We are very pleased to welcome Atusa to the Exquisite family. Atusa brings her years of esthetic experience, and deep commitment to giving you the very best in esthetic treatment to our Spa. We welcome Atusa’s many existing clients, & invite our salon clients to experience Atusa’s excellent care. To celebrate her arrival here at Exquisite Atusa has put together some excellent packages for those of you who wish to get ready for Spring & Summer!

Soon we will have all the details posted …

But DON’T WAIT !

Call Atusa Now for Details of the

GET READY FOR SUMMER Packages!

604-897-0797

We are so excited about our new barber shop and if the feedback from residents around us, and in Newport Village, and Suter Brooke is any indication, so is everybody else! What we have done is redesign the front and lounge area of our salon to include a barber shop that is a part of but separate from our salon with separate entrances for each. We have always felt that there many men and even families that just want a traditional barbershop experience and pricing so that’s what we’ve created. We started by putting together a team of really fabulous barbers with a heap of experience, and made it just  a simple convenient setup with a few of the things guys will want , like 24 hr HD Sports. So now you have a choice laser, esthetics, colour, updos, high end cuts, styling and straightening in Exquisite or just a good solid barbershop experience next door at EXQ Barbershop.

Here’s the Low Down on our …

GRAND OPENING!!

SUNDAY April 1 st  10 AM

The first 10 cuts of the day will be FREE, and cuts for the rest of the day will be just $11. We are also distributing a flyer with a coupon for $5 off  your cut on any other day (good until the end of May)  and are running an Ad in the Tricity News market section with the same coupon.

SEE you there, Bring your HAIR!!

Those of us who went through the Brazilian Blowout debacle were very frustrated, not just because the product wasn’t as safe as the company claimed, but also because the product really really worked. It was a god send to those looking for smoother more manageable hair. So after BB went south we were determined to find an alternative smoothing treatment and we looked far and wide, but seemingly all the products that worked well were using some variation of Brazilian Blowout’s formulation, and soon they too were banned by Health Canada also. Some salons introduced dubious new smoothing treatments that attempted to bond on keratin with different methods – but our spies told us that the smoothing  just didn’t last.  So we waited, and wished. We are delighted to at last announce to you that the wait is OVER! Liquid Keratin – which is in fact a Canadian company has had a tamed consumer version of their smoothing treatment for some time, the big news is they’ve now introduced a safe new professional formulation that gets results. The product has been tested by an independant lab, and using state of the art equipment and procedures has been certified to be free of formaldehyde, and other formaldehyde like chemicals. And the results are amazing!

Our Introductory Special of $249.00 will

run until May 31 st (Regular price $350.00)

Book now to ensure that you recieve the intro pricing!

604-461-3433

There is nothing we love more than trends that bring natural products into hair fashion. This is a great look for the beach, outdoors, anywhere a breeze can flow through your hair. We currently have a good supply of long grizzly rooster feathers in different colours and other exotic feathers. Give us a call for pricing and appointments …

Exquisite Beauty, Hair and Spa

120-221 Ioco Rd Port Moody, BC V3H4H2

located in Heritage Mountain Shoppers Village (by the IGA)

604-461-3433

Brazilian smoothing treatments are a category of hair treatments of which Brazilian Blowout ™ is one of many brands. Generally in these treatments formaldehyde, or a similar aldehyde is required to relax the hair shaft and facilitate the protein binding required to achieve all that soft lustrous straightness. Because of the undesirable health implications of formaldehyde the formulators of these products have to ask a question -   is there a way to deliver this aldehyde in a minimized dose at precisely the moment that it is needed i.e. when the hair is being flat ironed and not before or after?  Very definitely a tricky task for  the formulating chemists that develop these products because ideally the smoothing solution has to be stable at application, fabulously active at 450 F and then completely stable again at room temperature once the treatment is complete. Now I’m going to put this out there, but not too far out there and suggest that the formulators of these products ( Brazilian Blowout and others) have attempted to create a donor scheme whereby the aldehyde is released only by the heat of the flat iron. There are a number of compounds that can donate formaldehyde, many of them are used in cosmetics as preservatives and release formaldehyde only at very low concentrations. Could Brazilian Blowout and perhaps some others  have created such a formulation and therefore feel justified in claiming that their product is formaldehyde free? Yes they could since strictly speaking formaldehyde would not be a component of their formulation and would only be generated during application via the heat of the iron. However  that sort of legalistic interpretation of  the words “contains no formaldehyde”  does deserve to be castigated … but in fact the world of chemistry is built on a foundation of reactions for which an intermediary exists only for a moment, and neither before nor after the reaction is complete.

Of course the public is not being helped by the fact the actual formulation of these solutions are trade secrets and are not required to be published.  If anything ultimately  I believe this reluctance on the manufacturers end will ultimately do them more harm than good. If there are mechanisms within the formulations that are yielding the results published then the manufacturers need to properly provide that information to the health agencies. Mainstream media has given this issue the typical keyword loaded, skin deep treatment and I don’t think that ultimately serves the public very well. The frustration at Brazilian Blowout is palpable, their marketing people might have some answering to do but they don’t seem to be acting guilty – for the better part they are acting misunderstood. Definitely there is an air of vindication at BB since the Occupational Safety & Health Administration has done a series of in salon air quality tests, and has found the levels of formaldehyde released to be well within guidelines.

So what went wrong & why is it some stylists had adverse reactions while other salons reported nothing? Well let me count the possibilities. First off it is well known that some individuals are highly sensitive to formaldehyde as an allergen, certainly there are some fumes generated during the flat ironing stage. Further it is possible that if the client is being processed in a confined space, too much solution is being used, or if there is inadequate ventilation, these fumes would be concentrated enough to irritate the mucous membranes of the eye, nose, throat or lungs. And then there is the testing.

Here is where things get truly confusing for stylists and consumers alike. Most of us are not chemists, and have no awareness of the different national or international standards for testing chemicals within products or the environment. To say that it is exacting science is an understatement. In this case there seems to be some contention about the method of testing being used by the Orgeon OSHA to determine  the actual formaldehyde levels. A bit to my surpise there seems  to be some reluctance amongst the health agencies involved  to differentiate between free formaldehyde and methylene glycol – the compound formed when formaldehyde dissolves in water. Strictly speaking the two terms should not be used interchangeably since the formaldehyde component of methylene glycol is less than 5%. What is actually being tested and how the tests are being conducted is now the subject of legal action in the U.S. by Brazilian Blowout against the OSHA – the Oregon Division of that agency being the labs that originally reported finding high formaldehyde levels.  So who do we believe?  I’m inclined  to believe our health agencies,  but the more  I investigate the less sure I am that the testing being  done is necessarily measuring something that coorelates with real exposure levels. Of great interest to me and I think the whole industry on both sides of the border is to learn which testing methodology has been used by Health Canada to gain their data, which recently reported high formaldehyde levels in a wide series of Brazilian type smoothing products. Stay tuned I have contacted Health Canada on the topic of which testing methods have yielded their results and hopefully soon I’ll be able to report to you on that front.

Are you an experienced stylist searching for a Salon that supports your creativity and ambition to make your hair design career ignite? Looking for a salon that will support your development with in-salon and academy based training programs? Wishing you could be in a relaxed team positive environment that supports your desire to give your clients the kind of personal and superlative service that will make them friends for life?

Stop wishing and make it happen!

Exquisite Beauty, Hair, and Spa is looking for experienced stylists with flair, ambition, a passion for learning, and the same commitment we have to provide our clients with an experience that has them looking wonderful and feeling even better.

For the right candidate we offer …

• A schedule friendly environment that supports your lifestyle and family commitments
• The promotion of you and your talents not just the salon in our marketing programs
• A commission structure that allows you the highest pay and benefits in the industry
• Participation in our excellent health/dental/vision benefits program
• Full statutory holiday pay and graduated vacation pay
• Participation in the industry leading advanced training programs offered by
  TIGI/Toni&Guy Academies
• Additional commissions & training via our award winning TIGI Boutique professional
  hair, colour and cosmetic lines
• A positive, supportive, team based environment that has you looking forward to each day
  as you learn, earn, and build your career

 For further information contact Mina at 604-461-3433 or reply via contact us page.

Almost all of us wish we had longer thicker eyelashes, and the incredible amount spent on mascara word wide proves that fact.  Eyelash extensions can give be a more attractive, lower maintenance alternative to give you thicker and longer lashes. Although extensions are growing in popularity, the process has been available in salons and spas since the early 2000′s. Not to be confused with false eyelashes or small sets, eyelash extensions must be applied by a professionally trained technician. Usually 30 to 80 lashes are applied to each eye and will remain in place up to three months, growing out with the natural replacement cycle of your own lashes. Besides giving your eyelashes a natural fullness even without makeup, a skillful technician can apply the lashes so naturally that no one would ever guess that they are not your own.