Posts Tagged "Thinning Shears"
Oct10

Beyonce’s Wigging Out

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Most of us have elaborate plans as to what we’d do if we ever came into a million dollars. Probably for most people, those plans wouldn’t involve buying $1 million worth of wigs. But Beyonce isn’t “most people.” Sure, she’s far from the only celeb to have been known to wear a wig or two - Paris Hilton, Britney Spears, Michael Jackson and even John Travolta all have them.

But there’s little doubt that Beyonce takes the prize for having the most, and likely the most expensive ones. When you’re reticent to let thinning shears slice and dice your hair, wigs CAN be a good option – especially when you have as many costume changes as the singer.

A source close to the star told In Touch Weekly, “Beyonce’s wigs are worth a fortune. The majority of them are custom-made from real hair and she’s probably got $1 million worth of stunning wigs.”

Whatever the reason she would give for owning that many wigs, it’s still kind of creepy to think about – and apparently, she houses the wigs in a climate-controlled closet with several hairpieces cashing out at $10,000.

The good news is, Beyonce donates many of her castoffs to a charity which supplies wigs to women going through chemotherapy.

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Sep26

Stylists Work Unpaid for a Good Cau...

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Thinning shears, chunking shears, razors, left-handed scissors they’ll all be at work – well, the stylists who wield them will all be working, unpaid for a day to help the organization Breakthrough Breast Cancer.

The staff of a salon in Wales is taking an unpaid day to contribute to the organization and calling for locals to pitch in and help, like many other salons and stylists who have stepped up to help causes of their own.

Patrons will be able to choose from a standard cut and blow dry through to coloring, reflexology, full body massage or Indian head massage, and there will also be quizzes and a raffle. Prices of the services will be donated to the organization.

 A local restaurant owner will even be making a special dish of pink pasta and sauce, in keeping with the pink theme.

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Sep17

Not Your Average Beauty Parlor

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Heading to someone’s trailer to get your hair done may not be something you’d be interested in doing, even if that trailer was simply their version of a “beauty parlor.” Most people nowadays are likely to pick a salon based on ammenities, location, services, types of shears and scissors including thinning shears, adequate thinning shears, making sure the stylist has whatever tools are needed! But a trailer has served one woman well for forty years. Lucille Spicer is turning 90, and she has spent many of her days in the beauty shop/trailer behind her home in kansas.

“I’ve done hundreds and hundreds of customers,” Lucille says. It started back in the 1940’s, when Lucille spent six months in the Venus beauty school in Wichita. “We had uniforms made out of white sheets that we ironed. I’m old-fashioned. We did pincurls with hairpins – not bobby pins. You had to really study. We had to know all about muscles and everything inside the head. I had to learn to use brush rollers for the shop. I couldn’t do these young girls of today – no way.”

In her prime Lucille did 10 customers a day six days a week, although she says she has slown down because she is “not very fast,” now. Still, she describes herslef as “Probably the happiest woman in Hazelton.”

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Sep12

Salons Target Younger Clients

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Add “salons” to the list of places teens and tweens are hitting up these days in their quest for cool.

MSNBC recently reported that 16 percent of teens who have visited a spa have received hair-removal procedures, according to The International Spa Association, while everal salon owners across the country told the “Today” show that the number of children ages 12 and under coming seeking beauty services has dramatically increased during the past three years

One salon owner in Minnesota says the majority of her younger clients are accompanied by their parents, grandparents or nannies, which means they’re not coming in by themselves, asking for something crazy that would require, say thinning shears or radically-colored hair dye! 

“We find that they (are influenced by) their mom and friends, or are highly influenced by magazines or television,”the salon owner said.

Some places even offer services to teens that instruct them on how to style and take care of their own hair, so they can get the look they want on their own.

One teen visiting a salon says she only comes about three to four times a year, but only to get her hair trimmed and highlighted to keep it “healthy and nice looking,” and she always talks “with my mom before I visit on what I should do with my hair.”

Still, there’s at least one teenager who thinks that “Many of the celebrities in the tabloids affect many young girls and women, whether it be a hair style or what a girl’s size is in clothing. Hollywood is trying to show America a beauty that is fake and negative (to) people who don’t look like that.”

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