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- Skin Deep's owner aims for health and beauty - Newport Plain Talk
- Stealing beauty: Cosmetics top list of swiped goods - msnbc.com
- Beauty's In The Eye Of The Photographer - HealthCentral.com
| Skin Deep's owner aims for health and beauty - Newport Plain Talk Posted: 01 Oct 2010 06:27 PM PDT The tropical storm drowning the coastline sent plenty of water to our hometown, as residents began contemplating long-sleeves, and just when it would be time to turn up the morning heat with October temperatures falling into the 40s. Last week we drove into Western Auto to chat with the Burchettes and meet a fellow who has handled tire changing and sales at one business longer than most any other person in the county. Larry Lunsford haunts the two-bay garage at the Cosby Highway business. So, let me finish up our chat with a little more information. Larry is single and continues to live on the Lunsford farm off Jones Cove Road where he takes care of his mother who is in her 80s and must be a great cook judging by Larry's healthy waistline. He is a huge Tennessee Volunteer football fan but doesn't get the time to hunt and fish like he used to. I left him to his kingdom of tires and tools and said goodbye to James Burchette on the way out. I also found out that oldest son, David, is managing his rental properties; Joe is principal at Smoky Mountain School. Etholeen and James still live at Castle Heights where they are neighbors to Burnett Harper and Tim Hurst families. It was good to catch up on old friends and learn more about someone who has fixed so many tires in town since 1972. Before moving on to my main and most attractive topic, I did want to mention what happened at the office earlier in the week. Perhaps you followed the reports we had of the car-motorcycle crash on Cosby Highway about a week ago. When out and about I saw a fire engine and called to learn of the crash, went to the scene, photographed it, saw the wreckage. Then, on Monday the brother of motorcyclist John Burnett, Jerry, came to us to report his brother had died. "He would squeeze our hand but never talked," said Jerry, who is younger than the 46-year-old victim. He must have been a super guy to coach and referee soccer and drive all the way from Seymour to Cosby that fateful day. Ironically, Jerry lost a portion of his leg in a motorcycle accident in 1999 and warned family members to stay off motorcycles. Jerry told me that John was taking care of three grandchildren, was a disabled veteran, and retired from the US Postal Service. He participated in AMVETS and the Freedom Riders. I am sure he will be sorely missed by all. It might have taken me longer than the average person to notice a new sign for a unique business that opened several months ago in downtown Newport. The reason the news got to me rather quickly was thanks to our Internet marketing and sales representative Mark Taylor. He had just visited with the business owner and suggested that I pay her a visit. Skin Deep became a new business on our popular Cockecountymarketplace.com Website, if you want to check on it. After a rainy morning on Monday, I went in search of the new business operator. Our Online rep. Mark told me to find the business in the two-story offices near attorney Tom Testerman. When I saw the door with the sign for Darrell Ball, surveyor, and the Skindeepinfo.com sign, I knew it to be the right place and remembered it used to serve as attorney Bill Shults' office. There was a light on at the top of the stairs but Kristen Renae Ball was not at her Skin Deep business. Darrell was on the phone so I waited to meet him and chat, not knowing the relationship between the businesses. Looking around his office, it quickly was apparent he loves golf, surveying, his family, and Tennessee. Darrell is a lot leaner and younger than his brothers, who I've known for years. Wayne Ball is a retired police officer and Ronnie Ball is a former businessman who has fallen on hardtimes. Trying to learn more about the Ball family, I quizzed Darrell for a few minutes on the genealogy and learned that his grandpa Tilman Ball operated a bean store at the Old Fifteenth and Sol Mountain Road. This is truly in the middle of the mountains and worth a trip to see the long-abandoned store. Darrell's Dad was Horace and Mom, the former Juanita Coggins Ball, of Del Rio. You know the other children: Joann Breeden, of Rankin; Velda "Wendy" Mallot, of Florida; and Joyce Fine, of Newport. I also was reminded of the connection to the 40-plus year cosmetology veteran, Geraldine Hartsell. She is an aunt. I will revisit Darrell to learn more about the family but let me tell you about Kristen and what she does. The lights were on and she was in a back room busy preparing it for customers when I rapped on the glass panes about 10 a.m. on Friday. She is slim, tall, black haired and 22, looking nothing like her parents. Kristen lives with Darrell and Freda at their Sherwood Drive home. Her brother, Stephen 25, is a land surveyor, helping Dad. While Freda and I were chatting, Mom walked in and she looked familiar. You may know her as the former Freda Hooper, who is related to the Valentines, particularly Luther and Vergie Valentine. Freda calls the late Edith and Everette Hooper her Mom and Dad. When she is not handling her family chores, Freda works as a registered nurse at Morristown-Hamblen Hospital in the emergency room where she is a clinical supervisor. It seems that Kristen has already packed a lot in her few years and was teaching skin car, aesthetics, at Morristown's Tennessee Institute of Cosmetology on Thursday. She is a graduate of theirs. After graduation from Cocke County High School, Kristen moved to Knoxville on her own to study at Tennessee School of Beauty (Tennessee Skin Care Center). This was a year's course after which she passed her state board examinations to be certified and returned to Newport. She did some work with Shear Structure in Morristown before her real first paying job with Darlene Brooks, a well-known cosmetologist. Kristen is mastering microderma abrasion, does facials, chemical peals, spray tanning, anti-aging and anti-acne treatments. When I visited this past Friday morning, she and Freda were finishing the set-up of their spray-tanning booth, which is much different than I expected. No, you don't pick up a can of spray paint, and attack a person who has tapped over their eyes, hair and parts they don't want tanned. After she finished in Knoxville, Kristen continued her studies at the Tenn. Institute of Cosmetology where she learned hair cutting, styling and coloring. She graduated the spring of 2009, went to work but was already pondering her own business. "I enjoy hair, but my real passion is skin care. There's a ton of hair stylists but few skin care specialists," she said. So as far as she is aware, Skin Deep is the only such local business offering the variety of skin aesthetics. It was natural for her to move into the offices owned by her Dad. He suggested there was plenty of extra room and she could "make it work." Skin Deep opened in May. Darrell and Freda support this high-energy daughter and her boyfriend, Lucas Tabor, painted the new offices. He is the son of Darrell and Renee Tabor of White Pine. Freda and Kristen had set up the tanning booth, which looks like a tall tent to me. I recognized the special tanning spray unit as similar but smaller than my high volume low pressure paint spray gun. Seeing this made me ask to see a demonstration that we could video and place on our Cockecountymarketplace.com Website. This and her various skin care treatments are by appointment only. The sessions last for about an hour and Kristen creates a relaxing low-light atmosphere for her customers, who are both women and men. Although Kristen likes to travel her time now is focused on the business and she has future plans. "I'd love to expand, add employees and be Newport's first salon and spa" specializing in skin care. Subscribe to The Newport Plain Talk by clicking SUBSCRIBE. Sign up for Breaking News emails from The Newport Plain Talk by clicking EMAIL ALERTS and inputting your email address next to "Add Me" near the top right corner. This entry passed through the Full-Text RSS service — if this is your content and you're reading it on someone else's site, please read our FAQ page at fivefilters.org/content-only/faq.php This posting includes an audio/video/photo media file: Download Now |
| Stealing beauty: Cosmetics top list of swiped goods - msnbc.com Posted: 30 Sep 2010 05:28 AM PDT When magazine headlines shout "steal this look!" — some women are taking that literally. Turns out, cosmetics top the nation's list of shoplifted items. "Health and beauty care items" accounted for 20 percent of all items stolen from supermarkets in 2008, according to the most recent survey from the Food Marketing Institute.
Are vain people more likely to be criminals? Or do criminals just want to look hot in their mug shots? More likely, it's that slipping beauty products into a purse is more doable — and worthwhile —than, say, ripping off a 12-pack of toilet paper. Just last month, Caroline Giuliani — the 21-year-old daughter of former New York City mayor Rudy Giuliani — was caught swiping $100 worth of beauty products from a Manhattan Sephora . The Harvard senior must complete one day of community service to pay for her beauty-stealing binge. And although we don't know what Giuliani stole from the high-end beauty shop, experts say shoplifters are just as discerning as consumers when it comes to what they take. Story: 5 skin mistakes that age you "Consumers gravitate toward certain items, and so do the criminals," says Joseph LaRocca, a senior advisor for the National Retail Federation. Among the top shoplifted items are pricey hair care brands like Pureology and Bumble and Bumble, according to the group. Also among the most stolen items: Oil of Olay's Regenerist line of anti-aging products, LaRocca says. "We hear that over and over again; it's one of the top targeted items," LaRocca says. That's surely in part because of the attention the Regenerist line received after an American Consumer Union review of the drugstore line found that it outperformed much more expensive brands such as La Prairie Cellular, which sells a 1.7-oz. anti-aging cream for nearly $580. Highly shoplifted items like the Oil of Olay skin care line are increasingly being stashed under locked display cases — an annoyance for the customer who must track down an employee to unlock the $24 wrinkle serum. Most stolen health and beauty products
The padlocks may be making a dent, however. Bucking the economic downturn, overall shoplifting rates dipped in 2009; still, retailers still lost $11.7 billion from shoplifting last year. Story: Prick and run? Botox bandits rip off wrinkle shots Rhett Asher, the vice president of industry relations for the Food Marketing Institute, says the group is working on a report looking into why amateur shoplifters swipe what they do. In terms of beauty products — why pocket a $15 lip gloss and risk serious legal consequences? "You have to look at it as a specifically self-destructive kind of behavior, a statement of rebellion — it's more about that kind of statement than it is about mascara," says Dr. Gail Saltz, a New York City psychiatrist and regular TODAY contributor. "I think that if you're stealing stuff, then probably you aren't happy and you may feel it's about the way you look." But for teen girls, pocketing nail polish from a drugstore can almost be a rite of passage — even actress Megan Fox went through a sticky-fingers phase as a teenager, and was reportedly banned from a Florida Wal-Mart after stealing a $7 tube of lip gloss. (Keep in mind that's according to tabloid reports, and Fox's reps have refused to comment on the claim.) "For young girls, it often is these makeup items they're taking, because ... it's not about beauty — it's about doing something wrong," Saltz says. Another theory: Maybe some petty thefts steal the stuff they're too embarrassed to bring to the register. Among the top shoplifted items according to the NRF are Alli weight loss drugs, pregnancy tests, Nicorette products — and Rogaine. © 2010 msnbc.com Reprints This entry passed through the Full-Text RSS service — if this is your content and you're reading it on someone else's site, please read our FAQ page at fivefilters.org/content-only/faq.php This posting includes an audio/video/photo media file: Download Now |
| Beauty's In The Eye Of The Photographer - HealthCentral.com Posted: 01 Oct 2010 02:09 PM PDT With less than three weeks until the wedding and stress levels rising, I've been looking for ways to relax and still try to maintain my weight. I'm definitely a stress eater and these past few months have truly tested my ability to refrain. Same goes for exercise. Some people find that when they are under a lot of stress, going for a run or taking a power lifting class helps to burn off some steam. That's been true for me in the past, but lately, all I've wanted to do is relax at home and take the doggies for their walks.
Part of me knows that this is the final stretch. Three weeks to work on toning, reducing bloat, and getting some much-needed exercised-induced endorphins. But my "squishy happy side" just wants to chill. My mind is so full of thoughts, to-do lists, and "what if's" that I feel like I literally can't take in any more information. I'm having the same problem with output. It's all I can do to make it through work. Or should I say jobs. That's right; I still have all four jobs. Super fun!
Happily, something wonderful happened the other day to not only bust me out of my brain fog, but also make me feel beautiful (a rare and amazing occurrence, much like Halley's Comet). A few weekends ago, I went down to North Carolina for my bridal portraits slash bachelorette party. Eleven women shared a gorgeous beach house thanks to the hard work of my best college friend, Margarette. She put together an amazing weekend for me, and even at four months pregnant, went out of her way to do everything possible to please me. She went with me to Fort Macon for my bridal pics and spent the first half hour listening to me bitch about my dress being too tight. Even with my hair and makeup done professionally and looking gorgeous (so everyone told me), I still found reasons to pick on myself. Margarette did her Matron-of-honor duty and told me how fabulous I looked, but I just wasn't feeling it. I felt like I couldn't breathe and I had my photographer Ena cheerfully telling me to spin around and to pose on a stranger's motorcycle for fun. Arrrrghh!!
Eventually, I eased into the session and started to loosen up. The sun was setting over the Atlantic as I walked barefoot in the sand, holding my veil over my head so it could blow in the salty breeze. When I was finished, I wondered like any bride would how the photos would turn out. I didn't feel beautiful, maybe just a bit pretty, but I hoped Ena's skills would tell help to tell a different story. After waiting a tense week, I finally received her e-mail with a link to the new gallery. I held my breath and opened it up, and much to my surprise and shock...I cried. The photos brought tears to my eyes because despite my whining and discomfort during my session, I truly looked beautiful. My body looked curvy in the dress, not fat. My skin looked porcelain, not ruddy. And the orchids behind my ear completed my vision exactly how I hoped they would. I could not have been happier.
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