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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.

I was standing on line in the supermarket holding my favorite sweet fix…dark chocolate pomegranates. They cost a fortune, but a friend introduced me to them, and I’ve been addicted ever since. Hey, it beats heroin, gambling, and alcohol, doesn’t it?

The very thin lady in front of me smiled (maliciously), and said, “That’s for chocolate addicts that think they’re eating something healthy. They’re lying to themselves.”

Reading the label,  I answered her weakly, “They’re a natural source of flavanol antioxidants.”

She snorted, and walked off.

So today, I bought a new bathing suit. “It looks beautiful on you,” the saleslady told me.

It does, if I don’t move a muscle, I answered.

So she lies, and I lie, and we all lie, don’t we?

Now ask yourself if your hair looks the best it can possibly look.  Look really hard, past the highlights and the lowlights and the over-processing and the roots. Does it, really?

Then come and get a Geo Palette, the most exciting, fabulous hair color ever, a system that surpasses foils: the results are brighter, subtler, with more shine and movement and more variation.

If you get the Geo Palette, you don’t have to lie to yourself about the results. You will leave our salon a more gorgeous blond with as many as four or five shades that look sun enhanced, a richer brunette with gleaming low lights, or a more radiant redhead with vibrant tonalities. Just look in the mirror.

Call us for an appointment. 516 374-1490, or stop in for a consultation at 956 Broadway
Woodmere, NY 11598.

Other palette certified salons include C3 in Port Washington, Beehive Islip, and Karisma in Tampa.

After your Geo Palette, don’t ask me how you look in your bathing suit. But ask me how I like your hair. No lies, I promise. Because I won’t have to. -JC

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!)

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 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

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

Coco Chanel saw the fishermen in Deauville, so the legend goes, and was enchanted by their striped boat-neck shirts made of soft  jersey.

She modernized women’s fashion, and gave them the little black dress, clusters of pearls, style and comfort.

Now stripes are back! Just not in your hair. If you leave your favorite salon with stripey highlights. go straight to Bewitched Salon for the revolutionary color system, the Geo Palette.

Get fabulous hair color and design, diffused, gorgeous, lustrous color that would have caught Coco’s eye.

Treat yourself for the holiday. Coco Chanel would approve.

JC

The Geo Palette is available at our flagship salon, Bewitched Salon. Call us at 516 374-1490 and see our results at www.geopalette.com
Also available at Geo Palette-certified salons: Bewitched in Woodmere, NY, Karisma in Tampa, Florida, and Beehive in Islip, NY and Brooklyn.

We had to delete the unboxing post because a porn site got hold of it. Hey, to each his own, but here at Bewitched, we have a responsibility to beautify, enlighten, and un-box. As for your own private life, do whatever makes you happy, as long as no one is hurt. We’re big fans of chemistry.

The Geo Palette illuminates and unboxes the hair industry by coloring on geometric planes instead of vertically, culminating in hair color that is revolutionary. Come in and try it. You’ll be delighted and transformed!

We are.

www.geopalette.com    Get the Geo Palette at:

Bewitched Salon956 Broadway Woodmere, NY

The Beehive Salon, Islip and Brooklyn, NY

Karisma Salon, Tampa, Florida

Bewitched, Woodmere, NY

Okay ladies. Some of you can sing, some of you can dance, some of you know how to diet…(how else do you keep that thin?)

But with all your accomplishments, do you really need to look like a cartoon character…Jessica Rabbit to be exact…to please your rock star husbands? And why do you pitch your voices higher than their normal register into a little girl goo goo ga dialect that makes me squirm?

I admire you, I really do. The road is tough, however well-heeled it may be. But what measures will you have to take to stay youthful, thin, curvaceous, wrinkle-free, so that your husbands won’t trade you in for a younger model? Freeze yourselves?

I hope I’m wrong, and that they want to grow old with you. That they’ll caress the wrinkles that grace your face, and not cry out for more botox and face lifts at the young age of 30. That they’ll rebuff the advances of nubile groupies who trade favors for fame. That they’ll reward your endurance with kindness and monogamy.

But the entertainment industry ranks high in divorce, and society wants your boys to stay young and bold and virile, with a girl on each arm.

So stay strong. Lower your register. And reward yourself with the Geo Palette, revolutionary color that your husbands will love. More important, you will.

Go to www.geopalette.com to see our results. Call 516 374-1490 for an appointment at
Bewitched Salon 956 Broadway, Fresh Meadows, NY
Or visit a salon certified in the Geo Palette:
Karisma Salon, Tampa, Fla.
Beehive Salon, Brooklyn, NY

So I get dressed in the morning in the outfit that I’ve planned in my head the night before. Funky tights ala Betsy Johnson. A black pencil skirt cinched at the waist with a wide belt. My faux diamond necklace. My new way too expensive concealer which hides the bags under my eyes. A bold red lip, very little makeup on my eyes. (I remember to emphasize either the eyes or the lips, rarely both.)

I check out my reflection in the long mirror in the hallway.

I look good. I feel attractive. Heads will turn.

And not a single person compliments me all day. How can this be? And why does it mean that I will never wear that particular ensemble again?

I hate to say it, I really do. But I think it means I have low self-esteem.

Or that I need another person’s stamp of approval before I’m sure of my own sense of fashion.

Of course, it may mean that I look SO good that I intimidate people. I’ll never know, because I’m already stuffing the outfit in the back of the closet to gather dust.

For high self-esteem that will never be questioned, come to Bewitched Salon in Woodmere, New York for our revolutionary color, the Geo Palette. You will leave us feeling like James Cagney in one of his old movies…On top of the world! (I think he’s talking to his mother, and is about to burn to death, so this vision might not be particularly relevant.)

But you’ll be on fire! How’s that?

See our results at www.geopalette.com or call us for an appointment at 516 374-1490.

You’ll never question how good you look again.