To all our wonderful readers – Have a Glorious Spoilt Rotten Mothers Day……
The Met Gala 2013 ~ Punk Chaos to Couture
The Costume Institute Gala, otherwise known as The Met is an annual ball to celebrate the opening of the Metropolitan Museums fashion exhibit at the Costume Institute. Hosted by Vogue and is regarded as one of New York’s top annual social event. This year the theme was Punk ~ Chaos to Couture.
Well, with such a fabulous theme to work from this year, I was expecting all the stars and celebs to go ‘all out’ and to have punky fun hairstyles, but to my dismay I was slightly disappointed to see so many celebs that seem to have missed out on the PUNK memo, including the Vogue editor in chief herself, Anna Wintour, who was dressed in a floral pink number with her signature bob. I mean, if you don’t go overboard for the red carpet for this theme, then when can you?
Anyway after scouting around online, I have chosen some of my favorite styles on celebs who I thought made a huge effort to work the theme, so whether you like them or not, you have to give them props for trying…
Such a shame that some celebs such as Jessica Biel, Olivia Wilde, Kate Beckinsale, Miranda Kerr, Kristin Stewart (surprisingly) and Anna Wintour (organizer) to name afew that chose to be so boring and safe. Come on ladies.. lighten up, it would’ve been fun!
Why Does Hair Frizz
Here’s an old but useful blog post from a few years ago….
Well, to be quite honest with you 8 times out of 10, its whoever is handling the hair that is making it frizz! (The other causes being weather, pregnancy or health)
How many times have I heard people saying that they cant wear their hair curly/wavy because it gets too frizzy? Once I delve further into the way the hair is handled it becomes very clear to me that its frizzy because people don’t really know how to style/deal with it.
So it boils down to the fact that when someone has wavy hair, each time you wash your hair you need to make a decision on whether to dry it straight or curly, nothing in between. The in betweeny is the part that leaves the hair frizzy.
When hair is wavy and you decide to either comb it or drag your fingers through it when wet, this action will partly pull out the waves, and some of the hair will stay straight and other parts will curl back up, leaving a very unruly sight with the mixture of straight to curly hair. (Frizz)
See examples below..
In other words, if you want healthy looking curls/waves, you must not disturb the hair while it is drying OR if you want it to be straight, you must go the whole hog and dry it thoroughly straight with a brush. (see example below) If you decided to dry your hair straight that day and got lazy half way through and decided to drop the brush and dry it roughly, this will create the worst of the frizzies.
My Pick ~ SOMA
Some lovely images from Soma magazine, sorry they are not very clear copies but you can still get the idea of these lovely shapes, Hair by Ryutaro at AKA.
Admittedly the first shot looks abit too perfect or should I say abit too touched up but I love the shape regardless.
Babyliss Pro Perfect Curl
Wow, I’m impressed and curious. This new waving iron by Babyliss looks too good to be true, I must find one and test it out for you all. Looks like this could be the next big thing.. Check out the video on how it works!
Italy Here I Come..
I’m so excited to be off to visit Italy soon. I’m taking a break soon from my blogging but if I see anyone walking around looking like this I will be sure to take some pictures and post for you.. in the meantime Ciao <3
Making a new ‘how to’ video for my new packaging…
I’m not a fan of making videos, I have still not got used to being in front of a camera trying to talk naturally, but I knew it had to be done. I have already had my new packaging for my products for about 4months now and I still have my old video up on my blog. (saved well by Robin Hong)
Anyway I ended up enlisting the help of my brilliant model Kerina, who has been the face of JujuChan so far. I figured it would look so much better to have a gorgeous face on it rather than me showing you how to use the new packaging.
My client introduced me to Graham Howes, a videographer (but he does allsorts of other useful stuff too) who efficiently helped us shoot the video and do some voiceovers that day. I just wanted to share some pictures from that fun day with you, including one of Kerina’s gorgeous shoes : )
Shot in Dekko Salon (plenty of natural lighting) with Melina De Lara (make up artist) doing a great job with Kerina’s make up, anyway I will soon post my new ‘How To’ video for you to check out, till then enjoy the pics…
Academy Awards (Oscars) Hair 2013
Here is my latest write up for Myhairdressers.com and my views on the latest and last Award Show of the season.. The big one ~ The Academy Awards! Although I must admit I much prefer watching some of the other less stuffy ones like the Golden Globes or the Bafta’s where we had some more exciting looks coming from Helen Mirren and Paloma Faith (singer)
Anyway here’s the write up… Oscars 2013
The one star that made me excited enough to even write about the Oscars Hair… Hurray Charlize!
Cosmogony by Trevor Sorbie
Adam Szabo and Mai Ha from Trevor Sorbie UK, created these lovely fantasy styles for their latest collection named Cosmogony. Featured in ‘Behind the Chair’ magazine, I would like to share these very creative works of art with you.
Extract from magazine: (although I must admit I find the wording abit too airy fairy, sorry Trev )
‘This collection adds brand new words to the hairdressing vocabulary. Patchwork, Crevicing, Ridgeplay, Crenulation, Otherworldly and Geographic. It stretches the limits and blurs the lines between hair and substance, reality and imagination. It reminds us that sometimes its best to destroy all that came before, and let the next era rise from the ashes. Because don’t forget, once upon a time, it all began with a single, mighty, big bang.’
My Pick ~ Tube Head!
I like this tube head shape, its well done, in proportion and cute looking. A shape like this could’ve gone drastically wrong but well done to Gio Campora from Wall Group for this styling for Marie Claire.
