Mother-daughter team Stephanie and Carley Barton spent the Saturday before Mother’s Day together at the salon, but the duo wasn’t there just to be pampered. They’ve both been growing their hair out for years to be donated to Locks of Love.

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.

Tammy Huston

Duncan Salon

In just nine months people of all ages are getting the training they need to become professional barbers at a local barber college.

Women across the Valley can “streak for a good cause” with a splash of pink hair when they make a $10 donation to support the American Cancer Society’s Making Strides Against Breast Cancer at Brillare Hairdressing Academy through Oct. 31.

Stop in for a complimentary glass of cold lemonade and receive 30 percent off all Sebastian hair care products on Saturday, Aug. 18.

Here we go again, talking out loud about the hair issue. I naively thought that we had done that issue to death, but the roots of the problem seem not to have been adequately addressed. Perhaps a little context will help grasp what’s going on now.

Brillare Hairdressing Academy is offering back-to-school discounts on select services and products when clients bring in a children’s book for “Operation School Bell,” a program of the Assistance League of Phoenix.

Anaphora, LLC, a Phoenix-based private holding company, announced the acquisition of Brillare Hairdressing Academy.

Brillare Hairdressing Academy helps you show your patriotic pride this Fourth of July. Hair chalking only $4 with the purchase of a blow out ($10). Permanent options $10 with a blow out service. Portion of proceeds donated to packagesfromhome.org to support our military. Expires Saturday, July 7.

Brillare Hairdressing Academy helps you show your patriotic pride this Fourth of July. Hair chalking only $4 with the purchase of a blow out ($10). Permanent options $10 with a blow out service. Portion of proceeds donated to packagesfromhome.org to support our military. Expires Saturday, July 7.

Ahwatukee Foothills resident Deeanna Gordon has been nominated for the award of Phoenix Diocese Council Women – 2012 Woman of the Year. Gordon grew up in Chicago guided by the nuns in the Catholic school she attended. She was married to her husband Mel for over 20 years. Unfortunately, he suffered with Parkinson’s disease and she took care of him until his passing while working as a hairdresser and owner of a beauty salon and spa six days a week. She continues to work in her business.

With mention of this brief, receive a free Sassoon haircut with any color service. Students on spring break get 20 percent off any service plus a $5 all-natural cold facial waxing.

Duncan Salon

Approximately 22 hairdressers from Phoenix area salons volunteered their time and their clippers on Christmas morning, providing free haircuts to more than 400 men, women and children. In addition to haircuts, the Salvation Army Christmas Dinner event at the Phoenix Convention Center included children's games, free long-distance calls, photos with Santa, family portraits, snacks, toys for children, live music, and more.

The cast of Arizona Broadway Theatre’s “Steel Magnolias” received firsthand information and instructions from their director about the ways of a beautician. Before becoming a professional actor and director, Jimmy Ferraro worked for a number of years as a hairstylist in New York.

Folk wisdom has it that the first thing to do when stuck in a hole is to stop digging. That's good advice. It's also why Greece should go into default on its debts.

Folk wisdom has it that the first thing to do when stuck in a hole is to stop digging. That's good advice. It's also why Greece should go into default on its debts.