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The best hot brushes in the UK for a salon finish at home, tried and tested by our expert | Hair care

The best hot brushes in the UK for a salon finish at home, tried and tested by our expert | Hair care

Few things put a spring in your step quite like a beautiful, bouncy blow-dry from your favourite hair salon. However, if you don’t want to spend your days – or your money – at the salon, then a hot brush could be just the styling tool you need. The Guardian’s journalism is independent. We will earn a commission if you buy something through an affiliate link. Learn more. As the name suggests, a hot brush is a round or paddle-shaped hair-styling tool that either heats up like a straightening iron or uses warm airflow like a hair dryer to dry and style your hair. Depending on the shape and size of the brush, a hot brush can give you anything from a straight, sleek style to volume and lift, or even red-carpet curls. A good hot brush is a thing of joy because it can provide close to salon-style results with minimum fuss. Brushes that style with warm air can be used for wet-to-dry styling straight from the shower, saving you time, while blow-dry brushes usually …

Shocking Video: Grenade Tossed Into French Beauty Salon, Injures Six

Shocking Video: Grenade Tossed Into French Beauty Salon, Injures Six

Absolutely horrifying footage on X shows a masked man tossing a grenade into a beauty salon in Grenoble, in southeastern France. Agence France-Presse reports that six people were injured. In Grenoble, authorities are investigating a grenade attack at a beauty salon that left six people with injuries, including a 5-year-old child. Western media outlets have largely ignored the grenade attack and have mostly focused on President Trump’s now-deleted meme video targeting the Obamas on Friday. Former Member of the Chamber of Representatives of Belgium, Dries Van Langenhove, wrote on X:  Grenades thrown into barber shops, beauty salons and kebabs are becoming so prevalent in Western Europe that they barely make the news. Police are losing control over vast swathes of territory and when they do, nature takes over. For most humans, including all of those imported from Africa and the Middle-East, that means violent gangs will take over and demand protection money from businesses. When they don’t pay, grenades. This will be the new normal for our children unless we deport all of the hostile invaders and punish …

Spanish Police Arrest Chinese Hair Salon Owner Accused of Financing Hamas

Spanish Police Arrest Chinese Hair Salon Owner Accused of Financing Hamas

MADRID, Jan 30 (Reuters) – Spanish police ‌have ​detained a 38-year-old Chinese ‌national who owned a hair salon near ​Barcelona on suspicion of financing the militant group Hamas ‍through about 600,000 euros ($714,960) ​in cryptocurrency transfers, regional police said on Friday. Investigators ​traced ⁠at least 31 crypto transactions from virtual wallets controlled by the suspect to addresses that are suspected of being linked to an entity used by the Islamist group, ‌whose attack on Israel on October 7, 2023, triggered a ​two-year ‌war in the Gaza ‍Strip. Hamas ⁠is designated as a terrorist organisation by the 27-member European Union and other Western nations. Police declined to comment on the suspect’s possible motives and on whether he had interacted knowingly with Hamas or was just an intermediary, citing ​the sensitivity of the investigation. During searches of the suspect’s hair salon and home, officers seized cryptoassets, cash, some 9,000 cigars, jewellery, computers and mobile phones, the police said. They also froze several bank accounts, with the total value of seized and blocked assets exceeding 370,000 euros. Their …

Alissa Friedman on Salon 94 and the Blurring of Art and Design

Alissa Friedman on Salon 94 and the Blurring of Art and Design

Editor’s Note: This story is part of Newsmakers, an ARTnews series featuring conversations with the figures shaping how the art world is changing right now. For Alissa Friedman, returning to Salon 94 was a homecoming. After more than a decade of helping to shape the gallery’s identity, Friedman left when founder Jeanne Greenberg Rohatyn joined forces with Brett Gorvy, Dominique Lévy, and Amelia Dayan to form LGDR. (Greenberg Rohatyn later left LGDR, which is now known as LGD.) Friedman went on to help launch Stephen Friedman Gallery’s US outpost, only to watch that chapter announce it would close later this month. When she rejoined Salon 94 this winter, it coincided with something else: the gallery itself settling into a clearer sense of what it is in a post-LGDR world. Related Articles I met Friedman in the Lower East Side, her homebase for more than 20 years, on a cold Friday morning  where she arrived looking photoshoot-ready, wearing a Dries van Noten jacket, a subtle play on camouflage, and a chic green mohair overcoat. The conversation ranged from the early days …

Paul Smith reworks his past at Milan menswear salon show | Milan fashion week

Paul Smith reworks his past at Milan menswear salon show | Milan fashion week

This January marks the first menswear fashion week in Milan without a familiar constant in Giorgio Armani, after the designer died aged 91 in September. But the brand will still show on Monday, and there are other elder statesmen on the schedule in the shape of Ralph Lauren, 86, and Paul Smith, who will be 80 this year. Paul Smith showed his collection on Saturday evening at the brand’s Italian HQ. Its playful nature was evident from the format as Smith himself compèred, with descriptions of the designs and inspirations over a microphone. The clothes demonstrated all the hallmarks that fans have come to love – bold prints, great suiting (this time oversized) and bright colours on sweaters and shirts. Paul Smith at his Milan fashion week show. Photograph: Shutterstock This is the second time Smith has shown his menswear collection in Milan. At a preview, he explained the compère format was a homage to the shows he saw as a young man at the ateliers of Coco Chanel and Yves Saint Laurent in the …