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Girls Faces by Jen Collins

Jen Collins is a fabulous illustrator living in Glasgow. She’s currently doing a project on tumblr working on her portrait skills and has named this exercise “Girls Faces”. While the portraits are delightful, I’m quite taken with the hair styles she’s illustrating and thought I’d share some of my favourites with you! To […]

August 28th, 2012

Fun Fall Hair Accessories

With summer starting to fade away, my mind is turning to fall and all the new goodies that come with a seasonal change. Here are some great new fall hair accessories to help ease your way into the cooler weather. From left to right: Anthropologie Multitude Hair Ties– $12.00 for set of five, Bluedame Hinged […]

August 25th, 2012

$250,000 All Bottled Up!

I know this is crazy but I had to share the story of this outrageously expensive (in fact the MOST expensive) nail polish called Black Diamond from Azature. Luxury jeweller Azature have created one exclusive bottle of nail polish consisting of 267-carats of black diamonds which carries the immense price tag of $250,000.00. The LA based […]

August 8th, 2012

Great Music to Work To

My summer musical needs have been satiated with the release of Twin Shadow’s new album “Confess“. Confess takes inspiration from the 80’s, melds it with George Lewis Jr’s smooth vocals, and bites you with his lyrics. It is a fantastic follow up to his debut album “Forget” . You could definitely […]

August 4th, 2012

Monster likes Mobile : salonMonster comes to iPhone and Android

We’re ridiculously excited to announce that we have released the first version of salonMonster’s new mobile app. We’ve released it as a web-app, and we’ve got simple instructions on how to add the app to your phone’s home screen. Once we get a bit of feedback from you, our awesome users, we’ll tweak things and […]

July 24th, 2012

Hairy Children Portraits

And now for something a little different……. American artist Erik Mark Sandberg is the creator behind these haunting yet somehow endearing Hairy Children Portraits. Made using acrylic, oil, and resin, these hairy beauties are definitely one of a kind! Erik studied at the Art Center College of Design in Pasadena, California and now lives and works in LA. […]

July 23rd, 2012

Miss Ladyfinger – Inspired by Fashion

I’m absolutely loving the explosion of creative nail art I’ve been seeing over the past year! One of my favourite nail trends has been using runway fashion and translating that into nail art. A perfect example of this can be seen at Miss Ladyfinger. This site takes the hottest runway looks and turns them into […]

July 19th, 2012

The Monster Gets a Facelift

We are super excited to announce that we have updated salonMonster with several great new features and a few changes to the aesthetic of the application! First off is a change that many of you have requested and we heard you loud and clear. You will now be able to change the date of an […]

July 17th, 2012

Easy to Remove Price Stickers, Please!

One of my biggest peeves when purchasing a product is when the pricing label doesn’t easily peel off. I know this may sound finicky, but since I like to display my products (because I’m a sucker for great packaging), I always remove their price tags before placing them in the shower or on a […]

July 14th, 2012

Colour Your Nails with Crayola

How I wish these were available when I was a kid! Not that I won’t be wearing these polishes now, but how cool would that have been when you were in elementary school to pull out these mini nail polish goodies from your backpack. With old school names like Cotton Candy, Robin’s Egg Blue, and […]

July 11th, 2012

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