May 5, 2009 (New York, NY) – Elle Marie Hair Studio in Bothell, WA has attained Elite Salon status and will now exclusively carry Redken 5th Avenue NYC fashion-driven, technologically-advanced professional salon products.

Redken’s Club 5th Avenue is a program designed to provide salons with exciting rewards and effective tools to grow their business, like education to further develop staff, product samples to drive retail business, electronics to modernize operations, advertising to attract new clients and NYC-inspired fashions to urbanize style. Elite Salons are salons that have achieved the highest level of the program.

For every dollar a salon spends on Redken products they earn Club Points – the more purchased, the greater the reward. Details on joining and tracking status can be found on Redken.com’s site for salon professionals.

Don't be afraid of what you have ladies. 90 Percent of women with straight hair have been jealous of your hair at some point of their life. And I know it can be annoying at times, especially the rainy days that we're all so used to here in the northwest. The pros to having curly hair are that whether you wear your hair straight or curly, you will always have body. Also, you'll never have that oily hair syndrome and therefore won't have to wash your hair everyday. The cons, of course, are that you have frizz and the "puffy" look almost indefinitely. So I want to give you a few helpful tips on how to avoid stressing about your lovely mane!

If you find yourself in a humid climate, PUT AWAY THE FLAT IRON! Embrace those luscious curls. Put in some serum and curl gels to help tame the 'fro. We have a product line by Redken specifically for curly hair that is affordable and really works! The best strategy is to use a serum that has silicone directly in the product. After putting the product in your hair, take a curling iron and just curl sporatic pieces which make it look like you curled everything.

As Marketing Manager for Elle Marie Hair Studio, I was thrilled to learn that BehindTheChair.com had featured a quote of mine in their weekly "Business Tip of the Day" e-mail. BehindTheChair.com delivers daily tips in everything ranging from trends to coloring techniques. Monday's are devoted to business tips and on March 30th, 2008 they looked to me for advice. They reworded my quote a bit and I would've loved to have provided them with a more appropriate, less-generic festival image, but they got the gist of my message across so it's all good. I'm honored that they felt it was a message worth sharing with other salon owners.