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The grey Areas of Merchant Accounts
As a chair renting stylist myself I understand the many pitfalls of being a business owner. At the top of the list for me is my merchant provider. I have had several run-ins with agreements I had apparently made without ever having signed a contract. As many of you may know, within your Terms […]
Posted: October 17th, 2011 ˑ No Comments
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Festival of Colour
Thakoon’s Spring/Summer 2012 collection runway for New York Fashion Week: “Don’t get too close!” warned an animated Odile Gilbert, holding up two blue hands. Anyone who did risked inhaling a cloud of clay powder she was peppering onto models’ heads. “Thakoon wanted color in the hair,” she explained. And color he got—blue, green, lilac, terra-cotta, […]
Posted: October 11th, 2011 ˑ No Comments
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YSL 2012: Cage barrette
Backstage at Yves St-Laurent 2012 Stefano Pilati-designed gold hair cages: Slicked-back wet-look hairstyles: from vogue.com: ” If last year’s must-have accessory was the YSL cage bootie, this season’s statement piece may be the cage barrette. Palau fastened the large metal hair ornaments, made of stiff concave gold bands anchored to an oblong base, over his […]
Posted: October 10th, 2011 ˑ No Comments
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Hair and Jewellery Installation
The other day while reading Style Bubble, we came across this amazing looking presentation by Delfina Delettrez called ‘Love is in the Hair’ that we thought you all needed to see. It combines jewellery and wigs made by opera wig maestros in Rome to create the most astonishing and thought provoking pieces of art. We […]
Posted: October 4th, 2011 ˑ No Comments
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Fantastic Salon Flickr Page
One of the best Flickr pages we have come across of late here at salonMonster is created by a Portuguese salon called WIP Hairport. They have some of the coolest haircuts we have seen in a long time not to mention that it is such a simple concept for a page that anyone with the […]
Posted: September 27th, 2011 ˑ No Comments
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Top 10 Worst Dressed Cities
According to a study conducted by GQ magazine and MSN Travel, Vancouver, the city where salonMonster HQ is has been voted 3rd worst city in the world. Why is this? MSN Travel had this to say: “There is one reason, and one reason only, why we’ve decided to include Vancouver on this list of […]
Posted: September 19th, 2011 ˑ No Comments
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Privé
Montreal based online retailer Privé has us excited for fall fashion. It’s not only the deeply discounted designer threads, but their pared down selections from only three or four designers at a time that wins our vote. Join up and for each friend that becomes a member and places an order with prive.com, you will […]
Posted: September 13th, 2011 ˑ No Comments
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Patti Smith: Outside Society
Rock And Roll Hall Of Fame inductee Patti Smith raises the curtain on OUTSIDE SOCIETY, a new collection of her signature songs on the Arista and Columbia labels. The landmark 18-song release marks the first single-CD collection to span Patti’s entire body of recorded work. The chronologically arranged tracks move from 1975 (her debut album, […]
Posted: September 12th, 2011 ˑ No Comments
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Back to school envy
There’s something about Tavi Gevinson’s new online mag Rookie that makes us long for that first day of school. While we are definitely not her target audience, something says we’ll be glued to articles from the likes of Lesley Arfin, Cindy Gallop (from ifwerantheworld.com) and Tavi herself. Long-time followers of Tavi’s will be familiar with […]
Posted: September 6th, 2011 ˑ No Comments
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Nailphilia
Perusing the blogosphere this morning we came across London’s first ever nail art exhibit. Put together by DegreeArt.com and some of the best nail technician out there, Nailphilia as they are calling it looks to be one of the more interesting and bizarre art exhibits we have seen of late. Nailphilia will feature several artists […]
Posted: September 5th, 2011 ˑ No Comments
Filled under: Art, Fashion, Hair, nails