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Show Page A10 Thursday, January 14, 1988 Park Record Studio Images wants you to look simply maaarvelous, darling by HEIDI WEST Record staff writer He says he "designs hair" doesn't just cut it, don't you know. Facing my own all-too-familiar mug in Bob Bensen's mirror, I listen as he analyzes its lines and describes the perfect do... under the circumstances. "The first thing we do is measure the length of your face," he begins. Mine is very close to eight inches long, something I admit ad-mit is new Information. Another startling find my upper, mid and lower facial increments are not equal. The mid is slightly shorter and so, natch, needs to "opened up." Bensen chats about bis own experience ex-perience as he struggles with softening the straight jaw, where the first set of layers should fall, how to create an oval from a triangle. He and tanning booth operator Sharon Swingler were the first tenants in Studio Images "coop" "co-op" when it opened on Main St. last spring. Now, it houses a gym with a private "body sculpting" instructor, instruc-tor, an electric acupressure shop, herbal health products, and specialists in nails, facials, massage and a variety of hair care options. Bensen owned and operated his own shop across the street, "613 Main" at the time, but the thought of actually working with hair instead in-stead of hairdressers was appealing. appeal-ing. "I just wanted to create," he says with a fluorish of his scissor-ladenhand. scissor-ladenhand. Though it's just a consultation, the scissors move in close. That first layer should fall "just above the mid-section," says Bensen. "It gives the illusion of being longer that way." Bangs should be "a little longer, and a little spikier" to soften and round out a squarish hairline across the forehead. He holds a card across my nose and cheeks. "Look at your chin," he says, "what kind of a shape is that?" Chagrined, I note there is no hope for the perfect oval-ity a hair designer longs for. My lower increment is clearly a triangle. "You'll have to counteract that with fullness," he says with a wry smile. I'm relieved all those imperfections imperfec-tions are at least partly correctable, correc-table, but Bensen does have a few encouraging words. The length, , very close to exactly one facial in- i crement below my chin, is "the " best short long length" I could wear. Phewl And, my plan to grow out my own tresses is well-received. We tallish types can wear three increments in-crements below our chins, not to mention Bensen is sure longer hair is generally "more feminine and softer." As I move on to investigate the rest of Studio Images, Bensen calls after me to "come back and get it done" now that I've spent all that time learning the secrets of how to deal with the angles nature saw fit to bestow. Hmmm.... maybe. Bensen shares the salon just a part of the beauty and health collective col-lective with other hair stylists, including general manager Victoria Vic-toria Fournier. She has just taken over the management, and plans to make the shop into a family hair care center, with special prices for children's cuts and a monthly special. Just ending is the $39.99 perm special, down from a regular cost of $54. She also offers massage, a modified Swedish technique which uses acupressure and reflexology, facials and nail care as part of the salon. "I want it to be a place for the whole family to have their hair done or get a massage," she says. "I want to keep steady prices." The philosophy fits in well with that of building owners and co-tenants co-tenants Bill and Jo Puckett. Jo,' who sells a line of herbal in-gestibles in-gestibles and skin care products called Sunrider, said her vision for the building at 596 Main St. is a place where anyone "can get a massage or a facial or work out." Price is important, too, she says. "I don't want it to be so expensive it's out of reach for anybody." Her husband, Bill, operates the electronic acupressure equipment, which can balance the body's energy or any one of a number of systems. Adjacent to Bill's office in a separate space carved out just for her, Sharon Swingler operates a pair of tanning beds. They use the "Wolff system," she says, "it tans faster because it uses better bulbs." Although she offers a six-month membership discount for $5.00, there is no set of five or 10 or 15 tanning tan-ning sessions available. Her prices are based on individual visits, but the membership will reduce them by 50 cents. With a membership, 15 minutes of tanning equivalent to about one hour of sun time is $2.50. Twenty minutes, or two hours of sun time, is $3.00. And a half -hour, equivalent to three hours in the sun, is $4.00. Downstairs, there is an exercise studio staffed by weight trainer Leslie Gay. She conveniently uses the signs left over from the last business to occupy the space-Town space-Town Lift. They're abundantly appropriate, ap-propriate, for Gay has a complete set of weight lifting machines as well as free weights. Gay has lifted weights for 15 years, and is also a professional dancer. Shaving off those love handles, that inch or two of thigh flab it's no problem for Gay. She consults with each customer extensively, and designs a program pro-gram specifically to build up or slim down what they want. Then, for $125, she spends sixty to ninety minutes with them every other day for two weeks making sure they do the exercises correctly. By the time this intensive period is over, Gay says "I feel it can make such a difference, they will see the impor- O 1 .,""- w-- : : l ,-""?'- f " "! , ; ': 1 ,- i , v j " i -S ' ! : i I 1 - , V ' : V-' ft i , . 1 ' s ,, , f Heidi West From left, Studio Images general manager Victoria Fournier and hair designer Bob Bensen give a customer the full treatment. tanceof it." So far, most of her more than 100 clients agree. They have signed up for follow-up sessions, where Gay continues to update the work-out and writes it out for them on a card in the gym. If she isn't there, the customer drops by, picks up the card, and completes the work-out. The client lets her know how they're doing, and Gay drops by to check out the progress. She opened her shop in September, and so far it has been a striking success. Gay says she studied how to develop her own musculature from a seven-year stint in the hospital for anorexia. In constant contact with physicians and physical therapists, she learned how to avoid injury and how to build or trim each and every part of her physique. Although she has danced and tried aerobics, weight lifting is still her favorite. "You're in total control of what you want to do with your body," she says. "You can always get a perfect body by lifting weights." The Pucketts' commitment to looking and feeling good may well have its roots in a period of time a few years ago which was particularly par-ticularly rough for Jo. Her mom and brother died the same week, Heidi West Weight training instructor Leslie Gay demonstrates the proper way to exercise those pectorals in her private gym, Town Lift. BBBBHBBBBHB Depressed?; The blues. The blahs. The dumps. It doesn't matter what you call it. Being depressed is certain to be part of your life from time to time. We don't know how to prevent it, but we have learned that it's not nearly as bad when we have eachother-and Qod-tohelpus through. We're United Methodists. Pari. City Community Church For the week ending Jan. 8, 1988 SALES TYPE 4 18 14 0 0 0 Single Family Residence Condominiums Vacant Lots Commercial Lots Multi Unit Farm VALUE $597,000 $3,974,745 $481,975 $0 , $0 $0 TOTAL WEEKLY VOLUME $5,053,720 SALES YEAR TO DATE $88,877,522 COMPARATIVE WEEK VOLUME LAST YEAR TOTAL $6,329,531 YEAR TO DATE 1986 $92,982,407 The preceding figures are reflective of statistics reported to the Park City Board of Realtors. Sales are not reported to the Board in all cases, so these figures can be assumed to be generally low. SOURCE: THE PARK CITY BOARD OF REALTORS Weekly Comparison 1988 1987 3 19&7 1987 Year to Date Comparison Personal Services DRESSMAKING THE NECESSARY LUXURY DESIGN 6H1D10 OLD TOWN PACK CITY (fyointmmt. w. MASSAGE Massage Therapy Robert Fournier Therapeutic Massage Genesis Athletic Club Available anytime by appointment House calls. Female Therapist available. 649-1233 649-6670 rrnAvri ccnusrn Summit International Travel We can help you with all of your travel needs Ticket delivery available (even to SLC) 649-0550 1662 Bonanza Drive , Open Saturdays from 9 a.nv1 p.m. 1 her kids were grown and gone, and her marriage, she says "was on the rocks." After weeks of staying home and being depressed, she finally gave in and tried some Sunrider herbs a friend had been urging her to test. "It was almost like overnight," she says. "I quit crying, I started going out of the house." Jo also quit smoking after a 38-year habit, felt progressively younger and more alive. Now, she says, "I just can't get enough learning or knowledge." Her husband has taken the herbs to lose weight, and has shed 55 pounds with their help, says Jo. 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