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Just in time for the holiday season, we gave one lucky reader a red-carpet-ready experience courtesy of Aveda's talented team of hairstyle, colour and makeup experts. Toronto’s Kacie Hollins was the winner of our Born to Style contest, the results of which you'll find within

If your holiday glamour routine currently consists of fingercombing your hair and doing a half-ass job of applying lipstick en route, then it may be time to try a new approach. Here's what we suggest

With fall now in full swing, there’s no better time to freshen up your look for the home stretch of 2013. We’ve partnered with one of the world’s leading personal care brands, Aveda, to bring you an all-inclusive package that only scanning the list of prizes below can put into words. Or lack thereof

We were at the Aveda Institute Toronto recently for the final showdown of Aveda’s Born to Style Scholarship Contest, giving us a chance to catch up with Aveda Canada CEO Ray Civello to talk about everything from the spirit of entrepreneurship to how hairdressing has changed since he started in 1976

Aveda saves water in their signature earth-loving style as part of their worldwide initiative Aveda’s Global Earth Month Campaign to raise funds and awareness for environmental projects around the world. This means fundraising initiatives like a 24-hour hair cut-a-thon, Aveda's Walk for Water and a special candle sold exclusively for Earth Month. We stopped by Civello Queen St. for a waterless hair styling session, where we learned secrets to take day two or day three hair from flat to fabulous- all without water.

We’ve said it before: we love Aveda products. Aveda features eight limited edition pre-wrapped gift sets for holiday 2012, which come prettily packaged and ready for gifting in handcrafted lokta bark paper from Nepal. Here are some of our favourite products for an ultimate stress relieving holiday gift.

Are you or someone you know Born To Style? If hairstyling is in your DNA and you think you have what it takes to be Aveda’s next superstar hairstylist, this is the opportunity for you to make it big at the Aveda Institute & Academy Salon Canada

For young professionals, appearance plays an important role in our success. Maintaining a well-groomed look is not only crucial for those working in sales, with the public, or in the entertainment or beauty biz, but for everyone. We all know that when we look awesome we feel awesome, and when we feel awesome, we do awesome. Aveda gets you to that level