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A Super Service Project! Planning a Quality Service Experience Tuesday Oct. 8 or Wednesday Oct. 9 5:00-6:30pm in Koldus 146 An opportunity to make your service experiences more impactful and meaningful. We'll explore the elements that make up a quality service experience, sharesources available, and discuss how to utilize thenA high-energy, interactive program that promises to be worthwhile! Hosted by the Volunteer Services Center, Student Activities. If you have any questions, call Angela at 458-3347. COFFEEHOUSE Tomorro w@RUMOURS on the mso FREE FOOD LIVE MUSIC JT from Last Free Exit, Russell Huie, Meridian OPEN MIC @7:30 Bring out yo’ guitars ‘n’ such Show starts @ 8:30 Presented as part of Arts Awareness Week #MSg ’Jpvm'j kr > ChilifeU Inc. would like fee thank all the patrent el Chilifeit 2002* With your fuppert we were able to donate over to the following charitiefi -Burleson Co. Go Texan $40,000 -Boys’ and Girls’ Club of the Brazos Valley $18,000 -Closing Time Inc. $10,000 -Bryan, College Station, and Bellville I.S.D.’s $9,000 -Burleson Co. Fair Association $5,000 -Snook Volunteer Fire Department $5,000 -Snook Lions Club $5,000 -Other Various Organizations $10,500 Chilifeit 2003 ■ s April 4-5 tnoob, Tcxat mvw.tkilifatt,org 4A Wednesday, October 9, 2002 A(jGIE1|] thebattmi. First of 36 salons plannet for teens opened in Plan o PLANO, Texas (AP) — Tori Cecil doesn’t hesi tate when asked, “Do you like glitter? She certainly does, she assures the makeup artist, who begins turning Tori 's eyelids a sparkly pink and marking her lips with a dark liner before adding a pink gloss. Tori, a 15-year-old from Rowlett, is a new client at the nation's first Seventeen (a division ot the magazine) studio spa salon. With pulsating music, sleek modern decor and makeup stations where customers are encouraged to dabble, the salon is_ dedicated to serving teenagers. Marcia Blackburn, who was treating her grand daughter Tori to a haircut as well as the salon makeover, pronounced the salon cool. “1 thought it was very well done for the market they’re attracting,” said Blackburn, who describes herself as 50-plus. “1 wish they'd had a place like this when I was her age.” It’s just that sentiment that pushed founder Susan Tierney to develop the concept tor the salon. “Teens were going to their mom’s salon.” she said. “They really didn’t have a place of their own.” Jacqueline Blum, president of Primedia Enterprises, the licensing arm of Seventeen maga zine’s publisher, said the salon is another branding opportunity, like one already in place for products such as hair accessories. “We felt that Seventeen was the right brand for a girl’s first few experiences getting their hair done, getting their nails done,” Blum said. Tierney intends to locate 36 more Seventeen salons across the country by the end of 2006. The goal is to find markets with plenty of teens and plenty of money. In that respect. Plano fits. Nine high schools are located within a seven-mile radius of Plano, a Dallas suburb of about 233,000. And the average median household income in Collin County was $70,835 in 2000. the highest in Texas. Parents pay the bill about 65 percent of the time, though some teens have jobs, and others healthy allowances. “It’s a whole different generation — a very pampered generation,” Tierney said. Bill Steele, a household products and cosmetics analyst for Banc of America Securities in San Francisco, said teens tend to use their considerable income to buy products specially geared toward them — without regard for the big downers of the world, like saving for retirement. “Teens historically have spent a vast majority of what’s available to them,” Steele said. Anthony Liuzzo, professor of business and eco nomics at Wilkes University in Wilkes-Barre, Pa., characterizes today’s teenagers as the so-called baby boom echo. “We re seeing a largernumba people in the United States in that age categor he said. The salon sells makeup, and hair and skindj nets. Teens test color possibilities at the “makes- bar.” A cafe sells snacks, smoothies andevencij. puccino. The young customers relax onasankj. cular couch against assorted pillows while then feet get a makeover. Looking for a little privacy? There are room) for facials, massages or eyebrow waxings.Toc the experience less stressful: No tipping allowed Customers browse computers featuring move previews and polls aimed at teens. Music videos play on several televisions, and of course, the® ply of Seventeen magazines is endless. A haircut, style and finish by a designerisB $45 for a senior designer. A makeup consultation and lesson costs $40, an eyebrow tweezingandlii son, $ 12. A spa manicure is $25, a spa pedicure $38. There’s even a $12 nail detail or $15huzza for the guys. The spa also found bri sk business booking pi. ties for girls 12 and older. They can be tailored® include such luxuries as catering and limousines pedicure pit party, for instance, would cost$40p: person. “They come out of here feeling like a princess,” said Krista Castillo, the events motion director. Beauty experts suggest that getting girls hooks early on salon and spa services will make them loyal customers who are more willing to try new treatments. “It'll become a lifelong discipline,”said Melissa Yamaguchi. incoming president ofThe Salon Association, a nonprofit organization of salon and spa owners. Such pampering may help boost the self-estees of teens who are insecure about their appearance, said Kristy Hagan a pediatric neuropsychologisti Children's Medical Center of Dallas. But, she said, parents should make sure their children don't focus too much on appearance. “It’s important that it’s not emphasized as an end-all be-all to have perfectly manicurednaik she said. “1 think that it can be positive as long it’s not taken overboard.” Fifteen-year-old Janie Rodriguez recently tne; out the salon herself while also treating sisterHd to a day of beauty — hair, fingernails, toenails, makeup and facial — for her 18th birthday. The sisters were impressed. “Everyone’s real nice. It's real relaxing. Jm( said as a manicurist worked on her hands. Ttsa place where teenagers can hang out and have tel THE BAT r \A Se Study me dilemma ma classmen an and sometin Although experience, a Adam La back on his of relations! 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