HairBoutique Blog

Discover Beauty, part of Cosmoprof North America, is the venue for premium brands on the verge of greatness and at the same time an innovative program created for trendsetting retailers seeking emerging beauty companies poised to become the next “it” brand.

Discover Beauty is the incubator where today’s great ideas and tomorrow’s up-and-coming brands unveil their products.

In its 3rd year, Discover Beauty unveiled several remarkable new products.

With much acclaim and success behind this innovative concept, the next obvious step was to recognize one particular beauty brand that was truly innovative and exceptional. (more…)

The Professional Beauty Association (PBA) and the National Cosmetology Association (NCA) released an announcement that the two organizations have signed an agreement to merge, effective immediately.

According to leadership of both groups, the merger will “combine best practices and leverage complementary strengths, assets and member benefits to improve all sectors of the professional beauty industry.”

Over time, the proposed merger will have the NCA, which is currently based in Chicago, join the PBA’s three existing company-based membership sections in its headquarters in Scottsdale, Arizona. This fourth “NCA” membership section will be based on NCA’s existing individual membership criteria. (more…)

Let me first start by saying that HairBoutique.com is not perfect. As Founder/CEO I’m the first to admit that and I am constantly working 24/7 to improve our Internet presence and to make HB.com a warm and welcoming place for our visitors.

Our HairTalk Forum software (always accidentally or due to a software bug) will sometimes lock visitors out and throw them into a horrendous Catch22 of them trying to get a password reset and emailing them to tell them a new password is being sent but then no password reset screen link ever arrives. They keep trying until they send an SOS to HairBoutique.com Customer Care and it is manually reset for them.

Catch22 Password Reset

We also sometimes have the same Catch22 Password Reset issue for customers and visitors to the Hairboutique.com Marketplace, HairWizard, My HairBoutique.com, The Dressing Room and other parts of Hairboutique.com which since 1997 has grown to cover over 1 million pages of content, images and related “stuff”, as I call it.

I Am A Huge Twitter Fan

Anyone reading my blog knows that I am a major Twitter fan. I Tweet to the @HairBoutique Twitter account on a daily basis and have done live Tweeting there for the Academy Awards of Hair – NAHA 2009 – as well as Cosmoprof2009 and several awards including the 2009 Independent Spirit Awards. I Tweet about everything that is appropriate to hair, beauty, fashion and feature many of the Hairboutique followers on my HairBoutique Blog. (more…)

One of the greatest benefits of attending any of the Comsoprof Shows is the opportunity to learn about the latest product innovations for hair, skin, nails, body and beauty.

As I walked through the many exhibits at the recent 2009 Cosmoprof (held in Las Vegas, Nevada) many fabulous new and revamped products caught my eye.

Of course I am also fascinated by the various International products the US media might not know as much about.

Crème au Diamant by Gemoloy was one such European company with a fabulous product I was not acquainted with.

This amazing product naturally preserves and protects skin from the damaging effects of the environment while providing added strength from authentic diamond particle and orchid extract.  (more…)

As I reported recently, the HairBoutique.com Road Trip Team consisting of myself and Marketing Director Edan Kencayd recently covered the world famous Cosmoprof 2009 in Las Vegas, Nevada.

While we were there we also attended and covered the Internationally known NAHA 2009 hair awards.

We even had the honor of interviewing some of the impressive winners.

(Image of one of three pools at the stunning VICEROY PALM SPRINGS 415 South Belardo Road Palm Springs, California 92262 – Reservations 800 670 6184 – All Rights Reserved).

For some reason when Edan and I go on HairBoutique Road Trips to report on hair, beauty and fashion events, crazy things often happen.  Such was the case with our recent trip to Cosmoprof.

Due to a weird air travel snafu we found ourselves flying to Palm Springs, California instead of Las Vegas.  From Palm Springs we had to drive almost six hours to Las Vegas in the middle of pitch black desert in a sparkling white Lincoln Town Car with an extended wheel base.  Hey, I told you weird things happen to us on our HairBoutique Road Trips. (more…)