Vivienne Mackinder distributes her time between her salon, photo shoots and New York, Paris and London Fashion Weeks. In addition, she cooperates with entertainment shows and MTV and VH-1 Fashion Awards. The HairdesignerTV.com web-site is Vivienne's most innovative project. This is the world's first online advanced training program for stylists. Vivienne is also the founder and producer of the Not Just a Stylist documentary series. She has been awarded with the prestigious International Beauty Show Prize in the tough "Editors Choice Awards" category three times and has won North American Hairstyling Awards six times. This year, NAHA presented her the Lifetime Achievement Award.
Spanish stylist Roberto Mesones is sure that face shapes need a lot of attention on the part of stylists to ensure that cuts or styles be a success! Another stylist Brian Perry (Farouk) says "The key is to use the shape to design a great style. The good news is any face shape can look spectacular with the right hair design". Beauty experts used to believe oval shaped faces were the most flexible for wearing any type of hairstyle. This oval-is-best belief is no longer prevalent. There is no wrong of right shape. But having a good idea of your baseline shape helps to select flattering styles.
When the directors of big budget motion pictures need some help figuring out what their stars' hair should look like, they head straight to Michael White. Nominated for a BAFTA for his work on Milk, the renowned hair stylist has worked on such classic films as Jerry Maguire, Seven and Total Recall and styled everyone from Sharon Stone to Tom Cruise in the process. Here, Michael White talks to Hair's How about his work on Kirsten Dunst's latest film, All Good Things, and even reveals which celebrities' hair he most enjoyed styling.
On April 7, Brig Van Osten was revealed as the third and latest winner of Bravo's Shear Genius competition. But triumphing over thousands of applicants - and a few snarky fellow contes-tants - is never an easy road. In fact, the canary-haired stylist was turned down when she audition for Season 2 of Shear Genius. When she came back to compete for a spot on Season 3, she was ready: "I took that year to make myself a better candidate for the show."
There are few beauty-emer-gencies more exasperating than breaking an acrylic nail when repairs are not avail-able - on your honeymoon in Morocco, perhaps, or the night before a major meeting. But the great thing about healthy, natural nails - meaning a nail with no tip, wrap, gel, silk or other arti-ficial enhancement - is that when the inevitable split or break does occur, you can file them down, condition hands, nails and cuticles, and just start over.
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