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My Pick – Green

I will always remember being told when I lived in Hong Kong that wearing/having green in or on your hair means that you are a ‘lady of the night’ (their words not mine) Since then I’ve always been conscious not to have green in my hair, whether it was extensions (which I had then) or even flowers while living in Asia.

But, fast forward 20years and with all these gorgeous green hair pictures floating around, how can we even resist! Maybe we should just be ‘ladies of the night’ even if for a short stint..could be quite interesting!

Picture from MyHairdressers.com

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Sophia Hilton

‘Sophia Hilton is the Art Manager at Brooks and Brooks Hairdressing, London.  As the winner of the L’Oreal Colour Trophy 2013, ‘British New comer’ at the British hairdressing Awards 2013 and the 2011 winner of the Creative Head ‘IT Girl’ Award, Sophia has already made waves in her industry. She educates and works on shows  in over 7 countries including the ‘Sophia Hilton  5 minute hair up course’ at L’Oreal academy , London.

Shooting for vogue, presenting to audiences in the 1000’s, managing the Art Team, still finding time to have a client base 3 days a week.  Sophia is dedicated to making her mark on hairdressing.’

Excerpt taken from Sophia’s personal website, where you can read more about this talented lady..

Here are 7  fabulous looks that I have chosen to show you ~

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Hooker & Young

Gorgeous image by Hooker & Young, award winning salon from my part of the country, the North East of England. Owned by Gary Hooker and Michael Young.This company has numerous awards, too many to mention but it  includes:

British Hairdressing
Awards

British Hairdresser of the Year
(Nominee)

British Colour Technician
of the Year (Winner)

North Eastern Hairdresser
of the Year (Winner x 11)

Avant Garde Hairdresser
of the Year (Finalist)

Artistic Team of the Year
(Finalist x 3)

With this lovely color and style we can see why they’ve managed to nab so many prestigious awards.

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Dekko’s Daily Grind ~ Kerina

Our favorite model/client Kerina comes in and changes her hair quite often, this is one of the reasons I wanted Kerina to be the face of Juju Chan’s first product Texture Powder Styler.

This picture shows the first step to her next change ~ going blonde and going back to her fringey look.

I (as usual) forgot to take the ‘before’ picture until after we shampooed, hence the wet hair, but anyway you can still get the idea. We cut the hair a little shorter this time, but went for a full on rounded fringe. Jill (Dekko’s co- owner and colorist) used L’Oreal to start the first stages of going lighter. Hair was styled with Oribe products.

I will keep you posted with each step of the way to show you the finished result…

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Nasty Gal ~ Hair

If your looking for some inspiration on street hair, look no further than the Nasty Gal website. Quite often I find myself browsing this site as I admire their choice of models and hair. This post shows the great use of hair piece/extensions. The haircut by  itself is strong and dramatic with the bold choppy fringe and cut off sides, but with the added combination of the longer razored layers, it creates an overall softer look.

Then as you can see, with the addition of the extensions throughout the back the haircut can be transformed into a totally different feel and look.

It shows us with abit of creativity we can quite easily change our looks out on a daily basis.

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Fancy Fishtails…

I’ve been meaning to pull up more fishtails and braids for you all, but kept getting distracted from the fishtails. Anyway here’s a start, I love these messy looks, just right up my alley. I hope one day I can get myself organized enough to make some ‘how to’ videos of how to get these great looks.. sigh, maybe one day.

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My Pick ~ Flick

I love this one because of the simple 2  color mix as well as the sexy  sweep of the hair with the natural looking flicks at the back.One of my favorite techniques is to see the combination of black with brown or in this case, reddy brown, it gives it a basic yet striking contrast and would be great for any client who wants a subtle color change. This haircut was done by Antoinette Beenders who is Aveda’s Global Creative Director. Nice!!

 

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Found our new I.T. guy..

You may have noticed lately that my blog has been down.. Thanks to some infected bug/malware I thought I’d lost all my 4years of hard work. I really did think I was going to have to start from scratch.

Anyway Thanks to our new superhero IT man Paul Routledge.. All is ok in our world again!

Not only did he put it all back together again, but he did it with such speed and professionalism, we were so so grateful!

So if any of you have any IT website problems, I would not hesitate to contact Paul to sort your techie stuff out, its so important to have someone reliable and solid.  He specializes in PHP MySQL JavaScript, Ajax, Json, CSS3, HTML5 Jquery, Jquerymobile C++ et al

Anyway, here’s Paul’s info for you.

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And by the way – Paul’s a genius veteran Hair guy too, so if you happen to be in the Taiwan area, go get a haircut too : )