CNJ+ November 2023

Your Hair: Hot Topics Hot Trends By, Lawrence Gerard

When it comes to your hair, it is all about enhancing your facial features and keeping your hair healthy. The right hairstyle and color will make you look your best. Regular trimming and care keeps your hair healthy. I developed, Tri Color Highlighting using

3 different tones of blonds for highlighting that creates natural effect and look. These streaks add texture, style and structure to hair. Highlights are much easier to maintain than a base color that is significantly lighter to your natural color hair. Highlights are more subtle, so they require less maintenencce. This process is less damaging because it’s applied less often. My tecqnique allows you to control the final look with subtle highlights or more prominent streaks. This gives your hair a look that is more natural than other hair colors. One-dimensional hair colors can make hair look dull and dense. This process also is great to hide grays with minimal maintenance. This process eliminates the sharp line between gray regrowth and current color. And when adding lowlights, it gives more dimensions to the blondes! Remember that you can’t see the light without the dark! Book a consultation with any of my talented staff of hairdressers and colorists. It is complimentary. If you would like to learn more, we offer FREE consultations at both locations. Your hairstyle has direct impact on your physical appearance and our team will make sure you look your best. Lawrence Gerard, owner of The Salon at Manalapan and hairdresser for 38 years with a strong Sassoon background has done hair for runway shows, fashion magazines, celebrities and movies. His daughter Perri is also the creative director at the Asbury Park location.

THE DANGERS OF ELECTRONIC CIGARETTES By Mia Ingui “They’re not real cigarettes. What’s the harm?” “I’m using these to QUIT smoking, obviously.” “Everyone is vaping now, so why not?” Danger often wears disguises, and this time, it comes disguised as an e-cig. Electronic cigarettes, or e-cigs as they’re called, are a new form of “smoking” thought to be significantly safer and less harmful to the body. Yet, studies have proven that actually, they are not all that different from the original thing. They look the same, even light up at the end, and are used the same way, but with an electronic cigarette, one would puff out a cloud of vapor instead of smoke. What is the most dangerous thing about this new form of smoking? No one knows yet. That is what is so risky and concerning about electronic cig arettes. So, are they safe to use? Although there is no real smoke, the high amounts of nicotine within the vapor are addictive and can be harmful later on down the road to the arter ies and the heart. The appeal of the drug as being “safer” than smoking real cigarettes is also harmful to the non-smokers and children of our genera tion, who will think that this type of smoking is not offlimits and not harm ful, when meanwhile, it is. Because there are still many unknowns in the picture, like the effects on the body in the future and possible damage from secondhand use of elec tronic cigarettes, they can be considered just as dangerous as picking up a cigarette.

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