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We at Discount Beauty Center are proud to introduce to you the FHI Heat Professional Styling Appliances to our ever-expanding collection.  FHI Heat has been a leader in the beauty industry for the past 8 years.  While relatively new, they have stormed the marketplace with their influential designs and technology, while receiving rave reviews from their clients. 

All FHI appliances come with a 1 year manufacturer’s warranty.  We will also honor the manufacturer’s warranty of all of our appliances.  Please read more about it here.

FHI Heat Nano Salon Pro 2000 Hair Dryer

It’s the must have for every style, taking your client’s hair from sopping-wet to workably damp in just minutes. Our advanced tourmaline technology prevents static and frizz to keep hair smooth and add shine. This sleek essential is both workhorse and racehorse, boasting a high-powered yet remarkably quiet AC motor designed for 1200 hours of high-styling.

Retail:  $195.00

Your Price:  $159.99

FHI Heat Nano Weight Pro 1900 Turbo Hair Dryer

Although the FHI Heat Nano Weight Pro 1900 Turbo is one of the lightest professional dryers on the market, this high-tech tool offers the stylist unrivaled versatility and control behind the chair. Incredibly, this latest model is lighter, yet more powerful than previous models. Although the FHI Heat Nano Weight Pro 1900 now weighs 25% less, the motor is 30% more forceful, and a sleek new design makes the dryer more compact and easier to store, carry and take on the road.

                                             Retail:  $195.00

                                             Your Price:  $159.99

FHI Heat Platform Special Edition Flat Iron 1″

FHI Platform Series has made available their patented Nano Fuzeion Technology. Through this technology, negative ions are now suspended directly over the plates, maximizing the ionic effect resulting in even shinier and healthier hair. The FHI Platform Series with nano titanium oxide and nano silver technology also helps to remove any harmful chemicals as well as kill bacteria. These ceramic heaters with a maximum temperature of 450 degrees Fahrenheit and ultra rapid heat up time has consistent heat across the entire surface of the plates allowing damp to dry styling, ultra rapid heat recovery and improved reliability. All Platform Series irons allow temperature adjustments from 140 degrees to 450 degrees Fahrenheit, which greatly increases their versatility as a hair styling tool.

                                         Retail:  $195.00

                                         Your Price:  $159.99

FHI Heat Technique G2 Flat Iron 1″

FHI Heat’s second generation of TECHNIQUE styling irons brings professional hair artistry within reach literally. Advanced ceramic tourmaline technology restores shine, suppleness and moisture to even damaged hair.

Dry, damaged and frizzy hair has a positive ionic charge. In order to balance that you need a negative ion ceramic plate to neutralize the charge in the hair and thus create smoother, shinier and calmer ha

 Retail:  $120.00

                                             Your Price:  $95.99

Derma E Natural Bodycare has been presented with the April 2009 Green Patriot Compant of the Month Award for organic leadership, green entrepreneurial innovation and global sustainability.

Derma E is a family company (like ours) that has a strong commitment to social and environmental responsibilities.  They manufacture their products with 100% wind energy and they have an in office conservation and recycling program.  All of Derma E’s products use Natural ingredients.

The Green Patriot™ Awards were created by Freedom Press, a publishing house dedicated to books and magazines that focus on health and the environment, to honor companies and organizations that have displayed outstanding achievement in demonstrating social and eco-friendly responsibilities that benefit their customers, employees and the environment.

Read more about the Green Patriot awards here

See more awards won by Derma E

DBC is proud to welcome Dermalogica Clean Start to our family.  These products were designed for the Young Adult to help with Acne Problems. 

Clean Start was designed with the Teen/Young Adult at mind.  “Products for teens often contain harsh and inexpensive ingredients to strip the skin of oil, and are filled with artificial fragrances and colors – all things that can irritate and strip oil from skin, causing more problems than you started with!”

When Dermalogica’s founder, Jane Wurwand, noticed that her daughter’s (who were teens) were having trouble finding the right skin care products for them, she had her team of experts create the Clean Start line.  Rather than having a “focus group”, Dermalogica’s experts recruited young adults to test the products, help with names and design the packaging for each product.   The result is a fresh, great product that all Young Adults can feel comfortable using.

Watch the Video on “How To Start” with Clean Start 

Step 1:  Getting Clean

Meet Dirt.  Meet Grime.  Then Kiss Them Goodbye!

Clean Start Wash Off:  This foaming wash clears up dead skin cells and extra oils to clean deep, banishing breakouts from your face, back… or wherever.

Clean Start All Over Clear:  This refreshing mist splashes over skin to control shine and keep breakouts at bay. Instantly cools. Instantly refreshes

Step 2:  Taking On Issues

It’s You Versus the Breakout…And This Time YOU Win!

Clean Start Ready, Set, Scrub!:  It’s a masque, it’s a scrub, it’s a breakout-fighting, pore-refining duo that delivers smoother, clearer, and fresher skin

Clean Start Bedtime For Breakouts:  This super-stealth treatment absorbs quickly to wipe out breakouts below the surface

Clean Start Hit The Spot:  Breakouts have finally met their match! This concentrated spot treatment absorbs without a trace, minimizing breakouts while controlling future breakout activity

Step 3:  Protecting Skin

There’s a Place and Time to be Matte…or to Shine!

Clean Start Welcome Matte SPF 15:  An extraordinary, lightweight lotion that won’t clog pores, helps keep skin clear and shine-free, and protects from skin-aging UV rays

Clean Start Brighten Up SPF 15:  This multi-tasking lotion contains a natural tint and shimmer to keep skin looking even and fresh for an all-day glow

Clean Start Smart Mouth Lip Shine:  A super-smoothing, shine-inducing lip shield that moisturizes and conditions to deliver your softest lips

New to Clean Start? 

Try Their Starter Kit:  Combines what skin needs every day into easy to handle, grab-and-go gear. Includes Wash Off, All Over Clear, Ready, Set, Scrub!, Bedtime for Breakouts and Welcome Matte SPF15

The 37th Annual FiFi Awards 

A few months ago, we introduced you to the FiFi Awards, (the “Oscars of the fragrance industry”), which are held every year and are sponsored by The Fragrance Foundation.  On Wednesday, the foundation held the 37th annual FiFi’s in New York City.  Here’s a look at some of the winners!

Fragrances of the Year

Women’s Luxe:  Gwen Stefani’s Harajuku Lovers Fragrances (all five of them!)

• Love
  
• Lil’ Angel
• Music
• Baby
• “G” / Gwen

Men’s Luxe:  I am King by Sean Jean  (Diddy’s Fragrance)

Women’s Nouveau Niche:  Chloe by Chloe

Men’s Nouveau Niche:  Burberry The Beat (we wrote about this one a few days ago!)

Female Celebrity Fragrance of the Year:  Paris Hilton - This one was already revealed to us

Hall of Fame

Designer:  Marc Jacobs  (He’s created scents for women like Daisy, Blush, Essence, and Grass, and his traditional Marc Jacobs Eau de Parfum Women’s as well as Men’s fragrances.

Fragrance:  Tie between Davidoff Cool Water and Elizabeth Taylor’s White Diamonds.

Bath and Body Line of the Year:  Angel “Les Parfums Corps” by Thierry Mugler

Advertising and Design

Best Packaging of the Year:  Women’s Prestige:  Harajuku Lovers Fragrances and Ma Dame by Jean Paul Gaultier

Best Media Campaign of the Year Men’s: Juicy Couture’s Dirty English

For a complete list of winners, visit this article from Fashion Wire Daily

Thanks to the blog Chirstina Loves…, we were reminded that the CEW announced their finalists for their annual Insider’s Choice Beauty Awards. 

The CEW (stands for Cosmetic Executive Women) is a nonprofit organization that joins together professional women in the cosmetics industry.  It acts as a networking outlet as well as provides education and philanthropic acts to the community.

Some of the finalists this year ’s awards include:

• Jergens Natural Glow Express Body Moisturizer - for best body treatment (mass)
• Ahava Dermud Intensive Nourishing Body Cream - for best body treatment (prestige)
• L’Oreal Paris Double Extend Tubes Mascara - best eye product (mass)
• Maybelline Mineral Powder Foundation - best face product (mass)
• Physicians Formula Organic Wear Face Powder - best face product (mass)
• Bare Escentuals Bareminerals Hydrating Mineral Veil - best face product (prestige)
• Burt’s Bees Super Shiny Lip Gloss - best lip product (mass)
• L’Oreal Paris Infallible Lip Gloss - best lip product (mass)
• Emporio Armani Diamonds for Men - best men’s scent
• Prada Infusion d’Homme Eau de Toilette Spray - best men’s scent
• Sean John I am King Spray - best men’s scent
• Harajuku Lovers Fragrance, “G” - best women’s scent (prestige)

Click here for a complete list of finalists.  The CEW awards will be held on May 1, 2009 in New York City.  We promise to keep you updated on the winners from the event!

What’s a FiFi?

Often referred to as, “The Oscars of the fragrance industry,” the annual FiFi Awards are the most prestigious fragrance awards in the world.  Since 1973, the awards have sought to honor those companies who have made important creative achievements in the fragrance industry. 

Who decides who wins a FiFi?

The awards are sponsored by the Fragrance Foundation, a non-profit organization that acts as the international hub of historical, scientific, and cultural fragrance subjects.  They have an online database with a comprehensive collection of materials about fragrances as well as the complete “Fragrance Directory.”  The actual awards are voted upon by both industry insiders and consumers! 

Rochelle Bloom, the President of the Fragrance Foundation says of the FiFi awards:

“Perfume is an art form…The awards showcase this creativity and because it is such a high-profile event, we are always honored to welcome the fragrance industry’s movers and shakers as well as celebrities and headliners from TV and fashion.”

One special 2009 winner has already been announced. According to Now Smell This, Paris Hilton was named “Celebrity of the Year,” by the FiFi awards.  This is the first year that this specific award has been given out.  Paris Hilton currently has eight different fragrances: Paris Hilton for Women, Paris Hilton for Men, Heiress for Women, Heir for Men, Just Me for Women, Just Me for Men, Can Can, and Fairy Dust

Now that’s hot!

Last year’s FiFi Award winners

• Daisy by Marc Jacobs: Fragrance of the Year - Women’s Luxe:
• Dolce & Gabbana Light Blue Pour Homme: Fragrance of the Year - Men’s Luxe
• Prada Infusion d’Iris: Fragrance of the Year - Women’s Nouveau Niche
• Attitude by Giorgio Armani - Best Packaging - Men’s Prestige
• Vera Wang: Fragrance Hall of Fame Award (for her contribution to the fragrance industry). 

We promise to keep you updated on more information regarding the 2009 FiFi Awards, which will be held on May 27 in New York City.