MINNEAPOLIS — Nearly 45 minutes of tugging and twisting with blasts of high heat left Stephanie Rigley’s thick, coarse, strawberry-blond hair wrapped around boar-bristle brushes — 13 of them — all jutting in different directions around her head. The 39-year-old Orono mother of three perked up in the salon chair as her stylist removed each brush...
Hair is such a defining element for most women that any change is often greeted with unmitigated fear. Many a hairstylist has been confronted with rage after “just a trim,” and many a mood has been wrecked by a bad hair day. Hairstyles are infinite, but a standard of long and straight persists.
It’s a curious standard that tends to cause...
FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. — In the quest for silky smooth locks, wavy-haired women are paying small fortunes for salon treatments, ignoring health warnings and driving a moral rift in the beauty industry.
But there’s an awakening afoot on the high-end, hair-straightening front. Amid renewed health concerns, an alternative market is appealing...
CHICAGO — When there is no one else around, no reason to fear sudden rage crashing down without warning, the dark secrets pour out inside Antonia Medina’s tiny beauty salon.
She listens in her quiet way, snipping hair inside the Little Village shop as clients tell her over the chatter of a Spanish radio station about busted ribs, broken...
MINNEAPOLIS — Lisa Duff admits that she messed up when she began coloring her own hair as a cost-saving measure. One time, she turned her hair orange. Another botched dye job left a red stripe down the middle of the 41-year-old Minneapolis brunette’s hair.
Still, Duff and a growing number of women are committed to doing it themselves....
