With the help of this DVD, you'll learn professional tips and tricks from hairstylist, Sandie Trevor. This video is geared to future brides and is full of advice on when to color before the wedding, how to get hair healthy again and what styles look best on whom.

The hairstylist can benefit from this presentation and can help answer a plethora of questions brides will have and chart direction to satisfying the most discerning bride.

Missing is why you would ever want to take the chance you will be thrown in the deep tank with bridezilla.

As rare as a bonkers bride is, I still hold the scars from the few I went three rounds with.
The reasons we all still love to do wedding parties is:

1. It is a woman's most special day, or two, or three, equaled only by a Neiman-Marcus 60 % off friends and family event.
2. You will never have the chance to do as over-the-top hair unless your name is Oribe
3. You may go to the wedding reception and talk the groom's mother into requesting the Macarena (twice) and dancing with the six-year-olds while the bride glares a dusty hole through her new husband's parietal lobe.

Here is the link: The Perfect Wedding Series: Hair

This is an Amazon.com video on demand offering. You can download the episodes from season 1 of this terrific show for 2 bucks a pop.

She drove us up the wall on Shear Genius, but is in her element with this series. Here, she is a straight talker who takes no prisoners as she tells salon owners and staff why they suck.

I wish I had the courage to put two drinks down this feisty Australian and, with notebook in hand, asked her to tell me what parts of my professional self I can improve. I would be listening intently, but so afraid she would say "everything and do it now."

Here is the link: Tabitha's Salon Takeover

Another on demand from Amazon, this is the season we meet the fabulous Kim Vo of B2B in Beverley Hills, one of the celebrity judges. Shear Genius uses a combination of rules from Project Runway and Top Chef, two other Bravo network shows.

MSN TV website writes: "Some stylists will get "cut" early and others will "blow away" the competition." That is a direct quote and I am not making this stuff up, although I am eternally jealous that the writer at MSN "ironed" out the near "brush" with pithiness at a "clipped" pace that totally "gelled".

Here is the link: Shear Genius Season 2

Hair World is an intimate look behind the scenes at the world's most prestigious hair cutting competition.

The video follows the American team as they compete against the world. The best parts are the interviews with: Robert Cromeans, John Paul Mitchell, and Stephen Moody of Vidal Sassoon.

If this doesn't get your creative choo choo train chugging up the success hill, you are already swept up and deposited in the recycling, much like this allegory.

You may very well note we did not review any of the books or videos showing how one may cut one's own hair, or a child's hair or the hair of random strangers plucked from the street, duct-taped and swept off to a high mountain cabin. This is because no one can cut hair with any degree of satisfaction without formal training and some time practicing on mental patients or one's beloved aunt from Helena.

Case in point: do you remember the TV infomercial of some years ago hawking a wonder tool (rhyming with "nobee") that became intimate with the productive end of one's vacuum cleaner and - presto - snipped the hair off the head by means of wildly spinning blades? Within one fortnight, it shipped with a 35 page book on how to do so without severing digits and ears and 10 attachments to keep it varying distances from ears and arteries.

Soon, they added a 600-page legal disclaimer, an instructional video and replacement ears. Finally, the whirling dervish morphed to a pet grooming tool to never ever under any circumstances to be used within 500 feet of a school.

And your sister from Walla Walla thinks she can cut hair just like you, a professional, for crying out loud. Even you can't render a world-beater haircut after a teary night of watching old Liz Taylor movies until at least your fourth double latte, low fat, no foam, vanilla and nutmeg sprinkle.

Raul for Capelli d"oro © 2007-2009