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Good hair doesn’t cost big bucks, says Ilona Shine, master colorist at Shin Salon in Santa Monica, Calif., and a 15-year industry veteran.

For inside secrets of hair stylists, doctors, pilots and more, watch “20/20: Confessions” Friday at 10 ET.

Shine says some hair products maintain the health and integrity of your hair and are worth a splurge, but many others are gimmicks and marketing schemes.

Stylists earn large commissions on every bottle of shampoo and conditioner they recommend and you buy, Shine says. “Most stylists don’t know exactly what the product does and how that will react to your particular hair color or hair type,” so some customers get duped, she says.

Here are Shine’s top-10 tips to have good-looking, healthy hair without breaking the bank.

1. When using a blow dryer, flat iron or curling iron, use the medium setting to prevent damage and drying of the hair shaft. Weak hair can lose elasticity and will eventually break.
2. Install a water filter on your shower nozzle. Minerals in water cause brassiness in blondes and redheads. Purifying water makes a beautiful difference in your hair and your skin.
3. All kinds of stressors can trigger hair loss. Take a multi-vitamin rich in proteins (marine complex), biotin, silica and vitamin C to help your mane grow thicker and shinier.
4. Piling hair on top of your head with a soft hair tie will add volume in the morning. Use something soft to pull hair up to avoid crimping and kinking.
5. Wear hats or UV protection on your hair to prevent color fading and other damage. This will keep you out of the salon for moisturizing treatments, saving money!
6. Brunettes and redheads who get their hair colored must use color-protecting shampoo so they keep their color. You will have to get your hair colored less often if you take care of your color.
7. Use a mask – chosen for your hair type – once a week to treat dry ends, especially in summer.
8. Coconut oil is a cheap and effective way to strengthen your hair. Unlike many products sold in high-end salons that sit on top of the follicle, coconut oil penetrates the hair and is absorbed, strengthening and moisturizing your hair.
9. If you have fine hair, use leave-in conditioner. If you have thicker hair, use rinse-out conditioner.
10. Spend money on shampoo that helps maintain your color, not on a clarifying shampoo. All clarifying shampoos do the same thing.

Jared Max almost missed the phone call he’d been waiting for.

The co-host of ESPN Radio’s “Maxed Out,” was just getting settled for his mid-morning nap when his brother called asking if he’d heard the news.

“At first, I thought he was calling about [Tim] Tebow,” Max said. “And I was like, ‘I just did a two-hour show, I know about Tebow.’”

But big brother wasn’t interested in talking about the Jets cutting anyone, he wanted to talk about Jason Collins.

Collins, a center for the Washington Wizards, revealed he was gay in a Sports Illustrated profile.
And Max’s family wanted to get their favorite sports guy’s take on the historic announcement.

In 2011, during one of his early morning broadcasts, Max shared with his listeners that he was gay. The unscripted moment was a first in the world of sports coverage and Max immediately found himself on the other side of the microphone, getting personal attention from listeners, colleagues and the media.

While he had already come out to family and close friends, Max kept his personal and professional lives separated, until that impromptu leap. And despite his worse fears and a public conversation about how sexual orientation and sports are somehow intertwined, Max didn’t fall. His loyal audience was there to catch him.

“Nothing changed with the listeners,” he said. “People were supportive, and when they hear it now, they say, ‘Jared Max is gay? So what?’”

Which partly explains why Max has been waiting for that phone call, about a professional male athlete coming out. By grappling with his own sexuality, Max learned that no matter how hard he fought it, reality would eventually win. In his mind, it was never a matter of if, but when a high profile player would come out. Collins’ announcement proved him right.

“Actually, I want to see 10 players, from various sports, all get together and say, ‘We’re Gay,’ and just make the newsrooms freak out about trying to figure which angle to cover because we just don’t want it to matter anymore,” he said.

While that kind of coordinated play could still happen, for now, Max is happy to simply call this single announcement, an uncontested win for everyone.

Does your pet cat prefer high-impact exercise to help eliminate kitty love handles?  Or, does your pet just sit around all day?  If so, a new video campaign created by the DDB agency for Temptations treats is here to help.

In promo videos for the Work It Kitty! workout DVD posted on YouTube, Kate and George of The Best Little Cat House take feline exercise seriously.

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“I thought to myself, ‘Why is there not an aerobics workout for cats?’” says Kate in the eighties-inspired video.

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Exercise stars Banjo, Harley, Fritz, Boots, Mr.Freckles, Pumpkin and Tom take to the studio to show off their moves.  Gifted with an “insatiable thirst to stay in shape,” the crew demonstrates rear leg lifts, jumping box squats, ab crunchers, paw extensions and rolling planks.

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“Cats deserve to workout, too.  I really believe that,” says Kate.

If your pet isn’t as advanced as Banjo or Harley, they can still get a bit of exercise.   One way to keep your cat fit is to fill a ball with treats and roll it around.  Another is to shine a laser pointer around the room which guarantees they’ll be busy for hours.

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The prom is every high school girl’s dream, but showing up to the prom in a dress that another girl is wearing? That’s the ultimate nightmare.

More and more girls are turning to social media to prevent that, said Betsy Fast, Web editor at Seventeen magazine.

The instant a girl picks a dress, they’re now immediately posting a photo of it on Facebook or Twitter,” Fast said, adding: “The girls are saying, ‘This is my dress. You can’t buy it! … It’s mine!”

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At Ocean Township High School in Ocean Township, N.J., girls created a Facebook page to announce their prom gown choices in order to avoid copying each other’s dresses.

Girls across the country feel the same way. Some of the cautionary messages posted online can be very strongly worded. One girl wrote: “I swear, if anyone steals my dress I will kill you,” while another wrote: “Don’t steal it or I’ll cut you.”

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Even celebrities – with their personal stylists and generous designers offering them couture fashion -have faced this dilemma.

Actress Anne Hathaway reportedly donned her second-choice dress for the Academy Awards this year after she learned that her “Les Miserables” co-star, Amanda Seyfried, was wearing a gown that was remarkably similar to the one she had originally planned to wear.

Other celebrities who’ve failed to avert this fashion catastrophe often find themselves featured in magazines that showcase the similar looks side-by-side to ask who wore it best.

The New Jersey teens are doing their best to avoid a similar outcome through their prom gown Facebook pages. Some of the girls said they’ve gotten good feedback about their dress choices, but others have reportedly been driven to tears by negative comments, or by too few people approving of their choice.

Share and share alike.  Sharing is caring.  We’ve all heard the sayings and most of us grew up being told we HAD to share with playmates, classmates and of course siblings.  But now, some preschools are teaching kids that they shouldn’t share; saying that forcing one child to give up a toy gives the recipient a sense of entitlement.

Mommy blogger Beth Wankel’s son goes to a preschool where this no-sharing policy is in place, and she says it’s good for him.

“If one of the kids has a toy and someone else wants it we are not going to make them give it up until they are totally done,” she says. “If you ask them to give up a toy and you go and take it from them that’s no different than another kid taking it from them, which we would never allow.”

In practice, only when a child is done playing with something can another child take the toy. The child asking for the toy learns to wait. Developmentally that skill is called delayed gratification. It teaches a child that the world is not set up to automatically and immediately meet all of their needs.

In fact, many preschools that enact the policy, like the Barnard College Toddler Center in Manhattan, have replicas of the exact same toys to avoid sharing conflicts all together. The director at the preschool, Tovah Klein says that developmentally toddlers may not be ready to embrace sharing, but that delayed gratification is a developmentally appropriate thing to learn.

“Parents all want their children to share and we do, too,” Klein says. “We want these children to eventually be generous, cooperative children who get along in the world and get along with their peers, but at 2 they are just figuring out who they are.”

But the school doesn’t force them to share. Klein explains why it’s just not developmentally possible for many children: “They don’t understand that that other person has thoughts or feelings that might be in conflict with theirs, so what you see much more is grabbing another toy from another child or wanting something that another child has.”

Proponents say the problem with forced sharing is that it shames the child who has the toy and worse, it leads to a sense of entitlement in the recipient: “I can have anything I want because others have to share with me.”

Our no-sharing mom Beth Wankel says in her blog: “This is not how things work in the real world. In your child’s adult life, he’s going to think he’s owed everything he sees. This is already happening in the next generation. I read a fascinating article about how today’s teens and twenty-somethings are expecting raises and promotions at their jobs for reasons like, ‘I show up every day.’ And she says just because I want your iPad or your sweater I can’t just walk up to you and take it.”

But can a no-sharing rule in preschools prevent a generation of entitled kids?

Po Bronson, author of Nurture Shock, thinks an articulated no-sharing policy goes too far.  He says when we ask children to share, “We’re modeling proper conflict resolution for them so they can do it on their own.”

And he adds: “If a kid doesn’t have to share, they’re the one who’s going to develop entitlement … they’re the ones who is going to say I was there first. I can ignore context, I can ignore people’s feelings. We are trying to get kids towards not forced sharing, but empathic sharing. But it’s developmental, so there is a lot of learning how to approach kids with your feelings and your emotions in a way that raises that altruistic and empathic sense of giving for the right reasons rather than for the wrong reasons.”

But Tovah Klein sees the no-sharing rule as a way to peel back all the structure adults put on kids and says it’s working in her school.

“If you really leave children to their own devices they actually work out conflict remarkably well when the adults don’t put an arbitrary adult rules on it,” she says.

But which rule is arbitrary: to share or not to share?  Your comments welcome below.

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Is this Hermes T-shirt the most expensive T-shirt in the world? Given that it costs nearly twice the median household income of a U.S. household, it’s at least fair to say it’s well out of reach of nearly every person in the nation.

But let’s be honest, the Hermes store on NYC’ s Madison Avenue, where the shirt is being sold, isn’t exactly where the average Joe goes when he needs a new pair of pants.

The T-shirt isn’t cotton, at least. It’s made of crocodile skin, according to the NY Daily News. Which should anger animal rights activists in addition to those who will no doubt be angry at a person who would spend nearly $100,000 for a shirt that costs as much as some houses.

The animal rights group PETA called the shirt “cheap looking and ludicrous” and said, “Most people nowadays want to avoid looking like ignorant barbarians.”

The store, when contacted by ABCNews.com, refused to comment on the shirt or confirm that it was for sale.

If you prefer a less expensive Hermes T-shirt, cotton and jersey Ts start at $300 on the retailer’s web site.

From Hollywood to Madison Avenue, producers and performers have made the case for gay marriage in the realm of pop culture where the audience sits on the bench.

Take “The Golden Girls.” In a 1991 episode of the seven-season sitcom, before gay marriage was on the books in any state, Blanche the Southern belle wrestled with her conscience when her gay brother announced he was marrying his boyfriend.

And Roseanne’s signature wry humor broke nervous tension about gay marriage, when she organized her boss’ nuptials to a man on her sitcom that ended nine seasons in 1997.

“Friends” (’94-’04), All My Children” (’70-’11) and “Brothers and Sisters” (’06-’11), all popular shows, were unafraid to introduce happily married same-sex couples.

And in lyrics, there was a raw plea for marriage equality from the artists Macklemore and Ryan Lewis in their 2012 song “Same Love.” The weakness of a young boy, struggling with his sexuality, transforms into a powerful force advocating for same-sex marriage.

Even classic Americana, like Archie Comics, confidently stepped up to the alter. In 2012, new addition to Riverdale High School, Kevin Keller, tied the knot with his longtime boyfriend in the comic world’s first gay wedding.

Advertisers, too, are embracing gay marriage, weaving them into their commercial narratives like this spot for Kindle.

And there’s this “status update” from Outlook, showing two blushing brides telling the world about their wedding.

And as the Constitution is interpreted in the case of gay marriage, the songs, the shows and the products Americans consume continue to make their case for marriage equality.

Andy Lewis, Brian Mosbaugh, Hayley Ashburn and Scott Rogers are Americans who travel the world in pursuit of the next stunt.

“A lot of people keep telling me ‘Hey, come to Brazil, you’ll love it here,’ and so I finally was like, ‘OK, we’re going to Brazil,” Lewis said.

Once in Brazil, the four walked across a thin, slack, nylon line strung 3,000 feet above the ground. They were tethered by a harness tied to their waists.

“It’s just about having fun. All of it, the reason why we do it, it’s just fun for us,” Lewis said. “It seems crazy from the outside, and maybe it is crazy to follow your dreams. But for us, highlining up there in the clouds, all the way above Rio, is just magical.”

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Photos from their month-long trip to Brazil showed the four daredevils performing various stunts on the line – including sitting cross-legged and even dangling upside down.

Lewis – whose highlining skills were showcased as part of Madonna’s 2012 Super Bowl halftime show – said the “scariest moment” for him during the Brazil stunt was probably when he was hanging from the line by his ankle.

It takes years of training and dedication to be as accomplished as Lewis, Mosbaugh, Ashburn and Rogers.

“It’s like trial and error, basically, of learning how to do this safely,” Mosbaugh said.

Rogers added, laughing, “Luckily, the errors haven’t been that drastic.”

Ashburn said the key to the stunts is being fearless.

“If you’re fearing for your life, you’re out of your depth,” she said.

Mosbaugh agreed.

“I think we wouldn’t be doing it if we didn’t feel safe doing it, to be honest,” he said. “If we thought we were going to die every time we did it, it would be a terrifying experience.”

Kate Dimmock, fashion director of People Stylewatch, appeared on “Good Morning America” today to discuss the latest in fashionable workout wear that’s great for people who go to the gym or those who like to get their exercise outdoors.

She showed three pairs of looks. Each pair featured similar products that varied greatly in price, and asked “GMA”‘s anchors to guess which look saved money and which was a splurge.

The Looks

Wedge Sneakers

This trendy style adds a fun touch to any outfit. Pair them with relaxed pants or jeans. They are cute and comfortable.

The Save

Forever 21 floral baseball jacket, $27.80; Forever21.com

Gap knit drawstring pant, $39.95;Gap.com

Gojane sneaker wedges, $27.30; Gojane.com

The Splurge

L.A.M.B. silk baseball jacket, $495; http://www.l-a-m-b.com/www.l-a-m-b.com

A/X Armani Exchange drapey pant, $88; Armaniexchange.com

L.A.M.B. sneaker wedges, $365; Amazon.com, Zappos.com

Yoga Wear

Yoga clothes don’t need to be just for the yoga mat.

The Save

Pact lake blue top, $40; Wearpact.com

Pact bandana leggings, $38; Wearpact.com

Old Navy active sneakers, $19.94; at Old Navy

Marshall’s yoga mat, $9.99; at Marshall’s

The Splurge

Nike polka dot sports bra, $50(about); at Nike

Roxy everyday yoga pants, $78; Roxy.com

Puma fitness sneaker, $70; Amazon.com

Marshall’s yoga mat, $9.99; at Marshall’s

For the Outdoors

The Save

H&M vest; $24.94; at H&M

H&M printed sport legging, $29.95; at H&M

Old Navy active sports bra, $16.50; at Old Navy

Ryka sneakers, $80; Ryka.com

Puma form watch, $70; Puma.com

Bobble water bottle with replaceable filter, $9.99; Waterbobble.com

The Splurge

Colosseum jacket, $88; at Nordstrom

Colosseum sports bra, $44; Amazon.com, Macys.com

Colosseum shorts, $34; Amazon.com

Nike Free Run+ 3 sneakers, $100; Nike.com

Nike fuel band watch, $149; Nike.com

T.J. Maxx hydration pak, $13; at T.J. Maxx

Ogle was proposing.

“I didn’t realize what was happening until I finally grabbed the ring and put it on my finger,” Lavryshyn recalled.

But the ring was just the beginning. After the proposal, Ogle swept off his bride-to-be in a vintage car, and the pair went to a high-end restaurant where they were feted by a celebrity chef.  They finished by jetting off to Europe for a post-proposal celebration.

“It’s very much in my character and, I think, in our relationship, for me to try to do things that are goofy and clever and catch her by surprise,” Ogle said.

Proposals are getting bigger and better; simply  getting down on bended knee to pop the question now seems to be a thing of the past.

“With the advent of social media, things like Facebook and YouTube, guys are thinking outside the box,” said Sarah Pease, a New York City-based  marriage proposal and engagement expert.

“It’s no longer lame dinner proposals,” she said.  “It’s things that are personal and unique to their love story.”

A visible example of that phenomenon is the engagement flash mob. Videos of engagement flash mobs being staged to catch women – or men – by surprise are rife on the Internet.

These memorable proposals don’t always come cheap.

Salman Ali spent $2,000 on a choreographer for his flash mob proposal in Times Square, saying it “described me and who I am.”

“It was just like a dream come true for any Indian girl,” said his fiancee, Shumaila Rangoonwala, who said yes.  “It was Bollywood.  It was dancing.  It was music.  [It was] everything we grew up with, so it was awesome.”

Ogle, of the celebrity chef dinner and trip to Europe, shelled out $45,000 for his elaborate proposal. That total included the cost of the engagement ring, celebrity chef, roof top and vintage car rentals, and the trip to Europe.

Asked if the expense was worth it, Ogle replied that he was spending money on what was important. He said that men often didn’t have control over what happened at their weddings but said he had total control over the proposal.

His fiancee, Lavryshyn, expects to have a small wedding, with no more than 25 guests, but she said  she’ll cherish her memories of the proposal.

“To have that feeling and remember the feeling always, I think, is more important than just remembering the words, ‘Will you marry me?’” she said.