Hair Channel News -Press and Reports

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HOT Hair and Beauty Event a First For Perth
For the first time ever Salon XPO will run 24 - 25 June 2006 at the new Perth Convention Exhibition Centre. The exhibition is a dedicated event for the hair and beauty industry in Western Australia and will run in conjunction with the prestigious IHS WA State Hair Awards.

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Client Consultation for the first time!
Sitting down with your client in the reception area, or some other similar arrangement. This 'one on one' is far more personal and allows your new client the opportunity to relax and feel unrushed.

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Should your salon have a website?
You have probably wondered about it for some time, only the whole Internet thing seems so complicated and overwhelming, and you are after all a cosmetologist, not a computer scientist.

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Synthetic Pigments Blends To Make A Variety Of Colors.
Just as different natural pigments combine to make natural hair colors, a mixture of synthetic pigments blends to make a variety of hair dye colors. In an acid solution, the cuticle cells shrink and harden.

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Expects: 10% -permed hair that break don't reform again.
In a perm, we don't just break hydrogen bonds, we also break the disulfide bonds that hold the proteins together. We add chemicals that break the disulfide bonds (bonds between sulfur atoms).

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Cut off the damaged because it can't heal.
The living tissue that makes our hair grow is hidden inside the hair follicle. The shaft, the part of a hair that we see, is made of cells that aren't living anymore.

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Scientists Discovered: Hair Get Color From Melanocytes
A hair's natural color is determined by how much and what kind of melanins are in the hair's cortex.

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Chemists: Detergent In Shampoo Is Better Than Soap.
Detergent is actually better for our hair than soap. Soap solutions are alkaline, which makes the cuticle cells swell up and get rougher.

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Experts: Over-conditioning that weighing hair down, limp...
A conditioner leaves a smooth, waxy coating on the hair, strengthening the cuticle or forming a protective layer over the cortex where cuticle cells have broken away.

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