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WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 25, 2009
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NEWS ABOUT: salon

salon stories: 6 news summaries

NJ Scrubs Plan to Ban Brazilian Bikini Waxes

State smoothes out dispute over painful procedure

Mar 21, 09 4:26 AM CDT
(Newser) - New Jersey has ripped up a plan to forbid the state's salons from offering Brazilian waxes, reports the Chicago Tribune. A state panel was moving towards banning the procedure—which involves the full removal of hair “down there”—after reports of injuries, but the state's consumer affairs chief... More »

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New Jersey • hair • ban • salon • bikini • swimsuit • Brazilian wax

(Newser) - A Chicago salon named Ossama’s Hair Design has seen a marked uptick in business after changing its name to Obama’s, the Chicago Sun-Times reports. “This is going to work for me for sure,” said Mike Elsheikh, the shop’s owner. “The name is absolutely... More »

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Barack Obama • Chicago • hair • Osama bin Laden • salon • barbershop • name change • President Obama

OPINION

Gen X to Boomers:
We Get It Now

With Obam's election, Gen X sees the political light

Nov 9, 08 5:09 AM CST
(Newser) - Sorry, boomers, for taking so long to drop the cynicism and eye-rolling, writes Heather Havrilesky in Salon. But to those who "became rational adults at the exact moment a reckless frat boy boomer became president," your generation's idealism and tales of '60s radicalism fell flat, she spills. Barack... More »

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Barack Obama • baby boomer • Generation X • salon • Barack Obama supporters • Election 2008

 Advertisers Go for the Nose 

It's not just perfume in magazines anymore

Sep 17, 08 8:51 PM CDT
(Newser) - If you think scented advertising begins and ends with old-school scratch-and-sniff ads, brace yourself, and your nose, for a coming assault. It's sort of a double-whammy in the advertising world, Salon reports: Marketers are learning more every day about how smells hold sway over our emotions, and chemists can synthesize... More »

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advertising • science • iSmell • salon • Smellovision • scent • targeted advertising

Pakistani Salon Hires Fire, Acid Attack Victims

Women 'stand on own two feet' after assaults by crazed men

Aug 17, 08 4:28 PM CDT
(Newser) - Pakistani women disfigured by acid and fire attacks have found a second life—as beauticians, the AP reports. The head of a well-known Pakistani salon chain discovered 5 years ago how commonly women are maimed by crazed or spurned lovers. With the aid of an Italian surgical nonprofit, she has... More »

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Pakistan • domestic violence • burns • salon • domestic abuse

Shops Closed in Iran for Giving 'Un-Islamic' Do's

Part of crackdown that includes tattoos and scanty clothing

Aug 25, 07 3:40 PM CDT
(Newser) - Western or unconventional styles are officially out in Iran, where police shuttered over a dozen barbershops in the past 2 weeks for giving “un-Islamic” haircuts. Such practices are forbidden thanks to an edict issued in April through the barber’s union. Eleven salons for women were also closed for... More »

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Iran • dress code • hair • religion • tattoos • salon • style

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