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Men’s Stuff!

Cool stark strong images for men’s hair by Lucas Dowling. Photo’s taken by Nicole Corbett. Photos from Hairdresser’s Journal UK.

Excerpt from Behind The Chair:

‘Lucas Dowling of Mieka Hairdressing in Australia took home the win for the 2013 Australian Hair Fashion Awards Men’s Hairdresser of the Year, continuing Mieka Hairdressing’s record as one of Australia’s most highly-awarded salons.

The inspiration for Lucas’s collection comes from the “Teddy Boy”—a British sub-culture of the 1950s. Dandy represents the style of the “dandies” from the Edwardian period; they inspired the “Teds” and fueled the style of American rock ‘n’ roll since its birth in the ’50s. The hair adopts a progressive masculine feel including precision barbering, heavy fringes through to natural curls and quiffs, which are embellished by textured and smooth finishes.’

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Dekko’s Daily Grind ~ Daniela

I’ve known this crazy lovely mad cow for over 10 years and have had the pleasure in not only working with her but to

continue to have her in my life. Daniela used to work with us back in the Architect and Heroes days but has since gone onto being an actress, student and a perpetual mover!

Daniela grew her hair out and I mean ‘grew it out’, we hadn’t seen her for years and she came into Dekko Salon looking like Chrystal Gayle.

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The first time we cut Daniela’s hair off we went for a messy bob, chin length. We wanted it so that she could wear it both messy and neater. Razored off through the ends with a lot of weight taken off, here’s Daniela’s first hairchop..

 

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So anyway, 6months later Daniela came back in and we decided to go even shorter and to make it abit looser, funkier and more fun. Again we used the razor and shaped the back into the neck, made one side slightly shorter and left the longer look through the other side. It was so much fun, Thanks Luv’ for a fun time..

Such a photogenic girl! By the way excuse the wonky pictures on this one, just couldn’t get it straight : \

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My Pick ~ My Next Color Technique

I love this color technique, combining two subtle color differences together. Looks to me like most of the head is colored the blonde shade then a quarter of the head is a mid brown shade.

I want this next, of course with a variation of different colors to suit my already blonde with black looks. Sorry Jodi, I know this one will be hard work the first time around but Pleeaasssseeeee : )

Sorry I couldn’t give credit to this photo, as I found it on Pinterest.

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Introducing Bounce – MY curl cream : )

Almost there! My bottles are being screen printed, with the design by @magartland, my product is formulated and ordered and soon you’ll see my curl cream with hold and shine come together, so happy and proud ‪#‎jujuchan‬ ‪#‎dekkosalon‬ ‪#‎curlcream‬ ‪#‎hairproducts‬ ‪#‎ParabenSulfateSodiumChlorineandScentfree‬ Thanks for this gorgeous clean design @magartland ‪#‎MarkGartland‬

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My friend Cally Robson

Sorry I haven’t been posting much lately but I’ve been a little distracted. My beautiful friend of 23 years, Cally Robson, passed away May 1, 2015

Cally was not only wonderful, beautiful and full of life and laughter but she was also one of the main people who pushed me to start writing a blog and to start my own hair product line. She was there throughout the whole process, urging and encouraging me while I went through every step of the way.
She truly believed in me! While I was taking 2 steps forward and 3 steps back she was always giving me advice and making me work harder to keep the vision and to believe in myself.
In fact thats exactly what Cally did, she was a life coach and worked with women in business, she showed them the way and made them all fight a little harder. For that, I’m sure there are women all over England who are Thankful that they got to meet this magnificent woman.

Cally – I believe in myself and I will continue this venture (with you watching over me) and I promise you, one day you will be very proud of me <3
RIP my lovely Angel.

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Getting there with my Curl Cream..

After months and months of testing and researching, I am finally steps away from making a fabulous curl cream for all you curly haired people. ‪#‎holdwithshine‬ ‪#‎jujuchanproducts‬ ‪#‎product‬#2 ‪#‎peopleloveit‬ ‪#‎hairproducts‬ ‪#‎babysteps

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I can’t say its been easy, I have come close quite afew times, but it seemed that if I had plenty of shine,there was no hold,then when I got the hold there was no shine! Finally after working with my manufacturers for soo long, I’m happy with this formula and I’m on my way to finishing up with the packaging.

Here’s 2 of my main testers Tiffany and Violet, who also happen to be part of our loyal staff at Dekko. Both looked so great using my BOUNCE curl cream that I had to take a picture of them, Thanks to all others  who helped me test and test again.

Watch this space, updates coming soon…

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