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Suggested styles only. Image courtesy of Weird Things Moms Do.

Considering the high cost of grownup haircuts these days, this seems like quite a bargain. There’s a touted hairdresser in Park Slope who charges $50 for an adult cut—and does kids’ hair for free. So we read on the extremely useful BK parenting blog, A Child Grows in Brooklyn. Blogger Karen Connell says former Soho stylist and Brooklyn dad Louis Radcliff did a “rockin’ ” job on her hair—along with her two kids’ heads, all for fifty bucks. This impossible deal was confirmed by a commenter who says Louis is “amazing.”  See A Child Grows for info on how to get an appointment, and if anyone else knows of any other great cheap haircuts, please let ‘em rip here in the comments because everyone’s always asking us.

Reader Dina is looking for a Park Slope or Prospect Heights alternative to Devachan—the  curlcentric salon in SoHo. “I have tried so many places, but few deliver,” Dina writes, adding that so far she’s been happiest with Kim at Medusa. We’ve recommended Jeffrey at the Beehive (though a commenter disagreed) and heard good things about wave management at SlopeSuds, but would like to put this to our spiral-tressed sistren and brethren. Anyone?

For some women (not me), getting glammed up for free at a makeup counter is a regular ritual. Most department stores provide the service gratis—along with sales pitches of varying intensity—as a way to move product. And even though I’m the type of gal whose eyes glaze over at the word “foundation” (unless we’re talking philosophy or construction), I also love free stuff—in my vegetarian years, my most painful trial was free samples of salami. So I decided to hit up the Macy’s at Fulton Mall three times, putting my usual undone look aside to find out how three different makeup artists might reimagine me. Read the rest of this entry »

Emily and Farrah-Emily. Photos by Stefan Tonio.

Just a reminder that today is Farrah Hair Day at one of our favorite beauty spots, the Beehive Salon in Williamsburg, where you can get a Farrah Fawcett blowout for $50. That sounds like a lot, and yeah it kind of is, but not when the salon is giving half of it to Sanctuary for Families, a New York state group that helps victims of domestic abuse. You may be broke (and you may not be) but that’s no excuse to 1) neglect good causes and 2) not have Farrah Hair. Read the rest of this entry »

In case you forgot, we want to remind you that July is officially Farrah Hair Month, and two Brooklyn salons are marking the occasion by offering Farrah hair blowouts for charity—The Beehive in Williamsburg and Slope Suds in Park Slope. We love this idea—and we’re normally the $20 blowout types. Okay, the air-dry types. But this Friday at The Beehive, and all month at Slope Suds, you pay $50 and they’ll give half of the proceeds to two of Farrah’s favorite causes, cancer research and helping victims of domestic abuse. But not everyone around here has $50 to spend, so here’s how to do it yourself. (Results not guaranteed.) Read the rest of this entry »

At the end of last summer, I gave up getting waxed down under, mostly because I got tired of regularly handing over $20 or more to white-jacketed workers at the seemingly pristine salons near Union Square. I tried buying Nair, a few times. Each bottle could probably last a year, but I usually throw them out after one use because, no matter how I store them, they tend to smell and get gunky around the top. But this week I decided it was time for a proper depilatory experience: I’m heading to a water park next week with my nieces, and I don’t want to scare the children. Read the rest of this entry »