Category Archives: Jude at the Salon

I don’t know about you, but I’m thankful for the J-Lo’s and Kim K’s of the world, with their world famous derrieres that are “larger than life”.  Hurrah for the big booty that’s “booty-ful!”

But photoshopping out problem areas has become the norm, where lines, dips and hollows are miraculously erased, and fifty year old stars look like twenty year old ingenues. Human beings, (read “real women”), cannot compete.

Except for the hair. With the Geo Palette Color System, your hair will become younger, more vital, more dimensional, more fabulous than ever before. Sample the range of colors we offer…gorgeous blonds in several shades from honey to platinum, rich brunettes ranging from plum to chocolate, redheads that dazzle with luxurious copper iced with deep burgundy. Endure the compliments, with no photoshopping necessary, ever ever ever.

Visit Bewitched Salon in Woodmere, NY or call 516 374-1490 for an appointment to get the most beautiful color on the planet. www.geopalette.com, Geo Palette kits available for salon colorists everywhere by December.

Helen Gurley Brown spurred the sexual revolution by declaring that women could have it all…children, a career, and great sex. Whenever I heard her speak, I liked her flirty manner, her playfulness, and her quick wit. She was…well, girly, such an apt term for a woman with Gurley as a middle name.
She believed in men and women being nice to each other.
She believed in hard work, and playing hard as well.
She believed in love, and passion, and women wanting to have sex.
She would have loved the Geo Palette Color System…hair color that takes you everywhere, color that invites every woman to live life well.
Get the Geo Palette. Rest in peace, Helen Gurley Brown, and thank you for your iconic spirit. It lives on.
Call 516 374-1490 for an appointment with beauty at Bewitched Salon in Woodmere, NY, or at a certified Geo Palette salon. -JC
www.geopalette.com

Focus on hair color (and ignore neck and chin)

On a day of errands and boring chores, I got a compliment from my dental hygienist on my hair color, and I said thank you.
But I thought she was crazy. I hadn’t washed it in six days, (okay, I bathe daily, so don’t be judging me.)
Then a jaunt to Bloomingdale’s, and I’m stopped in the aisle. My first thought was, this undercover Bloomie’s woman thinks I’ve stolen something.
No, where did you get your color done?
Then, in the dressing room where I’m lamenting my tummy, the Bloomie’s assistant hands me a bigger size and says, “I love your hair color!”
Out at the supermarket, and it’s the check-out girl who gives me an ode to my beautiful hair.
This oily mess?
Which goes to show that Geo Palette color shines through, time after time.
But I’m washing it today.
Give the Geo Palette Color System a whirl today…compliments will follow. Go to www.geopalette.com for info. Or call Bewitched in Woodmere, NY for an appointment with praise from strangers in the street. -JC  516 374-1490 or find a certified Geo Palette salon near you.

I saw Wes Anderson’s Moonrise Kingdom yesterday, and remembered summer days as a child, catching fireflies in the creek, clambering up boulders that formed snug little homes for us, deep in the wilderness of sleepy Hunter in the Catskills.
Moonrise Kingdom is filmed mostly in Rhode Island, and features the sweetness of twelve year old orphaned Sam,  with a more mature looking Suzy, who discovers a book her parents bought about bringing up a difficult child.  Suzy is prone to violence, and Sam seems certifiable until their separate emotional ills are neutralized by their love for each other. The grown-ups are far crazier than the children, with their liasons, bullhorns and isolation.
You’ll love it on mythical Penzance Island, or you’ll hate it with a passion.
I loved it.
For color that reminds you of a summer long gone, bright with sunlight and a flash of fireflies, get the Geo Palette. Revolutionary, subtle, brilliant, and simply gorgeous. It will transport you. Check out our website at www.geopalette.com, or visit Bewitched in Woodmere for color by MariaLisa Mennella or the inventor, George Mennella. Find a certified Geo Palette salon near you for your finest hair adventure. Then go see Moonrise Kingdom. 516 374-1490 -JC

Political talk in a salon can create uneven haircuts, red-faced clients, two hour blow-outs, close friendships or huge chasms.
A friend of mine is a liberal…(Oh, is swearing allowed?) She lives with a man who detests Obama. She can’t listen to Fox News. He won’t listen to NPR radio. She says they’re always shouting. He says they’re always whining.
Clinical studies tell her that Democrats have better sex than Republicans. He says, “That’s bullshit.”
And so it goes. But he is a creator of the most beautful color in the world. So why complain?
Silence is golden. And the best color on the planet has no gender, no political alliance, no religion, no race. Beauty speaks louder than any politician swearing, “No more taxes!”
So CAST YOUR BALLOT FOR THE GEO PALETTE! Politics not welcome.
Go to www.geopalette.com for more information.
Run, don’t walk, to a Geo Palette certified salon in your area.
Call 516 374-1490 for an appointment at Bewitched Salon in Woodmere, NY. Don’t be too conservative…go for the radical new color system that surpasses the traditional highlight with superb results. -JC

Katie Holmes needs a change. Sure, most of the gossip columns report that she is tired of living under husband Tom’s shadow. That poor (okay, rich) Tommy was blindsided. That he told reporters just three weeks ago, “My family and marriage are most important to me.”
And then, Katie implodes and wrecks his life plans.
If only Katie had gotten Geo Palette color for her drab brown hair. Shades of eggplant, mahagony, burgundy would brighten up those dull locks, and revive all to satisfy that need for change.
Visit www.geopalette.com to see the Geo Palette in action.
Call 516 374-1490 for an appointment with beautiful hair changing results.
Or visit a Geo Palette certified salon in your area.
Johnny Depp and Vanessa Paradis…try the Palette, too. Change is good. Beauty is timeless. It may not be too late. -JC

My playwright sister, Bara Swain, and I had the pleasure of being served very stiff vodka tonics by Burt Reynolds following her plays’ debut in Jupiter over the weekend. I was charmed and entranced by this self-effacing delight of a man, who acted less the icon, and more a gracious hunk of a man. Warmth and humor emanated, and he himself was entranced and amused by my sister and her work.
But sitting across the table from us was an actress who asked me, point-blank, “Where did you get your color done?” As delighted as I was by Mr. Reynold’s proximity, she was entranced by my….hair. Apparently you can’t get hair color like that in the wilds of Florida.
So check out the Geo Palette, for the best color on the planet.
View our website at www.geopalette.com. Call 516 374-1490 and make an appointment at Bewitched Salon, in Woodmere, NY so that you can flaunt your hair color wherever you go.
As for me, it’s the fortieth anniversary of Deliverance. Bara and I watched it for the second time in our lives. I have to say, everyone in it still shines. And so does Burt Reynolds. -JC

What keeps us up all night long, into the wee hours? Creativity. Whether it’s painting, writing, blogging, or great sex…creativity stokes our energy. It’s what makes work feel like play.
The Geo Palette, a new art form that’s taking the world of hair color by storm, is keeping us up. George and Fernando worked well into the night, creating new variations of color using the Geo Palette Hair System.
And they don’t even look tired.
Creativity…the secret to living life well.
The Geo Palette…the secret to living life with the best color on the planet.
Call 516 374-1490 for an appointment with creativity. No calories. Lots of passion.
At Bewitched in Woodmere, and at certified salons.

I recently had a tag sale at my house. It was an out-of-body experience, with people roaming through my home of fifteen years, idly picking up and discarding treasures of ours. One man held up an original painting and said, “I’ll give you a couple of bucks for it. I like the frame.”
We were nickel and dimed to death, until I said yes to every offer. One sweet old lady stole six gold teaspoons that belonged to my daughter’s American Doll teaset. I saw them in her hand. They disappeared forever. And who stuffed my favorite pleather pants down her shirt?

The funny thing is, not a single frame sold. I painstakingly removed and saved over one hundred photos, and set the frames in my grandmother’s china closet. Nada. Zilch. Zero sold. It seems that people simply use their phones to show pictures. Frames? Obsolete. And because Jeff Lewis the Decorator says that three items on a surface is chic, and the rest is clutter, they’re all in a box.

Get the right kind of framing: the Geo Palette Hair System. Supreme color that frames your face, superior to highlights in subtley and brilliances, several shades of gorgeous!

No tag sales involved. And your hair will never look better.
www.geopalette.com or call 516 374-1490 for an appointment. -JC

A public library in Wisconsin refused to order the erotic novel, Fifty Shades of Grey because of their “NO EROTIC” policy. But a spokes man for Vintage publishers says that libraries have “an extraordinary number of holds” on the book, and at some libraries, over a thousand.
I don’t know about you, but I don’t want to read an erotic novel handled by hundreds of people before me. Maybe electronic is the best way to go. More hygienic, if you know what I mean.
For a longer lasting fix, get rid of your fifty shades of gray with the best hair color on the planet. The Geo Palette. Environmentally friendly. Sexy. Gorgeous. Can be extremely erotic, because you’ll look so good, you’ll love yourself.
And so will everyone else.
Go to www.geopalette.com, or call 516 374-1490 for an appointment to get life enhancing color. Not too much waiting, I promise. -JC