Archive for the ‘Hair News’ Category

Hair-itage

Posted on February 27th, 2009 by Amanda  |  Comments Off

Great article today in the South Florida Sun-Sentinel about the African-American community and their hair. Check it out here. Did you know that Black Americans spent $3.9 billion in 2007 on haircare products and services?

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Hair Weave Stops Bullet

Posted on February 20th, 2009 by Amanda  |  Comments Off

This just in from Kansas City…we think this woman must have PGH! Read on… Police said a woman’s tightly-woven hair weave saved her life. Police were called to a Kansas City market at about 11:30 p.m. Wednesday. Arriving officers found the 20-year-old woman there. She told police she had pulled into the market and saw [...]

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Women, Haircuts and the Price of Self-Esteem

Posted on February 18th, 2009 by Amanda  |  Comments Off

I’m catching up from being in North Carolina the last few days and found this interesting article from the New York Times that ran on Sunday about women and the price of haircuts in the recession. One thing the article mentioned which I did not know is that NY Governor Paterson wants to expand the [...]

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How to Become a Hair Model

Posted on February 12th, 2009 by Amanda  |  Comments Off

I stumbbled across an article on EHow.com which gave some general instructions on how to become a hair model. Here are the basics…a lot of the steps are probably obvious but we thought we’d share. Learn More About Being a Hair ModelStep1 Know that you will have a greater chance of success if your hair [...]

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Lilly Allen Has a Bad Hair Day

Posted on February 3rd, 2009 by Amanda  |  Comments Off

This just in from the Press Association… The snowstorm in London left Lily Allen suffering a bad hair day. Lily had to do her own hair and make-up before an interview with GMTV after her assistants were left stranded. While chatting to Ben Shephard, the singer said: “No one turned up because of the snow so [...]

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Worst 2008 Celeb Hairstyles

Posted on January 5th, 2009 by Amanda  |  Comments Off

Happy New Year to all of our PGHers! Please forgive us for neglecting you lately. Susan has been traveling and I had to move apartments and was without internet for a couple weeks. To get us ready for 2009, we thought we should take a look back at the 2008 Worst Celeb Hairstyles. Check out [...]

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Underground Haircuts

Posted on December 11th, 2008 by Amanda  |  Comments Off

I just read an interesting NY Times article all about top-tier stylists offering mega-discounted haircuts after hours. These “hair parties” are no new thing, but they seem to be getting more popular with the bad economy. The article says that Ouidad, a curly-hair specialist with outposts in New York and Santa Monica, lets her stylists work [...]

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Fantastic News!

Posted on November 25th, 2008 by Amanda  |  Comments Off

We just got word that Naturallycurly.com has named PGH one of their top 10 blogs for curly hair. Check out their full list here. I couldn’t be happier right now! Thanks to everyone who has helped get PGH off the ground.

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Ulta-mate beauty

Posted on November 21st, 2008 by Amanda  |  Comments Off

Many of you may know about Ulta Beauty, the largest beauty retailer that provides one stop shopping. You can get your skin care products, makeup, hair products…you can even get your hair done!! It really is like beauty heaven. They sell lots of great hair accessories and products and they are not overpriced. I was [...]

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This Just In

Posted on November 4th, 2008 by Amanda  |  Comments Off

Our friends at NaturallyCurly.com have a poll up right now that asks “In tough financial times do you spend the usual amount on curl products, buy fewer brands but still choose premium products or buy drugstore products?” Fifty percent of curlies say they are buying fewer products for their tresses but still buying premium brands. [...]

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