It’s all about the hair! All these years we have been teetering around in our high heels and short dresses and it’s our hair that has the real appeal? Well, that’s according to a study from Pantene men are more attracted to hair than cleavage. Of course this kind of news coming from a hair product company sounds more than a little suspect, but could there actually be a shred of merit? In the survey the company found:

• 60% of men would rather date a woman with great hair over a women with large breasts.
• 44% of men said hair is the first thing they notice, over clothes (26%), legs (25%) or makeup (4%).
• 82% of men said sexy hair is key to overall sex appeal.

Interesting. All that information got us to thinking it might be time to book that long overdue hair treatment. Maybe a healthy cut and blow dry are just what the doctor ordered to reel him in. Below you’ll find a number of spa deals to have the guy you want bowing at your feet.

Receive Free Hair Cut and Style with purchase of any Color Service.
Fate Image Studio
15551 North Greenway Hayden Loop
Scottsdale, AZ 85260
480.990.3283

30% off on Any Hair Service with Jennifer. Must mention Spa Deals to receive this special. May not be combined with any other discount or special.
Salon Roi
2602 Connecticut Avenue Northwest
Washington, DC 20008
202.234.2668

Conditioning Treatment and Hair Cut with Style, or Glamour Make-Up and Hair Style (blow dry).Special: $50 Each; Originally: $80 – $90
Allure Day Spa
2056 South University Drive
Davie, FL 33324
954.472.9290

Have your Hair Cut with David, Director of Education, and receive a Free Hair Care Product of your choice.
David and Mary Salon/Spa
14390 Clay Terrace Blvd, Suite 160
Carmel, IN 46032
317.844.6662

Shampoo, Hair Cut and Blow Dry for $75, normally $125,
Spa Martier
1012 Second Avenue
New York, NY 10022
646.781.9758

receive 20% off on Haircut and Blowdry or receive 25% off on Products.
Susan Ciminelli Day Spa & Salon
120 East 56th Street, Second Floor
New York, NY 10022
212.750.4441

Receive a Free Hair Cut and Blow Dry with purchase of Keratin Treatment, a $75 value,
Floral Vale Spa
117 Floral Vale Boulevard
Yardley , PA 19067
215.968.8881

Receive 20% off OBAGI Premium Facials, 75 Min Hot Stone Swedish Massage or Full Highlights, Full Glaze and Hair Cut Combo, or receive Free 30 Min Makeup Lesson or 15 Min Hair Consultaion Tuesday – Friday only, or receive Free Manicure with purchase of Aroma Pedicure.
The Carriage House Spa & Salon
710 Floral Vale Blvd
Yardley, PA 19067
215.497.3000

Purchase Regular Priced Hair Cut for yourself and your child’s Hair Cut will be 50% off, or receive $50 off on Brazilian Blowout, normally starts at $325.
Tonic Salon & Day Spa
5910 Garners Ferry Rd
Columbia, SC 29209
803.776.9734

Choice of 60 Min Microdermabrasion for $75, normally $149, receive $25 off any Hair Cut, Color and Blow-Out Service, or receive 25% off on Laser Hair Removal. Must mention Spa Deals when booking your appointment.
Renew Beauty Med Spa & Salon
8687 North Central Expressway, Suite 2236
Dallas, TX 75225
214.369.1600

New year, new hue! It’s usually easy to predict the next move of a Kardashian (tv show spin-offs, movies, music careers) but we did not see this one coming. Khloe Kardashian debuted newer, brighter, redder hair at the People’s Choice Awards the other night, where she and her sisters picked up the award for Favorite TV Guilty Pleasure for their hit show Keeping Up With The Kardashians. But according to her interview in the press room, this is only a transitional color. “I am on my way to red.” Khloe said. “I am doing some more red tomorrow. I am in the process.” She added, “I’m so tired of these girls copying everything I do with my hair, so I wanted to go red. Watch, they’ll be red in two days!” I don’t know Khloe, how will we ever keep up?

Above is Khloe back in the salon for round two, getting foils at Goodform Salon in LA. There’s no telling how red this Kardashian will go. The jury is out until she finishes the process, but it probably would have been easier to fall in love with had she showcased the new hair upon a better backdrop, like a bright cobalt blue or turquoise green gown. What are your thoughts on Khloe’s new color?

Maybe you don’t care about Khloe’s new look, and you’re much happier obsessing over your own hair. If you’re yearning for change or to stand out from your initial-sharing sisters, now’s the time. Get a leg up with a few of our colorful hair spa deals, good through the end of January.

Choice of Haircut with Blow-Dry, Full Head of Highlights or Lowlights, or Full Head Base Color for $65, or Brazilian Keratin Hair Treatment for $99. (Keratin treatment by consultation only for long or thick hair.)
Anush Hair Design
413 N. Canon Drive
Beverly Hills, CA 90210
310.920.4545

Purchase Any Color Service and receive a Complimentary Deep Conditioning Treatment and Therapeutic Scalp Massage, a $30 value! Each Treatment will be personalized according to the client’s individual needs and should be by appointment only.
Slope Suds Salon and Spa
462 7th Avenue. (at the corner of 16th St.)
Brooklyn, NY 11215
718.788.7837 (SUDS)

Choice of 60 Min Microdermabrasion for $75, normally $149, receive $25 off any Hair Cut, Color and Blow-Out Service, or receive 25% off on Laser Hair Removal. Must mention Spa Deals when booking your appointment.
Renew Beauty Med Spa & Salon
8687 North Central Expressway, Suite 2236
Dallas, TX 75225
214.369.1600

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Now who saw this one coming? AMA-sweeping Justin Bieber delivered a surprise at his Barnes & Noble book launch event last Friday — a new hair do! We’re so used to seeing the Biebs chilling like a lamp shade in his one of a kind side swept mushroom mop, so this slight part in his bangs will take us a little time to get used to. (Insert sarcasm here.) While the new cut doesn’t seem to be anything dramatic and nothing more than a minor trim (or is is just a bad hair day?), it’s managed to make headlines across the web. Albeit slight, as a bona-fide American hair icon, any change is a big one. Following Justin’s lead, we think it’s an opportune time to show up to your next holiday party sporting a new shag.

From now until the end of the month (and always) many of our spas are offering deals on haircuts and some of them have thrown in color and treatments as well. At Fate Image Studio in Scottsdale, AZ receive a free hair cut and style with purchase of any color service, at the fabulous Anush Hair Design in Beverly Hills, CA get a haircut with blow-dry for $50, and purchase a regular priced hair cut for yourself and half-off for your child’s at Tonic Salon & Day Spa in Columbia, SC. Be sure to check out our spa deals for more ways to Beib-ify your life.

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Every once in a while amongst our musings and ramblings about spa treatments, beauty and random thoughts that we think (hope) are funny, we receive a Tweet question so good that it’s worthy of not just a tweet back, but a full investigative report and blog post. This time the Tweeter who shall remain “@”-less because we can’t for the life of us find the tweet again, wanted to know how to Rapunzelize her tresses. Simply stated:

“How do I make my hair grow faster?”

I consulted with a couple hair pros for the exact formula of vitamins, foods and products that will help reach the long, luscious results desired by so many women.

Bruce Conroy, hair expert and owner of Senses New York who has been keeping tresses healthy for 28 years, has the following 3 pieces of advice (which he shared with me over my Ke$ha makeover):

1. Take horsetail pills

Horsetail is used to treat a variety of things from period bloating to frostbite, and it is also used to treat hair loss. Many take them to make their hair grow faster. You can get them at GNC for just $8.99. (As with any pills, please make sure to read about possible side effects to make sure it’s something safe for you.)

2. Get more of THESE foods into your diet:

Beans, eggs, berries (high in Vitamin B)

Oats, brown rice and sunflower seeds (high in Biotin)

Carrots and Kale (high in Vitamin A)

Nuts (high in Vitamin E)

Vitamin supplements will also do the trick, but don’t cheat yourself out of all the nutritious value in these foods.

3. Don’t forget the ENDS of your hair

Bruce also swears by AG Split End Spa repair serum. This will not help your hair grow faster from the root, but he guarantees it will help stop breakage and split ends, which is the reason your hair might never seem to grow. (Also, do not forget trims every 2-3 months to keep your ends tamed – letting it grow and grow is NOT the answer!)

The 4th one is not from Bruce…

4. Enter: The Apothecary

I also just happened to meet a woman over the weekend by the name of Vibha Raval, who runs a very interesting hair business where everything is made by hand personalized for each of her customers. No official branding or bottles or website, just a Facebook page and a little black book of clients. She cross-promotes with Bio-oil and Carols Daughter, and focuses on sustainable, eco-friendly, vegetarian products, using Ayurvedic products in a Western context. One of her most popular products was created to promote hair growth, and is called Brahmi Hair Tonic.

Ingredients: Neem, Argan oil, Amla, Tea Tree oil, Coconut oil, Grape seed oil, Castor oil, Vitamin A, Vitamin E, filtered clarified Butter, Panthenol, Biotin, Niacin. TO USE: Massage in to the scalp at night. You may use this product with a heating cap, or without one. For scalp only. A 4 oz. vile is $9.75. To contact Vibha,visit her Facebook page.

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Never in my life have I had so much fun at a hair salon as I did on Saturday at Senses New York. Not counting the other week when they threw a  Snooki-studded circus and I woke up with a fake tattoo, but that’s another story.

Me as Ke$ha! Read and watch the videos to see how it happened

I entered Senses NY Salon and Spa at 3 pm to get highlights and a much needed trim with the owner Bruce, and didn’t end up leaving til 8. First let me just say that in my 12 years of getting highlights, I’ve never loved them quite this much. I kid you not. If you are within a 100 mile radius of New York City and have a penchant for blonde moments, cheat on your hairdresser next time and try Bruce. Just once. You can blame me.

Anyway, it was Halloween. I had big plans to dress up as my Doppelgänger Ke$ha, the party girl pop singer who debuted with “Tik Tok”  in 2009 and whose current hit “We R Who We R” just happened to #1 on iTunes that day, so what’s a cast of costume-obsessed hairdressers, makeup artists, and otherwise talented perfectionists to do, other than make sure I leave there looking more like Ke$ha than Ke$ha herself?

I had fooled around on Polyvore.com earlier in the week and made the Ke$ha inspiration board you see above, which the Senses team studied on my iPod touch. I had uploaded it to Facebook on Tuesday, and my mother asked if any of them were me.

While the foils were setting, the makeup began. Lizette is their phenomenal makeup artist – she has her own makeup line called Face It Beauty Bar, and I give her full credit for my face in this video. After a few moments taking in the Ke$ha-isms of the collage, Lizette began airbrushing my face with various tones of caucasian. Suddenly I had a smooth tan, zero blemishes, semi-perm blush and awesomely defined cheekbones. Check out how it works in this video–

Then came the eye makeup. Lizette used a liquid black eyeliner to get the dripping effect, and while the liner was still wet, she told me blink really hard to give it the smudgy look.

When it was time to remove the foils, Annalisa gave me her usual head-gasmic wash and massage in the sink, then Armando did a gorgeous blowout. If only Bruce and Armando weren’t about to go totally eighties on it and turn it into a teased, curly, hot Ke$ha mess. I caught a minute of it for you to see–

After this, I swung back over to Lizette’s station to finish up with fake lashes and glitter galore. The lips are done with Obsessive Compulsive Cosmetics Lip Tar and Mattese NYC Glitter. (I ended up removing the pink feathers because they distracted from the eye makeup)

The end results looked like this – everyone I saw knew immediately who I was!

Thank you Bruce and team! You know it’s good when you feel the urge to do a running jump hug at the end of your session. Which I did.

BUT WAIT! Not done yet. On Sunday I had a couple Halloween parties to go to, so what else would I do besides go as Ke$ha at the $pa? If anyone needed the spa, it sure was Ke$ha. I slathered on a Lia Schorr Peel Mask (one of my favorites), a pink TherapPearl eye mask (read our TheraPearl review), and Caswell-Massey Revitalizing Cool Cucumber Eye Pads… all covered in glitter of course.

I even added a “50″ to the $ signs from the night before – A Spa Week shoutout! (yes, I am creepily obsessed with my job)

What did YOU go as for Halloween? I would love to see! Upload to our Facebook page!

Senses New York Salon & Spa
138 Fifth Avenue, 2nd Floor
New York, NY 10011
212.242.7979
http://www.sensesny.com

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