Updates from the World of Beauty

Hi there Thought Fans,

Soooooo, I do this Weekly-News-Letter-type-thingy for work and I was thinking that you would probably benefit from it as well. Basically, I send out an email every Friday to the Pelactiv staffers and fill them in on what's going on in the Land Of Beauty - media wise. What's hot, what's not, what's going on sale, who's looking good, who's looking crap - you know all the important stuff.

This one is from last week. So may be a little outdated. But I will post the one I wrote today on Monday (just so you have to come back and visit moi again. Mhaaaa. Evil I know.). But, I do LOVE it when you visit.

Anyways have a looksie at what happened in Beautyland last week.

Sydney Hair Expo graced the shores of Darling Harbour over the long weekend. Hair Experts came from far and wide to see what this year’s installment of the popular expo had in store for them.

The Schwarzkopf Professional Hair Expo Hairdressing Award winners were announced across 13 categories on Monday, June 8. The longest running awards in the Australian Hair Industry, the Hair Expo awards are a pretty big deal for hairdresssers in Oz. And the winners are (insert drum roll here)…………………..

Australian Hairdresser of the Year: Caterina DiBiase, Heading Out Hair & Beauty, Melbourne
New Zealand Hairdresser of the Year: Adrian Barclay, Venom, Invercargill, NZ
Colour Technician of the Year: Jacen Ward, TONI&GUY, Paddington, NSW
Salon Team of the Year: Gary Latham, Wild Life Hair, Milsons Point, NSW
New Creative Force: Jason Fassbender, Parlour Hair, Malvern, SA
Session Hair Stylist of the Year: Benn Jae, Look Production & Management, Darlinghurst, NSW
Apprentice of the Year: Alexandra Kontos, Nischler, Hobart, TAS
Best New Salon Design: Cranium Hair, Manly, NSW
Best Photographic Collection: Caterina DiBiase, Heading Out Hair & Beauty, Fitzroy, VIC
Entrepreneur of the Year: Dennis Langford, TONI&GUY, Paddington, NSW
Excellence in Salon Marketing: TONI&GUY, Paddington, NSW
Excellence in Hairdressing Education, Registered Organisation: BIBA Academy, Fitzroy, VIC
Excellence in Hairdressing Education, Individual: Sharon Blain, The Art of Hair, Pennant Hills, NSW
Hall of Fame Inductee: Anthony and Susa Wynne-Hoelscher

Round of applause for those winners.

And, while we’re on hair, The-Wacky-Hair-Gizmo-That-We-Like-The-Concept-Of-But-Really-Don’t-Need-Award goes to…………. (can we get that drum roll again please?)

…………………………..Dario Controneo for launching MyCurl

Leading hair stylist Dario Controneo has launched the MyCurl, a curling utensil that works with hair straighteners to provide a range of wavy hairstyles. The MyCurl is Australian-made and has already been used on celebrities, i.e. Natalie Bassingthwaighte. “It’s a styler for the hair iron,” says Controneo. “It takes out the technique of creating wavy hair. There are four different characters each represent a different look you can achieve with the MyCurl and we will continue to launch a new character and style each month. “We started with sketches of a figure eight as that is the shape we needed to create the right curl. We then experimented with the bend of the ‘S’ – a tighter bend means a tighter curl. The strap though is a miracle worker, it was the hardest thing to do. Once we got the shape of the ‘S’, developing the strap took another year.” Really? A WHOLE YEAR to develop the strap….hhhmmmm. Cool concept but doesn’t the GHD already do good enough curls? PLUS! How random does it look?!

The Lob, it seems is the new ‘It’ Haircut as seen on Gwynie Paltrow (below).

Katie Holmes has also had a hair makeover (below).

Pretty darn smokin’ if you ask me. She’s looking much more like the Katie Holmes we all feel in love with - when she spent her nights climbing in and out of Dawson’s window wayyyy back in the day (Pre-I'm-married-to-a-scientology-psycho). Am still wondering why the costume department didn't make it compolsory that she WEAR A BRA. In every episode.

I just had to include this pic below….talk about YUM! But, actually this strapping young man, Tyson Ritter (he even has a hot name!) is the lead singer of ‘All American Rejects’, they sing that song, ‘When you see my face, Hope it gives you hell, hope it gives you hell’, yup, now you’re going to have that one in your head all day. Anyway, Ty has just been signed on to Hugo BOSS to promote their new men’s fragrance, BOSS in Motion White, set to hit our stores on the 26th of July 2009. The sexy scent features blood orange combined with cinnamon bark, saffron and black pepper as well as vetiver, which makes the scent smell very very hot. MMmmmmmm. Definitely one to put on the list for future boyf gifts. But, seriously, I think we all just need to stop what we’re doing and take in this ad that is very, VERY close to perfection.

Interesting piece of info # 48…I found this survey on the SMH site and below are the results after 133 people had voted:

Question: Are you spending less on beauty products during these hard economic times?
91 answered YES

AND

42 answered NO

Interesting….. especially for those of us who work in Skin Care. i.e me.

On that note I will leave you with the sounds of the rain and the 10 degree evening I am about to shimmy out into.

Peace Out,

Girl Next Door xoxo