Friday, March 30, 2012

Do you want thicker fuller hair? Do I really need to ask?

WOW! did you know that over 30 million woman suffer from thinning hair? I think the stat on really fine hair is 3 out of 5!! That's ALOT more than I realized!
I have ALWAYS had fine hair, but I could grow it long, then after I had my first baby girl, Angelica, 16 years ago, it kinda just stopped growing and got alot more finer. Oddly my nails quit growing also. You would think my hips wouldv'e quit growing too!! But no such luck!!!

I always have outgrowth from my color it seems so I wonder where the heck is my hair? Does it disintagrate as it grows? I never color the ends just the roots.  So many years of hair extensions and clip in hair. I LOVE wearing them, they make me feel PRETTY. When I had them taken out I litterally felt like I was having a part of my body amputated! It may seem like a DRASTIC comparisson, but that's me!
 So now I'm trying a littel experiement. AVEDA INVATII. 3 easy steps. shampoo, condition, scalp spray, Apply spray 2x a day. Im supposed to see a DRAMATIC improvement in 4 weeks!
I keep forgetting to use the spray on the days I don't wash though, but starting today, IM COMMITTED!!!!
For those of you who know me, come see me in 4 weeks and tell me if you notice a difference, if not back to extensions!
I was at an AVEDA TRAINING on Wednesday and this is how SUCCESSFUL the INVATII launch was. They sold out of 6 months inventory in under 5 weeks!! Tha't's  CRAZINESS!!!! We had people coming in to buy it upset because we were out!!!
We do have it in now, and hopefully won't have to deal with back ordering!
Check out the Facebook page, I posted before and after oictures of testimonials and I linked a video.

Actually I will link it here for you

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rzC0e6KHDnY this is a 52 second video

http://www.kisforkinky.com/2012/02/aveda-invati-scalp-revitalizer this is a link breifly describing exactly how it works!!
https://www.facebook.com/pages/Altered-Ego/193614440681613  here is the link to our facebook page

Have a GREAT day!!! I'm going to apply my scalp spray and I'm envisioning walking out of my bathroom, hair blowing all around like a supermodel!!!
Destiny

Monday, March 26, 2012

411!!! Sale and easter baskett update!!!!

Happy happy Monday!!!!
What an AWESOME week! Thank you so much everyone for being apart of it!!!
411
You mat be wondering why we havn't had our weekly poll questions lately, that is because we had such a HUGE RESPONSE to our 20% off ALL TEXTURE perms!!! So we have decided to run with it the ENTIRE MONTH of March!
WARNING!!!! WARNING!!! This is NOT your Grannys old style perms!! This is TEXTURE infused with OVERSIZED rods to give your hair ULITIMATE LIFT, VOLUME, SUPPORT!!! You can wash n go with a littel curl lotion or blow out for all day VOLUME and BEAUTIFUL hair!!!! and YES it is SAFE for COLOR TREATED hair!!! and even BETTER you can have it done the SAME DAY as a color!!!
March is FLYING by and appointments are limited, so call right away to schedule!!!

We are EXCITED to still be collecting gift cards for Loni's SUPRISE easter baskett!! I will have the baskett there this week, so please stop in and drop off donation and I did get a beautful card abouta MIGHTY OAK tree, and how our strenght is deep rooted even as the wind blows and breaks down our branches, we still stand. PLEASE sigjn it when you come in, or bring your own letter/card of encouragement!!
If you're not sure of the details look back at the blog titeled READ.SHARE.HELP.  all the details are there plus the link to the carring bridge site for her!
I still have not met her. Strange that this womans story has affected me so deeply.
months ago on my other blog TODAY I WILL REJOICE I had been bloging about really wanting to feel the needs and hurts of others, for God to open not only my eyes but my heart to the others around me. WHY? I don't know. I think maybe I had been so wrapped up in my own life and enjoying all the goodness and blessings (there is nothing wrong with that) but I think i lost site of what is important in my life(besides my family) , the REAL NEEDS of others. It's one thing to say you care and throw a littel money to a charity and another to actually FEEL it and be COMPELLED  and DRIVEN BY LOVE to help. I can't tell you how mant times I think about her story and it makes me cry, almost everytime I tell someone about the baskett it brings me to tears. I say this not to say look at me, im so good and caring. but to be real and honest. god has really been working in my heart and I have been very emotional lately!
I think this will mark our FIRST ANNUAL EASTER BASKETT for someone with a hurt, to show how people pull together and support one another OUT OF NOTHING BUT LOVE FOR THE HUMAN SPIRIT, with nothing ever expected in return except to show KINDNESS and HOPE and hopefully a SMILE NOT ONLY ON THEIR FACE BUT FROM WITHIN THEIR HEART! Even if it only takes their pain away for but a moment, that's oneless moment they feel empty and burdeoned.
so mail your gift cards and letters to 2416 London Rd Eau Claire WI 54701 or drop them off at the salon!
Thank you so much!!
Enjoy this beautiful day  and may you be blessed!
Destiny

Tuesday, March 20, 2012

The 411. It's Monday again!!!!!

It's not monday, but it's monday for me! I have off sun/mon!! But this week  I had off fri-mon!!! And I'm really but it's time for mondays 411!!! weather it's your monday or mine!!!!!

Let's see if I can do this on 2 hours of sleep, self inflicted, lost track of time. I was'nt at some crazy wild party trying to relive my youth listening to Deff Leopard or anything, I was at my old house(which is for sale by owner)upstairs in my art studio. Time was definately overdue!! Didn't get done there till 330am!!! I created 2 very interesting pieces for a class I am in. 1st was my self created identity, who I see me as, who I was, the lies I beleived, 2nd was my God created identity and how He sees me. Two very different very neat ideas. I think I'll hang them in my office as a reminder. Reminder that life goes by too quickly to not walk in the truth!!
So what's the 411 at the HAIR SALON??????
It's FABULOUS outside and we want you to feel FABULOUS from the inside out!! So we have decided to run this all month long!!!!! 10 off PEDICURES!! This is'n just a regular pedicure!! IMAGINE 1 HOUR to yourself, no kids, no whining,no boss, no errands to run!! Just you and the MASSAGING pedicure chair, soaking your ffet in a HOT SWIRLING tub of BUBBLY water to ssothe and moisturize , and of course all the other FUN stuff, filing, buffing, polishing, HOT STEAMY aromatherapy towels and foot/leg massage!!!! AHHHHHHHHH..............  Also 20% off all TEXTURE ENHANCEMENTS!!!!! Curls, waves, body, stucture, support!! THIS IS NOT YOUR MAMAS PERM!!!!!!!!!!
REMINDERS:
1- Don't forget about our daily TAKE 5 deal, we try to get it up at 1, first correct answer, you win a $5 gift card and have 48 hours to come and get it!!!!! We have had ALOT of fun questions!!
2-READ the previous blog if you have'nt. GET YOUR GIFT CARD DONATIONS AND CARDS OF ENCOURAGEMENT READY TO MAIL TO ME AT THE SALON OR BRING IN, NEEDTO HAVE THEM FOR LONIS SUPRISE EASTER BASKETT, and I thank you so much for helping, I know it's only a small gesture but I think she will find much JOY and LOVe during this extremely difficult time.
You all are AMAZING!!! Thank you so much for being a part of my life!!!!
Have a great sunshiney day!!!!!!
Destiny

Friday, March 16, 2012

PLEASE HELP!!!!!!!

PLEASE HELP!!!!! This is a tear jerking story, except it's not a story it's someones life they are living right now and I desperatley need all of your help and the help of your friends and family please! It's not about me, but it has shook me to the very core, my heart is broken  over this, myself and my family have prayed many nights at bedtime and around the diner table for this woman that we have never met.

I have come in contact over the last month with many people at work with clients and friends,at church, in my family that are carring heavy burdeons and deep deep wounds, some that will leave scars forever not only in there life but on my own heart as well, I have never in my life had so many stories in arms reach invade my life like this past month, and I have never prayed as much either.

Her name is loni, Iv'e never met her. I think she is 32 years old. She has 2 beautiful boys, I saw a picture of them, they are 1 and 3. They lived in Madison untill November when through a tragecic set of events her husband died, leaving her alone with her children. She works for the State DOT, and transferred to Eau Claire early this year in my husband Matts old building.
He went to his old office for a meeting and his friend told him of this woman Loni and what happened to her, the next part of the story is she was only working there for 3 weeks when out for a walk she couldn't breathe, an ambulance was called, after test were run, she was transfered to mayo i think. She was diagnosed with something very rare, a heart tumor/cancer that is a sarcoma.
She needs to have a miracle.
Not just a littel miracle but a giant one, like when Moses in the old Testament was leading people out of slavery and they ended up at the Red Sea and God told him to raise his hands over the Sea and the waters parted and they were all led to safety. Then when the bad guys were crossing the
Sea,God had the Sea go back and they all drowned.
So in the meantime of praying for this huge Red Sea miracle, I was thinking of her and what she must feel like, what are her thoughts, what would she want to do and not want to do.
What if it was me? What do I like? what do I cherish?
I truly cherish building memories, taking photos, laughing, my family, helping others by being kind, generosity. I don't like paying for gas, or buying toilet paper and I hate paying bills! Who dosen't? Then I thought if I had to drive to get chemo I would be even more upset to buy the gas to go to an appoinmtent that I didn't want, that wasn't fair.
I want to give her all those things,but I need your help, I can't heal her heart, only God and the Doctors can do that. But we can bring her joy with her family.
I want to make a gift card basket with gift cards to the gas station, the grocery store,movie theater ticketts, the childrens theater, the state theater,local restraunts,department stores, kohls so she can buy a pretty new shirt and not feel guilty with the heaping medical bills piling on her and her family, starbucks, the portrait studio for easter pictures for the boys, im donating many of these items, I plan also on going to some stores and asking for gift card donations, and an putting in a weekly pedicure with me at my salon.
If you have any gift cards you are willing to donate or have a friend or family that does , if you own your own your own buisness or want to buy one, please please contact me or bring it to my salon. I want to have them all by end of March to give them to her in an Easter baskett.
I happen to know her Aunt karen and her neice Allison and as we were talking at the salon she told me about her neice, I shared with her that we had been praying for this woman, how weird, what a small world, I had no idea.
Alot of littel voices can make a mighty roar, a littel bit of kindness is a blessing, and when we all pull together that littel bit of kindness just keeps multiplying!
Help me help her make some beautiful memories in the midst of this aweful tragedy.

Tomorrow is my birthday and I am so blessed to celebrate 37 years of healthy living,cancer free, free of sickness and disease. I never worry when I go to bed at night if I will see tomorows sunrise or watch my kids grow up,this reminds me of how precious and how extremely fragile life really is and today and tomorrow I will embrace this life and not let the worries of this world come upon me because "this is the day the lord has made and i will rejoice and be glad in it" psalm 118


here is the link to her caring bridge page http://www.caringbridge.org/visit/lonisisko



Also contact me, Destiny at Altered Ego 2416 London Rd Eau Claire wi 54701   715-832-4040
Thank you so much everyone!!!!! I can't wait to suprise her at Easter!!!!!

Tuesday, March 13, 2012

411 Here's the scoop!!!

OOPSY!!!! Fogot to post this yesterday!!!
 Okay it's the 411!!! What's happeni g this week at your new FUN and FAVORITE salon?
We had such a HUGE response to last weeks PROMOS that we did not post a poll question and are carrying it over another week!!!!
PERMS are not just for curls!!! They can be used for that but one of my FAVORITE ways to use a PERM is CREATE texture, VOLUME at the base, and for STYLE SUPPORT!!!! You get exactly what you want when you need it!
YES!!!! You can also WASH and GO!!!! All you need to do is apply a littel bit of curl creme and you are set! I LOVE this in the SPRING/SUMMER!!!!!
1-20% off ALL TEXTURE/WAVES/BODY/PERMS
2-10% off all the PRODUCTS you need for wave enhancement- Curly shampoo/conditioner/curl lotion
3- $5 gift card when you come in for ANY of our BLOWDRY BAR menu blowouts!!!
LOTS Of ways to look STYLISH and keeep it afforadable!!!

Thank you for keeping Mary in your thoughts and prayers this week and all of the encouragement sent her way!! Her Mom did go to Heaven Saturday morning and we will all miss her, but excited for this new journey for her!
Lot's of new and exciting things to come over the next few weeks! So stay tuned, thank you for reading and following along! Please continue to share the blog on your FACEBOOK page!!
Helps us all stay connected and I LOVE meeting new people!!!
P.S. Don't forget about our TAKE 5 question posted on FACEBOOK Tuesday-Friday and sometimes Saturday! FUN and EASY way to WIN a $5  gift card!!! See you all soon!! 2416London Rd 832-4040
Enjoy the beautiful day! Destiny

Monday, March 5, 2012

411 Crazy curly deals!!!!!!!

Alright!! It's still Monday, even though it's almost 11 at night!!
OKAY!!! So here's the 411 for the week!!!
The biggest response to our weekly question was"LACK OF BODY IN YOU HAIR"so this weeks PROMOS are..... DRUMROLL PLEASEEE................. We are HAPPY to ANNOUNCE....... the EXCITING deals of the week and they are as follows..
1- ALL TEXTURE WAVES, LOOSE CURLS, CURLY CURL PERMS, SPIRALS, any kind of wave or body or curl, any way you want it is 20% off!!!!!
2- Bring home the product so you can EASILY RECREATE your new BOUNCEY full hair in a snap and get 10% off the shampoo,conditioner,and wave product your PROFESSIONAL hair artist recomends for you!!
3-SAVE 10% off all the AVEDA ABUNDANCE volume line as well!!!!!!
4- Stop in for a VOLUMOUS blowout from our FABULOUS blow dry bar menu and receive a TAKE 5 gift card as well for your next BLOWOUT that will make you the HAIR ENVY of everyone!!!!!

We had a FANTASTIC week at the salon last week!! Lots of HAIR CHALKING,NEW CREATIVE  COLORS, and UPDATING classic looks!!!

I had the HONOR of having a TALENTED hairdresser job shadow me on Saturday, and she is going to make one ROCKIN hairstylist one day!!! Good luck Samantha and hope to see you and your TALENTS soon!!!!!
Becky's baby girl is doing GREAT!!! I still haven't met her yet, sad face, but her pictures are so ADORABLE!!!! We all miss Becky and the life she brings to us and the salon, April won't get her fast enough I think!!!!! But so HAPPY she has this WONDERFUL time with her new family!!!

Please continue to keep our SWEET Mary in your thoughts and prayers and continue to pray for her Mom who is more than her Mother but her friend as well. This is very sad for all of us, her Mom is a wonderful lady.Lets show Mary some love, I know she'd be delighted and very touched with encouraging words, and who dosen't love flowers?!? Stop in with a hug and a hot cocoa (Hope you don't mind Mary, but i love you!), I LOVE it when we all pull together even if it's just for a moment, but that moment builds into another and into another, untill you are completely surrounded with unexpected friendship, love and encouragement, it definately makes the difficult path a littel bit easier. Thank you in advance for walking alongside my friend even if for a moment, then someone else can step in and continue on the path,so she will never have to wander alone.

Galatians 6:2     Bear one another's burdens, and so fulfill the law of Christ

Have a WONDERFUL week!!!!! I'm looking forward to seeing you all this week for all of our EXCITING deals and promos!!!! Oh and the TAKE 5 deal is at 1pm daily Tuesday-Friday!!!!
Thank you for reading and thank you all for being a part of our dreams!!!!
    To book your appointments call the salon at 715-832-4040  Thank you, Destiny!!