Beauty and Hair Care

Eight Women Accuse Cosmetic Laser Center Owner of Sexual Assault at St. Peters Clinic

Eight Missouri women say that routine hair removal procedures took a bad turn when the owner of a St. Peter's, Missouri clinic began touching them in places that had nothing to do with the cosmetic services they were seeking. Lawrence Branam, 48, was indicted this week on a series of counts of sex ... More >>

OMG! Karlie Kloss Gets New Haircut!

Can we all just agree that the New York Times Style section is the most important source of news in our time? How else would we know about all the ways wealthy, Ivy League-educated residents of Williamsburg and Park Slope mingle, mate, marry, raise dogs and children and send those dogs and children ... More >>

Waits Variations

Six ways of looking at Tom Waits, character actor

Paul McCartney's Six Best Moustaches

Today, June 18, 2012, Paul McCartney celebrates his seventieth birthday. We're having our own private party by counting down Sir Paul's six best moustaches. Let us know your favorite McCartney mouthbrows in the comments below.

St. Louis is Nation's Seventh Manliest City

What constitutes manliness? Is it merely the presence of certain genitalia and a Y chromosome and the ability to manufacture large quantities of testosterone? Or is it something more complex and metaphysical like, say, knowing how to knot a necktie or possessing an understanding of certain complexit ... More >>

Buffalo-Wing-Flavored Soda, Wine Perfume Hit Shelves Despite Nobody Asking For Either

All right, so the end of days might be nigh. Is that an overreaction to learning that a buffalo-wing-flavored soda recently hit the market, as did a line of perfumes scented to smell like wine varieties? OK, perhaps it's a slight overreaction, but come on, when solid food becomes inspiration for lib ... More >>

American Mustache Institute Calls on Tax Breaks for Lip Hair; Plans March on D.C.

ABC NewsDr. Aaron Perlut calls on a march on Washington.​The St. Louis-based American Mustache Institute last week joined forces with tax preparer H&R Block in calling for a $250 federal refund for men (and women) who proudly wear facial hair. Dr. Aaron Perlut, chairman of AMI, says the money ... More >>

Operation Brightside Commercial = Hope!

In case you missed it, First Punch Film Production made this goofy lil' spot for the mayor:  We find it significant that the only person with enough decency and respect to not litter is the kid with the faux-hawk. Maybe there's hope after all! (For the future of St. Louis, that is; the young ma ... More >>

Broke? Try Bartering!

Will Fischer A table of offerings from a previous Barter Fest. ​An alternative for holiday gifts exists just on the horizon, and it doesn't require spending a single penny! Gut Check would like to re-introduce a concept that most at least have vague familiarity with: bartering. Bartering, or ... More >>

Eat, Drink and be Merry to Help an RFT Staffer Rebuild His Home [Updated]

Image viaGut Check invites you to eat, drink and donate to help this RFT staffer rebuild his home.​Update: A friendly reminder, Gut Check readers: We're eating and drinking tomorrow after work at Three Kings Public House (6307 Delmar Boulevard, University City; 314-721-3355). Twenty percent of ... More >>

Post-Dispatch Sniffs Out Story on Bath Salts -- Months After News First Broke of Fake Cocaine

Post-Dispatch: It was right there! Under our nose the entire time!​Have you read the news today? Oh boy.It seems the Post-Dispatch has at last discovered that kids are snorting bath salts containing the drug mephedrone that simulates the effects of cocaine. The daily features its findings on the f ... More >>

Iconic Hairstyle's Midwestern Roots Honored

​It's been fifty years since a hairstylist in Chicago first worked iconic magic with a rat-tail comb and a ton of hairspray. And now, her contribution to the planet's catalog of fabulous is being honored by the Chicago History Museum and Cosmetologists Chicago.Margaret Vinci Heldt invented the fam ... More >>

Pierce the Veil

6 p.m. Tuesday, December 21. Fubar, 3108 Locust Street.

Last Collector Standing: Helen Petty on Rock & Roll Hair and Dance Parties With Her Son

Jon Scorfina​The cultural importance of records extends beyond the music within their grooves. Generation after generation has defined itself by its vinyl aesthetic. From Elvis Presley to The Beatles, The Sex Pistols to Madonna, the album cover has become a cultural landmark that encapsulates ... More >>

Ivory Wave: Synthetic Cocaine Lands in St. Louis, Sends Teen User to Pysch Ward

am-hi-co.comBath salts now banned in Bath, and the rest of the UK. ​Is there any end to the number of new fake drugs on the market? Earlier this year the synthetic marijuana, K2, was all the rage in Missouri and much of the United States. Now it's Ivory Wave, a drug marketed as "bath salts" but fr ... More >>

Morgan Spurlock Discusses Lip Hair, What He'll Do If Named "Mustached American of the Year"

Is that a handlebar 'stache or one half of the McDonald's golden arches? ​Morgan Spurlock will be in St. Louis on Saturday for the American Mustache Institute's annual 'Stache Bash.The filmmaker and screenwriter, perhaps best known for Supersize Me, is in the running for AMI's Robert Goulet Memori ... More >>

Free Aveda Massages at St. Louis Galleria Today

Don't you feel better already?​Black Friday shopping got you ... stressed?Today only, the Aveda Experience Center in the St. Louis Galleria is offering free head, neck, shoulder and scalp massages, says spokeswoman Kelly Plummer. No need to make an appointment; the Aveda staffers are offering the ... More >>

Brooke Shields Makes Pitch for Mustache Finalist, Actor Brandon Wardell

Competition is heating up in the race to be named this year's Robert Goulet Mustached American of the Year. This week famed actress Brooke Shields jumped into the fray, endorsing fellow thespian Brandon Wardell -- whose mustache and singing talents have landed him roles starring as Freddy Mercury. Y ... More >>

'Stache Bash Changes Addrache -- Moving from Hrabosky's to Shannon's on December 4

Image Via'Stache Bash headed thatta way.​This just in from the folks at the American Mustache Institute. Their annual gala slated for next month is changing addresses -- moving from the bar of one Cardinals' broadcaster to another. That's right, on December 4  'Stache Bash will take place at ... More >>

American Mustache Institute Postpones 'Stache Bash; Grown-Up Excuses Cited

John Oates rings in last year's Stache Bash.​If you -- like me -- have already begun grooming your facial hair for the American Mustache Institute's annual 'Stache Bash, you may be wearing that lip sweater for awhile. Daily RFT recently caught up with one of AMI's founders Aaron Perlut (a.k.a. Dr. ... More >>

Red Bull: Alain Resnais does his carrot-topped muse no favors in Wild Grass

Thirteen Questionable Mustaches from the Pitchfork Music Festival

As a fad or trend, mustaches are rather passe. (Shh -- don't break the hearts of the fine folks at the American Mustache Institute, who have made the facial hair their life's passion.) But someone forgot to tell the attendees of last weekend's Pitchfork Music Festival that not everyone can rock the ... More >>

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

Tresses to Impress

The Morning Brew: 4.27

The best restaurant in the world for 2010 has been announced, and it's Noma in Copenhagen. The Guardian reports on the restaurant's upset of El Bulli, the winner for the past four years and the return of rustic over modernism. Tweezers: they're not just for splinters and unwanted facial hair anymo ... More >>

¡Ask a Mexican!: Special Best-of Edition

Holly Golightly, John Mayer Announce St. Louis Shows

British garage-rock queen-bee Holly Golightly is returning to St. Louis for the first time since August 2005 at the Firebird on Tuesday, December 1. Details forthcoming. Also, John Mayer has announced a show with Michael Franti and Spearhead at the Scottrade Center on Saturday, March 20, 2010. Ticke ... More >>

Bouffant Is Better

Who Needs Paul Mitchell When There's Rod Blago Shampoo?

Unreal just heard about some employees at a Chicago radio station who received an unexpected package last week, ripped it open and proceeded to laugh so hard that some of them peed their pants. The joke du jour: BLAGO Volumizing Shampoo and Conditioner - For Really Big Hair. "IT'S BLEEP'N GOLDEN!" r ... More >>

So, That's What Pimp Juice Smells Like! Nelly Launches a Perfume

nelly.netHave you heard the news?St. Louis' favorite rapper, Nelly, is out with new fragrance for his Apple Bottom line of female fashion wear. And no, the artist is not naming the perfume after his popular energy drink and song, Pimp Juice. Not that that matters. The ladies will still be attracting ... More >>

Beauty Bar/Punk Rock Hair Salon Opens this Saturday

The Beauty Bar is a name of a venue in other cities -- Austin and Las Vegas, for starters -- and now a "punk rock hair salon" in St. Louis. The grand opening is tomorrow, and will feature beer, BBQ, burlesque and tunes from Strawfoot. (I tried to continue the "B" alliteration, and just couldn't. Bum ... More >>

We Work Hard for Our Money

So hard for it, honey

Semi Precious Weapons

7 p.m. Monday, November 24. Pop's, 1403 Mississippi Avenue, Sauget, Illinois.

Hairy Halloween

Not so secret 'stache

Calling all Leprecanos, Korexicans and Beaner-weiners!

The Mexican wants your hybrid names.

'Stache Bridges

Bad Hair Days

A Clayton salon owner claims his former stylists are poaching his upscale clients.

Women on the Verge

Orange Girls are back -- and Bold.

Shiny Toy Guns

7 p.m. Sunday, October 8. Creepy Crawl (3524 Washington Boulevard).

Summer Nights

What's up with Mexicans and their grooming habits?

Week of July 20, 2006

Kills the Ozone, Saves the Country

Hairspray is necessary for life

Best Place To Get a Regular Haircut

Larry Evilsizor Barber Stylist

Best Hair Salon

Thu Do Hair Design

Best Hair On a TV Personality (Female)

Keryn Shipman, KDNL-TV (Channel 30)

How Do You Fix a Bad-Hair Day?

Week of March 28, 2001

American Beauties

Don we now our gay apparel

Going Out with Style

For Libby Yocco, preparing for death included a postmortem coiffure by a loving granddaughter

Force Behind the Throne

A St. Louis barber-chair maker weathered the Depression, succumbed to Japanese competitors and adapted to changing fashion

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