Clairol On Broadway Presents: ROMANCE/ROMANCE

These two musicals juxtapose two set of lovers from different countries and different eras (turn-of-the-century Vienna and contemporary New York)to illustrate in witty song and potent dialogue how the rewards (and problems) of romance remain relatively unchanged over time. *** 5 Tony Nominations! ***

Until a few years ago I had long really beautiful hair. It was the kind of hair people would stop me in the street to comment on. It was thick and wavy and a stunning caramel color of blonde. But one day I can't pin point exactly what prompted me I decided to go blonder. Looking back maybe it was a new job? A divorce? Dating again? Feeling too much like a mom? My Fear of getting older? Once the decision was made however there was no turning back. I decided to color my hair at home on my own. Not in and of it self a big deal since I had a cosmetology license; but did I mention I never worked as a hair colorist?

Well, my hair turned out great and everyone loved it. So the next time I decided I would go a little blonder and the time after that blonder, then one day I decided it was too blonde, and I wanted another change so I went red then blonde again then darker, a lot darker on my own, with no advice from the Clairol Color Experts, or old beauty business buddies, nope not me with the beauty license, I was saving tons of money by doing it myself, besides I was too proud to ask for advice, or was I embarrassed? Or fearful they would tell me to put down the box and call a hair salon specializing in color correction. With the darker color over the already damaged light blonde my hair turned green!

That is when the trouble really began, because I became obsessed with fixing it. I thought just one more trip to the late night drug store for one more box in a shade that will lift out all that brown, that will fix it. I had become addicted to the lure of the 20-minute instant makeover power of hair color. What ever was going wrong in my life I was sure changing the color of my hair would fix what ailed me.

Thankfully, I survived the emotionally crisis of my brief but harrowing hair color obsession and enthusiastically sought out a professional most amazing hair dresser and a more amazing friend for some damage control. Her advice went something like this "You could walk around looking like a blonde hooker or we can cut it off and you can start from scratch, you have the face for it." In the end I opted for the haircut and was relived to have less hair to be tempted to color.

The irony of this story is that in a world of long hair my very, very short hair (think Pink, Mia Farrow from Rosemary's Baby days or Brigitte Neilson or now Victoria Beckham) has been unexpectedly liberating. I no longer spend time working on or about my hair I am out the door in half the time, I need less make up and people tell me I look younger and hipper. That is what really short blonde hair does for you; if it suits you, it is a look. Albeit it is not for everyone, but for me there have been valuable lessons learned. One, you are not your hair long or short, if your life is missing something find out what is and fix it inside. Two, when it comes to changing your look drastically seek out an expert for advice no matter what the cost.

You simply do not need to shell out the big bucks in order to look your best on your wedding day. Don't neglect your beauty and skin care because you feel you can't afford it.

Learn more at my website http://www.do-it-yourself-wedding-make-up.com where my beauty experience as a free lance make-up artist helps me help you make good beauty choices and helps to encourage and teach you how to feel more beautiful on your wedding day or any day.

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How to Do Better Haircoloring: The Complete Textbook of Succesful Tinting, Lightening, Corrective Techniques and Hair Care Including 124 Professional Case Histories

1. When Parker Pen marketed a ballpoint pen in Mexico, its ads were supposed to have read, "It won't leak in your pocket and embarrass you." Instead, the company thought that the word "embarazar" (to impregnate) meant to embarrass, so the ad read: "It won't leak in your pocket and make you pregnant

2. In Spain, when Coors Brewing Company put its slogan, Turn it loose into Spanish; it was read as Suffer from diarrhea.

3. When Braniff International Airways translated a slogan touting its upholstery, Fly in leather, it came out in Spanish as Fly naked.

4. When Pepsi started marketing its products in China a few years back, they translated their slogan, "Pepsi Brings You Back to Life" pretty literally. The slogan in Chinese really meant, "Pepsi Brings Your Ancestors Back from the Grave."

5. Chicken magnate Frank Perdue's line, "It takes a tough man to make a tender chicken," sounds much more interesting in Spanish: "It takes a sexually stimulated man to make a chicken affectionate."

6. Scandinavian vacuum manufacturer Electrolux used the following in an American campaign: Nothing sucks like an Electrolux.

7. A hair products company, Clairol, introduced the "Mist Stick", a curling iron, into Germany only to find out that mist is slang for manure. Not too many people had use for the manure stick.

8. The American slogan for Salem cigarettes, "Salem-Feeling Free", was translated into the Japanese market as "When smoking Salem, you will feel so refreshed that your mind seems to be free and empty."

9. PepsiCola lost it dominant market share to Coke in South East Asia when Pepsi changed the color of its vending machines and coolers from deep "Regal" blue to light "Ice" blue as Light blue is associated with death and mourning in SE Asia.

10. We can't forget Chevrolet's attempt to launch the Nova -- Spanish translation, "Doesn't Go" -- in Mexico (turns out this one appears to be an urban legend and cannot be verified). Many sources on the internet allege this is untrue.

Brian Henderson oversees internal and external marketing for Prezza Technologies. Prior to joining Prezza Technologies, Brian has held senior-level marketing positions in successful New England-based companies, including Perseus Development Corporation, Equallogic Corporation, and EMC Corporation.

Brian received his degree in marketing from the University of Massachusetts at Amhersts Isenberg School of Management.

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Clairol Luminize Kit Clear Gentle Conditioning Lightener #320864

Gentle Conditioning Lightener Lifts Hair Up To One Level. No Ammonia, conditions and Adds Shine

After getting out of the shower, towel-dry your hair first, and let it dry a bit more while you put on your makeup (it doesn't work for some styles when very wet). Then, put on some sort of conditioner, spray, or gel to help smooth and control. Of course there are a bunch of products that you could buy off and on, and always have a few of them on hand: Phytodefrisant, a Clairol spray conditioner for color-treated hair you could bought at Beauty Mart. Paul Mitchell's The Conditioner, Paul Mitchell Extra-Body Sculpting Foam, Redken Traction, TIGI Extra Extra Straight spray, and this awesome reconstructor from Grund called Tiger--this stuff is great for dry, damaged hair, and smells good too. Has anyone else tried Grund products?

Anyway, then blow-dry your hair, but don't use any brush right away--start using small round metal brush with those plastic bristles with the little balls on the end (no idea what those are called), because the hair is damp. Then, use your hair straightener (the best one from Target you've used) to smooth, and finally straighten the ends and bangs.

Sometimes this takes awhile, other times not that long. It really depends on how your hair feels like behaving. You were probably going to get your hair straightened with the Artec Texturesmooth soon, your whole routine is getting old, and the humidity up is terrible in summer.

For the shampoo and conditioner, I commend Matrix Logics COLOR eserve Remoisturizing Shampoo, it helps keep moisture in you hair, and with all the heat styling you do, with the occasional coloring, I think you really need that. You could started using Nature's Therapy Conditioning Cream. That is great too, and for such a good deal. Deep-condition every day with the right product, to keep your hair in good shape.

We offer the best hair straighteners reviews and source, please check the products and read the reviews, then choose the best hair straightener for you and your hair. All about hair straighteners on http://www.hair-straightener.net

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Clairol On Broadway Presents: ROMANCE/ROMANCE

These two musicals juxtapose two set of lovers from different countries and different eras (turn-of-the-century Vienna and contemporary New York)to illustrate in witty song and potent dialogue how the rewards (and problems) of romance remain relatively unchanged over time. *** 5 Tony Nominations! ***

When you are shopping for shampoo in the supermarkets or shops selling hair products, you know there are so many to choose from and it can be tough to know if the expensive brands are really worth the extra money and if all the remarkable comments regarding the benefits your hair will receive from their shampoo are actually true.

According to hair care product reviews by experts most shampoos are effective at cleaning your hair, however all the other things the shampoos claim they can supply may not be true or they may be overstating their benefits.

Hair Salons

Notably hair salons also sell hair care products and they always claim their products are superior to the products you can purchase at grocery stores, however some experts have claimed in reviews that the hair salon products also overstate their benefits. The FDA only has regulation over the ingredients listed on the label thus the manufacturer can claim all sorts of benefits and their products don't have to exactly provide the benefits.

Be wary when you read the shampoo bottle, especially when you discover the claims on repairing or nourishing damaged hair. This is because most shampoos can only provide temporary assistance with regard to the look of your hair. Some experts specify in reviews that they have doubts that natural ingredients found in shampoos can indeed be effective at cleaning your hair. Let's take a look at some of the popular shampoos.

Well Known Hair Products

1) Bumble and Bumble

A popular as well as expensive salon brand named Bumble and Bumble has become popular and a couple of hair care product reviews have stated that their shampoos are gentle on their hair and work well at cleaning hair. The Bumble and bumble Alojoba shampoo received good reviews and a couple reviews mentioned that the product was effective for normal as well as dry hair. In addition to that it did not create a build up in their hair.

2) Clairol's Herbal Essences

Paula Begoun has made many hair care product reviews and she suggests using an anti-residue shampoo such as Neutrogena Anti-Residue once or more per week to scrape any residue you might have in your hair, especially for people who apply a volumizing shampoo to their hair. Numerous reviews by consumers have claimed that Clairol's Herbal Essences is one of the best shampoos for the low priced shampoos. Some reports have claimed that Clairol's Herbal Essences work just as well as the high priced salon brands and is significantly less expensive.

Head and Shoulders

Head and Shoulders is one of the least expensive dandruff shampoos but it doesn't always work for people who have a serious case of dandruff and they may have to use stronger dandruff shampoos. According to experts Head and Shoulders had fewer side effects than other store brands.

It's a good idea to check out hair care product reviews before buying shampoos and other hair care products.

Please go to Herbal Hair Solution

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Clairol Herbal Essences Citrus Lift Bodifying Shampoo for Normal Hair

Clairol Herbal Essences Citrus Lift Bodifying Shampoo for Normal Hair

FEEN ON THE SCENE

The duck is getting a bad rap these days. Congress is in a lame duck session, the president is a lame duck leader and the government is just one quack away from being in a foul mood itself.

So how did the duck become part of our political landscape? And what's so lame about ducks anyhow?

If you ask me ducks are pretty cool cats (oops). They travel in pairs (hence the reason they don't need therapy), they mate for life (no divorce court either) and are clean and quite pleasant. And have you seen how their hair stands up straight without hair gel? I'll bet your average teenager couldn't get a Mohawk this symmetrical without a Hollywood barber.

And the colors - have you seen how lovely their hair color is without a hint of gray. No Clairol needed here. You know why? Ducks don't fight with their spouses or relatives and are always taking vacations together. As a matter of fact, when they fly together they travel in formation to cut down on the wind pressure coming from the front. They even take turns traveling in first class (where it is the windiest).

There's also no such thing as boys nights out (no strip clubs for sure), they stick together like a family should. And if a duck loses a spouse it continues to mourn throughout its lifetime. Not like the human male who can be seen out with a blonde bimbo just as the last rugalah is finished off the Shiva platter.

Ducks, despite their bad reputation, have emotions just like we do. They also have proper upbringings (two parent families) and don't need anger management classes or twelve-step programs. You know why? They don't get divorced and don't stay at work all hours of the day and night.

And the best part is that ducks are as versatile as futons. When tired or sleepy they just fold down their necks and become a fluffy pillow (Bed Bath and Beyond eat your heart out). Hence the reason they don't need large condos or split level homes. And you don't see them complaining about it either. To a duck the perfect day is spent lounging around the lake with friends and family (of course they winter in Florida).

As far as parenting skills, ducks are pretty advanced (Dr. Joyce Brothers would approve for sure). They don't run to the mall and leave the kids with a sitter. That could be one reason that baby ducklings rarely have ADD or other emotional problems. Mother ducks also don't run (or fly off) to Saks or Bergdorf Goodman for a day of shopping and leave the ducklings to watch mindless video games.

That's what's so great about ducks. They are far from being lame and are so self-sufficient you rarely see them lined up at soup kitchens or waiting for government assistance. And you never hear them complaining about the negative connotation of their namesake (hmm...the ugly duckling).

And you know what else - ducks are pretty good sports. After all, their reputation has been squandered by lame presidents and congressional leaders and you don't hear a peep from them. You also don't see them filing any class action lawsuits for defamation of character (like a lot of quacks do these days).

And if you ask me, that's just ducky.

Diane can be reached at dfyoga@aol.com

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Clairol Touch Of Sun, Subtle Highlight For Light Blonde To Light Brown Hair, Lemon - 4.7fl oz - 1 ea

1. When Parker Pen marketed a ballpoint pen in Mexico, its ads were supposed to have read, "It won't leak in your pocket and embarrass you." Instead, the company thought that the word "embarazar" (to impregnate) meant to embarrass, so the ad read: "It won't leak in your pocket and make you pregnant

2. In Spain, when Coors Brewing Company put its slogan, Turn it loose into Spanish; it was read as Suffer from diarrhea.

3. When Braniff International Airways translated a slogan touting its upholstery, Fly in leather, it came out in Spanish as Fly naked.

4. When Pepsi started marketing its products in China a few years back, they translated their slogan, "Pepsi Brings You Back to Life" pretty literally. The slogan in Chinese really meant, "Pepsi Brings Your Ancestors Back from the Grave."

5. Chicken magnate Frank Perdue's line, "It takes a tough man to make a tender chicken," sounds much more interesting in Spanish: "It takes a sexually stimulated man to make a chicken affectionate."

6. Scandinavian vacuum manufacturer Electrolux used the following in an American campaign: Nothing sucks like an Electrolux.

7. A hair products company, Clairol, introduced the "Mist Stick", a curling iron, into Germany only to find out that mist is slang for manure. Not too many people had use for the manure stick.

8. The American slogan for Salem cigarettes, "Salem-Feeling Free", was translated into the Japanese market as "When smoking Salem, you will feel so refreshed that your mind seems to be free and empty."

9. PepsiCola lost it dominant market share to Coke in South East Asia when Pepsi changed the color of its vending machines and coolers from deep "Regal" blue to light "Ice" blue as Light blue is associated with death and mourning in SE Asia.

10. We can't forget Chevrolet's attempt to launch the Nova -- Spanish translation, "Doesn't Go" -- in Mexico (turns out this one appears to be an urban legend and cannot be verified). Many sources on the internet allege this is untrue.

Brian Henderson oversees internal and external marketing for Prezza Technologies. Prior to joining Prezza Technologies, Brian has held senior-level marketing positions in successful New England-based companies, including Perseus Development Corporation, Equallogic Corporation, and EMC Corporation.

Brian received his degree in marketing from the University of Massachusetts at Amhersts Isenberg School of Management.

Survey Software from Prezza Technologies

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"Clairol Nice N Easy Gray Solution Hair Color, Medium Blonde #8 - Kit"

"Clairol Nice N Easy Gray Solution Hair Color, Medium Blonde"

After getting out of the shower, towel-dry your hair first, and let it dry a bit more while you put on your makeup (it doesn't work for some styles when very wet). Then, put on some sort of conditioner, spray, or gel to help smooth and control. Of course there are a bunch of products that you could buy off and on, and always have a few of them on hand: Phytodefrisant, a Clairol spray conditioner for color-treated hair you could bought at Beauty Mart. Paul Mitchell's The Conditioner, Paul Mitchell Extra-Body Sculpting Foam, Redken Traction, TIGI Extra Extra Straight spray, and this awesome reconstructor from Grund called Tiger--this stuff is great for dry, damaged hair, and smells good too. Has anyone else tried Grund products?

Anyway, then blow-dry your hair, but don't use any brush right away--start using small round metal brush with those plastic bristles with the little balls on the end (no idea what those are called), because the hair is damp. Then, use your hair straightener (the best one from Target you've used) to smooth, and finally straighten the ends and bangs.

Sometimes this takes awhile, other times not that long. It really depends on how your hair feels like behaving. You were probably going to get your hair straightened with the Artec Texturesmooth soon, your whole routine is getting old, and the humidity up is terrible in summer.

For the shampoo and conditioner, I commend Matrix Logics COLOR eserve Remoisturizing Shampoo, it helps keep moisture in you hair, and with all the heat styling you do, with the occasional coloring, I think you really need that. You could started using Nature's Therapy Conditioning Cream. That is great too, and for such a good deal. Deep-condition every day with the right product, to keep your hair in good shape.

We offer the best hair straighteners reviews and source, please check the products and read the reviews, then choose the best hair straightener for you and your hair. All about hair straighteners on http://www.hair-straightener.net

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CLAIROL Professional Shimmer Lights Original Conditioning Shampoo for Gray, White, Highlighted and Light Blonde Tinted Hair 16oz/473ml

A protein enriched conditioning formula.- Tones down brassiness on blonde/gray hair.- Renews & refreshes faded highlights and ash-toned hair.- Removes dull yellow in gray/white hair.- Leaves hair shiny without residue.

Bindy has endured my inordinate number of idiosyncrasies for nineteen years now. We got a late start, Bindy was thirty five and I was forty four.

A first time for Bindy, she waited all those years for "Mr. Right", I suppose that depends on whom you ask.

Bindy and I met in an Aerobics class, actually more like Bindy entered the room dressed neck to ankles in form fitting Spandex and I knew who her husband was going to be. It didn't matter what her current status might have been, I knew what it was going to be. I just had to find a way to tell her that.

In 1997 Bindy became a certified Jazzercise Instructor and Franchise owner. She now owns and operates two Jazzercise Centers with multiple instructors and class managers and still teaches several classes a week herself. You would never know my Bindy was fifty four years old by the manner in which she teaches, or how she still fills out that spandex.

Chasse forward to June, 2008. Bindy is teaching the class this particular evening and I am filling in for one of the class managers.

One of the frequent attendees walks up to the counter to check in. She is a teacher and has mentioned her daughter is graduating from high school this year. So, it makes her forty-ish but the point is she has a beautifully coiffured short hair style, to which I am partial anyway, and it is in the most gorgeous shade of blonde I have ever seen.

Later that evening at home I mentioned to Bindy how pretty the member's hair was and she agreed with me. She said she had been toying with the thought of doing something similar with her hair. What did I think?

In all these nineteen years I have never seen Bindy other than a brunette, her natural color. Most often in my favorite style which is short, but not as short as Jamie-Leigh Curtis, or similar to Sharon Stone or Meg Ryan when they wear their hair short. To myself I'm thinking "I don't believe it", however I pipe right up and say, "Hey, sounds ok to me".

At Bindy's Jazzercise Centers there are always scads of health and fitness magazines written especially for women within easy reach. For some reason I happen to notice that the cover of the fitness magazine Bindy was reading featured a young woman with an extra firm set of "abs" compared to the usual ladies on the covers. I could see the word muscle in the title so I asked about it. Oh, this is one that shows up only every once in a while.

The next morning I poured a bowl of cereal and thought I should review this new muscle whatever magazine to make sure it was appropriate for the members.

It wasn't "Muscle and Sex Teaser", June, 2008, but it could have been. Why is it 97% of the women in these types of magazines are shown pumping iron, straining, stretching, reaching, running or jumping when they all have at least C cup size breasts but they're wearing B cup size sports bras?

When I put the magazine down I saw the box. The box that said...Clairol Natural Instincts - Coastal Dune - Dark Neutral Blonde.

Dark Neutral Blonde, I wonder if I'll be able to control myself!

Stephen Anderson is a freelance writer available to provide web content and articles. Mr. Anderson has over 30 years of traveling sales experience serving several different industries. His interactions with thousands of people over the years has left him with a great sense of humor in addition to nearly countless human interest and "how to" stories he now wishes to share. Contact at...spander@madriver.com

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