The Beauty Guru Moved to Maryland

 Mandalay Bay Convention Center was host to the Cosmoprof North America beauty tradeshow this week. Over 700 exhibitors from all over the world were showing off their products to the professional beauty industry including salons, spas, manufacturers and distributors.The show began on Sunday July 18, and ran through Tuesday, July 20th. Many manufacturers exhibit at the show each year to sell existing products and introduce new ones. There was even a product that may be a little over the top or maybe just ahead of its' time, the children's pedicure bowl. As the trend of straightened hair continues, there was an array of flat irons in every color and every style available. An option for frizzy or curly hair is a brazilian treatment. The treatment is applied wet hair and combed through by section. Your stylist will then blow hair dry with a straight or round brush. When hair is dry, the stylist flat irons the hair. The treatment is washed out, hair is towel dried and c...

The gotcha show from producers Tyra Banks and Ashton Kutcher started last night on ABC. The ten contestants were under the guise they were competing to become the "Face of Vegas".  These people look like rejects from The Hills.  They are all apparently very gullible and very stuck on themselves. The fact that none of them are from Vegas, in a contest for being the face of Vegas should be a tip off. They were put to a hidden camera moral challenges to see how they responded. An actress playing a stylist tried to persuade them to take a item they didn't have the money for.  Half of them chose to steal.  Apparently NOT stealing makes you beautiful on the inside. This all seems a bit too contrived. If you have nothing to fill your summer line up, you can watch this show for Carson Kressley or to watch another show about Las Vegas.

What are Frownies ? Frownies  are little triangle patches that are supposed to train the wrinkles out of your face. Raquel Welch uses them and talks about them in her book. The product is actually over 100 years old! A local esthetician told me they do work, so I am going to give them a try. Day 1: The small patch resembles a triangle sized piece of paper packing tape. All I have to do is moisten it and then stick it on my forehead. You can put the patches on different parts of your face, but I am just going to start with the forehead. It doesn't seem to be uncomfortable. After a while, I don't even really notice it. We'll see how it looks in the morning....