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Biz Waves is a one-stop Web hub for business news and content from the South Bay region of Los Angeles County and beyond.

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Muhammed El-Hasan, a business reporter at the Daily Breeze since 2000, covers aerospace and everything else about business in the South Bay. Muhammed previously reported at the San Bernardino Sun and the community news division of The Orange County Register. He also worked as a researcher in the Jerusalem bureau of the Los Angeles Times in 1996-97. But his career highlight as a young man was driving a forklift at a Gardena company near Hawthorne, where he grew up.

You can email Muhammed at dailybreeze.com


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Welcome to Fabulous Ultra Lux Salon
By Joanna Lin, Staff Writer

Posters of bouffants, poodle cuts and pin-curled waves line the walls. Classic vanities and vintage collectibles fill the room.

The window proclaims: "The higher the hair, the closer to God!!"

Though the decor of Ultra Lux Salon & Lounge might feel like a blast from the past, this Redondo Beach hair haven is anything but dated.

The vintage vibe is a nod to the hair goddesses of the 1940s and '50s, to the eras that inspired South Bay natives Deanna Serna and Tricia Delgado to open the salon six years ago.

"When it comes to fashion, it's all about history repeating itself," said Delgado, 34. "Just with a little twist."

For Ultra Lux, that twist comes in leopard print and polka dot chairs, punk rock and reggae on the stereo, and 21st century hairstyles and techniques.

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