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I recently watched a program about giving up addictions…not hard core heroin or sex twenty times a day, but things like candy, soda, shopping, and Facebook.

The psychologist suggested forcing yourself to eat a candy bar at four o’clock, every afternoon. It seems that making yourself eat it will take the pleasure away.

So I tried it, but I liked it. Like a cup of tea in the afternoon, my candy bar became a habit. I switched from a Milky Way to a Three Musketeers for fewer calories, and cursed out the psychologist for my new four o’clock habit that I have to break.

For an easier fix, become addicted to your hair color and try the Geo Palette…color better than drugs or candy bars or even great sex. Because it lasts for months. Go to www.geopalette.com for information, or visit a Geo Palette certified salon to satisfy your craving for fabulous color. No aluminum foils that dull your hair, and compliments galore! Call 516 374-1490 for an appointment at Bewitched, or visit any Geo Palette certified salon that welcomes your addiction. -JC

A new study conducted by researchers at Harvard and Duke has found that creative thinkers are more likely to cheat. Dr Francesca Gino tells us that “creativity makes people more morally flexible.” Hmmm.

Physically, the word flexible is no longer part of my vocabulary. And as a creative person, I plead the fifth.

But for a fabulous new year,  I urge all of you to get your creative juices going, and cheat on your hairdresser. Start 2012 with an explosion of fabulous color, and get the Geo Palette. Your stylist may be upset with you. But your hair won’t be.

For a more ethical way, urge your hairdresser to get trained in the Geo Palette Hair System. Your conscience will be clear, and your stylist will be ecstatic. No foils, a green system, and the best color ever. How can you go wrong?

Happy New Year from the Geo Palette. Cheaters welcome at Bewitched Salon in Woodmere, NY, Beehive Islips, C3, Port Washington, and Karisma, Florida. More to follow. -JC

Three books have come out about Coco Chanel, and Sleeping with the Enemy by Hal Vaughan makes me wonder if I should buy my daughter the Chanel blush she wants for Hanukkah! Her love affair with Baron Hans Gunther von Dincklage, a Nazi spy, makes a girl wonder, doesn’t it?

Does it give us enough cause not to buy a Chanel lipstick? Or a purse, for that matter?

She grew up hard, in an orphanage, and smart, in business, an opportunist in a hard scrapple world. A friend of Winston Churchill, but sleeping with the enemy…was it just a late affair with a much younger man who happened to be a Nazi? Three authors of recent books about Chanel’s personal life seem to disagree.

Perhaps we’ll never know the truth. But we do know the truth about fabulous hair color…the best ever color you will have in your life. Get the Geo Palette, at Bewitched Salon in Woodmere, or at palette certified salons. No politics involved,  just top of the line color, better than a highlight and green, to boot.

Call 516 374-1490 for an appointment. Or visit us at Bewitched, at 956 Broadway, in Woodmere, NY.  -JC

Here in America, we whiten and brighten. A good friend came back from a long trip away with breast implants, a tummy tuck, and teeth whiter than chiclets. Or, as another friend put it, teeth like yogurt. They dazzled us so much, we shielded our eyes.

But in Japan, it seems, a new fashion has women paying to have their teeth re-arranged. No punches involved. Just dental surgery that results in “fangs”, a look called yaeba that men find attractive. Did you know that crooked teeth have an endearing factor, and make women more approachable?

But if the man finds it cute, I ask, does the woman? Does she feel like the perfect object of desire, with teeth made crooked? Does she feel better about herself, pleasing the man by looking more imperfect?

I give up. Come in and get perfect color with the Geo Palette instead. Everyone will compliment you, men and women. And after that, if you want imperfection…just mess up your hair. -JC

www.geopalette.com for results. 956 Broadway, Woodmere, NY. Call us at 516 374-1490, for an appointment with perfection. Don’t rearrange your teeth for a man. Do it for yourself, if it makes you happy.

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

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.)

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

Mine did. Apparently my grandmother touched the back of her head last night, and Grandma died fifteen years ago.  I told her, “Go for it. Burn those herbs and purify that space.” But Grandma was a force to be reckoned with…funny, feisty, and adorable. So smudge away, roomie, but if we’re lucky, she will haunt us forever.

Cast out any bad hair experiences with the Geo Palette Color System: color that surpasses any conventional coloring. Forget the chunks, the stripes, the highlighted patterns. Natural, subtle and simply fabulous, “smudge” your hair with the Geo Palette, and evil color spirits be gone.

www.geopalette.com. Or call us at Bewitched Salon to schedule an appointment with a Geo Palette artist. 956 Broadway, Fresh Meadows, NY. Burning herbs not required. -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