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Time Flies so Make Time for You Now - Holiday Appointments Fill Quickly

The last official holiday of the Summer is upon us, Labor Day.  Children have already or will be shortly returning to school.  The beaches are still warm from the summer sun and it is the last hurrah for college kids before they have to seriously hit the books.  It is also a clear sign that time rushes by for it seems only like yesterday when we were looking forward to Spring turning to Summer.

Because time is so fleeting and the last holidays of the year will be upon us soon it is certainly time to pull out your calendar and start planning for your holiday beauty appointments now.  Women have so much to do when it comes to holidays in the final part of the year – from designing Halloween costumes for the school event to Christmas shopping and gift purchasing and decorating.  If you don’t put down into calendar, in pen, the time for you then you are likely to get through the Holidays without truly enjoying it and feeling your best.  Time flies and other things will get your attention and before you know it – it’s 2013.

We have already opened up our books through the first few months of the year and customers that call for beauty appointments in the end of the year should go ahead and make their New Year’s Eve and Valentine’s Day appointments now as well.  You want to look your best and by making that appointment now you will be making sure you give some attention to yourself that will give you a chance to catch your breath and you will know you will look your best in those Holiday pictures that will be referred to for decades!

Some of our beauty treatments can not only have you looking your best but saving time as well – which we know you need when the year is closing down and there is so much on your shoulders.  By getting eyelash extensions or a Babydoll Lashes Lash Lift you can give your eyes an instant lift and look more energized and younger as you fix those early morning breakfasts for visiting guests and family in for the celebrations.  Tints and permanent mascara will cut your beauty regime down considerably and you will love the results! 

A quick sew-in appointment can have you looking your best and everyone wondering how you hold so much so well together.  Let EBK Beauty be your secret to looking your best during the Holidays – not to mention all those upcoming school events and football games.

Make your appointments now – we do our best so you can look your best!  EBK Beauty Appointments 

Have a safe Labor Day weekend!

Jacksonville Cheerleaders Get the EBK Beauty Treatment to Up Their Game

Cheerleaders used to be the high school girls that organized the crowd to cheer for the team.  Times have turned cheerleaders into athletes that are ambassadors of their school as well as the organizer of the fan’s cheering.  They work as a team and they not only can lead elementary teams on into high school but they can earn college scholarships and be paid to be professional cheerleaders for professional sports teams.

One aspect of cheerleading is the appearance of the members of the squad.  They must be individuals that work and look like a unit – a team for a team.  EBK Beauty is the perfect support team for the cheerleaders looking to up their game for the football season.

We can develop hairstyles that express individuality while still looking uniform within the group.  We have hair extensions that be used to get that special look and to really push the team spirit we can use colored extensions in team colors.  The look doesn’t have to stop there though as we can offer colored eyelashes, nail art and even team colored lip art.  Go beyond the typical “rub on” team mascot temporary tattoo and get face makeup that includes face jewelry, glitter, and a professional makeup application to enhance the beauty of each member.  It won’t be overdone.  It will be professionally done and will give you or the entire squad the extra “umph” to bring your whole look together. 

We love to have entire squads come in together to get their EBK Beauty treatment for the game.  It can be a bonding moment and bring the energy of the squad up to a higher level.

We know how to help your cheerleading team from the small cheerleaders learning their skills to the glamorous members of the Jaguars Roar.  Braids and bows to full on glamor we can fill the right need of any cheerleader or cheerleading team in Jacksonville.  Get the EBK Beauty treatment and while your look will be amazing, we won’t forget for one minute that your hairstyle and beauty enhancement will have to endure the athletic effort of cheering during your game. 

Make your appointment for either your week game, Friday night game, Saturday College Game or the Sunday or Monday night football game.  We will be in the Salon and have our chair ready to help you “up your game” and cheer the team to victory looking fabulous!

Eyebrow Threading Done Right

Eyebrow threading is something I enjoy doing – the artist in me gets to come out in full glory.  There are so many reasons a person should get their eyebrows professionally shaped and then there are just as many reasons why someone should get their eyebrows shaped by threading instead of waxing or plucking.  The threading process is quick, virtually painless, and can give you the eyebrows that will frame your eyes perfectly.

If you have been plucking and waxing your brows then it will require you to let them grow out if you did it recently.  If you have overgrown or lightly grown in eyebrows then you just need to make an appointment or walk-in when you get the chance to come by our Salon.  For those that need to grow out your eyebrows - hide those tweezers!  Letting eyebrow hairs grow out can be a difficult thing to do for chronic pluckers but knowing the damage you could be doing may convince you to lay down the tweezers and leave them there.  More often than not people that pluck their eyebrows continuously overdo it and then they use fill in makeup and they do it wrong or unflatteringly to their eyes and face.  The damage done when over-plucking eyebrow hairs can be permanent.

For those that have thinning eyebrows the answer to more beautiful brows can be found with our Salon as well.  We have temporary and permanent makeup aids that can make a difference for thinning and over tweezing of eyebrows.  We can also assist you with the latest in eyebrow makeup and help you give your face the right arch and shape of brow to best set off your eyes and face.

The right eyebrow shape can give your face a younger look, a more sophisticated and feminine look, and people will respond to you in a better manner.  The wrong shape of eyebrow can drag your face down, make your eyes look too small, make you look tired and old and in some cases make you look unapproachable and downright angry.

If there is one thing that can give you an instant make-over and a more sophisticated, beautiful and natural look it is the right eyebrow shape (with the right eyebrow makeup when needed) to set off your eyes, expressions, and your face.  Eyebrow threading is the way to go and it takes just a matter of minutes while you sit back and relax.  In the right hands it can be a comfortable experience as well.  Do yourself the biggest beauty favor of the year and come to get your eyebrows threaded by THE EYEBROW EXPERT – right here in Jacksonville!  Come get in my chair and let’s give you the best eyebrows you have ever had!

For beauty experts wanting professional training - I teach an eyebrow threading course, learn more here: Classes by Kobe Ellis

Look Like a Celebrity or a More Glamorous You?

I love my job and what I do.  I am very blessed to be able to service the Jacksonville area and surrounding areas for their beauty needs.  Yet, there is one thing that can disappoint me to no end.  It is when a woman walks into the salon and I can see immediately how I can help her to be a more glamorous version of herself – to shape her eyebrows to frame her unique eye shape, to add extensions in just the right length and the right place, to give her eyelash extensions or an eyelash tint.  No matter the beauty service I can see it and know that this idea will make her look in the mirror and go “Wow!”.  Then the disappointment hits me in the face when she pulls out a picture or ad from a magazine and says “Give me this” or “Make me look exactly like that” and I know that while it will look good something different would be so much better.

More often than not it will involve a 10-15 minute conversation with the client as to how it may prove to be difficult for this reason or another but we will try our best to get close.  After all, we strive to give our clients exactly what they want at EBK Beauty. 

I understand the desire to look like celebrities and the ease in which they can influence our choices in our appearance and fashion.  I often get my own ideas and inspiration from people I see in glossy color magazines, the movie screen, or my TV.  We do need to remember however that they have likely done very little in deciding their own look.  Skilled fashion stylists, hair stylists, eyelash technicians, and makeup artists have all had a professional impact on their “look” and have made those influences to enhance that particular person.  The hairstyle, makeup, clothes, everything was chosen to enhance their body, their face, their coloring, their age, and other factors to make the most of who that person is for the red carpet, film, or appearance.  

Only a few times have I had the opportunity to be designed from head to toe.  It is a difficult thing to do – putting your faith completely in other’s hands.  Yet, when you take that glance in the mirror and see yourself from head to foot it is amazing.  You realize that you don’t look like a star but you look like a more glamorous you which is much, much better.  Nothing can be more building to your confidence or eye-opening to your own beauty than to be the canvas for skilled beauty professionals. 

Young girls are more likely to let a star influence them but they still want to maintain their uniqueness and creativity in their own look.  As women grow older they lose that sense of self because of their self-less way of living.  Perhaps that is why I see so many grown women come in with their torn out sheets of pictures wanting to look like someone else. 

Want to make a difference in your life, in your outlook, in your career, in your self-confidence?  Come see me or any of the professionals at EBK Beauty and when you sit down in our chair ask us to do our best to bring out the best in you – we’re up to the task and when you look in the mirror you’ll think it a shame the paparazzi are going to miss your Cinderella moment.

It's Jacksonville Jaguars Time (Almost) So Get Ready!

Could it really be football time already?  Well, not yet but the time is close and that means it is time to start planning the football parties and the tailgate menus!  It is also time to start planning your look for football and all those gatherings to cheer on your favorite team.  For me it is all about Jacksonville Jaguars Football!

For the look you could of course go out shopping for a new favorite outfit but to really get in the spirit nothing could be better than a team jersey, but who wants to have a big jersey not meant for your girly curves?  Not me!  For me it is all about Alyssa Milano’s sports fan apparel for women called Touch.  It is readily available at any sporting goods store such as Dicks Sporting Goods which will likely carry your local team’s branded wear.  It can also be ordered from Amazon and the premier online boutique called Fandalia.  This sports line lets a woman cheer on her team and look good doing it.

I don’t know how good other NFL teams are at providing such nice goodies to shop for but our Jaguars rock when it comes to having great stuff for women, kids and even toddlers.  You don’t need season tickets to make the most of being a Jaguars fan.  Just a quick visit to the official Web site of the team and a quick click through to the online shop and well the credit card starts calling your name.  I love this shirt by Nike.

Once you have the outfit down then it is time to get your hair, makeup, and nails in order.  There are such talented manicurists out there that can do some amazing nail art and no doubt it would be worth it to find one to do your ultimate nail art for the football game.  If you want to do it yourself then there are plenty of NFL Nail Tattoos on the market to choose from and they can be found at most sports, art supply, and department stores. The hair has a lot of options too such as color coordinated hair extensions, ribbons, and of course braids with colored ribbons and hair jewels (Need I say that EBK is definitely your stop for THE look to make you the hit of any game gathering?!).  For fun why not try some die hard under eye black patches like Jordin Sparks rocks here: 

How about lip makeup by Violent Lips?  We’ll have the Game Day Line in soon, but you can get the look of our other Violent Lips looks now.

It is also the time to take advantage of face jewelry, outrageous eye makeup, colored eyelashes, and glitter – now you get to have fun with all the things that younger girls are able to wear to a One Direction concert or their prom.  When it is game time you can go all out and have all the fun you want!  Go beyond the usual cheek tattoo of your team’s mascot and get more creative.  Have you seen some of the eyelash strips we carry that would be perfect?  Colors, shapes, metallic, and you name it – with so many choices you have to go all out!

Hmmm, it’s hard to know whether I like the Jaguars Football more, the parties and tailgating, or all the fun I get to have with makeup and hairstyles. 

Whether you are getting ready to cheer on your favorite Friday Night High School Football Game, the Saturday College Game Day, or Sunday Professional Football, here at EBK Beauty we can take care of helping you express your inner “Super Fan” with all you need to be not only your team’s number one fan but the best dressed one too!

We would love to see and share your favorite football team inspired look whether it is the whole look, hair, eyes or nails.  Send your pics and videos to us and we will share them and make you famous!  You might even win a swag bag of goodies too!  (Send video links and photos here: Football Fan Contest!)

Oh, and "Go Jags"!

Hair Extensions and Hair Replacements Offer Confidence to Jacksonville and Global Customers

The ability to reach a global market through the Internet has been a great opportunity for both consumers and businesses.  For EBK Beauty it has been no less the exceptional opportunity but in one specialty area it has been a personal triumph for owner, Kobe Ellis.  EBK Beauty has quickly become one of Jacksonville’s most sought out salons for hair extensions, hair replacements, and custom wigs.  Yet, few people know where their expertise grew from and the passion for which they seek to be the very best in this part of their business.  The Internet has enabled EBK Beauty to offer hair replacement services to global customers as well as their valued customers in Jacksonville and surrounding areas.

For those that have lost their hair due to cancer treatments or for those that have health or life-long battles against hair loss the opportunity to have a custom made wig is an incredible confidence builder.  Kobe Ellis began her work with custom wigs through the need to help her mother through the effects of losing her own hair due to chemotherapy and radiation treatments.

Ms. Ellis said, “My mother was diagnosed with breast cancer and had to undergo chemotherapy and then radiation treatments.  After her second chemo treatment, the weight of her hair began to give her a lot of pain and shortly after it fell out.  One morning I saw her staring in the mirror at her head.  She was tearful, missing her beautiful hair.  As any child would, I set out to find a way to make my mother feel whole the next time she looked into a mirror.

“My research led me to custom hair pieces.  I first learned to make them by hand.  When my mother looked into the mirror, her face lit up like a million stars in the darkest of nights.  She was so happy to have her beautiful locks back.  It wasn’t an ordinary wig for the hair appeared to grow directly from her scalp.  Once I showed her that unlike ordinary wigs, this unit could be styled away from her face and into a high ponytail if she desired, that light never went out from her face.

“From that day, I wanted to offer this type of hair replacement to everyone. I set out to find a way to make this type of hair replacement affordable to the average person. No one should have to pay thousands to have a look that celebrities have enjoyed for years.”

Ms. Ellis has over the years found ways to perfect her skills and cut down costs to make the customized hair pieces more affordable.  At EBK Beauty she has trained her staff to be able to help not only those needing complete hair replacement but partial as well.  They do consultations that are then followed up by fitting sessions that include instructions on how to take care of their new hair.  They also offer medical billing help as well as payment plan options for those that need the assistance.

Most people, she admitted, find her and EBK Beauty through the Pink Ribbon Symposium, the Southside Cancer Center in Jacksonville or her occasional appearances on Jacksonville’s Channel 4 Morning Show broadcasts connected to the subject of cancer and hair loss.  Her clients are not limited to the Jacksonville area as she can do consultations through Skype which allows her to help clients online without the need for them to travel to her.

“I wish that people knew how much more realistic they could look by having a custom made piece than wearing a hair replacement piece purchased in a wig store or hair supply store. Also, I would love to spread the word that custom units are very affordable,” remarked Ms. Ellis when asked what she wished people knew about hair loss solutions.

 

 

Hair Extensions and the EBK Beautiful You

Hair extensions are one of the easiest and most affordable ways to make a dramatic impact to your look.  It is probably one of the most popular choices by celebrities to make a change to their image and up the game when it comes to looking more fabulous and glamorous.  It used to be that one had to be blessed by the right genes, the best hormone levels, and the best of the best hair products to have long luxurious curls and waves.  One would nurture their hair with products and vitamins and put up with the pains of the “growing-out” stages to reach a length where they could finally try a new style. 

Unfortunately, no matter how some people try, their genes are just not there to grow long hair.  I have a friend that grows hair so slowly that she can go 4 months before her style starts to look like it needs a trim.  Extensions are a perfect choice for her when she decides she wants to live the life of a woman with thick, long and wavy ponytails, complicated braids, and show stopper up-dos!

Hair extensions have leveled the playing ground for all women to have long hair, fuller hair, wavy, straight or curly looks.  Whatever you want you can have and you can look fabulous in a thick shoulder-length look one week and a long, past the shoulder pony tail the next. 

Get those extensions put to your head by an expert and no one will know that it isn’t your hair.  Here at EBK Beauty we are quite famous for the quality and skill of our cheap sew-in of only $50.  Knowing the difference we can make in the appearance of woman’s hair I can’t tell you how hard it is on me sometimes to sit still in church and not scoot my way up to someone with a poorly installed weave.  I want to slip them my business card but doing that in church just doesn’t seem the right thing to do.  Every day I pass someone on a sidewalk, in a store check-out line, or elsewhere and I know that their attempt to have a great look has been ruined by the installation of the hair extensions and I want to approach them sooooo badly. 

It takes good hair extensions for sure to get the best look but no matter what without the right installation all can go wrong.  I so want to give women a new sense of confidence by giving them a choice of better quality hair extension products and more affordable access to professionally installed hair extensions at EBK Beauty.  We can do so much for women, as well as men and children, whether as a choice for hair replacement solutions or for their beauty enhancing hair extensions.  Yet, until they make THAT appointment with us we can’t give them what I KNOW will be an amazing transformation to boost their look and confidence.

Try us once and you will be so thrilled!  I’ve chosen the best of the best in hair extension products to use and sell at EBK Beauty.  I know we are skilled beyond compare to make you look fabulous and we can do it at a more affordable rate for your budget.  Don’t wait another moment – come in, take a seat in one of our chairs, and get the EBK Beauty look!  At EBK Beauty we’re here to give you our best so you can look your best! 

Get Inspired: Think, Dance, and Smile (and Share!)

Here are some random “gifts of inspiration” for you!  To make you think, to make you dance, to make you smile!  Have a great weekend and remember – we are here for you all day today, all day Saturday, Sunday by special appointment and of course Monday and on!  Walk-in or call (904)568-5242

Check out our Fabulous August Specials and take advantage of the savings!  Of course we always have our $50 Quick Sew-in available!

Think:

“For Attractive lips, speak words of kindness.

For lovely eyes, seek out the good in people.

For a slim figure, share your food with the hungry.

For beautiful hair, let a child run their fingers through it once a day.

For poise, walk with the knowledge that you never walk alone.

People, more than things, have to be restored, renewed, revived, reclaimed, and redeemed.

Remember, if you ever need a helping hand, you will find one at the end of each of your arms.

As you grow older, you will discover that you have two hands, one for helping yourself and the other for helping others.”

~ Sam Levenson

 

Dance:

(Stretch your arms – spin and move where you are and feel it!)

I love this song - the words are so inspirational and can motivate you to Waka! Waka! (Do it! Do it!)

"You're on the frontline - Everyone's watching - You know it's serious - We're getting closer

This isn’t over

The pressure is on - You feel it - But you've got it all - Believe it!

When you fall get up - Oh oh... - And if you fall get up - eh eh...

People are raising - Their expectations - Go on and feed them - This is your moment

No hesitations

Today's your day - I feel it - You paved the way - Believe it!"

Smile (& Dance?):

Come through the doors of EBK Beauty dancing and we'll know you've been watching! (Oh!  and we'll dance with you!)

 

 

 

Go ahead and take a chance - you never know what might be there waiting!

 

 

From all of us at EBK Beauty - Have a BEAUTIFUL day & a great weekend!

Hope to see you in one of our chairs soon! 

Is Today the Day You Find Your Wings?

Beauty it was said is in the eye of the beholder.  Isn’t it a shame that for many women, and especially young girls, it is often hard for them to look in the mirror and see someone beautiful gazing back.  The eyes can be the most striking most have ever seen, the lips can be full, pouty, and just what every lip injecting addict is searching for and yet the person in the mirror looks past the beautiful and narrows in on that which they wish they could change.

It is in the pursuit of perfection that every woman looks to change herself.  Well, not really.  It isn’t in the pursuit of perfection because in reality perfection of beauty doesn’t exist.  What one sees as beauty another will overlook.  We are once again back to the old phrase “Beauty is in the eye of the beholder.”

Could it be then that we should consider that if the person looking back at you in the mirror fails to see beauty then perhaps it is the beholder that has the wrong perception?  Perhaps the face in the mirror is beautiful beyond compare but the beholder doesn’t see the beauty.  Why would that be?  It comes down to confidence.  Not pride, not a desire to make others jealous or envious, but rather confidence. 

Pride will always “eek” out of the pores and instead of a sense of beauty the person will send off a “vibe” of ego, narcissism, self-centeredness, fakeness, and all the other things that will leave those in a room feeling better when the self-proclaimed beauty leaves the room. 

Confidence on the other hand can fill a room with a sense of ease and a person with less than glamorous features can become in the eyes of the whole room the definition of beauty.  The funny thing is that instead of trying to make the whole room believe she is beautiful she could care less – being beautiful was not the intention of her being that moment – it was just a sense of being comfortable in who she is as a woman and making those around her feel accepted.  She can do that because she has learned to accept herself.

You can’t learn confidence.  It won’t come from a new weave, a new wig, a new job, a new outfit, the most expensive pair of sunglasses among your friends, or a shiny brand name car.  Confidence comes from a sense of being happy in your own skin and bones and being content with your decisions, behaviors and thoughts for others as a person.  It comes from enhancing the you and the end of trying to be someone else.

I have always loved the symbolic gift God gave us in the life cycle of the butterfly.  The caterpillar trying to find its way along the ground, on a branch or leaf, exploring and traveling the world.  Thinking in life that this is it when all along there is another possibility. 

Going into that cocoon takes hard work.  The caterpillar works hard, makes sacrifices, stops taking strolls out into the sun but rather finds a place to prepare and face what must be frightening.  Then it takes time.  Lots of time in the life of that caterpillar.  I think that symbolizes the struggles we all face in life and for some the time seems an eternity and it would of course seem that way – just as it must to the caterpillar.

Then one day it comes out from the bottom of that cocoon – not out from the top – but from the bottom – and it emerges as something quite different, beautiful, with unique patterns all its own.  Then it flies and sees the world as only few can.  I think that cocoon is a gathering of all the things into something symbolic that must be left behind.  I think the caterpillar must emerge about the time it realizes that it is what it is and it is time to peek out from what it has built around itself and become all it was meant to become as it discards old beliefs, old habits, false friends, and old false truths.

I hope you will stand in the mirror and no matter what you see staring back at you that you can see that butterfly that is inside the caterpillar.  I see it every day in another’s eyes as I look with them into the mirror at the salon. 

Here at EBK Beauty we don’t sell weaves, hair styles, or lashes to make you beautiful.  It will take you working on the cocoon, choosing to shed what needs to be shed, and coming out from under it to make you truly beautiful.  However, we can help you along the way, we can help enhance the beauty that IS YOU – the unique and truly beautiful you.  Whether you have just emerged from the cocoon or you are about to start building one or shedding one, we can help you find the unique beauty that you are and show you how to enhance it.  We see our role in your life as the “wind” to lift your wings and set your life in flight toward a more complete and true definition of a beautiful you.

We are a salon that truly cares about you – we want to give you the tools, the tips, the help, the touch of our unique skills that will send you soaring high.  We want to see you walk out of our salon, into the sun, and watch you stretch out those wings. 

So my little butterflies, is today the day you find your wings? 

Hope to see you in my chair soon!  Keep flying high!