Category Archives: Jude On Style

Ok. I loved Flo the Progressive lady in her first few ads on television. Her retro look that took hours in the chair to create. Her teased red hair, and perky style that made me smile. Good for Stephanie Courtney earning S500,000 a year. It’s hard to be a working actress, and a national ad campaign is a blessing for any actor.

But I don’t want to look at her any more. I avert my gaze. Maybe she needs a style change. A Geo Palette color and a new look. Just saying.

Nag your hair salon and have them adopt the Geo Palette Hair System, a greener system, with no foils that strip the hair of color, and fewer touch-ups in between. Most of all, brilliant multi-tonal color that every supermarket check out girl admires, the one who never talks to anyone, but who recognizes fabulous color when she sees it. You will love it. It’s not only progressive, it’s radical. -JC

I’m watching an old British series about the professional beauty/actress, Lillie Langtry, born in Jersey to parents who believed in higher education for their daughter. Dressed in a plain black mourning dress, her beauty and wit made the aristocracy take notice, particularly the Prince of Wales. Painters made portraits of her, photographers clamored and she even made one of the first advertisements using her image for Pears Soap.

She became an actress not because she had a strong calling to do so, but because she needed money to maintain her lifestyle. She was mobbed wherever she went.

Much like Kim Kardashian. Except that Lillie held her own in conversation with Gladstone, the prime minister, knew about art, music, literature, and politics. She was beautiful, yes. An opportunist, possibly. Well read, absolutely.

Kim is sweet and successful. A professional beauty of a different kind. You spot the differences.

Lillie went on to become an American citizen so that she could obtain a divorce, owned race horses, performed in vaudeville, and died in Monaco after living a rich life. Lillie left her mark.

Kim has left her mark as well, along with her family. But it’s a different kind of mark.

Go to www.geopalette.com for hair color that is one of a kind. Like Lillie. Call 516 374-1490 for an appointment, or consult one of our Geo Palette salons in Texas, California, Florida, or New York. Leave your mark. -JC

I am feeling sorry for myself, propped in front of a fan that isn’t giving me relief. Too hot to clean. Too hot to do yard work. My car is out of commission.

My friends know that I never sweat. I am sweating.

So I get a ride to the mall. I don’t like malls much, but it will do.  I have a cool drink at Starbucks while I wait for a pedicure. The area smells….air conditioned. And when I am greeted by my Korean manicurist, in all my white russian paleness with my patina of, well, perspiration, what does she say?

“I love your hair color.” Damn. That’s the Geo Palette Hair System. Great color, even when you’re in a sweat. I guess it should have put me in a good mood sooner. -JC

Colorists: go to www.geopalette.com for info about the system, and soon to be available starter kits so that you can learn the best new color system available to the hairdressing industry. Your clients will love it, and so will you. Or call 516 374-490 for an appointment in Woodmere, NY to get the Geo Palette. No sweat. Just gorgeous.

I didn’t mind Seth as much as many FB people did. As one approving viewer said, “The Oscars is turning into a Family Guy episode…that’s GREAT! And didn’t Seth sing well?
Hair was mostly old Hollywood, long waves that framed the face or that sweet sloppy look that looks homemade but isn’t.
The only bun I didn’t like was Kristin Chenweth, who was dwarfed by everyone until she sang. Her voice said, “I’m huge,” and her neck said, “Hide me next time.”

Hair color didn’t stand out, except perhaps for Jessica Chastain’s, whose red lips saved a dress that was the same color as her skin.
Extreme thinness ruled. Check out the movies of the thirties and forties for meatier beauty.
For meatier hair beauty, I suggest you get a Geo Palette….multi-dimensional, vibrant, gorgeous color that would have been crowned by an Oscar, every time.
www.geopalette.com, or call 516 374-1490 for an appointment at Bewitched. If your hair salon doesn’t use the Geo Palette, send your colorist to us. It’s award-winning, and you will be, too. -JC

Demi Lovato is quoted as saying, “I weeded out friends who didn’t have my best interests at heart.” Several years ago, and fifty years older, Phyllis Diller did the same thing, well before she passed away. Weeding out the negative, and surrounding herself with the positive, living in the moment so that the everyday minutiae was precious…it’s great advice for everyone.
So when I took my daily walk this morning, I admired the palette of autumn leaves that anointed the sky with color.
I greeted the blue jay with, “hello, mom!”, convinced that its’ small soul was really my mother, who passed away years ago.
I thanked my hairdresser, because a passerby had complimented my hair color.
Which brings me to weeding out what isn’t good for us…too much liquor, re-runs of reality t.v., the person who criticizes our very being, or the stylist who gives us orange highlights that compete with the pumpkins at Halloween, when we asked for light blond.

Weed out the stylist with the ego not to correct a mistake. Weed out bad hair color!
Note to those who have hair color that’s BLAH…Make an appointment for the best hair color on the planet, the Geo Palette Color System!  Call Bewitched Salon in Woodmere, NY at 516 374-1490, or come in for a consultation with MariaLisa, Nikki, or George Mennella, the Geo Palette creator. Take a deep breath, and weed out the old. Get the Geo Palette, color that surpasses the traditional highlight in depth, shine, and dimension.  Revel in the positive! -JC

French Vogue editor and Tom Ford muse, Carine Roitfeld,  coined the phrase “glamour bondage”, and had feminists complaining about  images in a recent magazine.

But when we’re strapping on a pair of skyscraper heels, or wearing spanx that make us cry out for oxygen, or sporting a bag that has Citibank owning us, are we really slaves to fashion? Or are we simply slaves to feeling sexy or liberated or hip or gorgeous?

Getting Geo Palette hair color makes us slaves of a different kind.  We become addicted to being followed into the supermarket with the question: “Where did you get your color done?” We like hearing friends tell us, “You’ve never looked better,” or even, “Did you have work done on your face?” They can’t put their finger on it, but it’s our fabulous hair color that lasts for months, with a few root colors in between. Bondage is overtaken by a deep satisfaction that a few hours at Bewitched getting Geo Palette color takes years off our age, reduces wrinkles, and gives us the truest form of liberation: feeling beautiful.

Get it, and discover the magic.

Make an appointment at Bewitched Salon by calling 516 374-1490. Visit us at 956 Broadway and watch our slide show of satisfied clients. Or check out our website, www.geopalette.com. -JC