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Hello Kitty Hair Salon

hile all things Hello Kitty defy logic, some of them defy logic more than others. A prime example of the latter is the Hello Kitty hair salon:

After the initial “wtf?! are my eyes deceiving me?” moment has passed, you inevitably re-loop back into the same question because of how little sense this makes. The best case scenario has everyone leaving with a bow in their hair and worst case is that everyone leaving looks like this.

Of course, my wife thinks this is the greatest idea ever and wants to get her hair done there. She somehow believes that getting her hair done in a Hello Kitty hair salon will make the haircut that much cuter than if it was done in a regular hair salon (no use trying to explain that it doesn’t make any sense because nothing regarding the evil feline does…)

To make matters worse, my wife thinks that I should get my hair cut at the Hello Kitty hair salon because the “outstanding haircut will make you appreciate Hello Kitty more.” I think the only saving grace if this should happen is that there will be lots of sharp objects around to allow me to slit my wrists and quickly put me out of my pain. One more thing to look forward to in Hello Kitty Hell…

Sent in by deidra who should be forced to go to this hair salon on a daily basis for the next year as punishment for thinking that it would in any way, shape or form be a good idea to email me this photo…

credits to:http://www.kittyhell.com/2009/08/10/hello-kitty-hair-salon/

Best Hello Kitty Coloring Sheets

Hello Kitty is a cartoon character produced by a Japanese company called Sanrio. The first product, designed by Ikuko Shimizu, was a vinyl purse introduces for the first time in Japan, in the year 1974, and in the United States in 1976. Hello Kitty is a cute female white cat, has a red bow and no drawn mouth. She has a twin sister and they both live with their parents in London.

Since Hello Kitty was first created, a line of different products were made with her face and name. we can find Hello Kitty coloring pages, stickers, greeting cards, pillows, accessories ( purses, key chains and others ), clothes, dishes, home appliances, school supplies, book and many more.

She also has a TV series that airs in Japan on TV Tokyo and on CBS in the United States. We can also find video games with this popular cartoon character.

A Hello Kitty coloring page is most popular with kids in almost every country of the world. There can also be Hello Kitty coloring sheets that can be used at school, in the first years, with a teaching purpose. They represent Hello Kitty in all sorts of stories, along with her friends and family. Any Hello Kitty book can be bought of the internet along with many more products from the same line. Her books present her in a lot of adventures that she has with her friends and family and can even be used to show little kids, that somewhat idolize her, how to behave and what they should and shouldn't do.

Hello Kitty coloring pages can also be used to make up comic books. Even though she is a cartoon, we can find clothes with her face even for grown-ups. T-shirts, pajamas and others like that are popular with girls from around the world. Using Hello Kitty in anything, such as games, pictures and so on, for commercialization, is forbidden, as it happens with most brands.

Hello Kitty has even her own album, called "Hello World", featuring songs performed by many artists. Sanrio and Fender even released a line of Hello Kitty guitars and a jet airplane. We can say that along Pucca, another popular Japanese cartoon character, Hello Kitty is even more popular and more known that a lot of live artist or important people. It is a good example of globalization along with names like McDonalds, Coca-Cola and other like that.

Mike has two young kids and loves to offer them new Disney coloring pages. That's why he and his wife put together a blog where they offer such coloring sheets and has different types of pages, including Hello Kitty coloring pages and many others. credits to:http://ezinearticles.com/?Best-Hello-Kitty-Coloring-Sheets&id=3215903

Girls Go From Hello Kitty To Hello Debit Card

The popular Hello Kitty brand -- commonly found on stationery, purses, pajamas and other items for children -- will soon start appearing on a new platform: a MasterCard debit card.
"Freedom! You can use the Hello Kitty Debit MasterCard to shop 'til you drop," the card's Web site enthuses.
The prospective audience? The young women who grew up with the 30-year-old icon -- as well as much younger girls. "We think our target age group will be from 10 to 14, although it could certainly go younger," said Bruce Giuliano, senior vice president of licensing for Sanrio Inc., which owns the brand.
Since only parents (or at least anyone older than 18) can sign up for the card, Hello Kitty thinks it's a great way for adults to "help teach their children how to manage their finances," Giuliano said. Next up, he added, is a prepaid Hello Kitty cell phone.
The card, due out in a few weeks, is the latest example of how corporations aggressively court the $30 billion-a-year youth market. Until recently, financial institutions pretty much ignored this powerhouse of spenders. The Hello Kitty card shows those days are gone.
"Children are now open game, prey to many financial institutions in this country," said Joline Godfrey, author of "Raising Financially Fit Kids" and chief executive of Independent Means Inc., a California financial-education firm. "Financial institutions used to be pretty conservative members of the community, preaching balanced budgets, home ownership and savings. Over the course of time, they have become more partners with retailers teaching children how to spend and consume." As a result, she said, the cards become a "great educational tool . . . to say to kids, 'Spend, spend, spend, buy, buy, buy.' "
Officials at MasterCard and Visa, which introduced a prepaid debit card for teens called Visa Buxx in 2000, say the cards are an educational tool. "We think it's a good way to teach teens good money management early on," said Rhonda Bentz, spokeswoman for Visa USA.
Hello Kitty's lesson comes with a cost. The activation fee is $14.95 (and another $14.95 if you renew after a year). There is a $2.95 monthly maintenance fee, a $1.50 ATM-withdrawal fee and a $1-per-minute fee to talk to a customer service agent.
The fees are "probably the worst I've run across," said Robert McKinley, chief executive of CardWeb.com Inc., a Frederick firm that tracks the credit card industry.

Peter Klamka, president of Legend Credit Inc., which developed the Hello Kitty card, says his fees are smaller than a couple of branded cards. Because it is not a credit card, he added, the card cannot make money by charging interest.

credits to:http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A2959-2004Oct2.html

Hello Kitty grows up: How Japan's Sanrio has expanded the character's empire

Hello Kitty, the adorable little feline with no mouth but a great bottom line, has shown the business world how to take a brand and make it appealing across generations. Without question, the almost 36-year old character has developed a cult-like following that includes everyone from preschoolers to grandmas who find the fictional kitten simply irresistible. As parent company Sanrio likes to say, Hello Kitty appeals to "everyone from four to forever."

And for all of those people, there is a product. These days, the white Japanese bobtail cat with her trademark red bow can be found on everything from diamond jewelry and credit cards to plastic lunch boxes and stickers. All Hello Kitty products -- make that all 50,000 or so products -- are licensed by Sanrio. It's proven to be a lucrative venture for the Japanese company. Last year, Sanrio saw $5 billion in retail sales of Hello Kitty products globally, about $1 billion of which came from North America.


The key to Hello Kitty's vast success? "Simplicity," says Janet Hsu, President of Sanrio's Global Consumer Products division. "There is something zen-like about Hello Kitty. She can be anything to anyone."

It's a melon-head cat with no mouth, we point out. Hsu is nonplussed. "She has no mouth; but she speaks from the heart."

Hello Kitty has no strong political affiliations and she is perceived by fans as an adorable and sweet innocent -- a tricky line Sanrio will need to walk to preserve the brand while making further inroads into the adult market. Take, for example, what happened with the Hello Kitty shoulder massager, which at one point was banned when creative fans started announcing it made for a good vibrator. Sanrio protested loudly and the good kitty's reputation was restored.

While many of Hello Kitty's followers grew up carrying her little vinyl coin purse -- the first item ever produced bearing her image -- truth is, Sanrio has successfully attracted older females to the brand who didn't discover Hello Kitty until they were young adults. After all, those aren't six-year-olds buying $25,000 Hello Kitty diamond-studded necklaces or $3,450 Hello Kitty diamond and pink sapphire watches at Neiman Marcus. One of the latest additions: Hello Kitty wines produced in Lombardy Italy by the 100-year-old Torti family vineyards, which recently hit the U.S. market.

Sanrio's strength is its ability to pounce -- rather catlike -- on lucrative partnerships. It lured Kimora Lee Simmons, the former runway model, designer and owner of the Baby Phat clothing line, to bring her fashion industry influence to Hello Kitty with high-end jewelry and accessories.

Scott Rauch, CEO and president of Simmons Jewelry Co., said when the line launched in 2005 at 38 Neiman Marcus stores, he had never seen anything like it in his 16 years of sales: 900 watches retailing for $2,000 each were sold the first season. "It's a phenomenal brand. Hello Kitty is an iconic figure with heritage."

However, Hello Kitty's appeal is larger than any one designer's contributions. She is just plain kitsch. Hello Kitty is so saccharine sweet and tiresomely sentimental that it's become hip. The brand is so solidly embedded in worldwide social culture now that there are Hello Kitty fan forums and even an anti-Hello Kitty site, started by a guy who thinks his wife has gone into Hello Kitty overload and perhaps needs an intervention. The joke has even carried over to a police force in Thailand. Officers who were repeatedly late for work or parked in an unauthorized spot (like the boss's) were forced to wear Hello Kitty armbands as penance.

Love her or hate her, the Hello Kitty product line truly boggles the imagination. There are Hello Kitty toasters that sear her image onto your bread, a Hello Kitty Stratocaster guitar by Fender and a Taiwanese EVA Airbus A330-200 that was redone in Hello Kitty motif. The flight attendants wear pink Hello Kitty aprons, there are Hello Kitty headrest protectors and the airline serves food and beverages from the special Hello Kitty menu. Heck, at least they still serve you food.

You can find Hello Kitty Uggs, take out a Hello Kitty credit card and play a Hello Kitty version of the Milton Bradley classic board game, Twister. Automaker Diahatsu created two Hello Kitty hatchbacks in 1998 and 1999 that featured her image on the front grill, inside upholstery, side panels and keys. Need more? There's a Hello Kitty robot capable of carrying on a conversation with you for a mere $3,700.

There are also Hello Kitty Nintendo games, egg shapers and several books, including a collection of "candid" photos chronicling Hello Kitty's journeys as she surfs the waves in Hawaii, reflects in a Japanese garden, and hits Hollywood Boulevard. Each photo is accompanied by an original haiku written by, of course, Hello Kitty.

Hello Kitty's "back story" is that she lives in London with her parents and twin sister, Mimmy (Mimmy wears a yellow bow.) Just wondering what the official Hello Kitty shrink hears from Mimmy about her overachieving twin sister who seems to be adored by almost everyone. Poor Mimmy, we know how that goes.

credits to:http://www.walletpop.com/2010/03/19/hello-kitty-grows-up-how-japans-sanrio-has-expanded-the-charac/

Why Do People Love Hello Kitty

Hello Kitty is a cute little cartoon character cat made by Sanrio, a well-known Japanese company. The kitty was initially made in 1974 and has since become a global sensation. There's no question that the simply drawn large-faced, white cat in a pink outfit is engaging to youngsters, but you'd most likely be startled to know she's's a success with adults too. In actual fact, Hello Kitty is one of the hottest cartoon characters in the world and has a world mass of fans of all ages. There's a corresponding variety of themed products to go with the phenomenon, including stuffed animals, games, party favors, even howdy Kitty checks and credit cards!

Some corporations even use limited edition Hello Kitty goods to appeal to customers. One airline put the cartoon on their aeroplanes and tickets. Dozens of well known multinationals like McDonalds have given away Hello Kitty toys as promotions and generated mobs of consumers competing for the items as a result. There's even a complete theme park devoted to Hello Kitty in Japan. It's similar to Disney World, but with a cat as the focal character, rather than a mouse.

The attraction of Hello Kitty looks to be her minimalism. She's not drawn elaborately or embellished at all. She just simply is what she is , an easy white cat, and that implies that folks of any age or culture can relate to her. Her complete name is even simple.....Kitty White. He even has a family including fogeys and a sister, but these characters are rarely seen . It's Kitty White herself who is the main draw. This worldwide fascination has lead lots of non-profit organizations to take on her as an symbol for their promotions, or to market merchandise with her face on it.

Adults who go for the cat don't seem to become embarrassed by any means by their fascination with her. Grown males and females will proudly take out their Hello Kitty checks at the food store or whip out their in a similar fashion decorated credit cards at the shopping mall. Regularly entire families are charmed of the kitty. That's why she's's a billion dollar a year industry. So if you need to join in on the trend, get online or go shopping at your neighborhood Hello Kitty store. You're sure to uncover everything you could ever want with Kitty White's face on it.

credits to: http://www.articlesbase.com/shopping-articles/why-do-people-love-hello-kitty-products-1486610.html