"Cancel your Botox appoinment. Skip Pilates And run to your nearest bookstore, darling, to pickup the decadently delicious BEYOND THE BLONDE. You'll laugh so hard that tears will melt off your face and pounds off your derriere. And you can quote line on that."

---T., uber-publicist

"Kathleen Flynn-Hui should have known better than to mess with me. Nobody reveals my New Jersey roots! Nobody! I'll show her. Watch out, Kathleen. I'm putting glue in your bleach."

---Richard (and that's pronounced Ree-shard, s'il vous plait!)

From the star colorist at New York"s Salon AKS comes a story about the city"s salon du jour--and the rising young stylist taking her chic clients...

Georgia was born to color hair: back in Weekeepeemie,New Hampshire, her single mother struggled to keep her own small-town beauty parlor and family afloat. Yet after beauty school, seeking more, Georgia moves to New York city and starts working at the Jean-Luc Salon. Here, in this glitzy, over-the-top world, she highlights dogs" hair to match their owners", makes house calls to the Hamptons,and barely bats an eyelash at a thousand-dollar tip. She"s too busy for romance--until her quiet, handsome colleague Massimo begins to offer more than styling pointers...and Jean-Luc does the unthinkable. Now Georgia will need help from the most unlikely people, if she is to survive the ugly side of beauty.

ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

Why pay retail? or ,A Hair-Raising Event

A Colorist"s Humble Roots

Beauty School

The Hottest Salon in the World

In Which Richard Moves Up in the World ,or Beach Hair

Doreen Gets the Works

The Hair Show

Single-Process

Double-Process

Split Ends

Covering the Gray

Color War

Happily Ever After