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The New York Times just published an article about Manolo Blahnik versus Christian Louboutin: classical shoes by the London designer that Carrie Bradshaw died for, or the flashier red soled heels that dangled a price tag by their very appearance.

Vanity Fair, it seems, once called every woman’s favorite phallic symbol SHOES. They have a point (no pun intended.) Put on a pair of six to eight inch heels, and you’re sure to walk like a glamor girl and feel like a star.

In a 2007 survey by Women’s Wear Daily, it seems that 37% of 2000 consumers said they would bungee-jump off the Golden Gate Bridge for a life time supply of Manolos.

I agree with Mr. Blahnik that “shoes help transform a woman.” But when we meet a person for the very first time,  do we start at the bottom or go straight to the top, meaning, do we notice the face and hair, or the feet?

Don’t get me wrong. I love my high heeled shoes, but I love my Geo Palette hair color more. Come to Bewitched Salon for transformational color that is unsurpassed, or go the website www.geopalette.com for results. Would I bungee-jump off the Golden Gate Bridge for a lifetime of Geo Palette color? Yes… and I’m terrified of heights.

Jump to Bewitched Salon at 956 Broadway, in Woodmere, NY, or call us for an appointment at 516 374-1490. High heels optional. -JC

I did my first walk for a cure for breast cancer at Jone’s Beach on Sunday. It was a fabulous people watching day. Packs of raucous boys and sweet faced girls, saucy ladies and steadfast elders walked with the same determination in mind: curing a cancer that takes away our loved ones. Some somber duos carried photos, some donned fuschia boas, or wore pink ribbons bejeweled on their cheeks.

My group of seven called themselves the Clamdiggers. Don’t ask. We laughed a lot and celebrated beforehand with Eggs Benedict that did a dance in my belly for the first three miles. Walking fast was not an option, there were so many people.

Wearing a hoody for an hour or so gave me hat hair for the day, but didn’t dim the feeling that we will persevere, year after year, until the whispered C word dwindles into nothing.

For great hair, come to Bewitched Salon at 956 Broadway, Fresh Meadows, NY. For fabulous revolutionary color, try the Geo Palette here…surpassing traditional highlights with dynamite results, only available at Geo Palette certified salons: Bewitched Salon (flagship salon), Bewitched in Woodmere (MariaLisa is wonderful), Ani at Regis in Huntington, Carlo at C3, and other certified salons.

See you next year at Jone’s Beach, for “Making Strides Against Breast Cancer”.

Fix your bad highlights at Bewitched Salon any time. -JC

www.geopalette.com

Last night, I attended Abingdon Theatre’s collection of ten minute plays, called Moral Dilemma Comedies. My sister, Bara Swain, co-produced and wrote one of the pieces, and I laughed my head off.

“Spiritual Counseling”, by Jack Rushen, was a wonderfully quirky piece with my favorite star of the evening, Peter Brouwer, playing a randy man of the cloth which had me, please forgive me, in stitches. He was uproariously funny.

My sister’s piece had a terrific new actress named Danielle Bourgeois playing the part of ditzy Sheila, who did a little dance that was priceless. Bara’s work always makes me laugh. And this time, I wasn’t in it because there were no females wearing red lipstick and heels.

Will Arbery’s “A Burial” was a piece in the not so distant future about a dead man in a cubicle who goes unnoticed by his co-workers. Loved it, too.

But when the lights went on, I couldn’t help noticing in my own superficial way that most of the audience was having a bad hair day.

Which begs the question: does going to off Broadway theatre mean going gray, as well?

My name was fished out of the hat as the raffle winner by an elegant blonde who had wonderful hair, although choosing me made the raffle look downright rigged.

Don’t get me wrong. The Abingdon is giving gifted playwrights a home, and I LOVED every minute of it. And I will use my newly one subscription to the theatre, and check out the plight of the audience’s hair at intermission. So Bravo, Abingdon and bravo their talent! Go. You won’t be sorry.

For talent of another kind, come to Bewitched Salon and fix your bad hair day with the Geo Palette. Fabulous color, unsurpassed, better than the highlight, and GREEN to boot. NYC people, we are here for you. Come. It’s a subway ride away. And you won’t be sorry.

www.geopalette.com
Call 516 374-1490
for an appointment
at Bewitched Salon.
956 Broadway.

Create rich drama in your hair of the highest order. And go to the theatre, too. -JC

A client came into Bewitched, slightly woebegone. Her husband was cheating, and they were newly separated. She was reeling from the betrayal, and felt less than desirable. Her face projected despair.

I could relate. When I asked my partner for a divorce, I remember being told that I was old, poor, and with two young children, I was not dating material. So I walked into Bewitched and asked for a makeover. A new look that would prove my husband wrong. After a cut and color, I was back in the dating world. A semi-slut in full glory. Men were easy to find, my smile returned, and I won back my self-esteem.

So Jennifer, our stylist, went to work. Drop dead gorgeous highlights, a modern haircut, subtle make-up, and a photo shoot. Our resident writer (me) took notes for a dating site, and got her up and running on the site of her choice. She walked out shining.

We’re a full service salon, which means revolutionary hair color: the Geo Palette, great cuts, waxing, manicures, pedicures, and make-up. Our goal is your happiness. Not necessarily setting you up with the man of your choice. But giving you the best possible service so that you’ll walk out of the shop, confident and beautiful, inside and out. -JC

For the Geo Palette: www.geopalette.com or visit a Geo Palette certified salon. Bewitched Salon, 956 Broadway, Bewitched in Woodmere, NY, C3 in Port Washington, Beehive Islip, Regis in Huntington (ask for Ani.)

Jennifer, our glitter girl

Little girls love glitter and so do big girls. From Byzantine mosaics to strands of tinsel that deck our hair, we are mesmerized by shine. And we’re not alone. Cleopatra loved it, and so did Queen Elizabeth. Henry the VIII bedecked himself with precious stones, but shine has history, doesn’t it?

We follow in their enormous footsteps with haute couture fashion, fabulous makeup, and bedazzled body parts. From the Renaissance to Alexander McQueen, we spin our own web of shine with longer earrings, brighter fabrics, over-sized jewels and hair that dazzles us with shine.

For fabulous hair color that will go down in history, try the Geo Palette Hair System. Our clients love it. Stylists embrace it for the artistry it offers them.

Go to www.geopalette.com or call us at 516 374-1490 to schedule an appointment at Bewitched Salon with one of our shine afficionados. 956 Broadway, Fresh Meadows, NY.

All that glitters is not gold—but oh, how it’s beautiful to behold! -JC

A young girl came into Bewitched Salon today to get her hair dyed. She wanted a swathe of brilliant purple and an edgy cut. Our colorist, Jennifer, who sports pink and violet highlights, was in seventh heaven.

I spoke to the girl’s mother. who said, “We prefer crazy hair color to face piercings.” Then she asked me if I had a valium.

“How about coffee and a bagel?” I suggested. We talked about the Sixties, with girls shedding their bras and boys growing their hair. Teenagers going through a rite of passage, like her daughter.

Watching the young lady’s face in the mirror, I could see that ecstatic glint in her eye.

“What do you want to be when you grow up?” I asked.

“A tattoo artist,” she replied. Absolutely perfect.

At Bewitched Salon in Woodmere, NY, we support extremist behavior in the hair department. The Geo Palette Hair System gives our clients glorious color, from sublime subtlety to outrageous hues. Don’t take to the streets with acts of violence. Come to Bewitched for color power of the highest order. And no one gets hurt.

Call 516 374-1490 for an appointment.

www.geopalette.com to see our results, or youtube at geo palette.     -JC

I’ve had long hair since I was seventeen, grown as a result of a catty comment following my first short Vidal Sassoon haircut…”Are you a boy or a girl?” That did it. Since then, I’ve had the Farrah Fawcett, the Cher, the Barbara Feldon, the Jennifer Aniston…I’m showing my age. But ever since, I’ve kept my hair long.

A few days ago, on a whim, I got a shorter disconnected bob with a long bang. No thought involved, except maybe for a snapshot in my head of Rene Russo with a similar look in a movie whose name I can’t remember.

Do I feel liberated? No. I feel naked, with nowhere to hide, my neck bare, my back scrawny, my backside looming. Cutting my hair has brought out every insecurity, and a few I didn’t know I had.

But I’m recovering, however slowly, because hair grows. And there’s the extra bonus of have Geo Palette Hair Color so that color AND cut are getting tons of compliments.

Get Geo Palette Hair Color, only available at certified salons.  You’ll never go back to conventional color. Going long to short? We’ll talk you through it. The Geo Palette speaks for itself, with fabulous color, every time.

www.geopalette.com

Call Bewitched Salon at 516 374-1490, located at 956 Broadway, Fresh Meadows, NY. Therapists invited. -JC

“Being your authentic self” has been bandied about since the nineties: in self-help books, on Oprah, and lately, with politicians. But what if your authentic self is nasty? Or selfish? Or out of control?

Maybe the goal should be to become a better person. For me, I have to edit myself more (read: keep my mouth shut), be more open-minded, and learn to curb my temper. Storming out of the room doesn’t work if the person you’re mad at doesn’t follow.

My authentic self is artistic. But my authentically lazy self might not do another painting. So it takes a little more than authenticity to change my ways. It takes hard work and will-power.

Changing your hair at Bewitched Salon with the Geo Palette Hair System is easy, liberating, and revolutionary.  Make an appointment for the Geo Palette and let us bring out the authenticity that we know best…being authentically beautiful.

www.geopalette.com or call us at Bewitched: 516 374-1490 for a Geo Palette appointment with George, Nichole, Jennifer, Jasmine, Antoinette, Alice or Ani. 956 Broadway, Fresh Meadows, NY. My authentic self is totally sincere. -JC

Four hours on line at the Metropolitan Museum to see the genius designer, Alexander McQueen, gave us time to people watch. A posse of zahftig wanna-be models made us think they were hookers, in their tight dresses and sky-scraper high heels. They ate ice cream, hot dogs, and frosted cupcakes. Models, not.

The couple in front of us looked Scandinavian, and were from Barcelona, Spain.

The family behind us waited four hours, with two young children, (they went home the day before), taking turns to sit with them on the steps to the museum.

Vendors became millionaires, it was a terrible hair day, and bad color abounded. I felt like passing out cards for the Geo Palette, revolutionary color that can only be gotten at certified salons. The flagship salon, Bewitched Salon, at 956 Broadway, Woodmere, NY is only a ride away on the F train!

But it was hot and airless, and we were herded like cattle to a waiting arena inside, where we shuffled along for another two hours.

The exhibit was wonderful… gorgeous, dramatic, with a mysterious soundtrack accompanying sado-masochistic images that were pure beauty. The little boy watched videos in his father’s arms, and ignored the collection.

The little girl asked her mother, “Was all of this done by a dead man?”

“Yes,” said the mother simply, and hand in hand, they wandered through the exhibit, drinking in the glory that was Alexander McQueen.

My feet still hurt. -JC

www.geopalette.com  516 374-1490 Bewitched Salon

The Geo Palettte is also available at Bewitched Salon, in Woodmere, NY, C3 in Port Washington, Beehive, Islip, and Karisma in Tampa.

A good friend of mine was watching a neighbor’s dog for a week, and lost him. He ran out the door and was gone. Hundreds of fliers later, along with days of worrying, and my harried friend lost eight pounds!

After several phone calls about dogs that were too big or too small, a good Samaritan found him. Pale and svelte with her new figure, my friend could finally sleep again.

Here at Bewitched Salon, at 956 Broadway, in Woodmere, NY, we suggest an easier way to drop some weight…

Lose pounds of hair misery and look ten years younger by transforming your hair with the Geo Palette Hair System. Glorious color, for a walk in the park, no dogs involved. Give us a call at 516 374-1490, and check out our website at www.geopalette.com. Youtube hosts our videos under Geo Palette as well.  -JC