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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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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Crazy Hair by ZGat Academy

‘Real fake’ is the name of this collection and boy did this collection really catch my attention. Combining Hair with some real artistic make up to create this ‘crazy’ fabulous set of pictures.

ZGat Academy is based in the City of Zagreb, Croatia. And here is a  excerpt take from their website because they deserve to be known for their fantastic work –

‘The mission of ZGat is to provide clients with creativity and top-quality service.

Implementing these elements through work and constant education make the basis of our team’s philosophy.

We believe in working with hair as an organic, living substance which changes and has its own individuality.

Each of our stylists and technicians are specialized in one particular service, and whether you are looking for precise haircut, adequate hair color, or simply an advice, they will help you choose the look that suits you best.

Our hair designs vary from symmetrical to asymmetrical cuts, with diversity of textures and vast number of hair colors.

We see our work as a part of world of fashion, and for the world to notice the beauty of shape, someone has to wear the haircut. Therefore the end result is always highly individual and depends on the person who wears it.

The cut and the color are artistic forms in themselves, and the individual gives them life and mobility, creating thus a new form of art…’

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Collection by Darren Ambrose

‘Darren Ambrose is one of British hairdressing’s creative leaders – a winner of no less than 5 British Hairdressing Awards, he produces some of the most jaw dropping photographic work in the world alongside the wearable styles he gives his clients at his busy Pinner salon.

A Global Ambassador for Wella Professional, Darren has recently presented shows in Russia, China and New York where he holds audiences rapt with his technical abilities. ‘

To read more on Darren, go to UKHairdressers.com Pictures from Creative Head Magazine

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Dekko’s Photo Shoot

Its been quite some time since we updated our website photos and I have to admit, it shows! So we finally got our act together after 8 years and arranged for another shoot to brighten up our slide show on our site.

We asked our last photographer Rob (Robert Herrick)  if he would be interested in helping us out again and to our delight he was up for it. Since our last shoot Rob has become quite a’ hot shot’ photographer so we were honored when he said he enjoyed the last one so much that we could count him in again.

We asked all 10 of our stylists at Dekko to participate to help find models and to donate haircuts and color time, we decided to use as many clients as possible instead of going out hiring professional models which turned out to be the best idea because Dekko’s clients ROCK!  Most of the stylists/salon support team came together and we came up with 10 models to show some salon looks that clients could relate to.

Elaine (Elaine Fujii) the make up artist which we worked with did some fabulous looks with the help of Wendi our receptionist when the other make up artist dropped out. Considering she had so many models to do on her own, we want to give her a big shout out for being such a sport.

All in all, the day turned out to be a really enjoyable smooth shoot, one of the smoothest I’ve ever been on in fact, apart from the couple of unexpected snafu’s everything went as planned and I can honestly say the people who took part that day had a fab time, so a huge Thanks to the stylists who came and of course to Wendi, Sarah and Zoie, our salon support who were great and worked the 12 hour day without a moan or groan. (well maybe just one)

This turned out to be a day that showed how teamwork really should be, with everyone helping each other with the models and I must say I was very pleased with it all. Anyway, So I’d like to share some fun pictures of behind the scenes on the day and the prep time.Stay tuned for when the real pics will be revealed to all…

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Nikki hamming it up with model Marcella, make up by Elaine, Brian looking everso handsome, Rob shooting Brian with Zoie photo bombing, Marcella’s lovely cut and color by Nikki, Brian haircut by Scott, color by Lucky:

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Gorgeous Kerina ,Haircut and perm set (inspired by Bradley Cooper’s hair in American Hustle) by me, with the help of Jodi and Scott, Color by Nikki:

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The boys – Rob shooting Brian, haircut/beard by Scott, Luke waiting, haircut by Scott, Blake’s haircut and color by Zoie:

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Zoie blow drying Aisling’s hair, Haircut by me, Highlights by Jodi, Make up artist Elaine and Wendi hard at work:

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Model Shawn, having make up done, neat hair, me capturing moments and messy hair, Haircut by me, Vibrant color by Jodi:

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Scott blow drying Esther’s hair, Haircut by Jill, Excellent Color and Brazilian Blowout by Lucky, with help from Jodi. Neat and messy looks. Sneak Peak of what’s to come:

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