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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Hairstyles for Guys ~ Part 3

The final part to Hyphen Magazines feature on Cool Hair for Asian Hair… Here’s a re-cap in case you missed my first post…

It amazed me to find out recently that a huge % of my blog readers are guys looking for guys cuts and colors,  I’m always on the look out for great men’s hairdo’s to satisfy my readers as much as I can. So now, courtesy of Hyphen Magazine (Asian American Mag) they did a whole article on cool cuts on Asian hair which I  would  like to share with you. In fact there was so many that I have decided to split them into 3 sections so you can check them out at your own rate… If you’d like to find out more about Hyphen, check them out! Thanks Hyphen.

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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 Daily Grind ~ Deanna

I did this haircut a long time ago on Deanna, but never got round to show it off to you so here it after all this time. Deanna’s hair had been ultra long for sooooo long so we decided to whip it all off for her birthday one year. We even got acclaimed San Francisco stylist Heather to do her shampoo for her ; )

Deanna with her ultra long hair:

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And of course I wasn’t so organized to have my camera on me, we took these ‘after’ photos at different stages over the following weeks, showing straight and wavy looks, as you can see, the look is refreshing, cute and sexy..

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My Pick ~ Simplicity

I love this simple sophisticated look. Sometimes after seeing so many crazy ‘out there’ hairstyles, its good to get back to the basics, both in color and haircut and styling.

This one is by Ari Koponen and Cecilia Nygren from the Scandi Collection:

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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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My Pick ~ My Fave Bob

One of all time favorite bob shapes, Bob with graduation, great color and texture, and a blunt fringe, Winning combination all round. Wish I could give credit to the stylist’s who did this but can find a thing on it.

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Dekko’s Daily Grind ~ Kerina

Some of you might recognize Kerina from my JujuChan website… she’s been one of the faces of my Texture Powder Styler from the start and recently even helped me make my new product video for me, which was really fun.

Anyway it was time for another change, Kerina had been wearing her hair longer for a few years now and we decided to give her a medium length long bob shape. We wanted to keep the movement in it and keep it looking sexy and tousled, so we put graduation into it, textured it a lot within as well as keeping the ends soft and piecey with with razor.

If there’s one hairstyle that would tempt me to cut off my dreaded locks, this would be the one : )

Here’s Kerina Before:

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And here’s Kerina After with her sexy new look:

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