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February 17, 2010

Hair Trends 2010

Hair colors for 2010 sound good enough to eat! Read on to discover what tickles your taste buds and learn what your hair color says about you.
Yummy New Shades

Chocoholics rejoice!

Stunning shades of chocolate are all the hair color rage for 2010, especially streaked with highlights. Cherry cola, eggplant, burgundy, cinnamon, maroon, bright red and lavender offer additional depth. For a lighter look, mix in honey, bright gold, platinum or caramel.

White chocolate counts, too. If you prefer being blonde, go for a blindingly bright platinum. If you're feeling bubbly, add some pink--as in pink champagne.

Are chocolate-covered cherries more to your taste? Try a red base with streaks of chocolate. Add mixed-fruit highlights of strawberry blonde and plum.

Avon stylist Tippi Shorter on Winter Trends and Tips

Avon Global Stylist Advisor Tippi Shorter has been on tour with Alicia Keys (nice work, if you can get it!) but took a break from her styling duties to answer a few quick questions for us:

Q: What are the hottest hair trends for winter?

I believe hair with controlled volume and sleek ponytails and buns will be huge for Winter 2010.

Big, sexy volume:
- Begin this look by running volumizing mousse through hair root to tip.
- Create soft curls by setting hair with curlers (like Advance Techniques Pillow Curlers). Spray a light mist of hair spray to ensure hair will hold curl.
- Remove the curlers from your hair. Flip hair over front of head and spray with additional hair spray to create extra volume and hold. Run fingers through hair to loosen curls for a soft finish.

Read the entire Q & A via jolienadine.com

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January 14, 2010

Fitness Trends of 2010

With New Year’s Eve solidly in the rearview mirror, it’s now the time of year where everyone is driving towards their New Year fitness goals.

For most folks, their fitness destination this year isn’t just losing a few pounds, experts agree. Rather, 2010 will see more peo-ple opting to make life altering, overall health and wellness plans instead of the “lose 20 pounds in four days” crash diets – though they’ll still be prevalent.

“The short term programs work, but they’re exactly that – short term,” said Matt Gibbons, managing partner of Armstrong Athletic Club in Gastonia. “The key is, it’s a lifestyle change. You have to change your lifestyle slowly to be successful.”

A lot of it is common sense, said local personal trainer and fitness professional Lamail Spain.

Read all the trends via gastongazette.com

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January 13, 2010

Hair Trends 2010

Hair colors for 2010 sound good enough to eat! Read on to discover what tickles your taste buds and learn what your hair color says about you.

Read the entire article via baltimoresun.com

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November 12, 2009

Latest Spa Consumer Trends

This research by Coyle Hospitality Group also includes insights on the following:

Most booked treatments - Massage
Factors influencing spa-goers' enjoyment - Relaxation
Importance of specific spa facility offerings and spa attributes - Relaxation room, Cleanliness
Spa guest loyalty
Spa purchases
Gift certificate purchases - In location
Choices that would provide the most value to their overall spa experience - Bargain/discounted prices
Where the spa goers look for spa deals, packages and offers - Online

Read the entire research via coylehospitality.com

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October 7, 2009

The Top 4 Ways to Get Runway Hair

How do you get the season's hottest runway hairstyles? With these insider tips straight from the stylists who created the trends via allure.com

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October 3, 2009

The Most Flattering Hairstyle on Everyone?

According to the beauty editors at Allure magazine the most flattering haircut on almost every face type is shoulder-length.
It seems the celebrities are listening because the hottest hairstyle trend for fall and winter 2009 is a simple, shoulder-length 'do.

How to get it? Here are some tips via beauty.about.com

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September 30, 2009

Makeup Artist Robin Black Talks Fall Trends

If you're a fan of M.I.A.'s daring maquillage or Chloë Sevigny's bold makeup, you already know Robin Black's work. The look she creates, like the perfectly lined pout, pretty blush, and huge '80s sunglasses she styled M.I.A. up in for a performance last month, is defined by its classic prettiness but with a strong element that makes it pop. For some expert post-Fashion Week analysis, I spoke with Black, who runs the Face section of LA's Warren-Tricomi salon and does some beauty writing of her own, about how the looks we saw on the ramps are going to translate into magazines (also known as editorial) and eventually onto the drugstore shelves. We covered a lot of ground, and she has some amazing tips for turning runway makeup into real-way looks.

To find out how anyone can wear black lipstick and other juicy tidbits, just keep reading via bellasugar.com

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September 23, 2009

Trends and Views from Hairstylist Philip Pelusi

What was the most common hair trend among the women you met that day?

It's a little more dimensional than just one trend. I love working with photographs that people bring in; it makes it easier to know what's in their soul, what they're feeling. Then we can figure out if it will work for her, her hair type, what kind of maintenance it will demand, Here's what I saw: Women in their 20s or slightly older like that "Gossip Girl," Blake Lively -- long, wavy blond hair. And the model Agyness Deyn, with the supershort, platinum hair.

As people get older, we do them more interesting -- more subtle, dimensional blondes, not stripes or something, like you had when you were 20. We'll do two or three shades of blonde, warm and cool tones, ash blonde and light brown, all worked in.

There's more shorter hair request, the pixie cut in particular, more so around country than in New York City at moment. The bob will be with us forever, and we still see a lot of Katie Holmes pictures. There's a lot of different ways to do that cut, and it comes out amazingly different on people, which is fun. Women bring their kids in to get cuts like Suri Cruise, with the bangs; it's very cute.

If they're in their 40s or older, women really like Diane Lane's cut and Michelle Pfeiffer's hair color. Kim Cattrall, with the longer, layered hair, is still popular.

Read the entire interview via cleveland.com

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September 18, 2009