NADINE Labaki’s Caramel is a movie, she says, about women’s lives and struggles, and it is set in her native Beirut. But the film, which wears its subject matter lightly, is about life-changing decisions and dilemmas and the transformational power of a haircut.

Much of the action takes place in a beauty salon, suffused in the golden glow that the title suggests. Vanity is in short supply here, however. Flaws and vulnerabilities are acknowledged yet people find ways to work around them, to nurture and camouflage and renew.

Debbie Vegera is a woman of uncommon scents — about 1,500 of them, in fact.

Each of the myriad bottles and vials neatly displayed on the shelves of Kiki’s Perfume Shop Inc., at 13835 42nd St. holds an odour unique to it — and, as far as the laws of chemistry are concerned, unique to the customer who buys the product.

“Scents are associated with the person. Someone might say, ‘this reminds me of my first boyfriend,’ although I don’t know if that’s a good thing,” she says smiling.

How do the hip and happening faces of tomorrow de-stress?

Young, up-and-coming celebrities can get just as stressed as established stars.

While the former work themselves into a tizzy wondering when they will hit the big time, the latter worry sick about being dethroned by the young turks . . .

With a talent for making art with leaves, one student has founded an arts company hoping to popularise the method. Do Minh Thu reports.

Le Dac Trung is a third year student at Ha Noi Architecture University, but his passion is leaves. When not in school, Trung spends his time creating elaborate collages of fallen leaves, composites of his forays down Ha Noi’s city streets and into the wooded areas of its surrounding provinces.

Police are investigating a series of robberies on tanning and beauty salons.

Detectives believe the same man is responsible for, four robberies at tanning and beauty salons between the Friday, 22 August and Thursday, 28 August.

In the first armed robbery on Friday, 23 August the man held up a hairstylist in Gilbert Road, Preston about 4.55 pm.

An Oakham hairdesser has revealed plans to move his salon into a former chapel.
Chris Gunby, who runs Creme hair and Beauty in The maltings, off Mill Street, has applied for planning permission to move into the building, most recently used as a social clunb by St Joseph’s Roman Catholic Church.

The building in Mill Street was put up for let to help raise £40,000 to repair the roof of the church in Station Road.

America’s obsession with beauty is posing serious problems for the health and economic well-being of women and young girls, according to a report on Monday on the pursuit of physical perfection and the rise in cosmetic surgery.

The nonprofit YWCA in the United States said women and girls are spending increasing amounts of money in their bid to look like idealized, air-brushed magazine models.

HOW would it feel to have tiny fish nibbling on your feet as you relax in a beauty saloon for a pedicure? Or to have your hair styled at an exclusive hair spa? Sounds too good? But that is what makes the difference in Naturals beauty salon which opened its branch in Kochi on Monday.

Everything about the unisex salon spells uniqueness. From fish pedicure and reflexology to bridal make over and hair styling, Naturals offers a variety of beauty treatments for men and women.

Some models are more than just faces and figures: They’re successful businesswomen, parlaying their time on the catwalk into careers that show off that other important asset — their wits.
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Heidi Klum, for example, is now in her fifth season as host and executive producer of “Project Runway” (Wednesday nights on Bravo). But that’s practically in her spare time, considering she has her own jewelry line with Mouawad, her own skin-care line called In An Instant and, even at age 35, is one of the busiest models in the world.

Medicare has done a great deal of good since its enactment 43 years ago this week. It currently provides health care for 44 million seniors. But bipartisan action is needed if we are to keep our commitment to seniors without breaking the bank or the financial backs of American workers.

For the second year in a row, Medicare spending has triggered a statutory alarm requiring Congress to act to keep the program solvent. Yet some members of Congress still refuse to face the facts about the looming trouble.