Relive the 1920s through ’50s without ditching your cell phone. Sine Qua Non Salon is celebrating Chicago styles from this period with its second annual festival, “Streets of Chicago: Then & Now” hair and fashion show at 8 p.m. June 11 at the Elbo Room, 2871 N. Lincoln Ave.
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The salon will provide the hairstyles while Una Mae’s Freak Boutique and local designers Jeff Millbern and Harrison Cheairs provide the clothes.
Buy a raffle ticket at the event for a chance to win prizes from Aveda, Bumble and Bumble, a veggie-friendly gift certificate to Chicago Diner and, of course, Sine Qua Non Salon gift certificates.
Tickets are $5 in advance at any Sine Qua Non location and $10 at the door. All proceeds will go to FACT (Food and Animal Concern Trust), a livestock and poultry advocacy charity working toward better conditions for farm animals, increased product safety and economic opportunity for family farmers. For more information, call 773-871-2280.
Tip your hats
It’s head over heels at Light Up the Sky. Chapeau the Milliners Guild and Julie Darling Inc. will host the event, and Chapeau hat designers Amy Stirk, Joy Scott, Laurie Kennard and Marjorie Marshall will unveil their spring collections from 6 to 8 p.m. Wednesday at Cite restaurant, 505 N. Lake Shore Drive.
Attendees are encouraged to try on or purchase Chapeau hats–starting at $75–as they take in the view of Navy Pier fireworks from Cite’s 70th floor location. Here’s the pun we couldn’t resist: With more than 100 hats available, it’s a guaranteed heady occasion.
Cocktails, appetizers and admission are free, but an RSVP is required. For more information, see www.chapeau.us, e-mail [email protected] or call Marjorie at 773-456-3806. Seating is limited.
N.Y. minute makeover
Want a makeover in a minute? The N.Y.C. New York Color Cosmetics Dare to Compare Makeover Tour is headed to Illinois. Makeup artist Doug Atkinson and his team will give women free 60-second makeovers, tips and samples Tuesday at the following locations:
– 11:30 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. at Ulta, 1310 W. 75th St. in Downers Grove.
– 1:30 to 2:30 p.m. at Meijer, 13521 S. Illinois Highway 59 in Plainfield.
– 5:30 to 6:30 p.m. at Ulta, 2754 N. Clybourn Ave., Building A, Clybourn Square.
For more information about N.Y.C. Cosmetics, check out newyorkcolor.com.
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