Hair Care and Styling

Prom night 1998/2013: some traditions never change, but they sure do look funny

Ah, prom season. That time in life when you get to publicly display your teenage awkwardness by wrapping it in a sequined nightmare from Dillard's and parading it around in a limo that costs as much as your first semester at community college. Or maybe that was just my own experience. Clearly from ... More >>

Critic's Choice: The Haircut, February 17 at Unit E on Sante Fe

Stylist and makeup artist Ever Good gives artistic meaning to her work at Matthew Morris

Celebrity fashion icons usually get the credit for their style. When women go to the salon holding a picture of their favorite 'do, they're rarely focused on who's behind the look. Ever Good, a makeup artist and hairstylist at Matthew Morris Salon (the same Matthew Morris who placed third in the 201 ... More >>

Winning Movember, week 3: The American Mustache Institute weighs in

Dr. Aaron Perlut, man of mustached leisure.​After last week's slow start, I'm pleased to report that, as we enter the second half of Movember, my mustache is downright glorious -- by the Westword team of crack scientists' last estimate, it now effects the death of tens of thousands of cancerou ... More >>

Fluff Bar to start pouring -- and styling -- next month

​Watch for Fluff Bar to open in early October at 1516 Wazee Street. Originally slated to be called Fluff Beauty Bar, the combo hair salon, cocktail lounge and champagne bar dropped "beauty" for reasons that should be obvious -- if you've ever been to the fourteen-month-old Beauty Bar, at least ... More >>

How to unsuccessfully give yourself an Internet makeover

That's me, sporting a chestnut-brown Tori Spelling.​This past Monday was, as far as I could tell, the last official day of summer. I decided to take advantage of this sad occasion by going for one final swim in my Aunt's apartment complex pool, a pool I had been dipping in like it was my own a ... More >>

YouTube University: How to put in hair extensions

​Remember, back in the day, when you could get a degree from a school on TV? You could become a certified VCR repairman, a home daycare instructor or even learn how to clean guns. It was a wide open world of education. Those in-home lessons on useless shit have all but disappeared, but YouTube ... More >>

Dress for Success, Fantastic Sam's open mini salon in Denver, helping unemployed get a job

Rhonda Speers.​Rhonda Speers's story should be familiar those who've gone through hard times. After being let go from her temp job, she was involved in a car wreck. That led to surgery and slow recovery in the shadow of a crumbling economy. As such, she's been out of a job more than a year. B ... More >>

Letters: "I love Dylan's music, but take it for what it is"

Reality hair stylist creates the perfect letterhead: Kenny Be's Sign Language

This hair salon sign suggests that the stylist can read a customer's mind.​ It is increasingly rare in Denver to see signs in which the letters visually represent what they actually spell. In the sign pictured above, the purse-lipped beauty looking demurely over her shoulder (well, at least wi ... More >>

Tilda Swinton's got to be free in I Am Love

Sealed With a Kiss

How should a white girl get a Mexican to relax?

Red alert! Why do older Mexican women cut and dye their hair?

Flick Pick

Good Hair

Musicians: Get your ears lowered for free

Update: We've just learned that the Locals special mentioned below only runs through the end of June, so you better get over there soon! Stylists will also reportedly be on hand at the Epilogues show this Saturday night to hook cats up with a cut and style. On a related note, the band is slated to p ... More >>

Peru or Germany

Peru or Germany
Self-released

Hair Apparent

Best One-Man Band

Ian Cooke

Best Place for Sid and Nancy to Get a Haircut

Moxie Hair Co.

Best Cheap Haircut

Aveda Academy Salon and Spa

Best Hair on a Media Personality -- Female

Susie Wargin
Channel 9

Best Hair on a Media Personality Gone National

Woody Paige
ESPN2's Cold Pizza

Best Hair on a Media Personality's Newborn

Baby Elizabeth
Channel 9

Best Parties for Lil' Girls

Lil' Cuts

Best Showers -- Far

Flying J Truck Stop

Best Hair on a TV Personality -- Male

Ed Greene, Channel 4

Best Hair on a TV Personality -- Female

Angie Austin, Channel 2

Best Store Anywhere on Colfax Avenue

Fabric Lab

Best Vegetarian Restaurant

WaterCourse Foods

Best Place to Be a Badass for a Day

EagleRider Harley Rentals

Best Hair on a TV Personality -- Male

Mike Landes
Channel 7

Good Hair Day

The Mile Hi Hair Ball seeks to raise awareness, and hairness, in Denver.

Best Congressional Haiku -- Republican

Scott McInnis

Best Help for Women in Tough Times

Sista's in the Spirit
Charlene Ferguson

Best Swan Song

Lonnie Hanzon's haircutting ceremony

Best Custom Wigs

Hana Designs

Best Server -- Female

Wendy Berve, Del Frisco's Double Eagle Steak House

Best Retail Block Revitalization

West City Perk/Deli/Loganberry's

Best hair on a local TV personality -- male

Marc Soicher, Channel 4

Best place to get tattooed, pierced before you get a haircut

Twisted Sol

Best place to get a haircut after you get tattooed, pierced

Urban Renewal

Best haircuts for little screamers

Tortoise and the Hare

Hair Today, Gone Tomorrow

In a Lather

CRITIC'S CHOICE

CRITIC'S CHOICE

WAKE UP AND SMELL THE COFFEE