Posts Tagged "hair style"
Oct15

It’s All Politics With This U...

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We’re not sure who would want to recreate this creepy photo from Ohio, but a salon in Brooklyn is offering its own unique twist on the now-iconic (for better or for worse!) Sarah Palin updo: for every customer who comes in for a Sarah Palin updo, the salon – Medusa – will donate the $75 price to the Obama campaign.

An interesting combination, although some will no doubt write it off as an ironic prank of sorts. Would someone really go in for a Palin updo, just to get the salon to donate $75? And would a Palin supporter participate, knowing a donation was being made the opposing candidate? It’ll be interesting to see who – if anyone – takes the salon up on their offer for scissors, hair and a unique updo.

And what about the hair “styles” of the other candidates:  Obama’s monastic crop to Biden’s hair plugs to the McCombover — should the salon offer takes on these as well? We doubt any guys would want to take part!

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Sep26

Beauty Expenses for the Stars

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Imagine if your styling and beauty budget was in the hundreds of thousands of dollars range. That’s chump change for many record labels in Hollywood who would spend a quarter of a million dollars on their stars – in the form of beautifying treatments for their clients, like hair cuts with special shears hair highlights, professional makeup artists, elaborate clothes and much more. The value of an on-camera performance, the labels reasoned, was still cheaper than taking out an ad. Each time a star performed on an awards ceremony or a top-flight chat show, record labels spent excessive amounts to put their moneymakers in front of the cameras.

A check for $250,000 feeds an entourage of hairstylists, makeup artists, stylists, etc etc. But the music companies are following the general American corporate flow and slashing expenses. Entertainment Weekly reports that Universal, which backs acts like Bon Jovi, Ne-Yo, and The Pussycat Dolls, has capped their stars’ beauty budgets for appearances at $50,000 per appearance. For just fifty grand, artists now have to figure out how to look like a million bucks.

As a reporter for AOL stated, I think that most of us could figure out how to look stunning for $50,000, with plenty left over for airplane tickets and a hotel room. Even for a first-class ticket and a deluxe hotel room, plus a limo. 

Maybe it’s a industry that needs to come back down to semi-reality.

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