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Since ancient times, humans have created personal care products with very strange ingredients, like crocodile excrement and arsenic.
The actress steps out in London with her DJ boyfriend, who's called Mr. French
At the Corner Pub on Cincinnati's west side, bartender Melissa Metz can count the cost of the economic hangover in the stack of bills she has at the end of a shift.
The Minnesota Wild acquired defenseman Marek Zidlicky from the Nashville Predators on Tuesday for forward Ryan Jones and a second-round pick in next year's draft.
Plus: Mom and her new daughter get an overnight police escort home after their discharge from the hospital
We've always associated the glorious, intoxicatingly warm and languorous days of summer with getting gorgeous. That's when we can let down our hair (or casually pin it up, exposing a glimpse of neck or shoulder and maybe, too, exuding a light, luscious burst of scent), strip off the layers of cotton or wool, and go barelegged and sometimes barefoot, savoring the delicious freedom of naked skin against the soft air.
No, not Lance Armstrong – but her son, Ryder, is her "main priority"
Diddley, a founding father of rock 'n' roll and an inspiration for legions of musicians, died Monday at the age of 79
Your eyebrows can do wonders for your face. They can make you look younger and give you an instant (and inexpensive) facelift.
The actor and Aonika Laurent get married in New Orleans
Since ancient times, humans have created personal care products with very strange ingredients, like crocodile excrement and arsenic.
The actress steps out in London with her DJ boyfriend, who's called Mr. French
At the Corner Pub on Cincinnati's west side, bartender Melissa Metz can count the cost of the economic hangover in the stack of bills she has at the end of a shift.
The Minnesota Wild acquired defenseman Marek Zidlicky from the Nashville Predators on Tuesday for forward Ryan Jones and a second-round pick in next year's draft.
Plus: Mom and her new daughter get an overnight police escort home after their discharge from the hospital
We've always associated the glorious, intoxicatingly warm and languorous days of summer with getting gorgeous. That's when we can let down our hair (or casually pin it up, exposing a glimpse of neck or shoulder and maybe, too, exuding a light, luscious burst of scent), strip off the layers of cotton or wool, and go barelegged and sometimes barefoot, savoring the delicious freedom of naked skin against the soft air.
No, not Lance Armstrong – but her son, Ryder, is her "main priority"
Diddley, a founding father of rock 'n' roll and an inspiration for legions of musicians, died Monday at the age of 79
Your eyebrows can do wonders for your face. They can make you look younger and give you an instant (and inexpensive) facelift.
The actor and Aonika Laurent get married in New Orleans
Growing up, Monica Simeon and Marina TurningRobe were introduced to the challenges of running a family business by their father, one of the first Native Americans to open a casino after a 1987 court ruling paved the way for unfettered gambling on tribal lands. A member of the Spokane tribe, Ronald "Buzz" Gutierrez built his casino on the reservation 50 miles northwest of Spokane, Wash. His dutiful daughters tackled every job in the joint: opening the doors to eager gamblers at noon, flipping burgers, dealing cards, counting cash, mopping floors, and locking up at 4 A.M. Someday, they told each other, they would establish their own business - and it would be one with more regular hours.
Forget a head-to-toe makeover. From angling your bangs to upgrading your moisturizer to switching laundry detergents, a change doesn't have to be a big deal to be a real breakthrough. We've got 53 smart little ways to make you feel dazzling.
Thousands of InStyle readers voted on the hottest hair in Hollywood, and the tally is in. Here are five winners--plus great insider tips from their personal stylists. Drumroll, please...
Currently one of awards season's sexiest men, Oscar nominee Javier Bardem had to cope with a major challenge on the set of No Country for Old Men: his Prince Valiant haircut.
A year after her buzz cut seen around the world, Britney Spears's Feb. 16, 2007, antics continue to affect the two owners whose stores she visited that night.
Britney Spears is addressing more than her mental health needs – she got a house call from a hairdresser.
As an aspiring ballerina, 9-year-old Brooke Burns took an aggressive approach to makeup. "I would borrow my mom's red Borghese lipstick and smear it on like a clown!" she says.
Make every day a good hair day with these tips for maintaining, styling, and genuinely appreciating the hair you have.
Famously blond Denis Leary has a surprising new look.
Hilary Swank has deemed her short new haircut, fashioned by Oprah Winfrey as part of a televised charity effort, to be a resounding success.
Beehive? Bob? Crewcut? Mullet? Hilary Swank's next hairdo is out of her hands, as Oprah Winfrey took the shears to the Oscar winner as part of a charity effort airing Friday on her talk show.
As a brash, sexy Hollywood agent on HBO's "Entourage," Carla Gugino stopped at nothing to score a hot role for a client. Turns out she approaches her own career the same way, even if it means drastically altering her look.
Ever wonder how actresses like Sienna Miller look stunning 24/7? Good genes, sure. But they also get a little help from their friends
Ellen DeGeneres told Ryan Seacrest Wednesday morning that she was concerned over reports that Iggy, the dog at the center of her adoption controversy, had been given away to a new family – not her hairdresser's.
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When the weekend arrives, it's time to let loose. And that goes for hair too. Here, the women of the NBC drama "Friday Night Lights" flirt with fall's freshest, most festive styles: polished retro waves, a tousled bob and soft, sexy volume
Whatever it is -- blemishes, cellulite, a bad haircut -- there's a way to make it appear to disappear.
Katherine Heigl has a makeup secret she'll confess - she loves using beauty products.
As O.J. Simpson stood before a judge Wednesday morning, there was a buzz that former prosecutor Marcia Clark, who tried Simpson in 1994 on double-murder charges, was in the courtroom.
Before her now-notorious performance at Sunday's MTV Video Music Awards in Las Vegas, Britney Spears had a spat with celebrity hairstylist Ken Paves, PEOPLE reports in its latest issue, on newsstands Friday.
Hawaii has always been in Colt Brennan's heart. Now the islands are on his head.
To dye or not to dye. That is the question in the latest feminist debate over aging and authenticy
You can do it without knives or needles. It's the list you've been longing for -- the fives ways to slow time and stay fabulous.
Tired of wearing the same old style? Take a cue from these stars and transform your tresses with the help of expert how-tos.
Through the years, there have been many unforgettable and sometimes unfortunate hairstyles.
HOLLYWOOD -- I'm not supposed to be on the eleventh floor of the Mondrian Hotel. At least, I don't think so. I have no business being pampered alongside the likes of LaDainian Tomlinson, Justin Verlander and Vincent Chase himself, Adrian Grenier, yet there my name is on a list right next to theirs.
If I sign with the Sox, can I have your wig? -- George, Toppi, Ny.
Silicon Valley's technology workers may be among the most likely to succeed, but they aren't usually voted best tressed.
Nathan Schenkel is only four, but he already has a nickname: Spawn of Satan. And that's what his mother calls him. Teasingly, of course.
I sacrificed an hour Friday evening to watch the Texas gubernatorial debate on your behalf, since I knew none of you would do it. Democrat Chris Bell looked and sounded like the only candidate who won't embarrass the state -- he was intelligent, well informed and even funny. But the question remains: Can Texas afford to lose that hair?
AT LAS VEGAS'S NOBHILL RESTAURANT, GAMAL Aziz is feasting on Tasmanian trout topped with apple-ponzu dressing and basking in the glow of parchment-paper chandeliers. But Aziz remembers this place s...
The Manhattan block that houses the Art of Shaving's flagship store is a preppy paradise.
THE MANHATTAN BLOCK THAT HOUSES THE ART of Shaving's flagship store is a preppy paradise. The main Brooks Brothers store is down the street, the Yale Club just around the corner. Inside the boutiqu...
One hundred years ago, hairdresser Charles Nessler revealed his latest style to an astonished German public. The perm has shown its staying power ever since.
At the Pacific department store in Shanghai, lanky 24-year-old makeup stylist Jin Jia is all hustle and flow. Dressed in black, safety pins stuck through his shirt, he saunters suggestively around ...
Every few months the two women gather in the CEO's office to talk about their problems. Both of them--the glamorous, creative type with a fondness for A-list events and the shy, no-nonsense manager...
Smaller tumors, better outcomes
Few are born gray, some achieve grayness and many others have grayness thrust upon them.
"Beauty Shop," a spin-off of the spiky and popular "Barbershop" comedies, places the ladies in the center shampoo chair, and I went into it hoping for the same sort of buzz -- for the gossipy, rambunctious kick of neighborhood hairstylists saying whatever pops into their heads, manners (and good taste) be damned.
In name and in practice, Bishops Barbershop's main focus is from the neck on up -- offering haircuts, colorings and other salon basics.
It's always on your mind: the next business trip. But what you're thinking about is closing the next deal--not the mundane details of your travel arrangements. So we've done that for you. Our down-...
Hairdressers are the happiest workers, while civil servants, social workers and architects are the unhappiest, a new poll shows.
A.G. LAFLEY'S $57 BILLION acquisition of Gillette not only creates a new Procter & Gamble, with more than $60 billion in revenues and almost $200 billion in stock market value. It also catapults on...
Joszf Paczynski remembers the day in 1942 when he saw a group of fellow prisoners at Auschwitz being gassed and cremated.
Modern society, if you think about it, is a fragile balance between buyers and sellers. All the goods we need to live, work and enjoy life—cell phones, raincoats, milk, computers, hotel rooms, DVDs...
Katherine Keith bought a bottle of Clairol Natural Instincts hair color in June 2002, hoping to trade her black locks for a brunette bob.
THERE IS AN INVISIBLE market waiting at the bottom of the world economic pyramid--a market of five billion people who live on less than $2 a day. They are invisible to most large companies because ...
Now that Coca-Cola Co. has written the denouement to its latest public spectacle--now that it has landed a new chief executive after a search so remarkable that another FORTUNE 500 CEO, A.G. Lafley...
Rock musician Peter Frampton's double LP, "Frampton Comes Alive," was released in 1976 and sold more copies than any other live album in history. Now he is back with the big sound in his new CD called "Now."
Will somebody please save the '70s?
Rapper-actor Ice Cube has returned to the barbershop and he expects some more bruising.
At one time African-American hair care was of interest only to African Americans. Today conglomerates like L'Oréal and Alberto-Culver have purchased most of the companies competing in the black hai...
"Usually, you take your first sip of a martini and it's like, eeww," Dov Eisenberger is saying one Friday after work between sips of his second gin and lemonade. He is relaxing at the bar of John ...
Some call it salt-and-pepper; others call it newfound gravitas. But face it -- your hair is going prematurely gray.
It was 1947, and Gillette executives were scouring the country looking for acquisitions that would help the company grow beyond shaving. When they stumbled across Minnesota-based Toni Co., then the...
"We've got to keep our eyes on France and Spain," cautions a senior executive at Procter & Gamble. "They could be the next Germany!"
Time was you could glance down Main Street and identify which business was which simply by the symbol outside the shop. The local pharmacist would have a mortar and pestle; the tobacconist, a woode...
Jeffrey Himmel is a scavenger entrepreneur. He searches through corporate trash bins, stores' bottom shelves, and consumers' fading memories, looking for old, neglected brands. When Himmel's done r...
$94.46 Annual amount the average American household spends on hair-care products
Viral marketing: It sounds like a disease, but FORTUNE 500 companies are beginning to believe this Internet strategy could be the cure for their banner-ad woes. It's inexpensive and potent, and mar...
Craig Neidel and Don Dobbs don't mind being considered narrow-minded, but they'd rather you call them focused. That's only fair, in light of their success in launching JobsinChicago.com. With neith...
Craig Neidel and Don Dobbs don't mind being considered narrow-minded, but they'd rather you call them focused. That's only fair, considering their success in launching JobsinChicago.com. With neith...
No, these aren't cordless mice for the iMac. What looks like an Apple add-on is actually a hair product. L'anza, a hair-care company in Los Angeles, has adapted the iconic iMac look for a line of g...
In Benjamin Cheever's novel The Plagiarist, a marketing executive becomes an industry legend by adding one word to shampoo bottles: REPEAT. He doubles shampoo sales overnight.
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In its latest fiscal year, Regis--the world's largest operator of hair salons--topped the billion-dollar mark in revenues. For some companies, a billion dollars is no big deal. But Regis was the fi...
The year is 1950. Harry Truman is President. The Father of the Bride, starring Spencer Tracy and the 18-year-old Elizabeth Taylor, has opened in movie theaters. And Mrs. Estee Lauder, fortysomethin...
Question: How many analysts does it take to research a stock? The answer for shareholders in a promising company: the more the merrier. When a horde of influential Wall Street analysts descend on a...
Few companies have undergone so great a transformation in so little time as Carson Inc., the ethnic personal-care concern. Two years ago it was a privately held company with an African-American cus...
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The August Newsline report "How to Avoid a Scalping at the Hair Salon or Barbershop" criticizes shops for routinely charging women higher prices for haircuts than they charge men. How about also ra...
President Clinton's reported $200 haircut by Beverly Hills stylist Cristophe left us wondering what prices and service the rest of America gets when losing its locks. So we sent a dozen corresponde...
IT IS A DELICIOUS paradox that Body Shop International, a cosmetics manufacturer and retailer with no marketing department and no advertising, is now being cited as a paradigm for how to sell in th...
Who are those guys? We allude to the six (as of 5 P.M., September 24) shadowy characters competing for the Democratic Party's presidential nomination, collectively the subject of the following pop ...
ORLANDO -- A Florida man is suing over a haircut he says was so bad that he needed psychiatric help to overcome an ensuing panic-anxiety disorder. Eric Graham filed suit against the J.C. Penney Co....
Looking for a growth stock at a bargain price? Analysts say Alberto-Culver, maker of VO5 shampoo and other hair products, could add bounce to your portfolio -- if you know which shares to buy. Like...
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Betsy Burton is the scourge of the neighborhood barbershop. She's CEO of Supercuts Inc., the 500-unit chain of hair care salons that trims 1.5 million heads per month -- 3% of the U.S. market. Most...
WEST PALM BEACH, FLA. -- A 15-year-old girl who says she was stood up on prom night now wants to get even: She's suing her date for $49.53 for her shoes, flowers, and hairdo . . . Palm Beach Lakes ...
GREAT LAKES CHEMICAL CORP. This West Lafayette, Indiana, company has figured out how to live better through chemistry: Stay away from the commodity side of the business and stick to specialty chemi...
Take the case of 3-year-old Yael Miller. Her mother, Joni Zuckerbrow-Miller, felt it wasn't right that Yael's haircut at the Yellow Balloon Hair Salon in Westwood, California, cost $12 -- that's $2...
WEARING A WHITE lab jacket and standing conspicuously near a microscope, Jheri Redding, 78, peers out sternly from advertisements hawking the ''botanically fortified'' shampoos and ''polymeric trid...
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