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Tuesday, May 29, 2012
Monday, May 28, 2012
Alila Villas Uluwatu Spa Resort in Bali
Hotel managers in tropical destinations mostly seem to know what they’re doing when planning an accommodation unit. Alila Villas Uluwatu
is just one exquisite example of how to take advantage of astonishing
natural surroundings. The resort sits on an elevated plateau along the
southern coastline on the Bukit Peninsula in Bali, Indonesia and faces
the restless ocean, offering unforgettable views.
Alila Villas Uluwatu in Bali was designed by Singapore architectural firm WOHA and embraces environmentally sustainable design. The project consists of 84 pool villas overlooking the ocean. Each unit displays tasteful contemporary arrangements and decorations that are specific to the region.
Some of the facilities of this resort include a 24-hour gym with yoga, Spa Alila with 5 treatment villas, 50-metre swimming pool (despite its impressive size, surely no one really gets enough of it), a library, various meeting venues and wedding interiors.
When it comes to culinary delights, this is the place to be. Alila Villas Uluwatu presents three great options that will deal with your appetite. The first is a cabana by the cliff edge, which is perfect if you are after an informal romantic atmosphere, the second is CIRE, a contemporary western and the third- called The Warung- offers authentic wholesome Indonesian and Balinese cuisine.
Alila Villas Uluwatu in Bali was designed by Singapore architectural firm WOHA and embraces environmentally sustainable design. The project consists of 84 pool villas overlooking the ocean. Each unit displays tasteful contemporary arrangements and decorations that are specific to the region.
Some of the facilities of this resort include a 24-hour gym with yoga, Spa Alila with 5 treatment villas, 50-metre swimming pool (despite its impressive size, surely no one really gets enough of it), a library, various meeting venues and wedding interiors.
When it comes to culinary delights, this is the place to be. Alila Villas Uluwatu presents three great options that will deal with your appetite. The first is a cabana by the cliff edge, which is perfect if you are after an informal romantic atmosphere, the second is CIRE, a contemporary western and the third- called The Warung- offers authentic wholesome Indonesian and Balinese cuisine.
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Sunday, May 27, 2012
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Island’s Genetic Quirk: Dark Skin, Blond Hair
In the Solomon Islands, about 10 percent of the dark-skinned indigenous people have strikingly blond hair. Some islanders theorize that the coloring could be a result of excess sun exposure, or a diet rich in fish. Another explanation is that the blondness was inherited from distant ancestors — European traders and explorers who came to the islands.
But that’s not the case, researchers now report. The gene variant responsible for blond hair in the islanders is distinctly different from the gene that causes blond hair in Europeans. “For me it breaks down any kind of simple notions you might have about race,” said Carlos Bustamante, a geneticist at Stanford University. “Humans are beautifully diverse, and this is just the tip of the iceberg.” Dr. Bustamante and his colleagues published their findings in the current issue of the journal Science. The researcher analyzed saliva samples from more than 1,000 islanders, looking closely at a subset of the samples — from 43 blond and 42 dark-haired islanders. They were soon able to identify the single gene responsible for the variance in hair color. Called TYRP1, the gene is known to influence pigmentation in humans. The researchers also found that the variant of TYRP1 that causes blond hair in Solomon Islanders is absent in Europeans’ genomes. “Here you go into an unstudied population with a small sample size and you can really find some cool things,” Dr. Bustamante said. “So what about other places, like what about light pigmentation in parts of Africa? How do we not know the genetic basis of skin and hair pigmentations across the globe?” He and his team hope to raise more money to further analyze the Solomon Islands data.
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Sean Myles
About 10 percent of indigenous people in the Solomon Islands have a gene variant for blond hair.
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But that’s not the case, researchers now report. The gene variant responsible for blond hair in the islanders is distinctly different from the gene that causes blond hair in Europeans. “For me it breaks down any kind of simple notions you might have about race,” said Carlos Bustamante, a geneticist at Stanford University. “Humans are beautifully diverse, and this is just the tip of the iceberg.” Dr. Bustamante and his colleagues published their findings in the current issue of the journal Science. The researcher analyzed saliva samples from more than 1,000 islanders, looking closely at a subset of the samples — from 43 blond and 42 dark-haired islanders. They were soon able to identify the single gene responsible for the variance in hair color. Called TYRP1, the gene is known to influence pigmentation in humans. The researchers also found that the variant of TYRP1 that causes blond hair in Solomon Islanders is absent in Europeans’ genomes. “Here you go into an unstudied population with a small sample size and you can really find some cool things,” Dr. Bustamante said. “So what about other places, like what about light pigmentation in parts of Africa? How do we not know the genetic basis of skin and hair pigmentations across the globe?” He and his team hope to raise more money to further analyze the Solomon Islands data.
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Thursday, May 24, 2012
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Wednesday, May 23, 2012
Fat & Rich Botanicals
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FAR
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crafted to re-hydrate and restore even the most dry and unruly tresses.
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Mission
Soft, healthy, strong, hydrated hair for our customers.Products that are crafted with a high concentration of natural, naturally-derived and certified organic ingredients.
Company Overview
Fat
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the select Essential Fatty Acid and Emollient-Rich ingredients that are
used to formulate a line of moisturizing hair care products that are
high in quality and free of low-grade materials.
FAR Botanicals hair care products are targeted specifically to people with dry or textured hair, but anyone who desires healthier, stronger hair can use them.
Fat & Rich Botanicals® contain no petrochemical fillers, silicones, artificial colors or low-grade oils. FAR Botanicals is also crafted to be free of parabens and harsh sulfates. Our products are Vegan friendly, only tested on eager humans and are free of animal by-products.
FAR Botanicals hair care products are targeted specifically to people with dry or textured hair, but anyone who desires healthier, stronger hair can use them.
Fat & Rich Botanicals® contain no petrochemical fillers, silicones, artificial colors or low-grade oils. FAR Botanicals is also crafted to be free of parabens and harsh sulfates. Our products are Vegan friendly, only tested on eager humans and are free of animal by-products.
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Fat
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ingredients-based solution for people with highly textured or
chronically dry hair. Because FAR Botanicals utilizes skin-grade
ingredients in its formulas our products also naturally nourish your
scalp to encourage well-conditioned hair from the root.
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Thursday, May 17, 2012
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Saturday, May 12, 2012
Wednesday, May 9, 2012
Vidal Sassoon, Hairdresser and Trendsetter, Dies at 84
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| Vidal Sassoon in a scene from the documentary film “Vidal Sassoon The Movie.” He is shown on the Millennium Bridge in London. |
By BRUCE WEBER
Published: May 9, 2012
Vidal Sassoon, whose mother had a premonition that he would become a hairdresser and steered him to an apprenticeship in a London shop when he was 14, setting him on the path that led to his changing the way women wore and cared for their hair, died on Wednesday at his home in Los Angeles. He was 84.
A spokesman for the Los Angeles police, who were called to the home, on
Mulholland Drive, confirmed the death, attributing it to natural causes.
Mr. Sassoon was known to have leukemia.
Mr. Sassoon brought a kind of architectural design to the haircut in the
late 1950s and early 1960s, developing a look that eschewed the
tradition of stiff, sprayed styles with the hair piled high and that
dispensed with the need for women to wear hair curlers to bed and make
weekly trips to the salon.
For Mr. Sassoon, the cut was the thing — just about the only thing — and
he fashioned his clients’ hair into geometric shapes and sharp angles
to complement their facial bone structure. His short, often striking
styles helped define a new kind of sexy. They were also easy to care for
and maintain — the wash-and-wear look, it was sometimes called — and
they helped propel the youthful revolution in fashion (and just about
everything else) that gripped London and then America and the rest of
the world in the 1960s.
One of his early clients was the mod fashion designer Mary Quant, who created the miniskirt. Referring to it in a 2010 documentary film about him, she said to him, “You put the top on it.”
“He changed the way everyone looked at hair,” Grace Coddington, the
creative director of American Vogue, said in an interview on Wednesday.
“Before Sassoon, it was all back-combing and lacquer; the whole thing
was to make it high and artificial. Suddenly you could put your fingers
through your hair!”
Ms. Coddington, who was a model for Mr. Sassoon in the 1960s, wore the
original version of the quintessential Sassoon style known as the
five-point cut, a snug, sleek helmet with a W cut at the nape of the
neck and a pointed spike in front of each ear.
“He didn’t create it for me; he created it on me,” Ms. Coddington said.
“It was an extraordinary cut; no one has bettered it since. And it
liberated everyone. You could just sort of drip-dry it and shake it.”
Mr. Sassoon’s salon on Bond Street in London became a hive of beautiful
people, as did the ones he opened on Madison Avenue in New York in 1965
and, afterward, in Beverly Hills. Eventually he operated more than 20.
Roman Polanski used the London salon for his film “Repulsion,” starring
Catherine Deneuve, and he later created a sensation when he paid Mr.
Sassoon $5,000 to cut Mia Farrow’s
hair for “Rosemary’s Baby” and invited the news media to see it. The
very short cut became Ms. Farrow’s signature, and the film proved to be a
fine advertisement for him.
“It’s Vidal Sassoon!” Ms. Farrow says to a shocked character in the film. “It’s very in.”
Mr. Sassoon became a business pioneer as well, creating a line of hair
products under his name. The shampoos, conditioners and other products
were famously sold in television commercials featuring a woman with a
lustrous head of hair and the handsome, debonair Mr. Sassoon at her
side, declaring, “If you don’t look good, we don’t look good.” Sales
reached more than $100 million annually before he sold the company in
1983.
“He was the creator of sensual hair,” John Barrett, founder of the John
Barrett Salon at Bergdorf Goodman, said Wednesday. “This was somebody
who changed our industry entirely, not just from the point of view of
cutting hair but actually turning it into a business. He was one of the
first who had a product line bought out by a major corporation.”
Born in London in 1928, Mr. Sassoon was the child of poor parents. After
his father left the family, he was raised partly in a Jewish orphanage
until his mother remarried and reunited with Vidal when he was 11. He
was an avid soccer player as a boy — and a lifelong fitness devotee —
but he turned to hairdressing after his mother claimed she had had a
vision of his future. She took him to a local shop where the proprietor
decided the boy would do as an apprentice because he had good manners.
The shop was in a working-class neighborhood, and young Vidal, dreaming
of better things, took elocution lessons to rid himself of his cockney
diction. Meanwhile, he joined a Jewish organization that battled in the
streets with the Mosley-ites, anti-Semitic British fascists who were
followers of Oswald Mosley. In 1948, he traveled to Israel and fought in
the war for its independence.
Mr. Sassoon opened his first salon in 1954.
“I made up my mind then that if I was going to be in hairdressing long
term, I wanted to change things,” he recalled in the documentary “Vidal
Sassoon: The Movie.” “I didn’t have a picture of what hair should be,
but I had a definite picture of what hair shouldn’t be.”
Over nine years — inspired, he said, by Bauhaus architecture — he evolved his geometric style.
“When I looked at the architecture, the structure of buildings that were
going up worldwide, you saw a whole different look, in shape,” he said.
“My sense was hairdressing definitely needed to be changing.” He added:
“To me hair meant geometry, angles. Cutting uneven shapes, as long as
it suited that face and that bone structure.”
A breakthrough came in 1963 when he cut the long hair of the Hong
Kong-born actress Nancy Kwan into a bob with sharp face-framing points;
photos of what became known as the Kwan bob or the Kwan cut or simply
the Kwan appeared in British and American Vogue and on fashion pages
around the world.
Mr. Sassoon is survived by his fourth wife, Rhonda, and three children. A
daughter, Catya, died of a drug overdose in 2002.
Especially in the early days, Mr. Sassoon was a disciplinarian as a
salon keeper, known to send employees home if their shoes were not
shined or to admonish a client touching her hair in mid-cut with a slap
of the comb. As he developed his ideas, he did not always have patience
with clients who wanted things their way rather than his. Once in
frustration, he confessed, he threw a pair of scissors in the air and
they stuck in the ceiling.
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