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A Better THE FLEX BRUSH Brush

Yup -even the hair brush-born over a millennium plus  ago-gets a re-boot with a fab scalp hugging curve design for a better untangling of wet or dry tresses. Available  online.https://theflexbrush.com/shop  and at salons-including co-leading light- Angelo David (Pisacreta) Salon -created with Jacob Guttman of Creative Tools  Affordable+ re-usable for stressed out-environmentally harassed scalps-now delivered---The FLEX BRUSH promotes healthy hair growth with its cool curved shape that massages all sizes of scalps, and takes the knots out of all hair types -from the fine to thick- real or otherwise  (like wigs, RHO...worthy extensions, etc). PLUS the super lightweight, vented design- enhances air flow from blow dryers. Also a great tool for dry brushing imo-...helps shed dry skin cells to smooth+brighten- and reportedly improve the body's lymphatic systems...and is perfect pet brush for shedding felines/canines.

HAIR TRENDS: Rainbow Hues

  IECSC N.Y. Tradeshow-Javits Center Besides ear-splitting backbeats, we can always count on the latest hair trends-and the companies that make the products to  get the looks -to show up at the annual March hair+spa- jam packed with humans, tradeshow. via GIPHY Noticeable-multi-hues-multi-strands + barbershop artistic hair styles-unisex and multi-cultural neck-up statements. MANIC PANIC-founded by club legends Tish+Snooky.. .Manic Panic serves up professional worthy, semi-permanent hair colors and saturated shades of highly pigmented make-up for do-it-yourselfers. Pictured above-mermaid worthy hair that makes a statement. AND yes, copious amounts of hair spray needed too. -Manic Panic mixes it up- on the right-bleach hair starting point for true rainbow shading Rainbow lovely locks---ramp up single saturated shades -a harkening back to 1980's London punchy punk scene that celebrates all genders/types of hair. FFFUUUUUNNNN!!!! TO KEEP TRUE COLORS t...

Treatments+Solutions for Hair Flip Worthy Hair

Part 2 Women's Dermatological Society -NYC Head hair -or the lack there-of-is a concerning beauty 'issue' for women (and men). So of course...there's a slew of research, and available home use tools/products devoted to helping bring 'on the healthy tresses. A recent gathering of some of the top East Coast based dermatologists- all whom we could have bombarded for hours with questions ...was our classroom 101 for the topic of "Female Pattern Hair Lose" with 'professors' Maryland based  Valerie Callender MD and NYC based Shari Lipner MD , , PhD, FAAD delivering  tress stress truths -including a diagnosis of what hair loss actually is- like a visibly wide(r) part, loss of volume, and overall thinning. -.and that underlying causes (including auto-immune illness- alopecia),  genetics, diets, hormones (or lack thereof) and stress - can all result in temporary or permanent lost locks. via GIPHY

ACTIVE BEAUTY -TECHY HELP DYSON+ ReFa

IBS-IECSC Conferences-NYC DYSON SUPERSONIC™ HAIR DRYER, REFA MICROCURRENT ROLLERS Selfie alert-salons and spas are getting etched out-for your selfie best. At the most recent International Beauty Show s...and International Esthetics's, Cosmetics & Spa ...we saw more technology on display along side popular items-hair+ eyelash extensions, organic -(natural leaning), cosmetics+treatments, effusive hair coloring options, and micro-needling -hand rolling devices. PART ONE via GIPHY DYSON SUPERSONIC™ Hair dryers- -a price-y option sold over 500 of these slick beauties at this show...which included a "professional' smoothing nozzle attachment, concentrator attachment and a diffuser. Beautifully packaged as one would expect of this high end hand held-we asked how this sleek machine was conjured up by James Dyson -who is well know for his tricked out vacuums..."HIS WIFE'" apparently admonished him for not re-inventing a staple of people with hair, used...

CHARLOTTE RONSON F/W 2015 Backstage Beauty:Mehron, OPI, Skyn, Get2Give, SALON GRAFIX

Lincoln Center, NYC Cool girl designer Charlotte Ronson ---tapped Mehron Make-up and lead artist James Vincent to craft a smoldering brown eye smokey eye look "with a morning after" effect or just woke up look depending on your viewpoint…in color tones that not only worked wonderfully with the shimmery silvers, red wine, grays and blues of the collection…but are also shades that flatter all ethnic skins- on gals of any age. James Vincent, lead make-up artist, Mehron Makeup NYC this model reminded us of the icon Veruschka Foundation: Celebre Pro HD make-up-matte face with fresh glow…finished with  Celebre Pro HD Loose Mineral Finishing Powder in Translucent tools of the trade... loved this blue/gray tone--- EYES: L.I.P. Cream in Cherrywood, E.Y.E. Powder in Espresso, Cinnamon and Cocoa, INtense Pro Pressed Powder Pigment in Desert Sand, Mascara-(really false eyelashes for oomph), Brow liner/pencil -soft touch. LIPS: Celebre Pro...

Augmented Reality Virtual Make-Up Mirror @PanasonicUSA #PanasonicCES

TIMES SQUARE area---atop NASDAQ-yup-Panasonic powers the display too….  Las Vegas, International Consumer Electronics Tradeshow The L"Oreal Paris APP " MakeUp Genius "is massively popular---so it follows that Panasonics Virtual Make-Up mirror enjoyed a huge amount of attendee attention amidst a sea of very cool stuff at this tradeshow. SO FUN! In tandem with Panasonic's Lumix camera line-the mirror takes your image -and then serves up choices-for make-up (eyelashes, cheek-eye colors, lipstick tones)... under various lightening settings---and hairstyles- and amusing-also for facial hair-though it was the ladies checking out their images super-imposed with mustaches-when we cruised by. ALSO fitting-because social media isn't enough of a judgmental means of expression…could 'like' hairstyles. The commercial applications of this technology are real and numerous---at a make-up counter--- when getting ready for a big night out…but in the end-how it...

Backstage Beauty TIMO WEILAND #NYFW A/W 2014-Nails-Zoya, MakeUp-MAC Cosmetics

haaaa yes you did runway pics-Zoya Streetwear chic-wearable anywhere seperates-casual luxury at its best---Timo Weiland's RTW for Fall 2014 will please the faithful and we suspect -entice a whole new customer base-just discovering this Ecco Domani winning label. Claudine-$9 a black grey opaque metallic---great color Rebecca Isa-Zoya's Creative Director,  Timo Weiland, Erin Giddings -of Zoya ZOYA NAILS - five free polishes in the colors and finishes that number in the 100s--- -had the models wearing a sophisticated Claudine-a pearly warm grey-a color that looked good on all of the skin tones walking the runway. Zoya's Anchor Base Coat ---and ultra glossy polish extending Zoya Armor -under and over…sealed the deal. Tip: We have been using just these two products the past two weeks ---without additional polish...and found them to be really protective of our nails that get assaulted by chlorine pool water, dishwashing liqu...