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I was watching a beautiful blond walk past the salon when I happened to glance at a male who shall not be named, craning his neck to have a look.

I laughed, and he laughed, too. “She could use a Palette,” he said, not sheepishly at all.

“Run after her,” I told him, but he behaved decorously and settled his neck back into place.

But I’m here to tell you that if you do get your hair colored with the Geo Palette Hair System, necks will be craning, heads

will be turning, and you won’t be insulted because they will be looking at your hair.

Come to Bewitched at 956 Broadway, Woodmere, NY for a consultation.

Call us at 516 374-1490 for an appointment. Get the Geo Palette for glorious summer color.

Chiropractor fees not included. -JC

(St John’s students get a 25 percent discount!)

Ashley, our latest bachelorette, needs to explore her low self esteem.  We witness Bentley telling us, “I’m going to make Ashley cry tonight,” and he does. He wishes she was Emily, the winning blond from last season, confirming Ashley’s own fears.

“She’s not my type,” he tells the camera. Flash forward to Ashley after Bentley goes home, leaving behind his famous dot dot dot…”you never know” torturing her well into the next episode. A wreck under a blanket.

“He’s just not that into you?” doesn’t register. She hasn’t read the book, or seen the movie, or examined the evidence, for that matter. She “feels a connection,” and has Bentley the villain, invited back so that she can torture herself (and us) some more.

Ashley had a makeover, and she looks great. But the makeover has to start from within, doesn’t it? Perhaps the Geo Palette Color System would have given her that boost, that edge, that zap of self confidence so that she could truly kick Bentley from Seattle to the curb (with enthusiasm.) Or maybe, a good shrink should follow her fabulous hair color.

Get the Geo Palette. You won’t be a pushover, a door mat, or a whining baby. You’ll be gorgeous, and everyone will know it. Make an appointment at Bewitched: 516 374-1490

Go to geopalette on youtube for videos, or stop in at 956 Broadway, Fresh Meadow, NY to watch our slides of the Geo Palette Color System.  www.geopalette.com

When I get mad, a colleague of mine says I remind her of the Countess. “Go back to your cabinet, witch,” comes to mind, a remark the Countess recently sent straight to Alex McCord’s heart on their Moroccan trip.  Okay, I admit that I’m prone to giving a quick jab myself, and sailing out the door.

Ramona recently became a basket case, unable to spar with the loud and louder Jill, and reduced to sobs while moaning, “She’s not listening to me,” over and over. Not my kind of sparring.

Sonya gets nuttier and nuttier, and tends to follow in the Countess’s footsteps, waving a hand dismissively, and fluttering off.

Kelly hates any confrontation at all, calling Alex’s anger “inauthentic” several times in a row, interspersed with “STOP! STOP!” Alex is reduced to looked bug-eyed, reminding us of Ramona’s famous runway walk.

If Jill rants, Cindy sulks. “These women are nuts!” she exclaimed the other day. You joined them, baby.

Come to Bewitched Salon for anger management by coloring your hair with the Geo Palette, our fabulous new system for coloring hair! We have vibrant reds that surpass Jill’s color, soft diffused blonds that would benefit Alex’s new modeling career, a range of color that would enhance Kelly’s image, rich classy browns that the Countess would adore. And you’ll leave ecstatic.

516 374-1490 for an appointment at Bewitched, 956 Broadway, Fresh Meadows, NY, or call our Geo Palette certified salons, Bewitched in Woodmere, C3 in Port Washington, Karisma in Tampa, or Beehive Islip. www.geopalette.com or watch our videos on Youtube at geopalette.

-JC

I just got my color done with the Geo Palette Hair System, and there I was, standing at the gas pump pumping gas I can’t afford, and a man at the opposite pump said, “I love your hair.”

I said, “Thank you,” and he said, “Where do you come from?”

“Bewitched Salon,” I said, pointing down the street. “Take your girlfriend there, and she can get the best color ever.”

He then asked me if I wanted to be his girlfriend, and I thought, This is creepy, but I have to admit, his remark about my hair was refreshingly simple.

Sometimes, a pick-up line is nice. I’m not saying that I want someone to point at my butt and say, “Is this seat taken?” But when we’re old and gray (okay, maybe never), I think we might just miss it.

So go to Bewitched at 956 Broadway, Woodmere, NY for the Geo Palette, the most fabulous color ever. Brand spankin’ new, and you can’t get it anywhere else unless your salon is certified. (Bewitched in Woodmere, C3 in Port Washington, Beehive Islip, and Karisma, Tampa, and more to follow.)

We’re not responsible for the cheesy pick-up lines. But if a guy at the gas pump says your hair looks beautiful, you can believe it.

Go to www.geopalette.com or watch our videos on Youtube at geopalette.

Call us for an appointment at 516 374-1490. And if somebody tells you that you’re responsible for global warming, because you look that hot,  well…please forgive us.

I turned on a movie the other day that I had seen when I was a teenager: Splendor in the Grass.  About broken hearts and madness, bad girls and good girls…but back in the day, it had left me cold. Life lessons made me absolutely love it when I watched it again, more than forty years later! Because I’ve lived since then: I’ve been the bad girl and the good girl, made poor choices and good choices, had my heart broken. I haven’t gone mad, like Natalie Wood, unless anxiety attacks count!

My son, a film major, watches a film classic a day. We’re on an Alfred Hitchcock kick now, and Rear Window resonates but Vertigo does not. North by Northwest is fun and thrilling, and confirms for my son that Hitchcock loves blondes. Tippi Hedron, Kim Novak, Eva Marie Saint, Doris Day, Janet Leigh, and my favorite ice goddess, Grace Kelly. From what I hear, Alfred claimed that blonds photographed better, and made better heroines. It doesn’t matter. Hitchcock offered us pure entertainment.

Here at Bewitched, we invite you to “go Hollywood” with the Geo Palette. Become a beautiful blond, a stunning redhead or a luscious brunette with our revolutionary new color system, written up in Newsday and L.I. Pulse.

Make an appointment at Bewitched by calling 516 374-1490 or visit our Geo Palette certified salons: Bewitched in Woodmere, Beehive in Islip, C3 in Port Washington or Karisma in Tampa, Florida.

Hooray for Hollywood and the Geo Palette! -JC

www.geopalette.com, see our videos on Youtube at geopalette, or friend us on Facebook.

Okay, so Arnold betrayed his wife and has a love child. A blogger wrote, “I’m never watching a Schwarzenegger movie again.” Huh? Does that mean I have to forever ignore Woody Allen movies? And what about Mel? Ban him to hell? How about Roman Polanski? Avoid him like the plague? My father was a left wing activist from way back. But he enjoyed watching the occasional John Wayne movie, (although he liked Robert Ryan’s movies and politics better.)

And Kramer! I have to admit, when I watch Seinfeld re-runs, I’m not thinking about Michael RIchards’ racist ranting a few years back.

Is the talent all gone when the ethics are shot?

Just saying.

For the most talented colorists in the business, come to Bewitched and get the Geo Palette. George, Nichole, Antoinette, Alice and Eyleen are all certified Geo Palette artists at Bewitched Salon in Woodmere, NY. Or go to MariaLisa at Bewitched for fabulous paletted color.  Or Carlo at C3 in Port Washington.

Now THAT’S talent, minus the love child.

www.geopalette.com

956 Broadway

Woodmere, NY

A client told me that she watched American Idol the other day…and that Steven Tyler has a face that only a mother could love.

Hey, I love that face, and I’m not his mother!

Which raises the question, what is ugly? I was married to a handsome man, but as the relationship disintegrated, he got less good-looking.

I watched a model at an exhibition of photographs the other day, and she was peering at a picture. A model with a mind, I thought to myself, until she picked at an eyelash and I realized that she was using the glass as a mirror.

Steven Tyler is handsome from the inside out. His compassion, humor and authenticity make him winningly attractive. Ugly? Not to me.

For indisputably beautiful hair color, try the Geo Palette, featured in the style section of Newsday this Monday, March 28th. No one will say that you have a face only a mother could love. Everyone will tell you that your hair is simply gorgeous!

Make an appointment at Bewitched for the Geo Palette, or an awapuhi treatment, or a keratin smoother or a cutting edge haircut. Spring has sprung. We’re ready to celebrate.

For Geo Palette results, check out our website at www.geopalette.com.

Or call us for an appointment: 516 374-1490

Bewitched Salon: 956 Broadway, Woodmere, NY 11545

I was thinking about compassion the other day. Some people are better at it than others.

We have a homeless man who comes into the salon for coffee. I try to get him in, and out, because he’s tall, imposing, and scares me (and our clients.) George chats with him easily, but I can’t understand a word he says.  He stands at the counter and speaks gibberish to me. Is he mentally challenged? High? Is he going to mug me?

He doesn’t. He drops a necklace on the desk and says, “This is for you.”

Again, I think, did he rip this off someone’s neck? Find it on the street? Was it his mother’s treasure? I say, “Thank you, but why don’t you give it to your girlfriend instead?” He mumbles something, retrieves the necklace, and goes away. Air freshener is necessary.

We have another man, a musician, who lives in his van all year long. He comes to the salon at the end of the day, plugs in his phone, washes up in the bathroom, and gets a shampoo, maybe once a month. We don’t know how he has survived the winter. He is erudite, pleasant, and bundled up in every item of clothing he owns.

A third person, a lady in braids and bright lipstick, stands and stares at us through the window until she gets her favorite candy…soft peppermints, not hard, which she stuffs in her knapsack. Then she leaves with a smile.

So here at Bewitched, compassion is alive. But we’re extremely passionate about the color we have achieved through the Geo Palette, George’s system of coloring hair that surpasses conventional color: multi-dimensional, radiant, revolutionary color that lasts longer.

Come to Bewitched Salon at 956 Broadway in Woodmere, NY for the Geo Palette. Call for an appointment at 516 374-1490, or go to Bewitched in Woodmere, or Beehive Islip, both certified in the Geo Palette Hair System. Compassion is key! But so is beauty… www.geopalette.com   -JC

Let’s talk about American Idol…hmmmm. I used to watch it half-heartedly. But I’d start out with a bang and end with a whimper.

Until Steven Tyler became a judge.

I’d watched Simon Cowell, and laughed at his smartness and his ribaldry. I liked him.

I’d watched Paula Abdul, and appreciated her zaniness and her kindness. I liked her, too.

I’d watched Randy  Jackson gently “dogg” each new contestant with his own cool persona. I liked him as a buffer between mean and sweet.

But I watched half-heartedly, while I was on my exercise machine.

That is, until Steven Tyler became my new American Idol. Steven Tyler, I love.  Fresh, funny, ugly/handsome, direct. An icon in his own right, a dandy with tenderness, and his own brand of succinct smartness as he sings along with his favorites and eases their way into success or failure.

He will forever reign supreme, sitting next to Jennifer Lopez with her well-groomed beauty, flashing his wide-mouthed grin and his gleaming teeth. Watch for him.

Come to Bewitched Salon and watch for the Geo Palette Hair System, which reigns supreme as the most revolutionary new color system in the hair industry.

Check out our website, www.geopalette.com, or call us for an appointment at 516 374-1490. Also available at Bewitched in Woodmere, Karisma in Tampa and Beehive Islip Salon.

Steven, we’ll give you a Geo Palette as well. You’ll love it as much as we love you.

A friend of mine was told by her daughter that she gave off negative energy, and was hard to be around. Just in time for the birth of her first grandchild. My friend was bereft, rejected by her own child.

Hmmm. I told her that when I was thirty years old and divorced from the man that my mother encouraged me to marry, I didn’t talk to her for over a year. My mother’s power made me furious. When she called me crying, I spoke briefly and hung up quickly. I dismissed her ruthlessly.

Fast forward four years. I’m in the hospital giving birth to my first baby. I stand up and faint, and the nurse tells me that when I gained consciousness, I was calling for my mother.

She was the best grandmother in the world.

So mothers and daughters that love and reject each other, your blood line is strong, irrevocable, and as red as a valentine heart.

And for Valentine’s Day pampering, get some gorgeous color with the Geo Palette Hair System at our flagship salon, Bewitched Salon, here in Woodmere, NY, also available at certified salons in Woodmere, Islip, and Tampa, Florida. Hearts will turn. Flowers will arrive. Chocolate will be given. You will never look better. Call 516 374-1490 for an appointment. Stop by and inquire, or watch the Geo Palette in action. Or check out our website, www.geopalette.com for a look. – JC