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The news that the McCain/Palin campaign spent tens of thousands of dollars on hair styling and makeup for Sarah Palin may be raising some eyebrows.

At least one prominent hair stylist said she thought that at the price Palin was paying, she should be receiving do-it-yourself lessons.

“You can do these updos yourself,” said Lorraine Massey of the reknowned curly salon Devachan. “They are so simple to do. You put a chignon in the back and a few clips. It can be that simple. To look good and polished you don’t have to spend that much. And if you’re spending that much, your hairdresser should be teaching you how to do it yourself.”

Some experts in the beauty industry say that the $55,000 for about a month of hair-styling and makeup is not unusual if one is an A-list Hollywood celebrity attending a series of red carpet premieres (and the rigors of the campaign trail can be even more demanding.”>

The campaign finance filings show payments in September and October totaling $36,000 to a traveling makeup artist, Amy Strozzi, and about $19,000 to a traveling hair stylist, Angela Lew.

“This is what Gwyneth Paltrow would pay if she was doing a junket or going to the Cannes film festival,” said Linda Wells, editor-in-chief of “Allure” magazine.

Bobbi Brown, a prominent makeup artist and cosmetics mogul, said she charges celebrities a $5,000 day-rate but has never done a long traveling stint.

The politics business is new territory for them.

“There haven’t been a lot of women running for high office, and it’s important how they look,” Brown said. “It is really unfair to talk about how women pay too much attention to their clothes or their makeup. Men just put on a suit and shave and they are ready to go. Women really do need to spend time getting their makeup on, and getting the right clothes. The media is very judgmental. It’s important to have your best look.”

Brown said she did the makeup for the Biden women during the Democratic convention in Denver in August, but, since she was a delegate from New Jersey, she charged only “a few hundred dollars,” her lowest rate. Brown also did makeup for Michelle Obama for a black-tie event in Denver, but not for the convention itself.

“She has a regular person from Chicago who comes with her,” Brown said.

If you think it’s been a long time since you’ve gotten to the salon, Asha Mandela has got you beat, according to an article in the NY Daily News.

Mandela, of Davenport, Florida, is hoping to win the Guinness record for the world’s longest dreadlocks. It will be the first entry into a new category. To win, Mandala must have her three longest locks measured by a Guinness official and verified by witnesses. The final measurement: 8 feet 9 inches.

But Mandala will have to wait several weeks to find out if her hair is record-breaking. Guinness officials will investigate anyone else who claims to have the longest locks. Mandala says she’s especially nervous about the Rastafarians of Jamaica stealing the title from her.

But with hair that’s longer than she is tall, that won’t be easy to do. Mandala insists that it would have been 11 inches longer had she not stepped on a strand and broken it off. Just in case people don’t believe her, she carries the broken lock in her purse.

So how — and why — does one cultivate the longest dreadlocks in the world? Twenty years ago, Trinidad-born Mandala decided to stop relaxing her curly hair and cut it all off. As it grew back, she twisted it into curls and eventually into dreadlocks, which she liked so much she decided to keep growing.

But not everyone is so awed by Mandela’s locks.

“[My mother] said, ‘I took such good care of your nice curly hair, and this is what you are doing with it?’ ” Mandela tells the Orlando Sentinal. “She called it a mop for five years.”

A mop would probably be easier to care for. Her locks require a bottle of shampoo and conditioner each and every time she washes her hair, which isn’t often.

“I used to wash it three times a week. Now I do it once a week. It’s very tiring,” she says, “Sometimes I don’t have the energy.”

When she does soap it up, it’s an all-day affair. She wrings out her eight feet of hair like a towel and must wait hours for it to dry completely. If the weather is humid (as it often is in Florida”>, she says her hair might stay damp all day long.

“I try not to have any errands that day,” she laughs.

But despite the hassle, Mandala admits that she couldn’t easily part with her long hair.

“As much as I love it, I get frustrated with it,” she sighs. “But then I realize I’d feel naked without it.”

Ever wonder how Beyoncé goes seamlessly from straight hair one day to curly the next and back? The gossip is that Beyoncé spends $2 million on wigs.

“InTouch” magazine reports the singer has professionals make her wigs and use real hair. Each wig costs thousands of dollars. A friend of Beyoncé’s told “InTouch” that “The wigs are magnificent and well-made. You don’t notice them because they seem so real and are a big part of the singer’s image, which is one of perfection. She takes them with her and uses different ones depending on what she is doing . . . a concert and a party doesn’t call for the same look, and she knows that.”

That’s why her look is always changing and surprising. One day she has long, straight, darker hair and the next she has blond highlights and curls. Her real hair is short and very curly. According to her own mother, Beyoncé may have ruined her hair when she was younger trying to color it blond many times.

Curly nicknames. It’s one of those things that bond us together. These names were the bane of our existence growing up. Now, we take this opportunity to celebrate them.

We asked you to tell us some of your favorites. Although it was hard to choose, we selected 10 of your answers.

1. “When I was in grade school, there was an older girl in the advanced ballet class that always used to taunt me with “natural curl girl.” This phrase was said all sing-song-y and in a super snotty voice. (Scary that many many years later I can still hear her very clearly in my head.”>”
   — Rubycakes


Several readers remembered being called Bozo.

2. “In college (back in the early 90’s”> I was dubbed “Poof Pup”. All the girls on each floor of our dorm had different names, ours all ended in “pup.” It was not by MY choice mind you!
   — Discobug
3. “I was “Frizzle Face” for many years in elementary school. It was painful at the time, but I love thinking now about how successful “Miss Frizzle” from “Magic School Bus” has become, and also that I, too, became a teacher!
   — RebeccaK
4. “When my mom finally let me have my own way with my hair (about 7th grade”> I chose to wear it down and curly instead of up and in a pony tail and a braid. We were studying mythology at that time so the kids would call me Medusa. I didn’t appreciate that at all because I thought they were essentially saying that I turn people into stone with my gaze.
   — Elissad


“Medusa” is apparently another popular nickname for curlyheads.

5. ” ‘Mushroom Queen’ — I had a short bob, and my hair is pretty thick, so at times I had a mushroom head!”
   — CoxPlus2
6. “Last night I was laughing about something and my boyfriend said “Laugh it up, fuzzball.” (from Star Wars”>.”
   — Trixie
7. “My mother said this to me so many time in my life that it feels like my nickname — WILL YOU PLEASE DO SOMETHING WITH THAT HAIR!?! She still says it and it makes me laugh.”
   — Jeepcurlygirl
8. “My “little” sister used to call me Fuzzy Wuzzy, and taunt me with “Fuzzy Wuzzy was a bear.” It hurt all the more because my mother had me scalped on a regular basis (1″ pixie cuts”>, whereas my sister was allowed to grow her hair. When I graduated from nursing school, my family started calling me “Nurse Beth Fuzzy Wuzzy.”
   — MorganAdcock
9. “My best friend would always call me Sideshow Bob! It was funny to me because it was fairly accurate. Especially since I had these roaring red highlights at the time. My whole head glowed when I was in the sun.”
   — Miss_Rae6357
10. “I divided mine into categories:

    Things you buy at the store

    – Brillo Head – Q-tip – Cotton Bald (I have thin hair that shows scalp if worn certain ways”>

    “Celebrity” Comparisons

    – Bozo the Clown – Krusty the Clown (my FIRST short cut ever — very encouraging”> – Puffy

    Movies & Mythology

    – Medusa (I never minded this one. I had some snappy comebacks for it”> – Curly Sue (not bad at all, really”>

    Just Plain Silly

    – Oingo-Boingo – Pube Head (a bit inappropriate — and that came from 13-year-olds!”>

    National Geographic

    – Cave Woman – Wildebeast – Wild Thing (what my SO calls me now as a term of endearment”>”
    — MickeyB603

When Marco Simoncelli clinched the 250cc MotoGP world motorcycle championship in Malaysia, fellow racer Valentino Rossi told him to cut his shaggy, trademark curls.

“Well done, Marco, but now cut your hair,” Rossi said.

“He has been fantastic. He has grown up and surprised me. However, he is horrendous without a helmet.”

Simoncelli is unmistakable off the track, with an enormous mound of curls springing up whenever he removes his helmet.

Rossi once sported a curly afro haircut similar to Simoncelli’s, but in 2007 opted for a short, cropped style.

As of October 13, Ouidad’s West Coast devotees have had the opportunity to celebrate the”Queen of Curl” at the opening of the Ouidad’s first official California outpost.

The stylish new Ouidad Salon is situated on Montana Avenue in the heart of Santa Monica. Like the 57th Street Ouidad Salon in New York, the new salon will cater to curly-haired clients, with staff sharing Ouidad’s curly hair techniques with patrons to help them embrace their curls. Created with a boutique feel, the space has four chairs, providing treatments, products, cuts, and color for ringlets, waves and textured hair.

The Santa Monica salon is a dream come true for fans and followers of Ouidad who have been making personal sojourns to New York to see the curl experts.

“My California clients are constantly in New York for work and play and have been begging me for years to come to L.A.,” Ouidad says. “I am thrilled to open this salon and to call Santa Monica home once a month in order to see my existing clientele. I’m excited, too, to touch many more curls that haven’t yet enjoyed and indulged in the Ouidad signature experience.”

Whether Ouidad herself is at the new salon or back in New York, a full staff of qualified Ouidad stylists will on hand to take care of California curlies.

Dedicated to curls for the past 25 years, Ouidad is the hair expert who women, men and kids turn to for advice on caring for curls. Her expertise, authority and passion truly make her the “Queen of Curl.”

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Sign up to win one of three Ouidad haircuts at the new Santa Monica salon.

For additional information on the new Ouidad Salon, call 310-393-3542.

Noted fashion critic Perez Hilton (not!”> isn’t particularly fond of Neve Campbell’s hair, writing “What’s up with the former Party of Five star’s hair?????? The poodle waves aren’t a good look on her, don’t you think?”

We don’t think she looks like a poodle!

Liberian designer Korto Momolu may not have won the grand prize in this season’s “Project Runway,” but as far as her kinks go, she was a winner in our book.

The second-prize winner loves to do different styles with her hair.

“I love cornrows. I grew up doing those on my head for school and I also do it on my daughter’s hair,” Momolu told blogger Ladybrille. “In Little Rock it is actually [illegal] to do African-style hair without a cosmetology [license], which means doing my child’s hair is considered a crime. . . It’s 2008 but I’m fighting this issue. Most [of the] styles I do practice. . . illegal or not are kinky twist, micro braid and tree braids. These are mostly West African hairstyles.”

With the help of some extensions and a curling iron, young starlet Lindsay Lohan traded in her straight locks for a curly look at a Cinema Society and Dolce & Gabbana-hosted special screening of “Filth and Wisdom” on Oct. 13. Curlies can get Lohan’s soft, sexy look with long layers, styling product applied in sections (bigger sections if you want a looser look”> and a diffuser.

Stylists everywhere have declared red to be the hot color of the season. Celebrity stylist Mikael Padilla says, “There will be a lot of rich red this fall. Even the brunettes have richness a — lot of copper gold.”

Fighting Frizz today? You’re in the right place. We’ve got product recommendations and quick solutions to hopefully get you to frizz freedom.

Feeling Dry as a Bone? Living On the Edge? Looking Good and want to look even more fabulous? Told to Pack Your Pomade?

Dry as a Bone

Type 2s

Wavy hair types can get flat in drier climates. Look for lightweight humectant styling products that enhance your waves, such as John Frieda Frizz-Ease Take Charge Curl-Boosting Mousse, Ouidad PlayCurl Volumizing Foam or Hair Rules Wavy Mousse.

Type 3s

Lower humidity can mean springy, frizz-free curls. To enhance your curls, try gels and styling creams, such as Miss Jessie’s Quick Curls, Curls Goddess Glaze and Batia & Aleeza Bio-Herbal Mineral Sculpting Gel.. If your hair tends to get flat on top, put in some duckbill clips at the crown and diffuse.

Type 4s

Kinkier hair types need extra humectants when the humidity drops. Opt for moisturizing styling creams, such as Miss Jessie’s Curly Pudding, Curl Junkie Guava & Protein Curl Creme and Blended Beauty Curl Styling Butter.

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Looking Good

Type 2s

To encourage luscious waves, try a mousse or a gel, such as as Devacurl Angell, Jessicurl Rockin’ Ringlets Styling Potion and AG Foam Weightless Volumizer.

Type 3s

This is the weather that curlies crave. Opt for light styling creams or gels that provide definition without weighing the hair down, such as Alagio Crazy Curl Curl Enhancer Balm, Curlisto Control I Gel and Cutler Curling Cream.

Type 4s

Define those kinks light, moisturizing creams and custards, such as Kinky-Curly Curling Custard, CURLS Curl Euphoria Elixer and Curl Junkie Coffee-Coco Curling Creme.

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On the Edge

Type 2s

Wavy hair types may become limp when it become frizzy when it gets muggy. Opt for styling products with a little more hold, such as Jessicurl Confident Coils, Curly Hair Solutions Gel and Curlisto Bio-Gel Mousse.

Type 3s

It’s time to cocktail. Layer a product like Curly Hair Solutions Curl Keeper under styling products like AG re:coil, IInnersense Quiet Calm Curl Control and Curlisto Control II Gel.

Type 4s

Get the most from your kinks with styling products with extra hold, such as Miss Jessie’s Curly Meringue, Hair Rules Kinky Curling Cream and Blended Beauty Happy Nappy Styles.

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Pack Your Pomade

Type 2s

It’s time to bring out the big guns, frizz-fighting products designed to keep humidity out, such as Mop Top Anti-Frizz Gel, CURLS Goddess Glaze and DevaCare Arc Angell. Lock those waves in place with DevaCurl Set It Free or Curlisto Structura Spray.

Type 3s

Experiment with cocktails, such as Curly Hair Solutions Curl Keeper under Batia Aleeza Bio-Herbal Mineral Sculpting Gel or Curlisto Structura Lotion mixed with Curlisto Control Gel II. Keep a pomade in your purse to fight frizz throughout the day, such as Curlisto Unruly Paste or Devacurl Set Me Up! (put a pea-size dab between your palms, rub together and twist your hair back – from the crown to the ends”> Or buy a ready made Curly Cocktail: the Curl & Tonic.

Type 4s

To keep kinks looking their best, opt for humidity fighting creams, such as CURLS Curl Souffle, Miss Jessie’s Stretch Silkening Creme or Oyin Handmade Shine & Define Serum. Or check out one of our ready-made product cocktails, the Hot Buttered Curls.

Since I permed my hair two months ago, I’ve gone from poofy to flat.

Seriously y’all, I miss my wild hair. Straight hair can really be boring, so I have to constantly think of creative ways to jazz it up.

Last weekend I took a trip to Las Vegas for my best friend’s Desert Fiesta wedding. I decided to wear my hair like a señorita princess, with two twists on each side of my head going back. I pinned the back with bobby pins and adorned my coif with flowers. It was super cute. I got a lot of compliments; but, after a couple of days, I was totally over it.

I was determined to get my hair wild again. On my last night out in the city of Lost Wages, I decided that I was going to dare to be bold and try a new style. It was my friend’s birthday, and I wanted to do something fabulous with my hair. I didn’t have much to work with, but I did have Miss Jessie’s Curly Pudding, mousse and hair spray. I deep conditioned my hair in the steam room (still works wonders for curly or straight hair”>. Then, I towel-dried my hair. While my hair was still wet, I took a dab of the curly pudding along with some mousse and proceeded to braid all my hair in little tiny plaits. After braiding all my hair, I blow-dried it. Then, I took the curling iron and curled the tips of my hair. I know this seems like a lot of steps, but I was in the zone. My vision was very clear: WILD HAIR! After hot curling, I bobby-pinned the braids to my hair as if I had a ’30s finger-wave style. I let it sit for 30 minutes while I got dressed and all made up. Then I took the bobby pins and braids out.

Voila! I got my wild hair back! As I styled it in the mirror, it kind of reminded me of the ’80’s crinkled look, reinvented by me. I loved it, and so did my friends. It was wild. I was free. I couldn’t wait for the birthday celebration of dancing and espresso martinis.

It’s funny how my hair is an extension of who I am. Sometimes I want to be calm and tamed. Sometimes I want to be wild and crazy. I love going with the flow and coming up with new styles for my hair. It’s all about being innovative and creative.

Hmm…I wonder what I’ll come up with next.

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Email your questions/comments to My-Cherie.

Denis DaSilva of Devachan Salon was dissatisfied with the diffusers on the market.

His Soho salon’s philosophy was “do not disturb.” Yet he found most standard diffusers he had tried would blow curls astray. For two years, he researched all the available technology as well as what competitors were developing. Nothing did what what he wanted a diffuser to do.

So he set out to create a new kind of diffuser.

Inspiration hit DaSilva while he was waiting to tee off on the 8th hole of Florida’s Doral Country Club, when he saw a seat shaped like a hand.

“All day long, my hands are in my clients’ hair,” DaSilva says. “As we dry curly hair, we put our hands into their hair to give it lift. Why not create something that does exactly what a hand does?”

DevaConcepts worked with designers and manufacturers for over three years to develop the new DevaFuser — a unique hand-shaped diffuser with 360-degree air flow to dry the hair all the way through.

“We had to create a better mousetrap,” DaSilva says.

For people with curls and kinks, a diffuser is an invaluable tool in their arsenal. Diffusers allow gentle heat to speed up the drying process without the wind of a blowdryer.

Although there are a number of diffusers on the market, there has been little change to their design over the past few decades. But that changed two years ago, when the DevaFuser hit the market.

Many curlies and stylists wonder how they got along without the DevaFuser.

Stylist Susanne Kende of Re-Vive Salon in San Diego, CA likes the 360-degree air flow of the DevaFuser.

“I am certain it will be one that outlasts all other appliances in its category,” Kende says.

The DevaFuser has changed the way I feel about my curls,” says Laura Ginsberg, a New York customer. “They are finally frizz-free and shiny.”

Right now, get the special DevaFuser Kit, which includes a universal adapter, a 3-ounce bottle of Set It Free! and an instructional guide.

Doctors are warning people about potential damage that can be done to one’s hair by using a ceramic hair straightener at too hot a temperature.

Ceramic flat irons have become popular because the devices are effective at converting wavy or curly hair to sleek, shimmering locks.

According to a new warning from the American Academy of Dermatology, ceramic flat irons is used at too high a setting — some can reach up to 400 degrees — can change the molecular structure of a person’s hair.

Dermatologist Dr. Bernard Nusbaum said, “The problem is using it way too frequently at too hot of a setting. Then what happens is women come in with hair breakage. The hair gets shorter and shabby.”

Carolina Restrepo confessed she regularly uses her flat iron.

“I’m obsessed with straight hair. I iron it every other day,” said Restrepo, who admitted she set the iron on the highest setting.

Restrepo works at Nusbaum’s medical practice, where Nusbaum and Dr. Bernard Cohen developed a device that measures hair breakage.

They tested Restrepo’s hair and found about 30 percent of her hair had been damaged. In the average person, between 5 and 10 percent of follicles are damaged.

There is good news for flat iron users. Nusbaum said a person’s hair will grow back, and it is unnecessary to give up flat ironing completely.

Just turn down the heat, Nusbaum said, to no higher than 347 degrees. Also avoid using on wet hair and use a styling product that protects hair against heat, and limit flat iron usage to two to three times per week.

“The hair, when it is wet, is more susceptible to damage,” Nusbaum said. “So do not use it on wet hair. Make sure the hair is dry.”

 

Source: NBC10.com

Ouidad, a pioneer in the curly world, has often taken her inspiration for new hair-care products from the science of skin care. She feels that you should protect your hair in the same way you protect your lips and skin from environmental dehydration.

That’s the thinking behind new http://www.ouidad.com/Moisture-Lock”>Ouidad Moisture Lock is a weightless treatment that infuses each individual hair with conditioning proteins. Conditioned hair is the best way to protect it from environmental factors such as heat and humidity, but also to prepare hair for styling products. It contains ingredients such as arnica (a homeopathic healing ingredient that promotes strength”>, prickly pear cactus (which seals in moisture and creates a protective barrier against moisture loss”> and green tea and Pro-Vitamin B5 (which protect the hair and restores healthy texture and shine.”> The end result is beautiful, conditioned curls that are protected and prepared for styling products.

http://www.ouidad.com/Moisture-Lock”>Moisture Lock has made a huge difference in the texture and manageability of her hair — both wet and dry.

Leave-ins differ from regular conditioners in a few ways. Regular conditioners balance the pH of the hair at its most delicate and most vulnerable state — immediately after shampooing. The second function of a regular conditioner is to detangle curls after shampooing. Moisture Lock leave-in goes beyond these benefits by creating a protective barrier that adds shine while safeguarding the hair for health and vitality.

Many Ouidad customers are big fans of Botanical Boost Spray-in Conditioner. Moisture Lock is for people whose hair needs more moisture.

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Moisture Lock is the latest in a series of innovations for Ouidad, who has spent more than 20 years specializing in curls. When Ouidad first opened her salon in 1986, funded by a small business loan and the generosity of friends and family, only a handful of clients walked in. She put everything on the line, believing that there was a need for somebody to work with curly hair. She persevered, staying focused on her goal, earning the nickname “Queen of Curls.”

“‘All of a sudden, I got bombarded,” said the curly entrepreneur. “By year three, I paid everybody back.”

Ouidad now has a New York salon, a new salon opening in Santa Monica later this month, and a dozen certified salons in the United States and Canada. The company has also developed 19 products specifically for wavy, curly and kinky hair.

Ouidad said the real victory comes with seeing a younger generation that embraces rather than fights their curls. Twenty years ago, young girls would come into her salon like they were being brought into an emergency room, begging for help with their hair.

“Now they say ‘I love my hair!,’ Ouidad says. “All my friends want hair like mine?”

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Tips for Using Moisture Lock

• When styling, apply a nickel-size dab to the hair. Apply your styling lotion over it for a long-lasting, moisturizing shine.
• During the day, Moisture Lock can be applied to dry hair to tame frizz and bring curls back to life.
• Before coloring, apply Moisture Lock to protect the hair shaft form color building up. For high-lift blondes, Moisture Lock is a great base applied on the hair dry before highlighting to protect the hair while the color lifts.