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Five Most Common Signs Of Aging Hair

Many hair experts agree that the five most common signs of aging hair include the following conditions:

1.  Appearance of gray, white, silver strands and loss of natural color vibrancy.
2.  Dry, dehydrated, moisture starved strands with frizz, flyaway strands and damage.
3.  Dull tresses devoid of shine or shimmer.
4.  Thinning and overall loss of volume.
5.  Loss of manageability with natural texture losing its shape and definition.

Tools To Address Signs Of Aging Hair

Luckily every one of these challenges can be managed with a wide range of affordable hair care, styling and treatment tools.

Address the five most common signs of aging hair with the following tools:

1.  Evaluate the best plan for either incorporating gray, white or silver strands into your current base.  If you opt to cover the grays, find a great demi or semi-perm hue to cover your changing strands.  Or work with a professional hair colorist to create a long term gray coverage plan. (more…)

HAIR BRASIL celebrates 10 years in business in 2011 with a record of events, international shows and novelties brought by 800 beauty care brands.

The 10 years of HAIR BRASIL – Twitter which will take place from April 2 to 5, 2011, in the city of São Paulo – Brazil, will be celebrated with a mega fair.

In addition to the launching showcased by hundreds of brands of products for hair and beauty care, the event is featuring a record number of simultaneous events and of international shows.  The show will feature 65,000 sqm of exhibition space in the pavilions of the Expo Center Norte, in the city of São Paulo.

Major Innovations Of Hair Fashion Shows

The Hair Brasil Fashion Show stands among the major innovations of HAIR BRASIL 2011.  It is a reformulation of the Megashow, which year after year at the previous editions became a top attraction of the event. (more…)

ACTIVAROMA LAUNCHES ALL-NATURAL SKIN AND HAIR CARE LINE OF PRODUCTS BASED ON PURE MOROCCAN ARGAN OIL

SANTA BARBARA, French-born Fabrice Allain has launched ACTIVAROMA and introduced an elegant line of 100% all-natural skin and hair care products based on the newest botanical phenomenon of pure Moroccan Argan Oil. The exquisite line of skin and hair care products developed by ACTIVAROMA includes Facial Oils, Bath and Body Oils, Floral Waters, Pure Essential Oils and the Baby Belly collection which are all based on pure Moroccan Argan Oil.

“Created in Santa Barbara – Fashioned in Paris,” ACTIVAROMA is a holistic approach to antiaging, which fuses the connection between beauty and health and embodies the ancestral traditions of aromatherapy while reviving the French tradition of blending natural, and seductive, fragrances.

The latest research has also revealed that Argan Oil restores the skin’s water lipid layer, increases the amount of nutrients and oxygen in the skin’s cells, neutralizes free radicals and helps protect skin from the sun’s harmful rays.

Argan Oil is found to be remarkably high in Vitamin E and essential fatty acids and has intense restorative and age-defying effects, and thus why it is the basis of ACTIVAROMA’S line of products. (more…)

One of the best perks of my work with HairBoutique.com is the opportunity to meet some of the most stellar people in the hair and beauty world.

A few months ago Christopher Box, or Chris, as he prefers to be known to his friends, reached out to me via email and invited me to visit his chic hair salon, The Porch, in uptown Dallas.

(Image of Christopher Box in front of The Beauty Box Salon in Dallas, Texas -December 2010 – Photo by Jeffry Hines for HairBoutique.com – All Rights Reserved)

After a long and engaging phone chat with Chris, we agreed to meet up for lunch to talk further about the world of hair and beauty.   On a gorgeous November day  Chris and I, along with HairBoutique.com’s Brigid, met at The Porch for an engaging meal.

The Porch is one of my favorite restaurants because of the relaxing atmosphere, always amazing food and great service.  Unfortunately the chic eatery is a bit of a jog down 75 from HairBoutique.com so I don’t get to go as often as I like except for special events like meet ups with new friends like Chris. (more…)

I’ve mentioned in the past that I’m currently in a period of transitional cleaning. Not only am I slowly digging through lots of old boxes of books, papers and magazines, I’m donating lots of clothes, shoes and other things which could take me over the edge from borderline hoarder into full blown reality hoarding TV star.

(Image of Madonna – September 2010 – DC Media – All rights Reserved)

Yesterday I found a box full of magazines dedicated to Madonna and her various hairstyles. A Vanity Fair issue from 2000 had a fascinating article by Steven Daly titled Like An Artist. Daly’s ten year old article about the great songwriter, producer-performer and fashion designer is still appropriate for 2010.

What I always found compelling about Madonna was how Ms. Ciccone’s dramatic shape-shifting throughout her career has always included a major change to her hair. Indeed, Daly included a montage of 36 of the superstar’s many looks highlighted by her ever changing hair colors, lengths and textures. Whether you love her or hate her, you have to admit the star never got stuck in any one hairstyle. (more…)