Funny beauty shop sign
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I snapped a photo of this beauty shop sign on Ventura Boulevard in Encino. It's a comedy of errors, addenda, and half-hearted attempts to correct the errors. The $ inside the 0 of the 10 is fun. The whole thing is delightful. I'd take this over a boring corporate sign any day.
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Sweet! I was just trying to decide where to get my next tattoo...
one can only imagine the quality of their services. i wonder how many times the hairstylist or tat(t)oo artist was in the middle of a job and said "oops..."
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...and mdh is rendered practically speachless by this posting!
Um...Threading? Someone help me out here...
Threading
A method of hair removal. From the wiki article:
Threading is an ancient method of hair removal which originated in India, spread to the Middle and Far East, and is now gaining popularity in Western countries. It is equally popular with both men and women in Arab countries, although the men usually just do their ears and eyebrows with thread and continue to shave the beard part of their face with a traditional safety or straight razor.
Do they offer the tughra after the word "CUT" as a tatoo option?
Can anyone tell what it means? Is it Arabic or Turkic?
@#5 grimatongueworm: Threading is a form of eyebrow plucking, shaping, de-unibrowing.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Threading_(epilation)
I only know this because my sister works in a salon. Yeah. That's it. My sister.
I was a bit concerned by the tat(t)oo thing too.
I'm reminded of a graphic design book comparing the marketing effect of a sloppy hand-lettered sign that said "farm fresh eggs" to that of a similarly sloppy one that said "free flying lessons".
Threading is a hair removal method, I think Middle Eastern in origin, as I've learned about it mostly through Persian and Armenian friends. So, this little lady takes this piece of thread, loops it, adds magic, and pulls hair away in a rapid-fire, follicle lasso, facial rodeo.
I've never witnessed it, but if Ahmadinejad (and Khamenei) really wanted to press on the western powers, he would just release videos of these little ladies on YouTube.
wait, permanent makeup!?!?! jk, that's the one mistake they didn't make. Too bad really...
So we're celebrating this?
Can we call it "bad grammar" 'Zen' ?
Let's just agree to call it awesome...
Here's a few more examples on my flickr page
Ned613 @6-
I'm not an Arabic speaker, but it looks like the characters would transliterate to something like "Salon Arakhee."
Niro5 @9-
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Permanent_makeup
Reminds me of these guys...
http://www.chicagotribune.com/features/lifestyle/chi-typo-guys-0521may21,0,6902266.story?page=1
who I'm shocked to find were arrested for their efforts!
http://www.boston.com/news/local/massachusetts/articles/2008/08/22/men_banned_from_national_parks_after_vandalism/
@BoingBoing - Thanks for raising my Threading awareness. As a balding man, I've kinda mastered hair removal on my own and have never had to pursue such a service.
Don't be hatin'.
Those pidicures are fantastic!
My pids have never looked better.
Manicur? Sounds like a dog-grooming parlour from South Central LA.
I'll be sure to look for this next time I am on Ventura Boulevard, Signs like that are all over the valley~
That is one place I'm never going for permanent makeup - not sure I'd trust them with a haircut, even. Might lose an ear.
As for threading, it is indeed a method of hair removal, though it's still pretty rare in the US. I know there are some places in NYC, and Philly has one that I know of as of a couple months ago - which just so happens to be down the street from me. I tried it and I really recommend it, especially if you have sensitive skin - having my eyebrows waxed causes me breakouts and redness for a few days, if not outright burns (sugar wax is the only kind that my skin tolerates at all), but with threading I barely even had any redness. It's no more expensive or painful than waxing, and they can shape the eyebrows more carefully, though it is considerably slower - and they only do facial hair, probably because it would take ages to do other areas. Basically, they take a thin white cotton string and roll it back and forth over the skin and it catches the hairs.
I thought permanent makeup was a new term for tattoo until I got to tatoo.
Random fact: there was British MP called Theresa Gorman whose "eyebrows" were tattoos - she got sick of all the plucking and shaping (And threading?) so got them removed altogether and had tats instead. As far as I know she's the only MP ever with facial tats.
Yeah, I'd trust them to TATtOO me!
Klobouk @14, Couldn't that be "Salon Iraqi"?
The first time I saw this I read "permanent makeup" but when I looked at it a second time I realized it says PERMENT and that weird parenthesis thing isn't any kind of recognizable "fix" to me. And then there's what looks like a comma between PERMENT and MAKE up. The obvious answer is that it is indeed meant to say "permanent makeup". But I wonder if it's meant to say "perm" or if they were, in spite of the initial grammatical errors, smart enough to realize that not many people would notice that mistake?
Oh, and next time you should stick around to get some snapshots of the people coming out. Just imagine someone who's just gotten ALL of those things done at that place...
I suppose this is stating the obvious, but presumably English is not the first language of the proprietor. She may very well be very good at what she does, but what she does is not writing English.
My regular barber hardly speaks a word of English, but she does a fine job.