Remember when going back to school meant a few new clothes and a box of pointy pencils?
Well now you need to set an appointment at your favorite nail salon and challenge their artistry for your back to school statement!
Imagination. How colorless life would be without it! While any nail polish will achieve these adorable artistry statements, China Glaze Polish is the polish used to achieve these Back to School Nails.
Beauty Salons are thought to be the "One Stop Shop" for Beauty: Wrong!
We are Artists, Chemists, and Great Sources of Information, but Beauty... it comes from within: Truly!
From a clients hair to their toes, we see the telltale signs of eating and drinking habits. Hair: loss, dull, breakage. Skin: blotchy, outbreaks, wrinkles, and cellulite. Nails: discolored, ridges, broken. All are indications of food and drink.
It doesn't take much to adjust our habits. The information of food and drink is all around us. But we often think no one will ever notice the excess intake of coffee and alcohol, or the preferred choices of high fats and carbs we eat daily.
But guess what?
It is ALL showing!
Balance and thoughtful selections is all we really need to do.
Then... Leave the finishing touches to YOUR BEAUTY SALON!!
Its hard to imagine any place remaining in the world of which women are, and always have been, forbidden. Imagine a place with no women!
The chatter in the salon this past week, as will be throughout this next week, is Easter. Easter as we know it in America, has its roots and practices from a variety of traditions. This up-and-coming Sunday will be Easter again, Eastern Orthodox easter, which follows the ancient calendar of the Jewish traditions. But for many, easter denotes the first glimpse and onset of spring: new life, bees buzzing, flowers blooming, birds nesting, and color!
Color. Imagine any place without it. Imagine any place without women. It seems a thought synonymous!
Mount Athos, a place in Greece, is commonly referred to as the "Holy Mountain," a place inhabited by monks since the 4th century. A place prohibited to the entry for women. There are several stories that claim its original intent to be void of women, but the most common is that it remains a law making it easier to live a life of celibacy for those who have chosen to do so. It is said that monks feel that the presence of women alters the social dynamics of the community and therefore slows their path towards spiritual enlightenment. Enlightenment, being the full comprehension of a situation or an aware awakening, seems a bios view without the fullness of life present.
Women. The keepers of tradition within a vast array of cultures. It is disheartening to imagine that new life as well as the preservation of ancient life could exist without the nurture that women give and maintain to life.
Celebration. No matter how the celebration of Easter has become tradition in your family, it is certain that the women in your life have played the major role in cultivating it. May the new life of this season be a celebration of love for all.
Who doesn't LOVE Coffee Conversations with a friend?
More resolve than with a Shrink!
Never a DULL moment in This Bed!
Communication. Its what we all hunger to exchange: Talking, Texting, or an Old Fashion Letter.
Women seem to have a natural gift for sharing their thoughts. Gay men also have this unique skill. So why not use a motivational tool to get the conversation flowing with everyone?
There has never been a hot topic of conversation that didn't first originate in the privacy of the Beauty Salon. We all know, "If you can't mull it over with your hairdresser first, surely it won't go over well with anyone else."
A perfect gift to give this year that is sure to keep on giving throughout the year... Confessions of a Hairdresser. You will never run out of things to chat about once you have listened in on the conversations that go on in your neighborhood beauty salon!
A MEAL SHARED WITH FAMILY AND FRIENDS SUSTAINS YOU IN MORE WAYS THAN ONE.
Life is hectic.
Worries abound.
But Autumn is a special time of the year.
Contemplative fires.
Tummy warming dinners.
Longer nights to catch up on needed rest.
Make time for family, friends, and great meals.
Share laughter, and lots of stories.
Celebrate Autumn.
Celebrate Life!
Time for the fire and the scents of Autumn.
Pumpkin Soup with whole chunks of pumpkin, squashes, yucca, and chick peas in a roasted garlic, curry, and peanut broth. Yum.
An assortment of sausages: lamb, chicken, and pork for those hungry for a little taste of meat in this vegetarian dinner. Yum.
And what would Autumn be without baked apples?
Cored, stuffed with cinnamon roasted walnuts, and wrapped in a walnut pastry. Yum.
I'd say a little rum spiked hot cider would accompany this Autumn week night dinner perfectly. Wouldn't you?
Every man and every woman (unless vowed to celibacy) believes that they are an “Expert" on the subject of sex! Why do you think this is, given that there is so much
infidelity, and couple counseling?
As a hairdresser, I have
inadvertently counseled women for over 30 years, simply by listening. The story was always the same.
And so I am going to share with you, things you may not know. Stories I heard
from you!
Sex. What is its purpose?
Through much of time until recent years, society taught that it was for
procreation, only. How ignorant, when both men and women knew
there was so much more to experience.
Sex is the outward physical
manifestation of the inward longing for intimacy. Intimacy is what we humans
are looking to experience in relationship to one another.
Unfortunately what the
sexual revolution ignited, was sex 'gone wild'. Suddenly everything became sex-y, while we became confused.
From ancient times, to our present day's sexual exploitation, something has gone very awry in the bedroom. Tribes of Arabs, Africans, and sometimes Indigenous communities, practiced
circumcision on women so as to remove any and all pleasure for the woman; leaving
her instead to experience only pain through intercourse. Which, by the way, was
intended to keep the woman faithful while men went off to hunt, to war, or who knows where.
Present day discoveries of child molestation, and the abuse of women, lead us
to understand that these abnormal practices inflicted on the innocent, have been
around since the beginning of time; and therefore have contributed to the emotional and physical impediments of women and their quest for pleasure with their partner.
It is in the bedroom, so to
speak, that trust, tenderness, love, intimacy, and bonding are supposed to take place. Once these important human needs are
met, pleasure can then be introduced into the intimacy of the couple, never the
other way around!
But if sexual pleasure is all a man or woman are looking to
experience, then what has actually been created
between the couple is the exploitation of both. Nothing has been nurtured, embraced, or loved. Who could possibly
marry the magic of love and sex under these circumstances?
Couples, who look beyond
their love bed for pleasure, satisfaction, or validation, really need to look
within themselves to better understand why sex is not the fireworks they
believed it should be.
There are two very important
secrets about women that men rarely know, and therefore never find the key to
tap into the sexual power all women have the ability to bring to the
relationship:
-Explicit understanding
of the female anatomy
-The importance of loving
a woman who first has embraced/learned to love herself
The sad truth in these two
secrets men rarely know, is that the women themselves rarely know it either.
Nothing, other than a complete mess, could result from this scenario!
Personal and private
exploration is a vital key to understanding ourselves so that we can
relay those findings to our partner. Self-love, self-acceptance,
self-knowledge, and a healthy self-image is an important foundation between lovers.
If we enter a relationship
with the hopes of finding self-validation before we have embraced it ourselves, we are not going to find
it. And guess what the end result in the bedroom will be? That’s right. No
fireworks!
Just a final word on
personal-sexual exploration.
-Women, if you are
finding more personal satisfaction with a vibrator than with your partner, you might wonder why? Unless your man can vibrate himself he is not going to be able to compete with the rhythm you have come to depend on. Vibrators,
used over time, begin to deaden the nerve endings, making it increasingly more
difficult to reach orgasm.
-Men, no woman can
possibly move her hand or her hips as fast as you can move your hand. She can’t
feel what you are feeling! Try to find ways during your personal exploration that mimic the movement of another human being, not a cocktail
shaker!
-Personal exploration
with the intent to imitate what would be natural when shared between two people,
will make private time more advantageous for shared time.
Since women have the more
complex anatomy, further exploration of her unseen body parts is suggested. For this
reason, I dedicated an entire section of a book I have published that offers exciting insight:
Confessions of a Hairdresser.
A successful and fun research project with a group of five
hairdressers was executed for the sole purpose of analyzing, discovering, and
satisfying every woman’s desire for greater satisfaction with her partner.
In the chapters entitled
“Something Unknown” individual exercises and their findings were explored, and
then discussed with the group. After a period of time, each of the women were
able to find their own G-spot and its full potential. These
abilities of a woman's anatomy are rarely discussed, even though they are a very real
intention of the female body.
Sex and Love? In today’s
world that uses sex to sell nearly everything from cars to toothpaste, it is no
wonder why love and intimacy have been left out of the bedroom. But, if the
interconnection of both sex and love
are what you would like to claim for yourself, you will want to know what these five hairdressers discovered!
