Slope Suds Salon and Soap Bar

Beauty From the Inside Out (Benefit for Girls, Inc.)

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Slope Suds has moved to it new digs, which was just voted the best place to improve your look in Park Slope by Time Out NY!  Over champagne and healthy treats, join us for a panel discussion with a phenomenal group of women experts! We’ll explore issues of beauty, inside and out, with a dermatologist, hair stylist, fitness expert, nutritionist and personal style consultant.

Time :  6:30pm to 9pm
Date :  Sunday, November 15th
Cost :  Tickets are $10 online & $15 at the door
Place : Slope Suds, 462 7th Ave. Brooklyn NY 11215 (on the corner of 16th Street) – 718.788.7837 (788-SUDS)

Space is limited so please RSVP by purchasing tickets online. Tickets are available for sale at the door for $15.00 on a first-come-first-served basis.

Free champagne, healthy treats, awesome raffle prizes and mingling after the discussion. There will be goodie bags for all the attendees (that incl. Hybrid Mom magazine, Dermalogica skin care, Youngblood mineral make-up sample & delicious all natural Q.Bel chocolate).

Plus, fun interactive spa/health activities that incl. free 3 minute table massages, skin mapping, free hair consults, bang trims, and mini personal style & nutrition coaching sessions!

The amazing raffle prizes include:

• Wardrobe Wrangler Session with Personal Style Consultant, Darcey Howard of LifeStyled
  (Value: $850) – Includes a 3 hour “style fairy godmother” in-home visit to develop personal brand attributes, evaluate your existing wardrobe, eliminate pieces that aren’t supporting your brand, create new outfits using your Staple Wardrobe, develop your Core Color Palette, and assess individual needs.
• One on One Personal Pilates Class with Frances Darnell of Pilates Garage (Value: $100)
  
• Haircut and Style by Vivi Lapidus of Slope Suds
  
• Complimentary Heath Consultation and Personal Health Food Tour with Lisa Cummings of Lisa Cummings Health helps you find the food and lifestyle choices that best support you and your body’s
  nutritional needs. She introduces you to new foods, organic foods, natural sweeteners, whole grains and teaches you how to read labels. You’ll walk away with fresh ideas and tips for preparing your own meals along with a detailed shopping list of some of her favorite products that you can update each week.
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Get Farrah Hair for a Good Cause

What’s the ultimate tribute to our fab, feathered friend? Rocking your own Farrah Fawcett hairdo.

As if that weren’t enough of a contribution to the betterment of society, two Brooklyn salons are
offering Farrah blowouts to raise money for the lion-haired legend’s pet causes.

On Friday, July 10, The Beehive Salon in Williamsburg is doing an event called “Feathers for Farrah,”
a full-day of $50 Farrah-style blowouts. Half of the proceeds will go to Sanctuary for Families, a
New York state group that helps victims of domestic abuse, a cause close to Farrah’s heart.

And through the end of the month, Park Slope’s SlopeSuds is also offering $50 Farrah blowouts,
with half of their proceeds going to the American Cancer Society, a charity Farrah supported.

You can’t go wrong at either one—especially not if you send us a photo of yourself winging it
Farrah-style. We’ve decided to do our own Farrah tribute: a Brokelyn Best Farrah Hair Contest.
The winner gets $75 worth of Davines products. (You can also enter with a DIY Farrah blowout too.)
Send pics here by July 15. And yep, we’re gonna run ‘em.

Beehive Salon, 115 N. 7th St., 718-782-8376 (phone bookings only) www.beehivesalon.com.

Slope Suds, closed for a move until July 7 but reopening at 462 7th Ave.
(on the corner of 16th Street), 718-788-7837, slopesuds.com.

How to get Farrah hair in five easy steps by Faye

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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.)

To demonstrate, we took ordinary 25-year-old Park Sloper Emily Uecker (okay, really beautiful Park Sloper Emily Uecker),
and had Texas, a singly named stylist at Slope Suds, perform a Farrah-style blowout that one could repeat at home.
This technique doesn’t require any special equipment beyond a decent-sized roller brush (at least two inches) and a
curling iron. Here’s the pre-Farrah photo of Emily, who works as an editorial assistant at a snazzy Manhattan media company:

STEP #1: WASH AND SECTION
Texas says you don’t need any special conditioners or anything, but there is one secret to doing a good blowout
at home: “Patience,” she says. After washing and conditioning the hair, apply a handful of volumizing mousse
(Texas likes the Davines brand), especially to the roots, then clip hair into four sections to keep the damp hair
of the way.  Leave a one- to two-inch strip at the bottom, which is where you’ll start drying. Why the back?
If you begin at the front, your arms might get too tired and you might decide to leave the back wet. Patience.

STEP #2: THE DIRTY WORK
Here you do your standard blowout: wrap hair around roller brush, aim hair dryer at section, pull tightly.
Never grab so much hair it flies off the brush when you hit it with the dryer, and always use a nozzle
because it prevents frizz. When you do the top,  lift the hair straight up and point the nozzle at the
roots to get some height. Like yay:

STEP #3 THE SIDES
When you get to the front/sides, angle the brush and pull it out in sort of an arc shape,
as if you were doing the breast stroke with your hair.

Emily tries it. Watch that brush angle, Emily!

STEP #4: THE TOP
Here, you basically continue the technique you used on the sides, pulling the hair across
the head to help give it Farrah-like height on top.

STEP 4: THE CURLING IRON
Here’s where things get tricky. Use the biggest barrel you can find, pull forward and roll back at
an angle like so. Only iron a third of the way up the hair. If you go all the way to the top, you’ll
get curls all over, and we’re saving that technique for the DIY Bernadette Peters blowout.
Use a medium-hold hairspray to keep the flips in place, before and after curling. Use amply and often.

STEP 5: BE GORGEOUS
That’s not hard for our volunteer, who also had her makeup done by Elke at Slope Suds.
Want to try it at home? In honor of Farrah Hair Month, we’re having our own contest—
and the winner gets $75 in beauty products from Davines. So why not give the roller
brush a whirl? Send your before-and-after photos by July 15 to Farrah@brokelyn.com.

Beehive Salon, 115 N. 7th St., 718-782-8376 (phone bookings only) www.beehivesalon.com.

Slope Suds, 462 7th Ave. (on the corner of 16th Street), 718-788-7837, slopesuds.com.