooth, with no discoloration, jagged cuticles or other signs of abuse. So what about nails that are less than perfect? Since many health problems have an impact on the nails, it’s worth listening to what your hands have to say.
Next time you have a client sit down for a manicure, if you notice any of these signs you may want to point them out. According to Dr. Ariel Ostad, a Manhattan Board Certified Dermatologist, nails can say a lot about your client’s health. See what he says to watch out for:
Beware of Dangerous UVA Rays at the Nail Salon: Doctors raised the alarm after two women developed tumors on their hands from exposure to ultra-violet lamps used to fix artificial nails. The lamps can also be bought for home use. But experts now fear the high dose of UVA rays—the most dangerous form of ultra-violet light they produce could be damaging skin cells. “Regular users should have their hands and fingers inspected for signs of cancerous growths,” says Dr. Ostad. Because the matrix originates under the cuticle, getting a manicure can harm it if the equipment isn’t sterilized. And when a drill is inserted under the cuticle to smooth it, the matrix cells can be ground up so badly that they cannot regenerate. Nail sculpture chemicals can also drip down into the matrix, causing damage. “When the matrix cells are damaged, they may never grow properly again, and the nail will always be deformed,” says Dr. Ostad.
It’s the Pits. When the normally smooth surface of the fingernail has several small dents or pits in it, that can be a signal that something is going on beneath the nail. Most often, the cause of those dents is psoriasis Read More…
By: Kerri Lee
We focus so much attention on keeping clients safe in the salon, but what about the salon employees? Injuries in the workplace are inevitable, but highly preventable with a little planning, communication and proper execution. Here are five ways to help eliminate and reduce workers’ comp injury claims in the salon:
1. A Healthy, Stable Environment – The best way to eliminate or reduce injury claims is to create the safest work environment humanly possible. Take a step back and look around the salon. Are cords untangled, confined and bundled together? Are shears put away in their proper place? Is hair getting swept up during and after each and every haircut? To make sure everyone is chipping in, create a top-to-bottom safety checklist in the salon and have each stylist and station adhere to it. Better yet, laminate 10 checklists and require employees to submit a completed checklist before they are allowed to walk out the door at the end of their day or shift. It will only be a matter of time until these small steps becomes part of their daily routine. Read More…
Hair has no serial number - so stolen extensions cannot be traced
A spate of hair extension thefts across the US has put the spotlight on the lucrative market for human hair.
It may sound an unlikely source of income – but salons across the country are on alert after a series of raids in which hair worth tens of thousands of dollars has been stolen.
In the latest theft, thieves rammed a car through the front door of a beauty supply shop in Atlanta, Georgia, and escaped with an estimated $10,000 (£6,119) in hair extensions.
In Houston, one raid at My Trendy Place hair salon earned the perpetrators $120,000 (£73,432) of Indian “virgin hair” – unprocessed and untreated. Read More…
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