Today colouring hair has become a common fashion and is dominating the fashion world. Some choose hair color for adding more beauty to the hair and some others choose hair color for gray coverage. Hair colouring is one of the quickest and most dramatic way to change your look. Hair colour come in different shades, forms and qualities for different hair textures.
Types Of Hair Colours
Colours are available today in all forms. Liquid, powder, oil, cream and gel, etc. For permanent colours, gel and other forms are used and for temporary and semi-permanent colours, hair mascaras, crayons and colour hair-sprays are usually used.
Hair Length
Expense increases in proportion to the length of hair. Shorter haircuts or medium hair cuts, look more attractive with hair colours.
Techniques Of Hair Colour
Highlighting, streaking, frosting, finger-painting etc are different techniques of colouring but teens today prefer highlighting and streaking.
Trendy Shades
Red and brown are the common trendy shades. Experts suggest that brown and golden are best for wheatish skin tones whereas reddish or purple shades are most suited for fair skinned people.
Tips for the Coloured Hair
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Avoid direct bright sunlight, but little amount of sunrays accentuates the red tones.
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Shampoos must have the same low pH level. Preference to special colour shampoo
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Use hair conditioner after swimming to avoid dryness of hair.
Thursday, September 11, 2008
Fashion Tips : Colouring of Hair
Fashion Tips : Colouring of Hair
Today colouring hair has become a common fashion and is dominating the fashion world. Some choose hair color for adding more beauty to the hair and some others choose hair color for gray coverage. Hair colouring is one of the quickest and most dramatic way to change your look. Hair colour come in different shades, forms and qualities for different hair textures.
Types Of Hair Colours
Colours are available today in all forms. Liquid, powder, oil, cream and gel, etc. For permanent colours, gel and other forms are used and for temporary and semi-permanent colours, hair mascaras, crayons and colour hair-sprays are usually used.
Hair Length
Expense increases in proportion to the length of hair. Shorter haircuts or medium hair cuts, look more attractive with hair colours.
Techniques Of Hair Colour
Highlighting, streaking, frosting, finger-painting etc are different techniques of colouring but teens today prefer highlighting and streaking.
Trendy Shades
Red and brown are the common trendy shades. Experts suggest that brown and golden are best for wheatish skin tones whereas reddish or purple shades are most suited for fair skinned people.
Tips for the Coloured Hair
*
Avoid direct bright sunlight, but little amount of sunrays accentuates the red tones.
*
Shampoos must have the same low pH level. Preference to special colour shampoo
*
Use hair conditioner after swimming to avoid dryness of hair.
Wipro to make life beautiful for men
BANGALORE: Wipro Consumer Care and Lighting (WCCL) has lined up a slew of launches and brands for the second half of this fiscal to push its personal care portfolio. WCCL is set to enter the market for men’s personal care products, extend its Santoor soap brand to more products and launch the brands of Unza, a Singapore-based FMCG firm it bought in 2007, in about 10 more countries by the end of this fiscal.
“We are launching a new men’s personal care brand Romano from the Unza portfolio in India this month. This will be an end-to-end brand, including shaving products, perfumes, body-and-face washes and hair-care products. This will be a premium brand, targeted mostly at the young executive,” senior vice-president Anil Chugh said.
Earlier this year, WCCL launched the women’s personal care brand Enchanteur from Unza. Mr Chugh was of the view that Romano may not face much competition because of the fragmented nature of the market and the fact that no men’s brand is present across the personal care segment.
The men’s grooming market is pegged at around Rs 800 crore. The Wipro arm, which posted sales of Rs 1,520 crore in 2007-08, will also leverage Unza product formulations to grow the Santoor brand. “Santoor is already very strong brand in the country and we will be introducing new products for skin care—shower gels and head-and-toe lotions,” Mr Chugh said.
Wipro to make life beautiful for men
BANGALORE: Wipro Consumer Care and Lighting (WCCL) has lined up a slew of launches and brands for the second half of this fiscal to push its personal care portfolio. WCCL is set to enter the market for men’s personal care products, extend its Santoor soap brand to more products and launch the brands of Unza, a Singapore-based FMCG firm it bought in 2007, in about 10 more countries by the end of this fiscal.
“We are launching a new men’s personal care brand Romano from the Unza portfolio in India this month. This will be an end-to-end brand, including shaving products, perfumes, body-and-face washes and hair-care products. This will be a premium brand, targeted mostly at the young executive,” senior vice-president Anil Chugh said.
Earlier this year, WCCL launched the women’s personal care brand Enchanteur from Unza. Mr Chugh was of the view that Romano may not face much competition because of the fragmented nature of the market and the fact that no men’s brand is present across the personal care segment.
The men’s grooming market is pegged at around Rs 800 crore. The Wipro arm, which posted sales of Rs 1,520 crore in 2007-08, will also leverage Unza product formulations to grow the Santoor brand. “Santoor is already very strong brand in the country and we will be introducing new products for skin care—shower gels and head-and-toe lotions,” Mr Chugh said.
Sunday, August 31, 2008
Kate Moss Tops Sexiest Lingerie Model Poll
Kate Moss has been named the sexiest lingerie model ever. The British beauty topped the poll by luxury underwear brand Agent Provocateur - which listed the top 10 most attractive women who have modeled for the chain - after appearing in several raunchy adverts and short films.
Explaining why Kate, 34, had topped the list, the survey said: "In the four films starring Kate, we are given dream sequences that invite us to imagine how we might fulfill her desires."
"The dreams are beautifully crafted fantasies, each with an eerie atmosphere that brings us into a serene la-la land where we feel free to imagine pleasing Kate."
Singer Kylie Minogue, 40, took second place in the poll, while burlesque dancer Dita von Teese, 35, bagged third spot.
Kylie was praised for a promotional piece she shot which sees her riding an electric horse.
The survey noted: "The camera closes in on her bulging behind as it rides up and down and shakes from side to side."
Dita won the third spot thanks to her ability to "tease out men's deepest fantasies through the power of suggestion".
Agent Provocateur Top 10 models:
Valentino stays in fashion
The worlds of cinema and fashion collide at this year's Venice Film Festival with a new documentary about legendary Italian designer Valentino Garavani.
Shot between 2005 and 2007, Valentino: The Last Emperor charts what would turn out to be the 76-year-old's final days as head of the fashion house that bears his name.
Packed with celebrity cameos including Elizabeth Hurley, Gwyneth Paltrow and Mick Jagger, Matt Tyrnauer's film follows the designer as he prepares for a spectacular celebration marking his 45 years in haute couture.
But it also offers rare insights into his relationship with his business partner and former lover Giancarlo Giammetti, and their battle to retain control over their iconic brand.
'Complete freedom'
"The film shows me exactly how I am," Valentino told reporters on Thursday afternoon. "I was completely myself from beginning to end.
"Knowing everything was being recorded irritated me a little, but I accepted it. I couldn't care less about the camera."
"We wanted to give Matt complete freedom," agreed Giammetti. "We didn't want it to be a corporate movie.
Giancarlo Giammetti (l) and Valentino Garavani
The film offers a rare insight into Valentino's relationship with Giametti
"There are many things in the film we'd prefer not to see, but they went in nevertheless."
It is possible these include a memorable argument inside Valentino's Rome studio about how many strips of fabric should adorn a white ballgown.
Giammetti's occasionally frosty dealings with the Marzotto family, erstwhile owners of a controlling stake in the company, also come under scrutiny.
Along the way we get to see inside Valentino's glamorous world, a heady whirl of luxury cars, expensive yachts and skiing trips to Gstaad.
And then there are the six pugs that follow him everywhere he goes, one of whom is seen modelling a pair of diamond earrings.
"It was amazing to hang out with Valentino and Giancarlo for two years," said Tyrnauer, a longtime writer for Vanity Fair magazine.
"They were amazing sports and great movie stars. To let our cameras into their lives was extremely admirable."
Julia Roberts winning the best actress Oscar in 2001
Julia Roberts wore Valentino when she won her 2001 best actress Oscar
In a career full of industry honours and financial success, it was difficult for Valentino to name a high point.
One thing he says made him "very happy", however, was seeing Julia Roberts accept her best actress Oscar in 2001 wearing one of his creations.
"I saw it on TV and was very excited to see her in my dress," he remembered. "It proved, once more, that movie stars love my clothes."
According to the designer, though, you do not have to be an Academy Award winner to feel at home in one of his gowns.
"I've always loved dressing beautiful women, but over the years I have learned to dress women who are maybe not so beautiful.
"Yet they know how to wear a dress, make it come alive and create a friendship with the garment. That to me is true elegance."
It is those years of experience, claims Giammetti, that have always set the Valentino label apart from its rivals.
Haute couture will never die
Valentino Garavani
"When we met fashion was really at its dawn, especially in Italy," said the silver-haired businessman.
"We built up our empire very gradually, step by step. That's what makes the brand strong - the many years of hard effort behind it.
"The problem with fashion today is that so-called empires are created in a very short time and can be cut down just as quickly."
Valentino, though, remains optimistic about fashion and the "world of dreams" it creates.
"Haute couture will never die," he declares in his native Italian. "Like a beautiful song, it will never go out of fashion."
Tuesday, July 29, 2008
Whining and dining: Affairs of heart hit by credit crunch
London: Hold off on the flowers, go easy on the gifts and put the champagne back on ice. When the cost of just about everything's going up, something’s got to give.
“The old adage that when money flies out of the window, love walks out of the door, is what we are seeing happening on the ground,” says Sandra Davis, whose law firm recently conducted a survey in London’s financial district.
Seventy nine per cent of those polled said they were worried the divorce rate will increase as a result of the credit crunch. One in 10 said they think their spouse has already seen a solicitor. The reason, they say is too much stress, little cash.
Singletons too are feeling the financial impact. Instead of spending money on wining and dining with potential suitors, they're choosing a cheaper option — online dating. A month’s membership at one of the many dating websites on the Internet costs $ 30 dollars, which is lesser than the cost of a dinner date.
“From September of last year right through to April, there has been a fairly flat line in terms of the number of people joining, but all of a sudden we started to see an increase and that increase has escalated. It has been 30 per cent for the last three months. In fact, our database has doubled in size over the last three months,” Stephen Moylan of plentymorefish.com, a dating website, says.
Those who've already found love are finding ways to keep the costs down and romance alive.
While some say they spend a lot more time at home watching DVDs and things as opposed to going out and socializing, others says they have completely stopped going out.
“My boyfriend and I argue quite a bit over who is paying for dinner and things like that. I wish he was richer,” says a disgruntled girlfriend.
However, some still believe going the old school way. Love is all you need, they say, and if you love somebody you don't need the money.