| The Biggest Void in the Cosmetic Market Has Just Been Filled | | Posted Tuesday, February 06, 2007 12:56:35 PM by Blog57 Team | | Enter Repelle(TM) -- the biggest void in the cosmetic market has just been filled, making home and professional hair color care a whole lot cleaner! Problem: Fifty-four percent of women color their hair. Half of those do it exclusively at home, according to research cited in The Wall Street Journal. While many women have hopped on the home hair color bandwagon, 'dyeing' to be a blonde, brunette or redhead is still an ordeal. Whether you are a professional colorist or completely inexperienced, it's hard to escape staining the hairline and even harder to avoid irritating the skin. Women end up with hair dye on the edge of their face, neck and ears. Solution: Introducing new Repelle(TM) Skin Shield Wand-the ultimate hair color accessory.... | |
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| | | Hair Dryers Recalled by Version-X Due to Electrocution Hazard | | Posted Friday, January 26, 2007 3:02:09 PM by Blog57 Team | | The U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission, in cooperation with the firm named below, today announced a voluntary recall of the following consumer product. Consumers should stop using recalled products immediately unless otherwise instructed. (To access color photos of the following recalled product, see CPSC's Web site at http://www.cpsc.gov.) The U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission is charged with protecting the public from unreasonable risks of serious injury or death from more than 15,000 types of consumer products under the agency's jurisdiction. Deaths, injuries and property damage from consumer product incidents cost the nation more than $700 billion annually. The CPSC is committed to protecting consumers and families from products that pose a fire, electrical, chemical, or mechanical hazard.... | |
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| | | ISU business students make plans for future | | Posted Saturday, December 09, 2006 1:00:23 PM by Blog57 Team | | BLOOMINGTON -- Illinois State University senior Mary Wolff reached a fork in her career path: law school or topless hair salon.“If I don't get into law school, I'm doing the hair salon," Wolff said of her plan to open a topless hair studio in Chicago called “A Little Off the Top."The idea was part of a semester-long project where ISU seniors prepare comprehensive business plans that include market research, advertising campaigns, promotional ideas, risk assessment, financial analysis and employee training, among a long list of topics.Wolff brainstormed the concept during a night on the town with friends. “I came up with the idea, surveyed the bar and lots of people said they'd go," she said.On Friday, Wolff and other students presented their research to a panel of Twin City professionals who selected the best business plan.Wolff tied for second, but judge Brian Mueller, a commercial loan officer for CEFCU in the Twin Cities, said her plan and others could become careers after college.“I see a lot of plans that are a lot less sophisticated than these," he said.The competition has spawned post-college success in the past.The winner of last year's ISU competition later placed third in a national contest and won $1,000 for a plan to open a Twin City restaurant featuring skewers prepared right at the table.... | |
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| | | Marzena launches two hot new products for Summer | | Posted Wednesday, November 15, 2006 6:58:27 AM by Blog57 Team | | Marzena has launched two unique hair removal products to help ween you off your skinny jeans and into a mini this summer. The New Zealand bodycare innovator has launched the prestigious Marzena Beauty Salon Wax as well as the Sensitive Hair Remover Lotion – Hands Free, for a clean and simple way to “de-fuzz” for the warmer months. Similar to the wax used in professional salons, the new Marzena Beauty Salon Wax contains natural resin, to remove hair cleanly without the need for cloth strips. Once heated, the contoured applicator smoothes the wax onto the skin in a thin layer, coating the shortest of hairs. It dries quickly to form its own strip, which is then pulled away to remove hair from the roots. Marzena has also come up with Marzena Sensitive Hair Remover Lotion – Hands Free, for easy hair removal on the go.... | |
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| | | Scoobas do a decent job but at high cost | | Posted Sunday, November 12, 2006 11:02:45 PM by Blog57 Team | | In nearly four years of testing infomercial products, one of my favorites has been the Roomba, the saucer-shaped robotic vacuum cleaner that makes it so much easier to frantically get the house in order the night before the cleaning lady comes. It was an ambitious product to launch on TV, costing many times more than the $9.95 and $14.95 price points that are so popular with many of the gadgets and gizmos on the airwaves. The quirky little vacuum was a big hit, and today iRobot sells 10 different versions of the Roomba, with models that can find their way back to the recharging station, models with remote controls, and even models for pet owners with extra hair-scooping capabilities. But the company's boldest move yet came about a year ago, when it introduced the Scooba, a wet-washing robot that is to the mop what the original Roomba was to the broom.... | |
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| | | Hair Dyes May Not Be Healthy For Young Kids | | Posted Friday, November 10, 2006 7:06:27 PM by Blog57 Team | | These days celebrities seem to change their hair color as often as the seasons change. And your kids may be following in their footsteps."Ever since Britney Spears came about, I think everything went a little bit crazy," said salon owner Karla Vandenberg."You look at like Hilary Duff and Jessica Simpson and that's what the seventh graders and the eighth graders and ninth graders look up to," said Hayden Fowler, a teen who highlights her hair.Britney, Hilary, and Jessica step aside. Children as young as six are now getting their hair streaked, bleached, colored and styled.When CBS 5 asked 11-year-old Dakota Hancock why he gets his hair dyed, he responded: "Because my hair turns brown sometimes and I want to go back to my original color, which is blonde.""It looks so pretty and I want to just keep on doing it," explained 8-year-old Emily Oates as her reason."It's just something fashionable," Vandenberg said.Some parents believe it's just a passing phase, a fashion trend, another sign of the times.... | |
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| | | Nigerian emerges 2nd best hairstylist in west Africa | | Posted Wednesday, November 08, 2006 1:02:17 PM by Blog57 Team | | Aladeifa Mobolaji was declared the 2nd Best hairstylist in West Africa. The occasion was this year's glamorous Golden Scissor Awards and the agenda was to declare and award the best hairstylists in West Africa. This year's event, held at Ghana's prestigious International Conference Centre, brought together eight hairstylists on stage; two each, from Ghana, Cote D'Ivoire, Togo and Nigeria. The eight specialists were tasked with the making and presentation of the best avant-garde, bridal-hair-do and the most challenging, the Fashion Cut and Style competition which were done live on stage, to prove each contestants styling skill. At the end of the competition, the judges made up of renowned Lagos hair stylist, Bobby Eke, Dje Koame owner of the famous Salon du Parc in Plateau in La Cote D'Ivoire, Mrs Stephanie Alley, CEO of L'Eben Salon in Accra, Yemi Miles, a hair specialist and a celebrity judge, declared Eric Nii Tackle Tackle from host country Ghana as the winner.... | |
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| | | Bad hair, sweaty feet? Try these remedies | | Posted Wednesday, November 08, 2006 7:01:39 AM by Blog57 Team | | Looking for fast beauty tips? Former New York Times Magazine fashion editor Rona Berg offers 1,000 in her aptly named book "Fast Beauty: 1,000 Quick Fixes" (Workman, $12.95). Here are a few tips from Berg's book: • Flat hair after 4 p.m.: Spray salt water in your hair to reactivate the products in your hair and to thicken . • Dry hair: Seek out hydrating hair treatments and hair masks containing ingredients that end in "amine," which indicates amino acid. • Bone dry hair: Apply conditioner to wet or dry hair. Cover it with a plastic cap for 10 to 15 minutes, then rinse and style as usual. • Split ends: Until you can get ends clipped, Berg suggests applying a smoothing serum through the ends of your hair.... | |
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| | | Can these creams add just a bit of bounce to your hair ? | | Posted Sunday, November 05, 2006 11:01:14 PM by Blog57 Team | | We always want what we can't have -- and that includes the natural state of our tresses. Straight-haired gals armed with hot tools and hair spray aim to go curly. Curly-haired gals packing round brushes and blow dryers are on a mission to go straight. But what if you're lovely locks fall somewhere in between? We asked one tester looking to add oomph to her soft waves to compare three curl-enhancing lotions. Did she find a product that gave her a bit more of what she already has? -- Nerissa Pacio Products Dove Curl Defining styling cream weightless moisturizer, $3.99 for 4 ounces, drugstore.com. Aveda Be Curly, curl enhancing lotion, $17.50 or 6.7 ounces, Aveda stores. Marc Anthony Marc Anthony Strictly Curls, curl-defining lotion, $7.99 for 8.3 ounces, Walgreens.... | |
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| | | Fujitsu's PalmSecure(TM) Biometric Palm Vein Authentication Deployed by Hair Care Company Aderans for PC Log-in System | | Posted Friday, November 03, 2006 7:09:59 PM by Blog57 Team | | Tokyo, Japan, Nov 2, 2006 - (JCN Newswire) - Fujitsu Limited today announced that Aderans Co., Ltd., a major Japanese hair care company, will deploy Fujitsu's PalmSecure(TM) contactless biometric palm vein authentication system for the PC log-in system for computers used by staff at Aderans branches throughout Japan. This is the first implementation of palm vein-based biometric authentication to safeguard customer data by the hair care industry, which includes wigs and hair pieces, hair-volumizing products, and services for healthy hair growth. In recent years, companies and government agencies have an increased awareness of the importance of protecting personal data. At Aderans, due to the fact that the company's internal information system handles sensitive customer data, the company sought advanced high-level security measures for system log-in, beyond merely employee IDs and passwords.... | |
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