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We love our CurlTalkers! Here’s a fun peek at the threads that got the most posts yesterday, Nov. 5. All threads are from Non-Hair Discussion, except “Hand Dry Hair Glove”, which is on the General Discussion about Hair forum.
Who: For mothers and daughters, and sons too, who have battled with a hair styling regimen that has been difficult and time consuming and has caused negative experiences children are enduring throughout their lives.
What: Learn an easy approach to help children have a positive experience to loving their hair and themselves which, in turn, will help to build self-esteem and increase that bond between parent and child. Dickey and the Hair Rules team will assist you with hands-on styling and finding new ways to style your child’s hair. Light refreshments will be included.
When: Saturday, November 7th, 2009 at 3:00 p.m. and 6:00 p.m.
Where: Hair Rules Salon, 828 9th Avenue, Suite 1, between 54th and 55th streets, NY, NY 10019.
Why: This is the perfect opportunity to bond and spend quality time with your child and help him/her find new ways to style and LOVE their hair.
How: Call (212.315.2929″> or e-mail (amandak@hairrules.com”> us today to reserve your space. $50 per child ($25 goes toward product purchase”>. Limited spaces available.
R.S.V.P no later than Thursday, November 5th, 2009
Ms. Yuko Yamashita
The people who make the Yuko Hair Straightening System offer this information about their product.
Yuko Hair Straightening System smooths curly, dry, unruly hair permanently with a revolutionary straightening system that uses heat to restructure the hair’s protein bond. The result is smooth, sleek, shiny, straight, regenerated (repaired”> hair!
The protein-based professional Yuko System uses a specially-designed, patented heat iron set at over 300 degrees to seal in moisture once the cystine bone in the hair is cut off, allowing hair to be molded into any shape. Heat consolidates the straightening process – repairing and regenerating hair. The shine and softness are evident. Salon professionals and the customer both love the system’s results.
Ms. Yuko, who created the system in 1996 with the intent to create a non-coating, straightening system that uses the heat oxidation process to seal in and rebuild hair from the inside out. One of the Yuko steps includes using shark oil on hair and also using steam instead of direct heat to condition hair.
Both an unconventional idea and a breakthrough in the art of hair straightening, the Yuko Straightening System actually uses the hair’s small amount of “living body electricity” to cut off the hair’s cystine bone, reshaping it to appear straight. This goes against the notion that straightened hair is damaged hair: the result is hair that can breathe from a lack of coating, and a hair shaft that is rejuvenated for the first time. If desired, the Yuko process can be reversed to obtain natural curls again.
Yuko Hair Straightening System FAQ
Q: How many touch-ups do you need and how long does the process take?!
A: Expect to have the process done at least twice a year. Long hair takes four and a half hours to be processed. Short hair is about three hours.
Q: How long does the Yuko straightening last?
A: Once the hair is processed it is permanently straightened. There are NO traditional waxes used, therefore time does not “wear down” the process. The straightening comes from a re-structured protein bond inside the hair shaft.
Q: What if I want to wear my hair in a curly style or what my old curls back?!
A: Your hair will respond to any curling iron. If you want to grow out your hair, the Yuko System can be reprocessed with new solutions to bring back curly hair!
Q: What is the youngest age a person can use the Yuko System?
A: It is safe for a child as young as twelve years old to use the process.
Q: Can senior citizens use the Yuko System?
A: YES! The system is processed the same on aged hair but performs just as beautifully.
Q: Is it safe to use this revolutionary hair straightening system?
A: The system has been tested in three continents: Asia, Europe and the USA. It is safe for children over age 5 and for seniors as well!
In this month of giving thanks, CurlTalkers offer their appreciation for the products that have changed their lives.
Greatcurls: For me, it would be the hard bonnet drier. Before this, no matter what hair product I used, combined with the “no-heat” methods to condition, no product could penetrate my cuticles. Now that I use the hard bonnet drier, as long as the products have the ingredients I know will work for my hair, it will be properly conditioned.
rudeechick: This is impossible to narrow down, but I gotta say my Curl Ease towel is right up there…
Laura Lee: CurlEase changed the way that I look at styling my hair. I went from “Oh no, I need to set aside 2-3 hours to dry my hair!” to “Hooray, it’s been 30 minutes and I’m ready to go!”
sexyspirals: Definitely my CurlEase towel, no doubt about it — as LauraLee said, it changed my outlook on the amount of time it took to let my hair be natural vs. the quicker, longer-lasting solution of flat-ironing. Now I don’t have to set aside an entire six-hour period of waiting with wet hair so it can be curly, and my hair is healthier and prettier when I don’t straighten every other day.
Also, I look at the day I got Kinky-Curly Curling Custard as the day I really fell in love with being a curly — the definition, the bouncy curls, how healthy my hair felt because it wasn’t weighed down by silicones… truly a life-altering product!
IamDonna: Without a doubt it would be: CURL KEEPER!!!! Thank you CHS very much for making it!
RachelRegina: Shea aloe butter and Fantasia IC Gel or Long aid Gel. You wanna talk about curls and coils on steriods…Sent from HEAVEN!
CurliLocks: Usually, we think of stylers, conditioners, and shampoos. But let’s not forget Haircolor!!! Thank you Color by Robert Craig for gently covering my gray and keeping my hair healthy, shiny and happy in the process.
Alexjoujou: Darcy’s Botanical’s Natural Coils Curling Jelly, Curls Gel-les’C, CJ smoothing gellee and KBB Hair milk and then Gel (Abba, BRHG, Artec Textureline Volume, HESMU, etc”>
These are my staples and go to and always give me good hair! They also let me see what my hair is capable of doing which was an eye opener!
For my daughter it is 100% Qhemet Biologics Olive Honey Hydrating Balm and the BEST product ever: Burdock Root Butter Creme. Amazing stuff! If I were to chose only one between the two of us it would be QB BRBC no contest!
redcelticcurls: Aubrey Organics conditioners: And, more importantly, the combo of Knot Today and KCCC. That combo had been my friend for a couple of years.
Use the comments section below to tell us what products/tools you’re giving thanks for this November!
Check out this video: Susie Essman of the HBO hit show “Curb Your Enthusiasm” speculates with Joy Behar as to whether her comedy comes from her curls. Go Susie!
Reality-TV hairstylist from the hit “The Real Housewives of Atlanta” TV show—Dwight Eubanks—recently shared some of his style secrets on a segment of the Ellen DeGeneres Show, which aired on September 9. Inviting Ellen and her audience into his Purple Door Salon in Atlanta, Ga. Dwight highlighted his must-have Design Essentials products to keep his high-profile clientele ready for their close-ups.
Chief among Dwight’s recommendations for products to help obtain camera-ready hair are Design Essentials’ shine boosting selections, including Design Essentials Stimulations Super Moisturizing Conditioner, Reflections Liquid Shine and Formations Styling Spritz to name a few. Design Essentials products help Dwight do everything from restoring his client’s dry and damaged hair to maximizing shine without weighing the hair down. Photos below show the divine, reality-TV sensation in action!
In a recent episode of “Desperate Housewives of Atlanta”, Kim Zolciak confessed that she wears a brand-new hairpiece every day. And her wigs cost $430 each, sometimes more. $13,000 a month? On wigs?
My gosh! The good she could do for others with that money.
Hopefully, the hair pieces she creates for her upcoming wig line won’t cost that much, and hopefully her customers will have the sense to wear the pieces more than once.
John Paul DeJoria
John Paul DeJoria of John Paul Mitchell Systems was honored by the elite salon owners of Intercoiffure America/Canada with their prestigious “Visionary of the Year” Award at the annual Members Trend Luncheon on October 19 in New York City.
Intercoiffure America/Canada (ICA”> established the “Visionary of the Year” Award in 2007 to recognize extraordinary individual achievements in influencing business or creative trends in the beauty industry. “John Paul DeJoria’s ongoing accomplishments in
business and philanthropy are exactly what this award is all about,” says ICA president Lois Christie. “The Board of Directors and I are truly honored to be able to recognize DeJoria’s energy, generosity of spirit and business acumen.”
John Paul DeJoria and partner Paul Mitchell founded John Paul Mitchell Systems (paulmitchell.com”> in 1980. Their goal was to build a company that not only provided hairdressers with the best professional products but also provided business tools to help their professional customers be successful.
In “My Hair Is Curly” Sidney is a four-year-old little girl who enjoys going to school and who loves to learn. She has gray eyes, a beautiful smile and long, curly hair. On her fourth birthday she starts preschool and makes some new friends. One day, Sidney comes home from school and reveals she hates her hair. After listening to a story about wishing, Sidney decides to make a wish and quickly learns all the things that she would miss if she were just like everyone else.
Retired school superintendent Eleanor D. White, Ed.D, says, “ “My Hair is Curly’ is a clever tale that offers young children an opportunity to learn to appreciate who they are, showing once again that being accepted in not guaranteed by looking like everyone else.”
“My Hair is Curly” is a beautiful book with a beautiful message of learning to love one’s specialness. It’s a great tool for parents working with kids who might be struggling with accepting their curly hair.
Return to Beauty: Old-World Recipes for Great Radiant Skin
By Narine Nikogosian
Atria Books ($25″>
Return to Beauty offers regimens made from fresh ingredients that can be found right in your kitchen. With recipes for winter, spring, summer, and fall, you can look beautiful throughout the year. Narine Nikogosian’s natural and inexpensive products can be whipped up in less than ten minutes. Have a jar of honey in your pantry? Mix it with a few crushed walnuts to create a sensual, aromatic scrub for oily skin. Use dabs of cottage cheese to lighten under-eye circles, or almond oil to rehydrate cracked lips. Narine also provides recipes based on astrological signs, such as for Scorpio, a Gracious Grapefruit Mask made of grapefruit, egg yolk, and soothing honey to rejuvenate your skin even after a late night.
There are even a couple of recipes in the back of the book for hair preparations: Shiny Hair Mask and Last Bottle of Beer.
Narine is from a long line of Armenian women who have been harnessing the powers of nature to create everlasting beauty. For the first time, she reveals her secrets so that you can have star-worthy skin.
Curl stylist Christo of Christo Fifth Avenue knows how to transform a head of curls. He shared one of his recent hair makeovers NaturallyCurly.com.
Hair Challenge:
Hair that is dehydrated and lacking the proper hair maintenance. Women who do not know how to properly maintain and style their hair usually have dehydrated, flat and frizzy hair. In addition to unhealthy hair, Marina’s haircut was not customized to her hair texture; her short bags were the biggest challenge.
Solution:
To improve the healthiness of Marina’s hair, I treated her to my Hair Rehab treatment which is an intense moisturizer with sea ingredients that improve the hair from within. After 10 minutes, Marina’s hair was given a jumpstart towards healthy hair that allowed me to perform the right cut with long diagonal layers. I had to frame around the face to bend the cut into the length of her bangs and then texturized the middle section of her hair in order to define her curls. After the cut, I further moisturized Marina’s hair with the Curlisto Deep Therapy Masque treatment.
Styling Products:
- Protein Boost: Light leave-in conditioner
- Mixture of Structura Lotion and Bio-Gel Mousse applied in sections onto wet hair
- Structura Spray and Glow & Shine for finishing products
Results:
Beautiful, bouncy curls that are hydrated and full of life. Remember, your hair is your No. 1 accessory. In order to maintain healthy hair, you have to follow up with moisturizing treatments and regular haircuts. With our help, Mariana now knows how to take care of her hair and can recreate her gorgeous curls at home.
Searching for an inventive Halloween costume that makes the most of your gorgeous curls, kinks or waves? Check out our offbeat ideas! And be sure to suggest your own in the comments area! We can’t wait to see what our members come up with.
1. Angela, from the “Spawn” comic book series
2. Irish dancer
3. Josephine Baker
4. Batman villain Poison Ivy
5. Fortuna, Roman Goddess of luck and fate
6. Violin-playing angel
7. Tiana, from Disney’s “Princess and the Frog”
8. Pandora
9. Queen Elizabeth I
10. Mae Jemison, first African-American woman to fly in space
Sisters Titi and Miko Branch of Miss Jessie’s will be in Los Angeles this Sunday for a special event at Wilshire Beauty, a retail store and salon.
The action-packed day, from 11 a.m. to 4 p.m., will feature product information, styling demonstrations and customer prescriptions from the Branch sisters and their team of natural hair experts.
Throughout the day, the pair will also raffle collections of their products.
Wilshire Beauty is located at 5401 Wilshire Boulevard in Los Angeles. RSVP here or call 323-937-2001.
Today is Apple Day! Let’s celebrate by putting some apple cider vinegar in our hair!
Apple cider vinegar (ACV”> has long been used as a natural hair care product to promote healthy hair. Its acidity is close to that of natural hair, it’s a good conditioner and cleaning agent and it’s also an effective germ killer.
Make your own healthy after-shampoo hair rinse by mixing 1/3 of a cup (75 ml”> of ACV into a quart (1 liter”> of water. You can then store this mixture in a plastic bottle and keep it in the shower for ready use.
If you would like to prepare a smaller batch of this vinegar hair rinse recipe to experiment with, try mixing 1 tablespoon (15 ml”> of apple cider vinegar into 1 cup (250 ml”> of warm filtered tap water.
Hair is on the mildly acidic side of the pH scale and has an ideal pH of 4.5 to 5.5, which is close to that of an apple cider vinegar rinse (pH 2.9″>.
On the other hand, many of the hair care products we use, such as shampoos, bleaches and hair colors are strongly alkaline.
Rinsing with apple cider vinegar will help balance the pH of your hair and remove the buildup that can result from the use of these styling products and shampoos.
Rinsing will also close the numerous cuticle scales which cover and protect the surface of each hair shaft. This imparts a smoother surface which reflects more light and as a result leaves your hair shinier, smoother and easier to manage.
Don’t worry about the slight vinegar smell you will notice after rinsing. It will disappear completely as your hair dries.
Apply the vinegar rinse after shampooing and then rinse it all out, or for extra conditioning, you can leave the rinse on your hair. This natural hair care product can be used once or twice a week or more often as needed.
Check out Barney’s New York Co-op catalog . . . some seriously innovative hair texture graces the models who show off the beautiful clothes so well. The curlies are near the back of the book, but peruse the front, too, for some fun stick-straight styles.
The holiday season is rapidly approaching and Pureology knows how to take your readers there in style. Pureology PureArtists give the must-have hair trends this upcoming season and how to achieve them with Pureology stylers.
“This year young Hollywood will set the tone for elegant holiday styles,” says PureArtist Christopher Devaney. “We see these young stars take over award shows, displaying glamorous hair styles that fit their personalities yet stay classic,” adds PureArtist April Webster.
Finger Waves
- Set hair vertically using a vertical iron or hot roller placement, moving curls away from the face and allow curls to cool.
- Break curls apart with fingers using DryShine HairStyler to define and add shine.
- Finish with InCharge Flexible Styling Spray.
- Add GlossingMist for final touch of shine.
Chignon
- Blow dry hair smooth with PureVolume BlowDryAmplifier and PureVolume ThickeningMist to create thickness and volume.
- Pull hair back into a ponytail just below the occipital bone, using Hydrate ShineMax to polish and control static. Secure pony with an elastic.
- Mist each section of ponytail with InCharge Flexible Styling Spray. Curl pony with large 1″ barrel iron. Let curls cool completely.
- Break curls apart using TextureTwist throughout the pony to add dimension and control.
- Pin sections of pony with closed fasteners until desired shape is formed.
- Finish with InChargePlus Firm Finishing Spray.
Sleek and Chic
- Create a ponytail at the top of the head using DryShine HairStyler for an ultra sleek gloss with hold (be careful not to let DryShine HairStyler touch hair ends”>. Secure with an elastic.
- Divide ponytail in half for medium density or into three sections for thick density.
- Polish the first section with NanoWorks ShineLuxe until you create a clean, shiny ribbon of hair.
- Create a large flat pin curl with ribbon of hair using InChargePlus Firm Finishing Spray to give some moldability; secure ends over base of ponytail.
- Repeat step 3 with remaining section or sections, creating a looping effect at the back of the head.
- Finish look with GlossingMist.
A scene from “Good Hair”.
Chris Rock’s much-anticipated documentary about the complex relationship between black women and their hair had a limited-release opening Friday, so while we wait for the nationwide release, we’ll offer you a few snippets from CurlTalkers and national reviewers. We’ll have a full review shortly after the movie opens nationwide on October 23.
CurlTalker KsLiZCuRlZ: “I am 14 and have natural hair. I think the movie didn’t promote relaxers at all. It actually made fun of it in a way. Everything it said is true. Relaxers do burn hair and scalp, black girls do get weaves, black girls are afraid of getting their hair wet.and OMG DONT TOUCH A BLACK GIRLS HAIR. Its not true with all, but you just don’t take the chance. He made it clear that he thought what he heard was ridiculous. I laughed a lot and sometimes me and my friends took a serious note. At the end we walked out saying ” I will never get a relaxer or weave” All because of what we saw. I LOVED IT.” CurlTalker Curlygoddess: “It is a definite must see even though most of us already know the facts. I think it will open the eyes of rest of America as well as create open dialogue about the topic to make a lot of black women think about the things they do to their hair and why they do them.” The New York Times film critic Jeanette Catsoulis: “Though “Good Hair” embraces the pain, digging gingerly into wounds both political and personal, the film feels more like a celebration than a lament. Spirited, probing and frequently hilarious, it coasts on the fearless charm of its front man and the eye-opening candor of its interviewees, most of them women — including the actress Nia Long and the hip-hop stars Salt-n-Pepa — and all of them ready to dish.“In fact, one of the happy consequences of “Good Hair” should be a radical increase in white-woman empathy for their black sisters. Whether in thrall to “creamy crack,” a scary, aluminum-dissolving chemical otherwise known as relaxer (what it’s really relaxing, observes Mr. Rock astutely, is white people”>, or the staggeringly expensive and time-consuming weave (often available on layaway plan”>, the women in the film bare heads and hearts with humor and without complaint.
Los Angeles Times film critic Betsy Sharkey: “The documentary “Good Hair” (is”> an amusing, poignant and surprisingly candid look at the topic with a disarming Rock coaxing answers and opinions from an eclectic cross section of African Americans, including Maya Angelou, Al Sharpton, actresses, models, stylists and everyday patrons of barber shops and beauty parlors around the country.“The documentary uses comparison rather than condemnation to make its key points. ….Rock interviews a scientist analyzing the ingredients found in typical straightening products. The demonstration shows they can eat through a soda can in a few hours. That’s followed by conversations with girls as young as 5 having their hair straightened. No, they don’t like the process, but they love the result. We can connect the dots.”
The Associated Press film critic Jesse Washington: “Chris Rock sheds new light on this old story through a poignant mix of interviews, investigation and his trademark satire.“Rock is the perfect “Good Hair” host. His ad-libbed quips and silly-serious questions put interview subjects and viewers at ease with this sometimes painful reality, keeping them laughing instead of crying. And when Rock ventures into a hair store trying to sell some kinky “black hair” to the Asian owner, his comedy cuts to the root of the issue in a way Ken Burns never could. ‘Everyone want straight hair,’ the owner says. ‘It look more natural.’ “
For those straight-haired girls looking for beachy waves like Giselle’s, there’s a new product on the horizon that’s generating a lot of buzz in beauty circles.
Coming to salons Feb. 1, Pravana will be unveiling The Beach Wave, a salon service designed to provide long-lasting, soft, natural, undulating waves that don’t damage the hair. This unique application and gentle formula contains no thio (thioglycate, a relaxing agent”>, and utilizes natural Cysteamine, a natural amino acid, to realign the hair’s internal bonds to create a soft, sensuous wave.
This gentle formula is safe for color-treated hair and incorporates Keratin Fusion Restructurizing Serum to infuse hair with silk and human hair keratin amino acids which strengthen, protect and add shine.
This is not your mother’s perm.
