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G-Star Wants to Pamper You on Women’s Night

Amanda Gabriele — Wed, 26 Oct 2011 15:35:02 +0000

To celebrate its fabulous friends and loyal customers, G-Star is hosting a series of Women’s Nights taking place at 141 stores in 28 countries during one week. What exactly is G-Star Women’s Night you ask? The event will provide guests with a backstage feeling in a fun environment for hair and make-up touch-ups, manicures and hors d’oeuvres while receiving professional styling tips to help them find the perfect denim. Click through to see when and where you can get pampered in your city.

For more information on Women’s Night and to find a G-Star location near you, visit the website at Women.G-Star.com.

Man Compared to Rosa Parks After Receiving $10 Manicure

Lester Brathwaite — Tue, 21 Jun 2011 10:30:41 +0000

Some people simply have nothing going on in their lives. Which is fine. Not everyone has the luxury of television, or the Internet or readily available porn. Norris Sydnor III is apparently one of those people. After being forced — forced! I tell you — to pay one dollar extra for a manicure based solely on the fact of his mannish man hands, Sydnor is on a civil rights crusade, suing Rich’s Nail Salon for $200,000.

“I was angry. I was humiliated,” claimed Sydnor. “The big deal is that I feel like I’m being discriminated based on my gender. There’s nothing to say that my hands or my nails are different than a woman’s nails. Nobody measured my hands, no one measured my fingernails.”

Sydnor’s lawyer, Jimmy Bell — in need of a challenge or at least a chuckle — maintains his client’s righteous indignation, stating: “Rosa Parks paid the same amount of money but was required to sit in the back of the bus. My client paid more money for less services because he didn’t get polish, he didn’t get clear to go over the polish.”

The 43-year-old manny-loving man spoke to his local Fox affiliate and poured a decently-manicured finger –you get what you pay for — over the salons catalog, which details in not-the-best English the price disparity between women and men.

A judge has issued an injunction ordering the salon not to charge men more money than women for its services, with the case set to go to trial July 21.

What’s sad is that Sydnor probably has a good chance at winning this — though I doubt anyone would give him $200,00 in damages for a goddamn $10 manicure — that is unless Rich’s Nail Salon can prove that Sydnor’s and the average man’s nail beds are larger or require more work than a lady’s.

And considering Sydnor’s size — big guys like nice nails too — that might not prove so hard. [HuffPo]

Beauty Fridays: Ruffian's Crescent Moon

The Fashion Web — Fri, 16 Jul 2010 11:00:00 +0000

Ruffian F/W 2010I was going to title this post “Over the Moon” because that's how I feel about this manicure. It's stunning! This is the third incarnation of the Ruffian (in collaboration with CND) moon nail, this time inspired by Wassily Kandinsky's galaxy paintings of planets, moons and stars placed against a dark backdrop (I didn't think nails could be so deep with feelings and all).The nails

LINK LOVE:Beauty Fridays: Ruffian's Crescent Moon

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5 Year Old Girls Become Beauty Savy

Rebecca Alexander — Tue, 31 Mar 2009 13:04:52 +0000

What do you do when your 5 year old asks you for laser hair removal? Or your fourth grader asks for $150 highlights and a mani/pedi to go with it?

An article in Newsweek talks all about this dilemma:

“Fourth graders are in the market for lush $50 haircuts; by the time they hit high school, $150 highlights are standard. Five-year-olds have spa days and pedicure parties. And instead of shaving their legs the old-fashioned way—with a 99-cent drugstore razor—teens get laser hair removal, the most common cosmetic procedure of that age group. By the time your 10-year-old is 50, she’ll have spent nearly $300,000 on just her hair and face.”

Guess most of us don’t have to worry about that for some time, but imagine what OUR 5 year old’s are going to be asking? I’m imagining anal bleaching and Dora the Explorer temporary tattoo removal.

WOW!

LINKAGE: NY Mag via Newsweek