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 Web resources

All About Hair - information and tips about hair treatments and hair chemistry.

American Academy of Dermatology (ADD) - provides a range of pamphlets and other resource materials on skin, hair & nails.

Better Health Channel - information about hair loss.

Beauty Worlds - the focus of this site is the understanding and appreciation of beauty in the natural world, Western culture, and other cultures past and present. 

Bella Online - is an online Network created by women for women. It is designed to be informative and entertaining, fun and easy to use.

Estetica Online - hair and fashion site which includes "Italy on Top" a list of manufacturers located on the "Pro" page.

Hairdressing, Nail & Beauty Safety - download the fact sheet (at the end of page).

Hair Loss & Baldness - information from the Australasian College of Dermatologists.

Jurlique - provides a skin care range, aromatherapy products and herbal medicines, based on the belief: no chemicals and no compromise. 

Longhairlovers.com - information on teh care of long hair.

Lush Online - produce products out of fresh fruit and vegetables.

Patrick Cameron - one of the world’s leading hairdressing platform artists.

Rivers Australia - provides a page of Cosmetics links.

TAFE Studylinks: Hairdressing - access a wide range of websites.

Trichology Books - select the Order Books/CDs/DVDs link at the top of the page.

Virtual HairCare - includes a Virtual Salon that brings you practical and useful information about hair care and how to get the best from your hair.

What is Trichology? - article covering the basics from the Virtual Salon.

 Other information

Additional information for this area may available via the wide variety of social software (link to Wikipedia) & other Internet services where people share their knowledge and connect/collaborate/communicate with others around the world who have similar interests. Some of these services (with main links to Wikipedia articles) are: 

• Wikis where information is published online through the collaborative input of many people - this information is then available for all to access & edit.
    • wikipedia  - an encyclopaedia with versions in a number of languages
    • wikispaces - used by individuals, education & special interest groups   
   
• Blogs (or web logs) are essentially online journals or diaries presented in reverse chronological order. Groups often use them to promote informal discussion on particular topics or issues.
    • blogger - search for relevant blogs with keywords of your choice
   
• RSS - this is a way of having a summary of information (or feeds) 'delivered' to your web browser or aggregator as it becomes available from online newspapers, magazines or special interest websites.
    • bloglines - an excellent way of managing your RSS subscriptions or Feeds
    
• Social bookmarking sites where users post their list of bookmarks (or favourite websites) for others to search and view. There are specialised services for particular interest groups.
    • del.icio.us is perhaps the best known general social bookmaking service
   
• Newsgroups & mailing lists are older types of Internet services (or forums) which are mainly used these days by special interest groups.
    • tile.net allows you to do keyword searches of these services

To find out more about these and the many other online information services available, explore Wikipedia further as well as its related Wikimedia Foundation projects.

For this program area the following forums may be of interest:

• Lush Times - online forum

 Teaching resources

Curriculum Centres provide information and resources for TAFE NSW educational staff relating to this area on their Intranet website - this is only accessible to staff from within the TAFE NSW computer network.

Last updated: 17 April, 2007

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