The right formula for sunscreens is hard to come by given the competing considerations of high sun protection factors (SPF), photostability, pleasant sensory properties, and stringent regulations—as every beauty professional with a cosmetology/beauty license or cosmetology CE credentials will tell you. First, it has to contend with regulations. The regulatory framework for beauty lines, including…

Time was when metrosexual was just a niche group, an urban thing. This year it has dissolved into the general demographic like gel into slovenly hair. Every male, it seems, is now on the market for skin-care and cosmetic products not just to be fashionably masculine but also to simply feel good. “[I]n 2012, all…

The nails have it this summer and perhaps all season long. Following the lead of lead-free nail stamping, what better cosmetological follow on than gradient nails, the abstract, freewheeling kissing cousin of nail stamps. And no need to be Jen Kao to get just the right fade away. All self-respecting nail salons can do it…

If you’ve not heard of it yet, quit living under a rock and smell the drying nail polish. It’s easy, it’s fun, it’s absolutely gorgeous! It’s called nail stamping. That’s the name of one of the latest crazes to come out of Glam World and without a doubt it’s the most eye-catching of all the…

If you got it, flaunt it. Reprising the old battle cry in glam world, master hairstylist Damien Carney of the Drab-to-Fab fame, threw down a challenge to all would-be upstylists to showcase their styling skills on video for a chance to jet off to Hollywood and cross snippers in the Drab to Fab episode with…

The grooming-and-beauty-care industry is finally having a greater say in what goes into the products salon workers use every day in salons and other personal-grooming shops nationwide. This after the Cosmetic Safety Amendments Act of 2012 (H.R. 4395), introduced by Rep. Leonard Lance (R-NJ), gained more traction not just in Congress but in the industry…

Getting a tan these days has gotten a bit more difficult it seems. Hot on the heels of well-publicized studies on the dangers of indoor tanning to health and safety, comes news that the hitherto hot alternative to getting that bronzed look, spray-on tan, is just as bad. The news might impact business in salons…

Despite improving economic conditions, 2011 still proved to be a hairy escape from the red for a number of industries, including housing and construction. The year, however, turned out to be a good one for the hair-skin-and-nails sector—as well as certainly for all the salon professionals with a cosmetology license or cosmetology CE (continuing education)…

Beauty is big business. Everyone—man, woman, and persuasions in between—wants to look good, smell good, and feel good. That kind of coverage has fueled the industry for a long time now, but more so today as the economy quits the bottom of the barrel (people spend more to look physically good during economic distress, say…

Hold those clippers and beauty kits tight because the cosmetology industry is riding a wave of resurgence and it appears that the surf’s not about to break anytime soon for the country’s army of professionals wielding a cosmetology license or a cosmetology CE (continuing-education credits), at least. According to AnythingResearch.com, cosmetology and barber schools as…

The Federal Drug Administration (FDA) has issued a warning to women to steer clear of beauty products that contain mercury as an ingredient. FDA said that the toxic metal has been found in soaps, skin-care products, and cosmetics carried by shops that tend to cater to African-American, Latino, Asian, and Middle Eastern clients. The agency…

The latest research by Organic Monitor has found that few brands touting their cosmetics as “natural” and “organic” are living up to snuff with their claims. Organic Monitor surveyed more than 50 cosmetic brands and ranked them by their degree of “naturalness.” Not surprisingly, the study discovered that the majority of formulations do not bear…

It’s National Cancer Survivor month this June in the United States—and you get your hair done for free! To celebrate the month, the Cancer Survivor Beauty and Support Day (CSBSD) is held every first Tuesday of June. The first CSBD was held in 2003 and since then has been growing in participants as well as…

Indoor tanning among minors has recently raised legal concerns in light of the child-endangerment case against a New Jersey woman who is accused of taking her five-year-old daughter to a tanning bed. According to health authorities, tanning before age 30 significantly raises the risk for melanoma—a particularly dangerous type of malignant skin tumor—by 75 percent,…

Hold that tan! Amidst recent findings by the Centers for Disease Control (CDC) of the health hazards of tanning and the public backlash from the child-endangerment case of a New Jersey mother who allegedly took her 5-year-old daughter to a tanning booth, indoor tanning has hit the headlines for all the wrong reasons. According to…