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I am starting my own business next week and can’t wait to get started! I would appreciate any constructive words of wisdom from those of you who already own your own salons! Thanks!
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Brenton Lee, Hair Artist & Co-Owner of the Brenton Lee Hair Salon. http://brentonleesalon.com/ & Follow on Twitter: @Brenton_Lee.
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That Dress might be important, but nothing is more important than your hair.
Luckily we’ve got you covered. Check out these great Party Perfect products and tips from Redken’s Education Artistic Director Kris Sorbie:
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So it’s practically winter and we’ve all heard it a thousand times before…. Go darker with your hair in the winter and brighter and lighter in the summer.
I am not saying I agree or disagree. I mean come on, everyone is different, both in personality and shape, color and size. So to dictate and entire mass to follow the same trend and same structure every year…. That gets a little…. boring…. don’t you think!??
Well…. I Do.
So the next time you are thinking of taking that blonde hair darker, try this one on for size.
Expose Contrast!!
For instance say you have a very bright pale yellow… perfect shade of summery blonde. Well, it’s perfect right? So why change it? Don’t…. enhance it.
Behind every highlight of blonde you add incorporate a neutral to golden shade of a level 7 darkest blonde/lightest brown. The key here is to back your blonde up!
Do this by immediately placing a sliced section in front or behind the blonde and use the low lighting color.
This will create a high contrast in your color giving your a lot more depth while at the same time brightening up your blondes!!
Its super easy and really really healthy on the hair, so your not going from blonde to brown to blonde to brown to blonde to brown to……… you get the idea.
Have fun with it and like always we would love to hear your thoughts.
There are so many things to be thankful for, even more so on a day like today. We should all be thankful for the amazing world that we live in and the amazing industry we are apart of.
When I read this article I just had to post it and share it with everyone!
** This article comes to us by way of SalonGalaxy.com and was written by SalonGalaxy’s Art DiGiacomo
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Being Inspired by a Blind Hairdresser
Published by SalonGalaxy.comBeing Inspired by a Blind Hairdresserby: Arthur DiGiacomoOn a whole we our own a group of talented individuals in an industry full of amazing creativity, but the individual ego and our competitive nature sometimes does not allow for the true meaning, of why we are who we are to shine through.
As I waited for everyone to join me in the conversation on a conference call, I could not help but think how a person without sight, might be able to have a career as a hairdresser in the beauty industry. It was when I was a creative young upcoming hairdresser that I use to kid with my clients and say I could cut their hair with my eyes closed. (Yes, I would shut my eyes and take a snip).As you know hairdressing is a visionary profession. A profession where the work needs to been seen to be appreciated and especially to know completely about facial structures, hair texture, color and motion to create the looks that get published and win awards. We preach that education is the key to success in the beauty industry.I am here to add it also takes a determination to bear the brunt of a bad marriage, money, drugs, alcohol, abuse, depression, and especially the will to live through life and what it bestows on us on a personal level, from time to time.I have said many times to my children, friends, and colleagues that it is life’s experiences that give you wisdom. But to gain that wisdom we need the desire to learn – “It is important to go through life being a good speaker and teacher, but it is more important to be a great listener and student”.The longer we live the more we learn. Wisdom is gained through Experience !
- Every time you think you have enough Wisdom to Teach – You Learn
- Every motivational speaker who encourages us – Listens
- Every Educator who instructs us – Is Inspired
Question: How do I fade from a 000 to a 4 with oster 76?
When it comes to fading hair it’s all about the motion of your wrist in conjunction with the clippers and guards.
So knowing you have a great pair of clippers, The “Oster 76″ Classics, you know you’re on the right track to giving a great seamless hair haircut.
Once you have the right pair of clippers, make sure you have a great pair of guards. This is crucial to creating your hair cut. The more guards you have, the more control you will have over your cut and again, the more seamless your cut will be.
Check out these guards which are perfect for the Oster brand clippers:
So, now that you have all of the equipment here is what you need to do! We broke it down step by step:
1. Starting with your largest desired guard (in this case size:4). Begin cutting the hair from the base of the hair line sliding the clippers all the way up to the base of the crown. The clippers should roll off of the crown area with a slight flick of the wrist. Continue doing this motion until you have completed the entire back and side areas.
** If you wish the top of the hair to be cut with a 4 guard then you will cut the entire head with a 4 guard first. If you wish for more length through the top, then you will roll off at the crown like stated.
2. Decrease your guard to the second largest (in this case: 3 or 3.5). *Please note if you have half sizes, this will make the cut more seamless. Repeat the process from step one, only roll off from the head slightly lower from the previous point (once again with a slight flick of the wrist as you roll off).
3. You will continue to repeat this processes decreasing in guard size and slowly moving down the head. The point in which you blend your fade should slowly be moving down towards the hairline.
4. Once all of the sides and back have been finished, using a scissor over comb method, begin blending your lines even further with a texture based shear. This will help to create softness and precision in your cut.
**Skip Steps 5 and 6 if you cut the entire head in step one with your largest guard. If you wished for more length through the top continue on with the remaining steps:
5. Using a scissor over comb technique and using a texture shear, begin rolling the comb, starting slightly bellow the crown, finishing towards the top of the crown. The desired length should be determined prior to cutting and you will visually create your length using the scissor over comb technique.
6. Once the length on the sides is blended into the length on the top, begin cutting the rest of the top length with a blunt shear, using a 90 degree cutting technique.
7. Once finished, remove all guards from the clippers and edge the sides according to the desired look. If necessary use a T shaped clipper for the edging. This will give you more control, as this what they are designed for; need a great one? Check out this edger:
That pretty much sums it up!! Hope this helps!
Also be on the look out for mens cutting videos, as we are in the process of filming multiple Hair Cutting Videos for THSB which will all be free and on our THSB TV on YouTube.
If you have questions we have answers, so don’t be afraid to ask!!!
The Guinness Book of World Records just announced the new worlds largest afro.
Aevin Dugas a 36 year-old social worker from New Orleans, USA, is the proud owner of the largest natural afro in the world with a circumference measuring an incredible 4 ft. 4 in (1.32 m).
The hairstyle that has taken over 12 years to grow can at times be problematic.
“It’s always getting caught in trees, and one time I even slammed my hair in the car door! And I hate it when people touch it without asking my permission first!” , she admits.
”As a woman you’re told that straight hair is beautiful hair. This is crazy. The afro is my natural hairstyle and there can’t be anything more beautiful than that”.
Aevin trims her afro three times a year, and uses up to five conditioners at once when she washes it.
“You want to know the best thing about my hair?” Aevin says with a smile: “It provides the perfect pillow. I sleep very well.”The hair is larger than a disco ball! Aevin’s hairstyle is so large she could fit the world’s shortest man inside!
Here is a fun list Yahoo! Green put together filled with 15 (+1 Bonus) ways you can use a hair dryer,; besides using it on your hair.
Hope you enjoy!:
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- If you need to quickly set the icing on a cake, the air and heat of a hair dryer can quicken up the process.
- If your cake won’t unstick from the cake pan, use your hair dryer on the bottom of the pan then invert it, it should drop right out.
- Running an ice cream scoop under hot water helps, but you can also try using a hair dryer on the carton to soften ice cream for easy scooping.
- Some people use pots of boiling water to quicken freezer defrosting, but a hot hair dryer works even more quickly. (Be careful of puddles of water and the dryer, though.)
- Automatic ice-makers can get jammed with frozen ice; relieve that with a long blast of hot air to melt unwanted icebergs.
- Remove contact paper from shelves by heating it with the hair dryer and gently working the edges up. Also works for bumper stickers and other rogue sticky things.
- Use a hair dryer to dust hard-to-dust items; the air will blow the dust somewhere else, but hopefully somewhere else that is easier to dust.
- Personally, I like my kids’ crayon marks on my walls, but for the rest of you: Heat the crayon marks until softened, then scrub with hot water and detergent.
- Old photo albums with magnetic pages can get stuck — unstick them with a blast from the hair dryer.
- Spot-iron wrinkles by lightly dampening the area and then heating the wrinkles with your dryer.
- Wet boots, shoes, and sneakers can take on a terrible odor if left to dry slowly — alleviate that by drying them with your hair dryer.
- Winter can bring frozen windows and locks — thaw them with a hair dryer.
- Window screens collecting dust and pollen? Blow it back to whence it came.
- Removing bandages can hurt more than the wound, so soften the adhesive with a hair dryer first to ease the rip.
- If you have trouble keeping a hot compress hot, keep your hair dryer by you and reheat as necessary.
Bonus: For wrinkled ribbons and fabric belts, employ a curling iron to straighten them out.
Michelle Monaghan joins the redhead club. Monaghan showed off her fiery looks at the Toronto Film Festival on Monday. According to some this cut and color seem to be quite the resemblance to The Help star, Emma Stone….. I guess I see it.
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On Sunday night she was recognized at the Creative Coalition’s 2011 Spotlight Initiative Awards for her work in the film, which is based on an inspirational true story of a drug dealer who transforms his life.
“To be honored with a Spotlight Award means a lot to me, actually,” Monaghan said. “I think it’s important to recognize projects that take a risk, and this one isn’t afraid to confront the audience with some tough material.”
