What’s in YOUR beauty school student kit?
Professional cosmetologists use a wide array of equipment to achieve desired looks – equipment they begin to acquire the very first week of beauty school. After you begin your cosmetology training,...
View ArticleD.I.Y. Disasters: Haircut Horror Stories
There are countless reasons cosmetology professionals attend beauty school to learn their trade – cutting, coloring and styling hair isn’t something that everyone can do. Well, at least … isn’t...
View ArticleChris Rock’s “Good Hair” Opens Eyes to African-American Beauty Culture
When Chris Rock’s daughter, Lola, came to him crying and asked, “Daddy, how come I don’t have good hair?” the bewildered comic committed himself to figuring out the complex answer to his daughter’s...
View ArticleOne Man’s Trash is His Woman’s Treasure
My diet is crappy, but it helps my girlfriend’s hair look sassy. Being a guy bound to a beauty merchandiser at a local high-end salon means that I am constantly serving as resident guinea pig. My life...
View ArticleBe Good To Your Clients’ Hair in 2010
One whiff of hair dye and you know that the stuff you are breathing in cannot be good for you. That nasty smell is most likely ammonia: a chemical that preps hair strands to receive color. Ammonia...
View ArticleStraight hair in a pill? It could be the fuuuuuture!
What has science done for the beauty industry lately, you ask? Well, for one, scientists in Australia have recently discovered a “curly hair gene,” AKA the trichohyalin gene. This gene, discovered by...
View ArticleMessy Braids Take Center Stage In Spring
It would be easy to make a case that braids never actually disappeared from the radar screen of hair trends over the past 50 years, but it is quite clear to see that they have recently made a...
View ArticleMeryl Streep Puts Gray Hair On Center Stage At Academy Awards
As recently as a few years ago, women of all ages were seeking out any cures they could find for gray hair. The belief that gray hair is a bad thing and should be eradicated at all costs is a concept...
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