By: Kay Renz
As you may have seen in Life&Style Magazine, Jerseylicious star Gayle Giacomo was recently at the Donna Pascoe Salon in Boca Raton learning about Marie Bernard hair extensions. I had a chance to watch their training session and learn a bit about this revolutionary new technique that provides lustrous full hair without causing the damage of traditional extensions.
The Style Network star, who owns Gatsby’s salon in New Jersey, met Donna a while back and admired her gorgeous extensions. Not only did Gayle want them for herself, she wanted to learn the technique so she could start offering it to her clients in New Jersey.
“I love them,” Gayle gushed when she was in Boca. “They are so easy to wear, light weight, comfortable, no issues with styling.”
Donna brought the creator of the hair extensions, Marie Bernard, to her salon to demonstrate the technique for Gayle. Marie lives in Boca Raton and for over 18 years she has been at the forefront of the industry and with her latest patented advancement, she and Donna have plans for national marketing.
As she showed me the silky sections of the finest European hair, Marie explained how her technique does not use glues, adhesives or other damaging applications.
“If you have thin, damaged, unmanageable hair these extensions are perfect for you because they don’t damage your own hair,” she explained.
The extensions can be chosen from a variety of styles and colors or you can have them custom made. The time to apply the extensions and for maintenance is shorter than with other types of extensions and prices start at about $650. For more details: www.donnapascoesalon.com
Crocheting for Kids with Cancer
I love profiling people who give back, and recently Marilyn Swillinger, president of the Greater Boca Raton Chapter of the Pap Corps, told me about her neighbor, Roxene Sloate, who in the late 1980’s was the president of the Pediatric Cancer Foundation, affiliated with Columbia Presbyterian Hospital. Roxene is a wonderful artist who has taken her creative talent in a new direction to help children with cancer. Roxene loves to crochet and knit the cutest hats for children who have lost their hair due to chemotherapy.
“I became involved because in 1974 my dear friend lost her 10 year old daughter to cancer,” she said. “Being an artist, my best way of giving is by using my hands and creativity, so these hats are a very easy way for me to do something to help.”
The hats come in a rainbow of colors and materials and she also creates matching styles for the children’s dolls! The children love them as it not only gives them a cheerful stylish look but having their dolls in matching hats makes them feel special.
The Greater Boca Raton Chapter of The Pap Corps is looking for volunteers to create a few hats for the children at the Sylvester Cancer Center at the University of Miami. If you have the talent and the heart to create a few hats for some special children, please send me an email at kayrenzpr@aol.com and I will get you started!