Wednesday, May 18, 2011
Tuesday, May 17, 2011
Who Stole the (Good) Hair?
From today's NYT:
In addition to the $150,000 Houston robbery this month, thieves have recently taken $10,000 in hair from a San Diego shop; $85,000 from a business in Missouri City, Tex.; $10,000 from a shop in Dearborn, Mich.; and $60,000 from a business in San Leandro, Calif. All the values were provided by the storeowners.
Law enforcement officials have been perplexed by the sudden increase in the thefts of hair and the violence that has accompanied some. Some agencies say they had been unaware of the trend before, and others are still learning about it.
“That’s the first I’ve heard of it,” said Denise Ballew, a spokeswoman for the F.B.I., who oversees data related to property crimes.
But with the increased profits has come violence, the police say.
In Dearborn, Mich., Jay Shin, the owner of Sunrise Beauty Supply, was killed during a holdup on March 15 by gunmen who stole 80 packages of hair extensions worth about $10,000. Two young men have been arrested.
Assaults have been reported even when only a small amount of hair is involved. In West Palm Beach, Fla., a 16-year-old girl sprayed a clerk with pepper spray last year as she made off with extensions. And in Lawton, Okla., the police said a customer who ran out of a store with extensions tried to escape with the store owner clinging to the hood of her car.
She said illegal hair was being sold everywhere, including by people who have come to her shop offering it to customers and by people who have tried to sell it to her on the street.
“ ‘Yo, I got some hair,’ ” Ms. Davis said, imitating the come-on.
World Beard and Moustache Championships
Known as "the premier event in the international sport of bearding, " the World Beard and Moustache Championships were held this weekend in Norway.
This year, German Hairdresser Elmar Weisser beat out 160 finalists with his prize-winning beard featuring a moose and a Norwegian flag.…
Take hope, you Americans…
Organizers say the event has traditionally been dominated by Europeans but that the United States is fast becoming "the world's new facial hair super power".
Click here to see photos of the finalists’ beards.
This year, German Hairdresser Elmar Weisser beat out 160 finalists with his prize-winning beard featuring a moose and a Norwegian flag.…
Take hope, you Americans…
Organizers say the event has traditionally been dominated by Europeans but that the United States is fast becoming "the world's new facial hair super power".
Click here to see photos of the finalists’ beards.
Dottie's Beauty Court
Wilmington, NC. She's been here for 20 years now - my best galpal and I were enthralled by her old sign, a judge "sentencing" a woman w/a blow dryer. Well, Mavis stopped by and chatted with Dottie who was just delighted!
Monday, May 16, 2011
And Lots of Wavy Hair Like Liberace
Wladziu Valentino Liberace (May 16, 1919 – February 4, 1987)
Still with us in spirit, “Mr. Showmanship” would have turned 92 today.
Multi-Tasking Monday
Our clients are busy people...
Personally, I’d keep one hand free for a cocktail.
Personally, I’d keep one hand free for a cocktail.
Sunday, May 15, 2011
Saturday, May 14, 2011
Friday, May 13, 2011
The Combover
The best part of the movie is the white-haired guy who shows you the kit he traveled with just to keep his combover in place. He shows you how he did it! Here's a great link to Trump's triple combover.
Please Stand By While We Restore HHoF Services
Well, if you haven't noted by now, BLOGGR had a nervous breakdown (or something like that) and needed to delete most of the things that were posted yesterday, network wide, to get up and running today. So if you clicked the linky to see something and it isn't there, or here, you know why.
Look for new material after the HHoF stylists regain their composure from the unexpected day off. Look for Donna and Felix's love child to be born in late January, 2012 because you just know how they spent their time twiddling and twaddling each other in the supply room, too.
Thursday, May 12, 2011
Wednesday, May 11, 2011
He was hoping to restore the "chic" to psychic
You would think that his powers would have told him that this wasn't going to be a good look on him, right?
Tuesday, May 10, 2011
Looking for Kinsman Road in Shaker can leave you Chagrined
If you were thinking about going to the House of Hair Fashion, you'd be out of luck. Not only is it out of business, but the address no longer exists. In fact, there is no street in Shaker named Kinsman Road. And there is a story behind where it went, and it based on race and crime and it ends in an ironic twist of hidden meaning.
One of the main east-west thoroughfares in the south part of Shaker Heights was once known as the Kinsman Road because it was the road that connected the village of Kinsman in Eastern Ohio with the town of Cleveland Ohio in the 1800's. As Cleveland expanded eastward, Kinsman Road became a main mode of transportation between the eastern townships and the city of Cleveland, and by the end of World War I and the development of East Boulevard as residential neighborhood, Kinsman Road evolved into a commercial strip and center of commerce at the junction of Kinsman Road and Union Avenue.
While the neighborhood was primarily working class white, eastern European families seeking to get out of the inner city and up into the Heights - a plateau that was home to various Heights neighborhoods of Cleveland, also made a home here on the south side of Kinsman Road. This included blue collar and skilled tradesmen Jewish families who found that the rents were affordable in the less desirable blocks further south. My grandparents were one of those families, first renting "on 144th" (Street) and later buying their first house "on 140th" (Street).
While Kinsman Road was one of the gateways into Shaker Heights - a community of great wealth, but restrictive property covenants. The first black families into Shaker proper didn't attempt to buy into Shaker with any luck until the post World War II era. But the ethnic white families that had called Kinsman their home in the up until the war left for places like Highland Heights, Parma, Middleburg Heights and Richmond Heights, this left a housing vacuum, and the neighborhood quickly became a haven for black families who wanted out of Hough and the rougher areas of Cleveland and into newer housing.
As the neighborhood changed, it accelerated the "white flight" in the 1950s, both in residents and in businesses. My own grandparents finally left in 1959 or 1960, buying a substantial brick duplex in Shaker that was disguised as a single family house as are all duplexes in Shaker are designed.
What was left of Kinsman Road in Cleveland went into a steady and speedy decline. By the early 1960s, crime was commonplace and if you lived in Shaker, you didn't go west of Menlo Road unless you had a reason for going there, period. And there was no reason to go there because most of the storefronts were empty. The problem of serious crime got so bad that property in Shaker alone Kinsman Road started to take a tumble as families and renters didn't want anything to do with the middle class neighborhood.
To remedy this, the powers that be decided to end Kinsman Road at the Shaker border and rename the street "Chagrin Boulevard" through Shaker and the neighboring communities of Beachwood, Peper Pike, Orange and other points east.
Now Webster defines "Chagrin" as "distress of mind caused by humiliation, disappointment, or failure..."
But the word Chagrin, in our instance is a native American name (Americanized, of course) is taken from the river that flows through the Western Reserve and eventually connects with the Cuyahoga River. Settlers to the region built a community at the point where the river falls, namely Chagrin Falls, a sleepy bit of old New England in the heart of northern Ohio.
Chagrin Falls most famous favorite son is comedienne Tim Conway. Conway would often say that the name was Native American, and that the "indians" would canoe down the river until they found themselves confronted by the falls, and were "chagrined" as to their plight.
And that's kinda the irony behind Chagrin Boulevard. It just begins at a city line. If you didn't know it had started you'd be Chagrined to find yourself on it. And it isn't a boulevard in the traditional sense - there is no grassy median - its just three to five lanes of conjested traffic.
And sadly, it's name given to bury the negative connotations of race and racial crime. It tooks time for Shaker to realize that racial harmony is only acheived by economic good for all.
But for better or worse, it is a name that endures in Shaker Heights, chagrined or not.
Pulchritude on Parade
Miss Universe Pageant, 1962...
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Miss Universe Pageant, 1963...
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Let’s go back to calling it The International Pageant of Pulchritude.
Miss Universe Pageant, 1963...
Let’s go back to calling it The International Pageant of Pulchritude.
Monday, May 9, 2011
Sunday, May 8, 2011
“Mother Divine”
Diana Frances Vukovich Milstead, (April 12, 1920 - March 24, 2008)... Mother of the late, great Divine (Harris Glenn Milstead).
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“Little Glennie” with his mom and her hairdo. Is he holding a can of Aqua Net Hairspray?...
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Divine (19 October 1945 – 7 March 1988)...
Read about “Mother Divine” here.
“Little Glennie” with his mom and her hairdo. Is he holding a can of Aqua Net Hairspray?...
Divine (19 October 1945 – 7 March 1988)...
Read about “Mother Divine” here.
Saturday, May 7, 2011
Norwalk, California: Home of Big Hair
From the beauty salon to Bud’s Tacos.
Where will your bouffant take you?
Photos via
Ads in the 1969 Norwalk High School yearbook.
Friday, May 6, 2011
Slip a Comb in Your Cuff
Teenaged girl June Runyon's legs and feet, wearing saddle shoes & bobby sox with a comb slipped in one of the cuffs.
Napoleon’s Hair
How much would you bid for a lock of Napoleon’s hair?
It would make a lovely accompaniment to Napoleon’s socks…
Source: Bata Shoe Museum
In any case, you need to hurry as the hair from the head of the French emperor goes on the auction block today, May 6th, at the Penzance Auction House and is expected to fetch in the region of £5,000.
It would make a lovely accompaniment to Napoleon’s socks…
In any case, you need to hurry as the hair from the head of the French emperor goes on the auction block today, May 6th, at the Penzance Auction House and is expected to fetch in the region of £5,000.
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