HairBoutique Blog

Over the many years since I first started HairBoutique.com I have received a series of emails and phone calls from hair consumers who have received unfortunate hair cuts, color, chemical applications and hairstyles at the hands of a hair professional.

Although they are usually upset, some want to understand why the hairdressers made the mistake in the first place.  Was it intentional?  Was it due to lack of skill and/or knowledge?  Or was there some other reason a visit to the hairdresser went so terribly wrong?

The answer to why do hairdressers make mistakes is that there is no one answer to the question.  Some of the possible reasons include:

1.  Your hairdresser is human.

All humans make mistakes.  Even those that try the hardest not to fall prey to this human condition. (more…)

When I went to cosmetology school I immediately was drawn to two different hair interests: hair color and creating elegant and complicated updos.

Yeah, that sounds a little bipolar but I will confess I also was not all that excited about cutting hair or doing certain types of chemicals.

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Learning To Cut And Color Hair With Mannequins

When you first start cutting hair in beauty school as a student, you always use a mannequin.  Well, unless you can get a student to let you chop away with abandon (which rarely happens), the mannequins are usually the first to be subjected to your scissors.

The same is true about hair color.  Which is why the closet in the Entry Level Class Hair Lab was overflowing with mannequins with melted scalps (from too much bleach), big chunks of missing hair and oddly hued tiger stripes. (more…)

One of the HairBoutique.com team members recently asked me how I could keep on blogging about hair topics after writing literally thousands of articles about hair topics over the past 12 years.

Yeah, it’s true I have published over 4,000 articles on every imaginable hair topic since starting HairBoutique.com in 1997.  I also write monthly columns for 101 Celebrity Hairstyles and MMI’s Short Cuts (on newstands.  In addition I was also paid to “blog” about hair, beauty and celebrity in the past at the beginning of the blog craze but what the heck, might as well save my breath for HairBoutique.com.  Right?  Afterall, I own the company.

So after a stint with Hollywood and Mane for DailyCeleb.com (they closed their blogs) I moved over to HairBoutique.com to blog here.

How can I keep on blogging about hair topics?  (more…)

Although I have spent many years fine tuning the art of having good hair, there are days that no matter what, I’m in the bad hair day zone.

Instead of letting it ruin my day, I usually spritz it with my favorite dry shampoo, fluff it up and wrap it into a bun.  I also will make it a point to add one of my favorite hair accessories so it neutralizes any less than wonderful feelings about how my hair is misbehaving.

Over the years I have also developed some great “bad hair” affirmations I say that help me reset my mind from feeling unhappy about my hair or appearance to feeling great.

I’m a big believer in affirmations due to the recommendation of a former fitness trainer who encouraged me to listen to affirmations while working out to help adjust my attitude.  For me, they work.  Do they work for everyone?  They may or may not, but it never hurts to give them a try.

Listed below are some of my own hair affirmations that I use when having a bad hair day, feeling blah about my hair or just in general. (more…)

I first heard about selling hair in O’Henry’s Gift Of The Magi. In the story, Jim Dillingham and his wife Della are a young couple very much in love but with very little money.  In fact, they are in such a bad economic situation they have almost no money for Christmas gifts for each.

In order to get her beloved husband the gift of a special chain for his prized pocked watch from his father Della sells her very long and gorgeous knee length hair to a man who wants to make it into a wig.

Meanwhile husband Jim sells the pocked watch to be able to buy Della a set of beautiful tortoise shell combs for her gorgeous hair.

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Although the couple is very sad to find the gift they bought for each other was useless since Jim no long had the watch for his wife’s new chain and she no longer has her hair for the combs which she sold to buy the watch chain.

Speed ahead to 2008 and the current economic crisis.  Selling hair to make money has again become an option for those with long and lush hair.    Besides selling hair people are also now selling blood and other appropriate body fluids. What will they think of next? (more…)