Jan Seybold was contemplating her 50th birthday when she saw a link online about an upcoming television show on all-girl getaways. Nancy Glass productions was looking for groups of women who had traveled together previously and had an upcoming trip in the works.

Jan, who lives in Wauwatosa, was ahead of the trend (pun intended). The stylish salon owner -- she and her husband, Laurence, own Carenza color.cutting. experience in Brookfield -- met her friends, also salon owners, at industry events and seminars and hit if off. Jan sent in an application detailing the friendships and past trips and then added a little twist in her notes. Not only would they celebrate Jan's 50th birthday in Manhattan, but they chose as their tour guide her daughter, Angela Johnstad, 29. Angela used to live in New York.

"Fun loving baby boomers traveling with one of their daughters. They thought that was cute," Jan said.

You can see how it all turned out at 8 p.m. May 14 when the Fine Living Channel presents Jan's birthday weekend in New York. It's the episode called Big Apple Birthday and Jan and her friends are all wearing brightly colored wigs. Because, you know, they're salon owners.

In the piece you'll see Jan with Kris Carpenter who owns a salon in Billings, Mon.; Mary Swank who has a salon in Ohio; and Cindy Monten, who owns a salon in Minnetonka, Minn. After several phone interviews, the show's producer told Jan her group was chosen because they liked the idea of finding out what salon owners do when they take a break since they had been getting so many applications from women who wanted to take a getaway to a salon or spa. They wanted to see how the pamperers pampered themselves.

Jan and everyone bought their own tickets to New York (they were going to go anyway) but the show got the women a suite at the Hotel Giraffe and helped plan the activities which didn't always happen in the order they might have done them if the cameras weren't running. For instance, they had a daylight pajama party as soon as they arrived in town. Then they shot the sequence where they skate in Central Park, a plus since both Jan and Angela are skaters. The women end the night at the Beauty Bar, where the girlfriends get manicures and a martini for $10.

If you want to join the fun, albeit from the comfort of your own laptop, check out the preview here. Jan is the woman who blows out the candles on the birthday cake, by the way. And no, she doesn't look 50.