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Crazy Spacey Hairdo’s…

Just thought you might like to take a look into the creative amazing world of hairdressing competitions. The Trend Vision Awards, Held yearly by Wella Professionals in North America. And in case you cant read the text below it says:

The event brought together close to 2,000 attendees, while contestants from the U.S. and Canada competed in categories of Student, Young Talent and Color. In October gold medal honorees will get a chance to represent their country at the International Trend Vision Awards in Madrid, Spain.’

Thanks to Modern Salon Magazine.

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My Pick ~ Eugene Souleiman

Time and time again, I randomly pick out visions and styles that impress me or that attract my attention and these days I really shouldn’t be so surprised when yet again I have chosen to showcase another or Eugene Souleiman’s (from Wella) creations.

That man is talented big time!! I LOVE his work and even though shown here (from Marie Claire magazine) is a very classic simple style, he always manages (with the help of the photographer and make up artist of course) to creative an artistic quirky unique look. Keep up the good work, its lovely to follow….

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Chromaline by Tim Hartley

A few years ago Hair Guru Tim Hartley (originally one of the main creatives in Vidal Sassoon), collaborated with Davine’s Product company to create one of their many collections – Chromaline

With this collection Tim teamed up with colorist Brian Suhr to produce these gorgeous shapes and radiant colors of varying shades. The result – Beautiful!

Here I have chosen to showcase some of my favorites….

 

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Ballerina’s and Donut’s!

Notice how everyone around us are wearing their hair in Ballerina buns? And I don’t really mean those top knots that I said I didn’t like afew weeks ago. Slight difference in my eyes.. these are more elegant looking whereas the others looked like ‘home hair’ Anyway, I was told I needed to write a post about how best to achieve these perfect shaped buns.. Thanks Sarah Geiger for keeping  me on top of it all!

There are so many different ways to achieve these looks, including twisting, tucking and rolling and so many different positions on the head to put them too. But the one’s I wanted to talk about today is the very perfectly rounded shapes worn on top or near the top of the head.

 

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These can be achieved very easily by using hair donuts (or sausages, as shown above). First, tie hair up into a ponytail on top of the head, (or slightly to the side if you want) Once the pony is secure, choose the donut best suited for color matching your own hair, slip the pony through the center of the donut, split it in the middle and spread the hair around the donut to make sure all of the donut is covered. The ends of the hair is then wrapped around the donut and tucked underneath and pinned into place.

Here are some examples of how the the finished look could result in, good luck!

 

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Renegade Fair Hair

Its been a long time since I’ve been out on the streets looking for my ‘Cool Mops’ for my blog, and I didn’t actually intend to go approaching people again, but once I walked around the Renegade Arts and Crafts Fair yesterday, (an Annual Event held at the Fort Mason in San Francisco) I noticed a few good looking Hair (and stylish) girls around. So out came my i-phone and before I finished up for the day I went snapping away.

Here are some of the looks I  saw and because I’m so out of practice I only got a few of their names so hopefully they might see this and I can add it later, Thanks girls for posing for me and  letting me put you on my blog.

 

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Of course we have our very own Twinkie Chan who was sat relaxing at her fabulous homemade stall full of crochet goodies when I attacked her, you really should check out her goods which are totally fabulous!!

 

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And last but not least we have Leslie, owner and designer of Feistyelle – who makes jewelry and home décor products that are eco chic and the lightest around, using  merino wool felt and lightweight bamboo. Check out her designs by following the link.

Thanks a lot girls ; ) Your all gorgeous and fab individuals.

 

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MyHairdressers.com ~ Digital Perms

Very recently I wrote my 3rd article for UK based Educational Website MyHairdressers.com

 

For this one I interviewed Same from Zippy’s Hair Studio in San Francisco about her techniques and tips on doing Digital Perms (Hot Perm) Huge Thanks to my business partner Jodi Ninomiya for letting me document her while she tried out the perm ; )

 

Follow this link to read what Same had to say.. Digital Perm Article

 

 

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Dekko’s Daily Grind ~ Jenny

Every now and again, I start to do my haircut at work and then when there’s tons of hair that start to fly and around a third of the way through I then realize that I should’ve taken some before pictures of my client : (

So I end up taking the ‘after’ pics anyway and hope that the client will have some good ‘before’ pics for me to slot in.. anyway, this was the case of Jenny Ping who came into Dekko to see me.

Jenny was so sweet and was open to having some changes to her hair but still wanted to continue growing the length down. The hair was already asymmetrical but it was almost one length throughout. The only problem I foresaw was the step in the middle of the long side! This was my challenge to try to blend it altogether to make it work with the rest of the hair.

Here’s 2 pictures that Jenny sent to me after showing her hair before the ‘chop’!

 

Anyway, we decided to layer it all up, lighten up the inside of the hair while keeping the whole outside length long. I also wanted to chop up the fringe area so it didn’t hang to heavy on her face. Once we had layered it all we used some styling cream to get the effect of chunkiness to the hair.

 

 

Sorry about the bright ‘back’ picture.. but at least it shows off the layers anyway.

What was surprising about the hair was once all the weight was taken off, there was so much natural texture in the hair, it all came to life and so Jenny could play around and have a much more textured fun look, and I was able to blend in the hole at the side : )

Thanks for posing and sending me the before pics Jenny, I enjoyed doing your hair..

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My Pick…

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Again, I have to apologize for not knowing who did the work for this hairstyle, but I chose it for its very creative cut and color work. similar to another one I posted the precision work with the color is fantastic (although I hope the work was not touched up in Photoshop afterwards cos you just never know nowadays)
Anyhoo, fabulous strong defined shape, well done to whoever did this!