Salon

The Board of Zoning Appeals of Carroll County has approved a conditional use request for a residential beauty salon in Hampstead.Brian and Kimberly Muska made the request for Kimberly Muska to install a one-chair beauty salon in the couple's garage in the 3300 block of St. George's Court. She operates a salon in town but wanted to move the business to her home.Hours of operation would be limited to 3 p.m. to 8 p.m. Tuesday through Thursday and 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. Saturday, by appointment only.

Nearly 40 models, including County Executive Eileen M. Rehrmann, are expected to parade down the runway Sunday in a salon competition to benefit AIDS patients in Harford County.The competition, at the Richlin Ballroom in Edgewood, is the first part of a two-part event sponsored by Recovery Friends Care, a group of Harford County people recovering from addictions who raise funds for charity.The program will continue in the evening with a dinner-dance and a revue by members of RFC.The salon competition, which begins at 3 p.m., will pit a dozen different salons from Harford and Baltimore counties against one another for prizes in four categories.

The Howard County Board of Appeals has decided to let a controversial beauty salon in West Friendship extend its hours of operation, but angry neighbors may contest the decision in court.Revelations in Hair Design on Pfefferkorn Road, which opened in June 1995, has long battled with neighbors who argue that its traffic and signs are inconsistent with the rural-residential character of the area.The dispute was renewed last June, when owners Patrice and Robin Davidson asked the Board of Appeals for permission to extend the salon's hours to 8: 30 each night.

Attitudes Unlimited, a hair salon in Hampstead, will have its annual cut-a-thon on Sept. 10 to benefit the HIV Patient Fund at Johns Hopkins Hospital. The salon, which will be open from 8 a.m. to 8 p.m., will offer a wash with haircut for $6 and manicures for $6. No appointments will be set during the day; only walk-ins will be taken.Raffle tickets will be sold. First place is a basket of hair products worth $150, and second prize is $100 worth of chiropractic services from Todd Winebrenner at Carroll Chiropractic.

The 2-by-3-foot sign for a home-based hair salon that recently renewed a neighborhood feud on Pfefferkorn Road in West Friendship is now the subject of a criminal investigation.Late Friday night, the sign for Robin and Patrice Davidson's salon and a second one with their name and house number that had been installed that afternoon were stolen.The salon sign, which had violated a zoning provision because it was illuminated by two 75-watt floodlights, prompted at least one neighbor to file a complaint with the Howard County Department of Zoning.

For two years, Paulette Harris has had her hair shampooed and dried twice a month at a Hair Cuttery in Glen Burnie. Last month, when Harris, a black woman, went in for her shampoo, she said she was told the charge would be $8 more because she is "ethnic." "I said, `This is ridiculous, I've never been charged extra,'" said Harris, 25, who has straight shoulder-length hair. "`You're not going to charge me more because I'm not Caucasian.'" She filed a $600,000 lawsuit in Baltimore Circuit Court yesterday against Hair Cuttery, alleging negligent hiring and intentional infliction of emotional distress.

Nestled in the shadows of towering apartment and office buildings along a busy stretch of Joppa Road, the salon would be easy to miss if it didn't look like a house that has sprouted from nowhere with its creamy beige vinyl siding and covered porch. Most of the customers who find their way to Usha's Salon and Day Spa in Towson are like 16-year-old Jasmine Osima and her mother, Joan, of Owings Mills. Mother and daughter began making biweekly visits about a year ago after a family friend raved about owner Usha Gupta's increasingly popular use of threading, an ancient facial hair-removal process.

Filmed in Baltimore two years ago, The Salon sets out to be Barbershop, only with women. But it turns out to be Barbershop lite, a chance for a bunch of gals to sass one another within an inch of coming to blows, safe in the knowledge that everything will turn out OK. Vivica A. Fox plays the Ice Cube role; her Jenny owns the salon, and naturally, she has assembled quite the Cast of Characters: There's big, sassy Lashaunna (Kym Whitley), who's quick with the putdown; tough-talking Trina (Taral Hicks)

The city plans to spend $186,000 to move a downtown hair salon across the street from its current location, a city-owned building that will be torn down for a parking garage. The Board of Estimates approved the relocation deal for Monica's Spa Salon yesterday after City Council President Sheila Dixon raised concerns about the cost. "It just seems like a lot of money," she said. However, Dixon and the rest of the board approved the deal after an official with the Baltimore Development Corp.

William F. Fritz, a World War II veteran who owned and operated a well-known Pikesville hair salon for more than 50 years, died Wednesday of kidney failure at Gilchrist Hospice Care. He was 85. Born and raised in Baltimore, Mr. Fritz was a 1943 graduate of Patterson High School. During World War II, he enlisted in the Marine Corps and served in the South Pacific, attaining the rank of corporal. After the war, he returned to Baltimore, where he planned to become a barber until two uncles persuaded him to become a hairstylist instead.