L'Oreal Professional: 100 Years of Inspiration

For 100 years, L’Oreal (founded by Eugene Schueller who initially sold his formulation of a hair dye and sold it door to door to salons) has inspired the world with its breakthrough products and services for and by the world’s greatest hairstylists. To celebrate the milestone, one of its leading salon brands, L’Oreal Professionnel, held a grand celebration at the very place where it all began – Paris, France.

L’Oreal has always been a staunch partner since we began the Hair Asia competitions two decades ago so I was delighted when Mr. Bram Timmer and Mr. Luc Marquet of L’Oreal Philippines invited me to join the celebrations as part of the Philippine delegation. Our contingent also included Charisse Hernandez, marketing manager of L’Oreal Professionnel, Pauline Juan, editor-in-chief of Preview magazine, Alex Carbonell and Paolo of Bench Fix Salon, Les and Dina Reyes with their daughters Celeste and Dina Marie, Jeof Moran, Robert Salazar, Teng Roma and Lourd Ramos of Emphasis Salon, Andrea and Anton Zulueta of Piandre Salon, Lorna Sandoval, Ino Amoyo, Raul Barrios, Jade Mercado, Zernan Olandez, Edwin Sales of David’s Salon, Maria Lyn Kho, Edwin Samot, and Phillip Tordjman.

Check out more from L'Oreal's website.

Earth Hour: Switch Off the Light for an hour

As part of the effort to to take action on Global Warming. Earth Hour has been transformed into the world’s first global election, between Earth and global warming in 2009.


For the first time in history, people of all ages, nationalities, race and background have the opportunity to use their light switch as their vote – Switching off your lights is a vote for Earth, or leaving them on is a vote for global warming. WWF are urging the world to VOTE EARTH and reach the target of 1 billion votes, which will be presented to world leaders at the Global Climate Change Conference in Copenhagen 2009.

THIS SATURDAY 28 MARCH AT 8.30PM YOU CAN VOTE EARTH BY SWITCHING OFF YOUR LIGHTS FOR ONE HOUR - EARTH HOUR.

Beside turning your lights off for an hour, there are many other things you can do to make Earth Hour 2009 a success.

• Sign Up Now. Become a part of Earth Hour and get useful tips and tools to reduce your carbon footprint everyday

• Tell A Friend. Better still – tell them, your family and even your work mates. Encourage them to sign up. Email them a link to this website and mobilise even more people!

• Tell Your Story. How is climate change affecting your family and your community? We want to hear how you're becoming part of the solution.

• Run your own Earth Hour. Download our quick guide for how to run Earth Hour in your city or town. It's easy!

• Your Earth Hour. What will you be doing at 8.30pm on Saturday March 28? We're keen to know what you have planned for Earth Hour 2009. If you'd like to share your plans with Earth Hour and the media, then please send us an email describing with as much detail as you can what you have planned to myearthhour@earthhour.org. Don't forget to include your name, where you live (City and Country), and your contact telephone number including your country code.

• Blogger Tool Kit: Create a blog post about the importance of global action on climate change and how participation in Earth Hour can make a difference.(Just like me! :) )

American heads to the Polls

Today marks the climax of the most-watched, most talked about United States election of our time.

Along with the rest of the world, Barbados has watched with fascination as the gripping contest between Democratic candidate Senator Barack Obama and Republican candidate Senator John McCain has unfolded.

Long lines formed at polling places in many Eastern states, as Barack Obama's bid to become the first black president faced the final test of its remarkable two-year journey Tuesday, while Republican John McCain pressed for an Election Day upset.

Source: msnbc