Love fashion but can’t exactly jet off to runway shows in New York or Milan? You can see a fashion show right here at home when The East Valley Institute of Technology (EVIT) hosts its parade of 150 outfits created by 53 first- and second-year fashion students.

For all the flak that our state’s education system has taken over the years (I’ve dealt some of it), we proudly lead the nation in an important segment: career and technical education.

The new ownership at Brillare Hairdressing Academy has a vision to use the Ahwatukee Foothills and Scottsdale locations as models for a high-end hair school as it expands to more locations across the U.S.

When Vincent Ceglia sold his salon in New Jersey and moved with his family to Ahwatukee Foothills, he had no intention of opening another salon, but when hair is all you’ve ever wanted to do it’s tough to stay away.

Parents will find few states that offer families as many schooling options as Arizona does. A longtime leader in the national school choice movement, Arizona has an education marketplace with a school for just about any income, interest or situation. And nowhere in the state do options abound like they do in the East Valley.

Have you ever sat in the international terminal at the airport and just listened to the mix of voices around you, all of them speaking in a language you don’t understand?

Waxing, facials, makeup and lasers, local business owner Jena Irby is ready to handle it all.

Arizonans are free to try to make a living by plucking eyebrows without first getting approval by the state.

Ahwatukee Foothills resident Saskia Almasan has spent years training, planning and designing her dream salon. Now that dream is finally coming true and Saskia Salon is open for business.

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So how much state-recognized training does someone need to pluck eyebrows for a living?

The owner of a Gilbert salon where fish nibble dead skin off your feet will get another chance to convince a court she has a constitutional right to do that.

A judge has tossed out efforts by a Gilbert salon owner to demand that the state let her use fish to give pedicures.

After a reoccurring dance injury forced her to put college on hold, 19-year-old Kali Fisher, a lifelong Ahwatukee Foothills resident, saw an opportunity to follow her cosmetology dreams.

A Gilbert salon owner whose flesh-eating fish once nibbled the dead skin from her customers' feet is biting back after the Arizona Board of Cosmetology ordered a halt to the service.

Belle Mélange Salon

The owner of a Gilbert salon said she's stopped using flesh-eating fish for pedicures.

Thousands of jobs in Gilbert hinge on the outcome of a dispute between the Arizona State Board of Cosmetology and a Gilbert salon.