Adult Cosmetology students at EHOVE Career Center will offer evening hours of beauty salon services to the public 4:30 to 8:30 p.m., on Mondays, Tuesdays and Wednesdays beginning Sept. 8.

Appointments for chemical services such as perms and highlights can be made by calling the salon at 866-256-9707, ext. 245.

Clients for other services will be taken on a walk-in basis when students are available.

The salon will open for daytime services offered by high school seniors Sept. 23.

Under supervision of their instructor, students will perform haircolor, perming, waxing, manicures, pedicures, styling and haircuts for both men and women.

Instructors are on hand to guide students as they practice their skills for the Ohio Cosmetology State Board Exams, a requirement to obtain a license to practice cosmetology. The Ohio Cosmetology Board Exams are intense sessions consisting of a written exam and five hours of hands-on practicals.

All the superheroes aren’t in the multiplex, you know. Just watch Tabatha Coffey striding down the sidewalk, dressed in black, human vulnerabilities hidden by sunglasses. See her take a failing beauty salon and turn it around with superhuman sureness.
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Vivian Zink

Tabatha Coffey with a client, on “Salon Takeover.”

That confidence is part of the appeal of “Tabatha’s Salon Takeover,” which has its premiere on Bravo on Thursday night. Like Jo Frost, the star of ABC’s “Supernanny,” who barges into households with out-of-control children and shapes them up, along with their inept parents, the unfailingly blunt Ms. Coffey will spend each episode of her series turning around a failing enterprise. (Or, if she deems the business hopeless, she’ll just shut it down.)

“Tabatha’s Salon Takeover” may be just another low-budget reality show, but it has assets. It is very good at allowing viewers to feel superior. The first episode introduces a married couple who seem to be doing everything wrong at their salon in Long Beach, Calif. The front desk is so disorganized that it can’t accommodate a walk-in customer, although employees are standing around idle. Maybe things are going badly because of the 30-page rule book, which dictates scripts to be followed when dealing with customers.

One hairdresser has only himself to blame, however, for his unfortunate chair-side manner. A young man comes into the salon and asks to have some frosting done. The hairdresser replies, “Frosting is an ancient term.” Ms. Coffey points out that insulting your customer isn’t necessarily the best way to begin.

The show also offers viewers the joy of a makeover. After Ms. Coffey’s team completes a three-day renovation on the Long Beach salon, the staff members are thrilled, but one of the owners isn’t. When the wife, Kwanna, sees the place’s new look, she bursts into tears, and they are not tears of joy. “It made me feel like a failure,” she says later. Maybe she’s thinking about the estimated $750,000 that she and her husband spent on the earlier salon design, which Ms. Coffey just tossed out with the garbage.

A show like this might have starred some Madison Avenue or Rodeo Drive coiffeur with a celebrity clientele. But the Australian-born Ms. Coffey is a New Jersey hairdresser, whose Ridgewood salon is called Industrie Hair Gurus. As a contestant last year on Bravo’s competition reality series “Shear Genius,” she didn’t win. But getting your own show is better.

WHEN Jamiee Adshead returned to her home town of Halifax after working as a Chanel make-up artist on liners like the QE2 and Independence Of The Seas, she thought life might slow down a little.
But the opposite has happened. The 22-year-old is more in demand now than she was at sea, thanks to a revolutionary new self tan that doesn’t just get rid of pasty skin but tackles ageing and cellulite at the same time.

Jamiee, who has just opened her own beauty salon above her dad Martin’s hairdressers, Adsheads in Coronation Road, Halifax, has introduced the latest “must have” self-tan, Peptide Tanning, to Calderdale.

The tanner, from relatively new company BeautyLab, has been hitting the headlines in national newspapers and magazines because it is the first in the UK to contain peptides (usually found in skincare) so it does two jobs in one. It gives you a long-lasting tan and helps hold back the years at the same time.

The anti-ageing tan contains two forms of peptides. One to stimulate melanin formulation within the skin to produce a deeper tan and another to deeply hydrate and help with things like wrinkles, skin-firming and cellulite.

For years women have used retinol, vitamin C and collagen-based creams to ward off the signs of ageing, however peptide-based products are the latest beauty breakthrough to promise to slow down the clock.

Peptides act as messengers to stimulate collagen production. As we age, collagen production slows down and we develop lines and wrinkles because the skin support structure is weakened.

BeautyLab also does a range of skincare products which are rich in peptides, and both the self-tan and the products are proving popular with both celebrities, and Jamiee’s customers. “I love all of BeautyLabs products and I am excited, not just about opening my own business but introducing a new range of products to Calderdale. The self-tanner is amazing. It develops in a couple of hours and leaves skin with a sunkissed look which fades naturally and evenly,” says Jamiee, who went to Brighouse High School and the White Rose School of Beauty, Huddersfield.

There are two in-salon tan treaments from BeautyLab to try and fans can also buy a bottle of Peptide Tanning to use at home which costs £17. For those short on time, there is a spray tan at £25 which includes exfoliation and takes 30 minutes. For those who like a more relaxing treatment Jamiee offers exfoliation and a manual tan for £30. That takes one hour.

Jamiee, who has been helped by Martin and her step-mum Angela, also offers BeautyLab facials and body treatments. Her new salon, which has its own entrance, is over two floors and has two beauty rooms, a spray tan room, a show room and toilet and a relaxing chill-out room where clients can help themselves to free drinks.

If you would like to know more about the new self-tan, she is holding an open day on Sunday, September 7, from noon to 6pm. Individuals can just turn up and enjoy bubbly and nibbles and talk to women who have tried the Peptide tan for themselves. For more details ring Jamiee on 07961212051.