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Beyond the Blonde

by Kathleen Flynn-Hui



      Flynn-Hui has a very unique outlook and inside look at an entertaining business that keeps the rich and proud high and mighty in the eyes of the world. She uses her work base as a sort of kiss and tell about the hair coloring, bleaching of society through the eyes of her clients and all of their foibles and foul-ups. She writes a pretty tight book for a first attempt, and gives a credible account of all the labors she has dealt with in her life and as a stylist at Jean-Luc in New York. She tells how she came from humble beginnings in New Hampshire and a divorced salon owner mother (Doreen) up through the ranks from a floor hair-sweeper to a major stylist and colorist to the stars.

She divides her client list into the beginnings of the places they live or hail from, and breaks out of the norm here with some insights into the rituals and meanings of those places in and through society challenges. If a person cares about that sort of thing and gauges their life on how they are perceived, this should open some eyes.

Over all, Beyond the Blonde is an entertaining book, and easy to read. It is a book that you might want to curl up with on a chilly fall night. Georgia does find love as is typical of most Chick-lit books, but her path is not an easy one. Although she survives and eventually has the best of both worlds in everything she has chosen for her life, she did have to make some grittier choices along the way at times.

The Book

Warner Books
September 2005
HardCover
0-446-50017-8
Chick-Lit
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Excerpt
NOTE: easy read, enjoyable, light

The Reviewer

Claudia VanLydegraf
Reviewed 2005
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