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Teeth Whitening at Beauty Hideaway!

I am so excited to announce that we are now offering Beaming White teeth whitening at Beauty Hideaway! It’s a safe and effective alternative to sometimes painful dentist office whitening.

Beaming White is one of the largest manufacturers of professional in-office and teeth whitening treatments. Their products are manufactured in the United States, are 100% vegan friendly and formulated with kosher ingredients.

Many of our clients have asked us what the differences are between the treatments that dentists have been doing and the Beaming White treatments that we’re doing, so here’s a little overview:

• The biggest difference is that...
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Can You Help My Son’s High School Band?

The end of the year is approaching quickly, and if you’re still looking for charitable contribution ideas, I would love it if you would consider donating to my son’s 2017 Fall Marching Band and Color Guard program.

His school, Aliso Niguel High School, along with many others, has been hit hard by the budget cuts and they are desperately in need of donations to continue running their program.

If you’re able to donate, please know that you’ll be helping an amazing program that has changed my son’s life and any amount would be incredibly appreciated. Just be sure to write my name (Kimberly Armstrong) in the notes section on the...

Celebrating My Amazing Career

In September of 2017, I quietly celebrated doing Permanent Makeup since 2004. I studied to be an English teacher, fell into Public Relations… and I do makeup. My Mom always told me that I’d “fall into a career,” and I did… but I think this one picked me.

This crazy career of mine has blossomed from doing brows, eyeliner and lips on women… to helping people recover from very traumatic and life-changing experiences, including trichotillomania (an abnormal desire to pull out one’s hair); alopecia (an autoimmune disorder that causes sudden and total loss of hair); and vitiligo (an incurable pigmentation...

The Microblading Frenzy

Each week I receive a dozen or more calls inquiring about a fascinating new trend called “microblading.” The calls always fall into one of two distinct categories:

1. The excited caller who just saw photos online of microblading and wants to know if we do it and when we can get her on the books.
2. The disappointed caller who went to someone she found online who is unhappy with the shape or the color of her new “microbladed” brows and wants me to fix them ASAP.

Women with thinning eyebrows are being lured into getting this service because of enticing buzz words like: 3D eyebrows! Brow Sculpting! Microbladed brows! Brow embroidery!...

My Two Cents on the Essential Oil Obsession

It seems that everyone is obsessed with essential oils lately. Everywhere I go, someone is either talking about the uses of the oils, selling the oils or trying out the oils. And over the last year, I have been approached by dozens of women looking for me to try their essential oils in the hopes that I will sell them at Beauty Hideaway. I listened to each of their presentations, went to classes, looked over their materials and smelled the oils… which were always heavenly… but I didn’t believe in my heart that any of it would really work to heal anything as all of them claimed. I thought it...