Media :: In order from oldest to newest :: Media
- CHICAGO MAGAZINE
December 1999 - ALLURE MAGAZINE
June 2001 - CHICAGO MAGAZINE
Fall 2001 - AMERICAN SPA MAGAZINE
July/August 2002 - IN STYLE MAGAZINE
May 2003 - ***UPDATE***
- CHICAGO MAGAZINE
December 1999 - JEANNETTE ABOU- MOURAD AND ELAINE YOUHANNA ADMIT THAT WAXING IS PAINFUL, BUT THEY AND THEIR CLIENTS CLAIM THAT THEIR TECHNIQUE IS INCREDIBLY EFFECTIVE. THE TWO SISTERS GREW UP IN LEBANON, WHERE THEIR CULTURE REQUIRES GIRLS TO BEGIN WAXING AT ABOUT AGE 13. THEY ARE MATTER OF FACT ABOUT THE PROCESS OF REMOVING UNWANTED HAIR, ESPECIALLY AROUND THE BIKINI LINE, WHICH FOR UNINITIATED CAN BE UNNERVING. SAID ONE CLIENT: "YOU THINK IT CAN'T GET ANY WORSE, AND THEN THEY SAY, ROLL OVER." MANY OF THE CITY'S HIGH POWERED PROFESSIONAL WOMEN ARE REGULAR VISITORS.
- ALLURE MAGAZINE
June 2001 - CLIENTS DON'T COME TO THIS TINY, CROWDED SALON TO BE PAMPERED. THE DRAW IS THE FIRST RATE WAXERS - ALL FROM ONE LEBANESE FAMILY. "ONCE YOU START WAXING, YOU'LL NEVER WANT TO SHAVE AGAIN," RITA YOUKHANNA SAID BEFORE PAINTING ON THE GIGI HONEY WAX, PATTED ON THE MUSLIN STRIP, & YANKED IT OFF WITH A DEFT FLICK OF THE WRIST. THE FIRST RIP TOOK OUR BREATH AWAY, BUT WE GOT USED TO IT: THE LAST ONE HARDLY FAZED US. YOUKHANNA APPLIED PERRON RIGHT POST DEPILATORY OIL ( WHICH SOOTHES SKIN BUT DOESN'T CLOG PORES) & THEN CLEANED THE ROOM WITH CRISP EFFICIENCY. STILL, WE WISHED WE COULD HAVE DRESSED IN PRIVATE. WE'LL COME BACK THOUGH; GLEAMING LEGS CAN BE HABIT FORMING.
- CHICAGO MAGAZINE
Fall 2001 - BUSINESS MOGULS, MEDIA PERSONALITIES, AND SOCIALITES ARE AMONG THE MANY WOMEN WITH HIGH REGARD FOR THE WAXING TECHNIQUES OF SISTERS JEANNETTE ABOU-MOURAD & ELAINE YOUHANNA. THEY DISTRACT CLIENTS DURING THE DEPILATORY PROCESS WITH EASY CHATTER AND ON OCCASION WITH A SLICE OF POUND CAKE- WHATEVER IT TAKES FOR CLIENTS TO EMERGE FROM THEIR APPOINTMENTS SLIGHTLY PINK, BABY SMOOTH, AND HAIR FREE IN ALL THE RIGHT PLACES. ABOU-MOURAD & YOUHANNA ALSO GIVE EXCELLENT BIOELEMENTS FACIALS.
- AMERICAN SPA MAGAZINE
July/August 2002 - BIOELEMENTS SPA OF THE YEAR SISTERS SKINCARE & WAXING IN CHICAGO, IL WAS RECENTLY NAMED THE 2001 BIOELEMENTS SPA OF THE YEAR. OWNED BY JEANNETTE & ELAINE ABOU-MOURAD, SISTERS IS LOCATED ON THE TOP FLOOR OF CHICAGO'S FAMOUS WATER TOWER PLACE. USING& CARRYING BIOELEMENTS SINCE ITS OPENING IN 1998. THE SPA, WHICH IS 600 SQUARE, SEES MORE THAN 100 CLIENTS A DAY. SISTERS MAKES THE MOST OF ITS SMALL RETAIL AREA BY UTILIZING BIOELEMENTS TESTER TRAYS & MAKE-UP UNITS. ITS MOST POPULAR RETAIL PRODUCTS INCLUDE BIOELEMENTS QUICK REFINER, CACTUS CLOTH,& RESTORATIVE CLAY. ACCORDING TO JEANNETTE ABOU-MOURAD COMMITMENT, PROMPTNESS, CLEANLINESS,& ACCOUNTABILITY ARE KEY TO THE SPA'S SUCCESS
- IN STYLE MAGAZINE
May 2003 - BIKINI WAXING: CALLING IT "FUN” WOULD BE FALSE ADVERTISING, BUT WITH IMPROVED PRODUCTS (& SWANKIER SALONS), WAXING NEED NOT TO BE THE ROOT CANAL OF BEAUTY. FROM CONSERVATIVE TO CREATIVE, HERE'S WHERE TO GO BARE IN RELATIVE COMFORT. (IF ONLY GETTING THE REST OF YOURSELF IN SHAPE FOR A BIKINI WERE THIS EASY.) THE SCOOP, SISTERS OFFERS WAX IN FOUR FORMULAS: HONEY, CHAMOMILE, PEACH OR CALAMINE (DEPENDING ON SKIN& HAIR TYPE) CO-OWNER JEANNETTE ABOU- MOURAD KEEPS AN ULTRA-CLEAN SPA WITH STAFFERS IN MEDICAL- STYLE UNIFORMS & SPECIALIZES IN LEBANESE HONEYMOON WAXING, WHICH REMOVES EVERY SINGLE HAIR.
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