With only two more sleeps to go, we’re getting very excited about Monday night’s official launch of the Blondes to Brunettes + RMIT Fashion Friendship: 365 Days of Design by RMIT Fashion Design Students.

You can find more information on the event here.

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Well, not to induce panic, but there are only 27 more shopping days until Christmas. If you’re like us, there are always those people on the shopping list that have everything. Well, how about a few solutions to make your life easier and their hair better?

Kérastase is offering some great deals on their holiday gift boxes. You purchase the conditioner and styling product and get the shampoo free! Here are the Kérastase gift packs we have available:
The Chroma Reflection pack for coloured hair contains Bain Mirroir 1, Chroma Refelct Masque and Chroma Reflect Enhancing Milk

The Volumactive pack for fine hair features Bain Volumactive, Volumactive Masque and a Volumactive Mousse
The Chroma Riche pack for highlighted hair comes complete with Bain Chroma Riche, Chroma Riche Masque and Chroma Riche Softening Essence

Our Nutritive pack for normal to dry hair contains Bain Satin 1, Lait Vital and Masqueintense

Finally, the Bain de Force pack for weakened hair features Bain de Force, Ciment Anti-Usure and Ciment Thermique

Are you and yours Kevin.Murphy fans? Well, we haven’t left you out in the snowy cold. There are 2 to chose from that contain some pretty great little extras… The High.Roller gift pack get you ready to curl with 6 rollers, Session.Spray hairspray & Antigravity. The Angels Bearing Gifts of Hold are sure to impress the hair diva on your list and comes with Angel.Wash and Angel.Rinse, as well as a small Session.Spray hairspray.

If you have any avid travelers on your list, the Kevin.Murphy Jet Packs are always a great option as well. They include travel-sized bottles of shampoo, conditioner, body wash and body lotion.

How about that appliance queen? Well for the holidays only, we are offering CHI Digital Flat Irons for only $145 (that’s $100 off the regular price!). For yourself or as a gift, it’s a deal that shouldn’t be missed.

Finally, Blonde gift certificates are always available at the salon. So treat your loved ones to some servies within the salon.

Let’s face it, great hair is the gift that keeps on giving, so this year, why not do some kick-butt holiday shopping while waiting for your colour to set in the salon and beat the crazy parking lots and long line-ups at the mall.

… Oui mais comment choisir ?

Pour commencer prendre le TGV et s’organiser un week end à Paris. Vendredi 4 et samedi 5 décembre 2009, le salon des formations artistiques et culturelles « LE START » va réunir les meilleures écoles de design (arts plastiques, appliqués, arts graphiques, audiovisuel, multimédia, design, mode, etc.). Des conférences sont organisées par le Monde et Télérama pour s’informer et échanger avec des professionnels, des enseignants et des artistes !

Un lieu un peu “people” alors …

Vendredi 4 décembre : 10h à 20h / Samedi 5 décembre : 10h à 18h
104 rue d’Aubervilliers Paris 19
Métro : Stalingrad – ligne Crimée
http://www.le-start.com

In this day and time going to Cosmetology school is not very cheap. You are looking at a minimum cost of $14.000 – $19.000 for tuition and thats not all the costs. A student leaves the school and wants reliable employment! Simple college students come from a four year school and leave on their own to get employment. Today a college graduate will get entry positions in his/her profession offering, insurance, weekly pay, 401k, paid holiday, etc. But the picture for the graduating Cosmetology student is not brighter than it was forty years ago.

A salon owner will open the store, add employee’s, and offer the products, chair, all you need to be a hairdresser in there salon. And might I also add you will be given a schedule, and no hourly pay, not insurance, no paid holiday, NO 401K, NOTHING ONLY A CHECK. And that’s is if you get that at all.

Individuals say to me, ” I am a salon owner, it costs a lot to run a business”! I normally reply,” I didn’t tell you to open it”

Dont fall prey to the normal offerings you get when seeking employment, look for wages, benefits, this is a time when in the next Fifty years a lot of individuals will not stay in the profession because it is an unrealistic profession, pertaining to the subjects of wages, and benefits. If I went to school today and was offered 50% commission , after the fact I just spent close to $14.000 dollars I would have another look at a more stable profession. This is the year 2009, going onto 2010 and the commission structure is way out-of-place in this time period. Students cannot get a decent entry-level position in this industry and be able to afford there BILLS. How can you go to work everyday and worry about your rent, and basic needs. If the salon owner is not giving you a wage consistent to the economics of this time we are in. Then you are throwing your money away. There needs to be a change not a verbal response to cool the present misdeeds, but a nationwide charge to accept this ever growing cancer.

There is too much supply than demand in my industry, and thoughtful consideration to all salon owners in the profession are not all alike. There are some really good business minded owners, and a lot I truly respect. And then the chain salons ruin the atmosphere for the small business owner. There are so may storys I have received from ex-employes of the REGIS corporation that would make your blood curl. These large conglomerates make millions of dollars every year and cannot offer there employees decent pay, or benefits. And the turn over is so great. They will say in their employment packages that they offer this and that but don’t be fooled by their LINGO”. If you are getting out of the Cosmetology school and have a wonderful education stay away from these corporations for employment.

So you sit there waiting on a client, and lets say your schedule is from 10am-5pm and not a person has walked through the door. You have spent a whole day in the salon without pay, being given commission, and not making any profits for the day. And can I also add in you folded towels, swept the floor, answered the phone, etc for the salon also. So if the salon owner hires you he or she should have the business to give to you. Not everyone wants to hear, “Well Juli it was a slow day, here take some cards and pass them out”. Or I love this one,”You gotta pay your dues Juli”.

If a salon owner hires you they should hire you to build you up, not to have you here to cover hours, or wait until a (WALK-IN) comes through the door. This problem did’nt expose itself like a Florida sunrise. The salon professional is still languished in the poverty of prior decades of ill management. And bad business practices. But believe me the bank of justice is not bankrupt anymore. There needs to be a justice for the professional, and not words of, WORDS DON’T PAY THERE BILLS!

I never hired anyone unless I had the business to take them on, and I expected a commitment from them also, I started them out part-time. and also set up product knowledge class’s for them. Photoshoots were next on the list, and I also showed them how to set up a website, and teach them about internet marketing. I have a dress code I pay for the first four uniforms. I send them to schools, I pay for the school, they pay for plane and hotel. I send them away twice a year. Not to a class. But to 5 day class’s. Also two weeks paid vacation. And I also give them clients. But they also have to help themselves.

I run a business, and I have certain requirements. Just Like other corporations. But you have to find the right person to take and bring into the salon. Some salon owners will hire anyone just to have coverage of hours. And a lot of really great young stylists I have seen I have turned away because I did’nt have the business for them. I WASN’T GOING TO USE THEM.

These are human beings, young minded professionals and one bad turn from a salon owner or a corporation can leave a mark on these people. I consider myself fair when adding on an employee, and offer them benefits, education and most off all I TEACH THEM TO STAND ON THERE OWN TWO FEET”. To be self-sufficient and keep the passion of the craft. I suggest Unionization for our industry. To look out for the employee, salon owner to offer more just compensation for both sides of the record. Salon owners these days also have to deal with non-committal from there employee’s, lack of professionalism. Lack of want.

A more structured industry will also cleanse the have’s and the (INNER CIRCLE) that plagues the industry. The manufacturers will not longer be in a decisive mode to oppress the profession. But to give to the true professionals in my industry the right and the equal cause to be more assertive and produce, and to grow. Isn’t this also in the constitution. Thats is why I feel the industry professionals, wether it be employee, or business owner there needs to be some form of representation.
In a legal manner. And when these words are spoken and also written It makes the INNER CIRCLE, laugh, to see a speck in the glass all to easily to wipe away. But this speck cannot be wiped away because it is a ongoing problem. That is manifested its roots every so deeply in my profession.

See I am for both sides, the employee and the salon owner and there must be a common place for both entity’s. Only to give a more balance in our lovely profession. Professionals in my industry want to have some form of balance, commitment from the salon owner, and likewise for the salon owner also. But there must be some form of give and take on both sides of the fence. This profession will not make it for another hundred years with this unbalance, injustice, and FREE LABOR.

Joseph Kellner

Poooor fin!!!!! ¬¬

Llega el podcast #4 en el cual hablammos esta vez de que diablos estabamos haciendo en estos dias que se dejo de grabar; Conexion Playstation; Campus Party; La Ida Al Salon Sol que tal esutvo con esas Alitas y un misil de 3 lts de chela.., en nuestro tema de “interes” ¿a que le tiene miedo los jovenes mexicanos? y en musica Placebo y Tiësto.. y mucho mas En …..mmm No tiene nombre este podcats…..(… To be Continued?)

Todo esto grabado desde el segundo piso del Perros y Burros, donde por cierto; hacia bastante Frio …..(ahi les haremos llegar luego la factura por la Publicidad xD)

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U heeft het wel al opgemerkt. In het gemeentehuis dat nog geen vijftien jaar oud is worden intensieve verbouwingswerken uitgevoerd. Of dat iets zegt over het langetermijndenken van de bouwheren of het uit zijn ondertussen voegen barstende personeelsbestand voor een bevolking die toch niet merkelijk aangegroeid is te huisvesten, dat laten we aan het oordeel van onze lezers over.

Feit is dat de gemeente een lederen salon te veel heeft. En het verkoopt.

HET GEMEENTEBESTUUR GAAT OVER TOT DE VERKOOP VAN EEN LEDEREN SALON.

2 tweezits, 1 éénzit en 1 salontafel.

De instelprijs is vastgesteld op 500,00 €

Biedingen kunnen vanaf heden tem 18 december 2009 onder gesloten omslag met vermelding “Bod Salon” gestuurd worden naar:

Gemeentebestuur Haaltert
Dienst Financiën
Hoogstraat 41
9450 Haaltert

U kunt dez salon steeds bezichtigen op afspraak.

Voor alle inlichtingen 053/85 86 23

Foto’s kan u hier (klik hier) bekijken

Wij vragen ons ondertussen nog steeds af waar die tientallen waardevolle design Saarinen (Knoll) vergaderstoelen uit het oude gemeentehuis ooit beland zijn.

Kelvin Cruickshank – Soul Food Show

28th November 2009, 7.30pm, at the Melbourne Recital Centre, Elisabeth Murdoch Hall.

 

ARTISTS

Kelvin Cruickshank

PROGRAM

With the outstanding success and popularity of Channel 9’s award winning series “Sensing Murder” Kelvin has been literally swamped with people wanting to see him. For this reason he has introduced a series of exclusive evenings that will help to reach out and touch more people at once. These evenings will simply be Kelvin working with spirit. Kelvin will read as many people as possible although we do not guarantee he can read everyone.

Price $82.50

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The Dance of Design: Explorations and Expressions

28th November 2009, 7.30pm, at the Melbourne Recital Centre, Salon.

The Boite in conjunction with Ojas Desai presents The Dance Of Design.

Design or Ordered Expression permeates life. It is what makes Communication Intelligent and Beautiful. From expressing outside one’s body through the medium of Graphic Design to an internal experience of body design i.e. Dance begins a journey that marks an artist’s return to her cultural roots, symbols and world-view. Through a presentation in the Mohini Attam dance form, Miti Desai will share her journey from Design to Dance.

Miti Desai, Click for Biography

1hr 50min concert duration (inc interval)

Prices: $40 -$45

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beautiful…

Bonjour à toutes,

J’étais présentes en exposantes dimanche dernier (22 novembre). Et oui, j’ai bravé le froid et le vent pour être présente dans cette ultime brocante de l’année. Téméraire mais pas inconsciente: j’étais présente afin de vendre des objets divers dont je n’ai plus utilité (vêtements, dossiers…). Je n’allais pas sortir mes bijoux avec le vent: j’aurais passé ma matinée à leur courir derrière par qu’ils se sont envolés.
Dernière brocante de l’année=> A L’ANNEE PROCHAINE MAINTENANT!!!

Mais attention! Fini les brocantes certes. Mais pas les expositions. Et 2 expositions sont annoncées pour le mois de Décembre: une le samedi 12 décembre de 14h à 19h à Courdimanche et une autre à Herouville le Dimanche 6 Décembre. En tout cas le mois de Décembre s’annonce intéressant.

Voilà pour les expositions. Et pour les bijoux maintenant.
Je suis en train d’enrichir ma collection de boucles d’oreilles et de bagues pour plus de plaisir et pour vous faire plaisir. N’hésitez pas à me faire vos remarques et suggestions.

Sur ce, je vous dis à très vite et vous souhaite une très bonne soirée.

Julie de POESIE DES PERLES
www.poesie-des-perles.fr

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today is hair cut & color tuesday!! ptl. if you’ve been following me and reading my blog as i talk complain about my never-ending hair drama, you’ll know that i’ve lived in florida for 5 years and have yet to get a good cut and color. and after living in lakeland for 3 1/2 years, you’d think i would have nailed a salon and found the best of the best. not so much.

i’ve literally tried every place i can think of and still end up being disappointed. you see… when i was in high school and for the first 2 years that i lived in florida, i would just get my hair done by my old youth pastors wife. i didn’t have to explain how i wanted my bangs swept and she understood that when i said ‘white blonde’, i meant ‘white blonde’. well, about 2ish years ago, i decided that it was time for me to put my big girl pants on and find a salon (preferably aveda!) here in lakeland. as of today, i have tried mirabella’s, salon salvatore, micheline’s, haircutter’s int’l, salon s.q., salon jack (tampa), orchid springs (winter haven) and level 2(tampa). it’s quite unfortunate.

so… with that said… today is hair cut & color tuesday! i’m hoping i have good luck tonight! i am going to see ’sexy sarah’ (as everyone calls her) at hot hedz. i’ll admit, i’m a little turned off just by the name of the salon, but i am choosing to look past that and see all that fab cuts & colors she has done for my friends!

onward!

ps– i’m hoping to get my nasty, dirty blonde hair back to this: