WHO TO CALL: Fashion Editor Layne Christensen 985-2131 (118) Video imaging system takes the wonder out EVER WONDER what you'd. look like blond? With short hair? With a brush cut? » By Layne Christensen Fashicn Reporter Kathy Chan has the solution. Six months ago, the Lower Lonsdale hair . Salon installed an interactive video irnaging system so that stylists could assist customers * contemplating a change: in hair style or . coler. The service, Styles on Video, is available by appointment every day of the week except Sundays and Tuesdays. Ture system has a database of over 600 siyles for men, women and children. There are five colors, three lengths, three textures and several hair.types, from Caucasian to Hispanic, to choose from. ‘ A team of-hairstylists in California develop new looks and install four new Styles each year so that hairdos remain cur- rent. - foo? : The session starts with a consultation to » determine face shape, hair texture and cus: tomer expectations. *. -’. Then a “before”. picture is taken with a Video camera and stored in a computer. Customers flip through a book of hairstyles and record the numbers of the looks that interest them. The styles are loaded into the “ computer and superimposed on the client's picture, - .- wt Styles’ on. Video operator Behnaz _. Khatam will give guidance on what styles -... work -well with a client’s hair texture and . face shape. : “We let them know that they. have to stick with reality,” she says. « There are times, though, when a client is “more interested in fantasy than reality. “Some” people do this ‘for fun,” she ‘explains.’ “Say they have thin hair and “- they’ve. always wanted'to have long, curly hair. We'll let.them enjoy. the moment of - ‘having their dream hair” After all it’s not “every. day: that you can go from mousy 26 | "79 ROPF “CREATIVE WINDOW COVE of a new ’do 66 It’s not every day you can go from mousy brown to drop-dead blond in under 10 seconds. Then there’s the other side ... seeing how horrific you really would look as a blond... 99 brown to drop-dead blond in under 10 sec- onds. Se The other side of the equation, however, is seeing how horrific you really would look as a blond. Or a red head. Or a short-haired siren. : And this is where Styles on Video can prove most helpful. You get to see what style won’t look good on you, before you do-any- thing permanent. ~ Khatam, who has tong, curly dark hair, had wanted to go short for some time. After seeing herself on screen with a new, cropped . ‘do, all plans of going short were quickly revised. “It was awful. I looked so old,” she laughs. ‘ The salon offers two programs to choose from. ; The first, a quick-method pick where you can choose 12 or 24 styles, is like putting a wig on. The session takes about a half-hour. ‘The cost is $19.95 for 12 styles; $29.95 for 24. ' ; The second,.a more. comprehensive package is a one-hour consultation. Khatam will work with a client to change her make- up and the color of her hair. With this option, . clients can pick as many styles as they like, see them on screen and then choose the styles they'd like printed out. The cost is $39.95 for 12 styles; $49.95 for 24. , With ‘both options, the’ client ‘receives both photos and a video of the selected hair- . styles. ey © Home Decoratine [Deas BEING. ENTIRELY CUSTOM, 1S WHY WE WANT YOU TO KNOW EXACTLY WHAT WE'RE-TALKING ABOUT. AFTER © ALL IT; WOULD BE A SHAME IF. YOU ..\WERE - PAINFULLY MISTAKEN ABOUT (WHAT YOU WERE GETTING. Visit our booth at Park Royal ~The trish about us is. Hy . We do more than just cover your windows. (Blinds © Shades © Drapery ® Bedding JABOoT -2413 Marine Drive Home & Garden Show March 6 = March 12 ~_” South Mall * Re-upholstery & move... | - 922-4668 West Vancouver’... .—«s FREE. CONSULTATION © | REE “Py Teese Rings © 4 Photos submitted : "TRY THESE on for size. KathyChan hair saton offers clients the chance to see them- ,- selves in a whole new fight with the afd of Styles on Video, a new video imaging sys- | tem. The News’ fashion reporter discovered that some ‘dos are better left undone. Ever Wonder Why You Have Too Much Month | Left. At The End Of Your Money? Check This: Single Vision {frame & lenses) © $110.06 Bi-Focals {frame included) $140.00 RETAIL PRICES | Milk | Dozen Eggs Tin Tomato Soup a Single Vision (frame & lenses) Glass or Plastic Lenses Powers + or - 6.00 with a 2 cyl. Extras excluded. Bi-Focals (frame included) Plastic Lenses, Kryptok of Regular Mono only ©. Powers + or - 6.00 with a 2 cyl. : Extras excluded.