8 Tips for a healthy head!

We came across a great article in todays Irish Sun, which we felt might be of interest to our clients! We often get asked questions about hair care, mainly ‘are regular trims really necessary for healthy hair’ the answer is yes, but if you would like to know a little more as to why, read these 8 tips for a healthy crown.

1. The secret to healthy hair is strong hair! Trim off any split ends you may have. If split ends are left uncut, they will continue up the shaft and damage more of your, get rid.
2. You should wash your hair every day. This keeps the scalp clean and creates a healthier environment for your hair to grow. However if you have quite dry hair, it may be worth skipping a day with washing your hair, to let your hair absorb some of the natural oils from your body.
3. Using cooler water to wash and rinse your hair helps to lock in moisture which creates amazing shine and softness.
4. Always brush your hair from the ends up to the top to avoid breakage.
5. Its always best to let your hair dry naturally, if you do need to use heat, make sure to apply a heat protection spray first. If you don’t its like putting an iron onto your skin!
6. During sun exposure, remember your skin isn’t the only thing which needs protecting, sun exposure can dry the outside layer of your hair making it look dull. You can buy products now which have UVA and UVB filters, we recommend the Kerastase Soleil range, available in salon.
7. Nutrition is essential for maintaining youthful and vibrant hair. Eat well, and reaps the benefits! Milk, Fish, Nuts, and Eggs are a great source of protein which help keep your hair in tip-top condition.
8. If you need help, always see a registered consultant tricholigist.

Brown Sugar 4 Week Make Up Course June 18th

Is make-up your passion? Brown Sugar are inviting you to come and experience private make-up lessons taught by resident Brown Sugar make-up artist and one of the best in the business, Seána Long.

Seána counts a host of celebrities, TV presenters, models and well known socialites among her clients including Caprice, JEDWARD, Miriam O Callaghan, Sile Seoige, Claudine Palmer-Keane, Miss World winner Rosanna Davison, Amanda Brunker and Georgia Salpa to name but a few.

The course is suitable for anyone who wants to learn basic skills,  building right up to professional techniques. Make-up experience is not necessary for this course as the course is beginner/intermediate level.

Looks covered through-out the course include:

• Natural / Bridal Look
• Smokey Look
• Liner & Lips

This is a brilliantly tailored course for those of you wanting to experiment with your own make-up, it is also a truly great starting point for a possible make-up career, learning all the basic tips of the trade.

Brown Sugar make-up course begins 18th June 2012 and runs every Monday evening 6:30 – 9:30pm for 4 weeks in Brown Sugar South William Street.

Price – €499 

A full set of make-up brushes are essential for the duration of the course. We offer a discount on our Kohl brush set which is sold in the salon.

We are also running a full one day course; this will be one Sunday a month. This course includes a day time and night time look for those of you who want to refresh your own make up style. This is priced at just €199.

For more information contact Seána or Jill at Brown Sugar South William Street on (01) 6169967

Things that ‘Pinterest’ us…

Each and every one of our staff members in Brown Sugar are bursting at the seams with creativeness. They take inspiration from everything around them and apply it to their daily work, which is why our staff have many loyal customers!

Some of our more recent inspirations come from the new Social Media site Pinterest, a virtual pinboard that lets you organise and share all the beautiful things you find on and off the web.

All of our staff have access to the Brown Sugar Pinterest board which they have the chance to pin the images to! Here is a collection of some of the images they admire…. Pinteresting.

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St.Francis Raffle Winners

Thank you to everyone who purchased a ticket,  you all helped to add €5000 to our bottom line.  Congratulations to all of our winners, well done! We hope you all enjoy your prizes.

1st Prize: Loulerie Necklace worth €250 – Winner ‘Rachel Toner’ Ticket Number 047

2nd Prize: €500 worth of Original Penguin clothing – ‘Deirdre Lambe’ Ticket Number 168

3rd Prize: Smartphone signed by Rob Kearney – ‘Gino & Judy Reilly’ Ticket Number 160

4th Prize: Dinner for 2 Coppinger Row – Winner ‘Lynn Hunter’ Ticket Number 176

5th Prize: Deezer 6 Month Account – Winner ‘John Cotter’ Ticket Number 084

6th Prize: Dinner for 2 Cactus Jacks – Winner ‘Julie O’Neill’ Ticket Number 174

1st runner-up: Costume bag worth €350 – Winner ‘Mary Shannon’ Ticket Number 073

2nd runner-up: Barry McCall signed book – Winner ‘Sally Cooke’ Ticket Number 173

3rd runner-up: Smock necklace worth over €100 ‘Brendan O’Connor’

4th runner-up: Dinner for 2 Bagots Hutton – Winner ‘Cliodhna Ni Fhatharta’ Ticket Number 077

5th runner-up : A|wear €50 voucher + goodie bag – Winner ‘Louise Whelan’ Ticket Number 038

6th runner-up: Dinner for 2 in The Morgan – Winner  ‘Niamh Carter’ Ticket Number 052

7th runner-up: Warner Bros Tim Burton Collection – Winner  ‘Mark Flanagan’ Ticket Number 029

8th runner-up: €100 Voucher Green19: Winner ‘Mary Grainger’ Ticket Number 062

9th runner-up: Lunch for 2 Pepper Pot Cafe – Winner ‘Lorraine Hanlon’ Ticket Number 096

10th runner-up: Cake Cafe Dinner for 2 – Winner ‘Denise Head’ Ticket Number 035

11th runner-up: L’Oreal Hamper – Winner ‘Flo Hunter’ Ticket Number 177

12th runner-up: €100 Picture Rooms Voucher – Winner ‘Emmett Curly’ Ticket Number 068

13th runner-up: Family Pass to Madagascar Premiere – Winner ‘Marina Kelly’ Ticket Number 056

14th runner-up: Portrait Photoshoot with Maria McGrail – Winner ‘Alan Kelly’ Ticket Number 098

15th runner-up: 1 Year Subscription to Image Magazine – Winner ‘Owen Brennan’ Ticket Number 075

16th runner-up: 1 Year Subscription to Irish Tatler – Winner ‘Ian White’ Ticket Number 050

17th runner-up: CDs – Winner ‘Wayne Moody’ Ticket Number 042

18th runner-up: Voucher for Juniors Restaurant – Winner ‘Olga Killeen’ Ticket Number 043

19th runner-up: Laundry Room Dress – Winner ‘Louise Plummer’ Ticket Number 051

20th runner-up: Laundry Room Dress – Winner Ticket Number 600

21st runner-up: Chocolates + Signed Lisa Fitzpatrick Book – Winner ‘D Nolan‘ Ticket Number 094

22nd runner-up: Chocolates + Signed Lisa Fitzpatrick Book – Winner ‘Aisling Coy’ Ticket Number 044

23rd runner-up: Chocolates + Signed Lisa Fitzpatrick Book – Winner ‘Pauline Fitzgerald’ Ticket Number 080

24th runner-up: ? – Signed Lisa Fitzpatrick Book – Winner ‘Mary Hennessy’ Ticket Number 088

25th runner-up: Farah Coat – Winner ‘Christian Shannon’ Ticket Number  05

A ‘Thank You’ from Mark…

“Sunday was a phenomenal success which surpassed our expectations in relation to monies raised for St.Francis Hospice, Raheny.

I would like to start by thanking all of my wonderful team in South William Street and Blackrock, all of whom donated their time and energy. For this I am extremely proud and grateful. However none of this would have been possible if it was not for our amazing and generous clients.

I would also like to take this opportunity to say thank you to everybody for giving up your Sunday to come into our salons and creating an electric atmosphere with plenty of laughter and jokes to keep Eugenes memory alive. People travelled from both near and far to support us, which I am eternally grateful for.

Last, but by no means least I would like to thank the sponsors for their generous gift donations to our raffle which contributed €5000 to our bottom line. Loulerie, Hunter Communications, Coppinger Row, Cactus Jacks, Bagots Hutton, Original Penguin, Costume, A|wear, The Morgan, Warner Bros, Barry McCall, Deezer, Universal Music, L’Oreal, Green 19, Pepper Pot Cafe, Anna Lavery, Image Magazine, Irish Tatler, The Picture Rooms, Smock and Maria McGrail.

Once again thank you from the bottom of my heart – Mark O’Keeffe”

St.Francis Hospice fundraiser…

We have been left in a state of shock after yesterdays event! We would like to extend our gratefulness to every client, business and anyone who has donated to our fundraiser for the St. Francis Hospice, which marked the 1 year anniversary of the passing of our dear friend and colleague Eugene.

At a time of such sadness, it was a fantastic achievement for us to turn it around into such a positive thing, by raising funding for the hospice whom provides specialist palliative care to patients and families! To allow them to continue their work, means more families in the position the Reilly family where in last year, can receive the same priceless care which they received.

It is still to be confirmed, but our original target of €10,000 was exceeded and then some! An outstanding achievement for Brown Sugar, which could not have been done without our loyal customers and hard-working staff.

We would also like to extend a special thanks to all of the businesses who have provided such wonderful donations for our raffle which takes place this coming weekend, they have been a tremendous help to us in reaching our €10,000 goal.

While customers enjoyed some pampering and our staff happily worked away, Twitter and Facebook was exploding with such an amazing response to the fundraiser! Using the hashtag #HelpTheHospice – We have put together a slideshow of some of the amazing comments which we felt needed to be highlighted, as it was everyones generosity that made this day happen…. Which we are hoping will now be an annual Brown Sugar event!!

 

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It’s a wrap!

With a hop, skip and a jump through a very fashionable month of April, Brown Sugar Better Fashion Week has come to an end…

The Brown Sugar Better Fashion Show marked the end of the 5th annual Brown Sugar Better Fashion Week at the weekend. Guests were treated to a spectacle of the best in Irish designs combined with hair and make up put together by our creative team to create an all together flawless show…

The Nomadic No 6 shop had been transformed into a high-fashion runway, while the outside had been made into a designated seating area for discerning fashionistas and passers by to watch the show which kicked off at dusk…

By the time the show had come to an end, crowds of people had coalated outside to check out the show!

Better Fashion Week had one more treat left for fashion enthusiasts with a Bill Cunningham screening on Sunday morning which was a lovely way to wave goodbye to Brown Sugar Better Fashion Week for another year.

Here is  a peek at some of the images from the Saturdays show & wrap party…

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Fearless Fashion – 23rd April

BE FASHION FEARLESS –

The Re-Dress Salon invites a line up of leading Irish sartorialists to reveal their inner inspirations. Eight movers and shapers have been selected to give a behind-the-scenes look at their take on fashion.

From the worlds of Design, Ethics, Philosophy, Editorial, Art, Style, Textiles, Costume and a bit of je ne sais quoi – Expect an intimate evening packed with anecdotes, ideas, insider tips, rule breaking, fashion-faux-pas and of course an immense amount of style…

Final line-up

Constance Harris | Fashion, communications and self help specialist
David McDermott | Performance artist
Helen Steele | Artist & Designer
Eimear Ni Mhaol Domhnaigh | Costume designer
Aoibheann McNamara | Ard Bia Galway , Travel writer, Gallerist
Brendan Courtney | Presenter The Clothes Show & Off The Rails
Ib Jorgenson | Opened couture house in 1957.

Tickets are €10 and can be bought here – Event begins 7pm this coming Monday and ends at 9pm. No 6, Castlemarket Street, Dublin 2.

Nomadic Better Fashion Shop

Last week, the Nomadic pop up Brown Sugar Better Fashion Shop launched in the very centre of Dublin’s creative quarter, No 6 Castlemarket Street, which runs from the 3rd April until the 29th.

The shop hosts a number of different designs such as  Ruffeo hearts, Sans, Sinead Doyle, Grace and Favor, Belle Etik, Olson Haus, Studio Jux, Red Dog, The Irish Design Shop and Edun to name but a few.

To celebrate Brown Sugar’s title sponsorship of Better Fashion Week, we provided complimentary hair and make up from top stylist John Cheese and top make up artist Dearbhla Keenan, in the Nomadic shop on Castlemarket Street to one of our Facebook followers + a friend.

If you would like the opportunity to receive complimentary hair and make up in the Nomadic shop, entering our competition couldn’t be simpler. All you need to do is finish this sentence “Better Fashion Is…..?” and email it to brownsugar@betterfashionweek.com all entrants will be put into our weekly draw and can receive complimentary hair and make up for you and a friend. The competition will be running for the whole month of April, so make sure to send in your entries…

For more information on this years Brown Sugar Better Fashion Week including the full line up of events, click here.

Take a peek at some of the images we snapped with last weeks competition winners in the Nomadic shop.

Spring / Summer Trends!

Spring has most definitely sprung with the gorgeous weather we have been experiencing here in sunny ol’ Dublin, if we’re not mistaken we would have thought the clocks went forward four months, not one hour…! But hey, we’re certainly not complaining!! All the better to milk some of our favourite Spring/Summer trends as long as possible…

We have put together a gallery of some of our favourite Spring/Summer Hair and Beauty trends which are set to make waves! Some of our favourite trends include; stained lips, fresh faced make-up, top-knots, high-ponytails, side-ponytails, centre partings, and bouncy blowouts.

Scroll through to find your perfect look to rock this summer…

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