Hello THSB readers. Our new site is now up and running. We are so excited for this new platform! We owe it all to our friend Amber from LuckyStoneMedia.com
Make sure to check out all the new exciting features of our site. Including our favorite: The Experts Corner where you can submit your questions about your hair, your client’s hair, a hair color formula, a front desk emergency, salon business questions and anything else that you are looking for advice in!
Contestants, send before and after pictures that show Toppik working its magic! Your photos will help customers with thinning hair make an informed decision and purchase wisely. Plus, you’ll win great prizes! And no, you don’t have to show your face in the photo.
Contest Details
Send a before and after photo along with your name, postal address and email address togiveaways@thebeautyplace.com.
Three winners will be chosen.
Grand prize winnerwill receive:
1 50g bottle of Toppik (color of choice)
1 Toppik FiberHold Spray
1 Toppik Spray Applicator
1 Toppek Hair Fattener 4 oz
1 Toppik Hairline Optimizer (set of 2)
1 Toppek Keratinized Hair Building Shampoo
1 Toppek Keratinized Hair Building Conditioner
(Retail value of $149.65)
Second place winnerwill receive:
1 25g bottle of Toppik (color of choice)
1 Toppik FiberHold Spray
1 Toppik Spray Applicator
1 Toppik Hairline Optimizer (set of 2)
(Retail value of $77.80)
Third place winnerwill receive:
1 10.3g bottle of Toppik (color of choice)
1 Toppik FiberHold Spray
1 Toppik Hairline Optimizer (set of 2)
1 Toppek Hair Fattener 4 oz
(Retail value of $49.80)
Before & After photos should be received by 12PM EST on Saturday, March 19th.
Winners will be notified by email by Tuesday, March 22.
Contest Rules
Submit One (1) entry per person.
Photographed persons must be at least 18 years old.
Photos must be submitted by e-mail by Saturday, March 19, 2011.
Include your name, address, & phone number.
Photos that have been manipulated, altered, touched up, or photoshopped will not be accepted.
All photos submitted will become the property of TheBeautyPlace.com
I just want to write and tell all of you readers how grateful Myself & The Hair Stylist Blog is for our readers!! This site is growing so quickly and its because of all of you! The site really is for hairstylists by hairstylists with no other intention other than sharing knowledge and growing together. There are no gimmicks, there is no marketing & most importantly, there is no selling of any sort!
In so many ways this site is my hobby and slowly becoming quite a passion for me. It truly is an amazing community we get to be apart of and I think it is important that we give ourselves the opportunity to share it with each other!!
That’s where you come in!
We are looking for people like yourselves to share their thoughts knowledge and insight to a day in the life…
Sound like something that your interested in? Well, let us know info@thehairstylistblog.com
You should visit Alternative Apparel! Very similar company, but what I love… They have an entire line of green products made from 100% organic materials.
Well why am I posting this on a Hair Blog? Well because I just happend to get an up date from them through my email and I wanted to comment about the AD.
Check out the “Rocking Roots” I see sooooo much of this. I guess I want to know what you guys think!?
Are you into it, have you seen this before or is it just hideous in your eyes?
Head & Shoulders announced on Monday, that they have insured Troy Polamalu’s hair for one million dollars with Lloyd’s of London, a British insurance and reinsurance market.
The Football star of the Pittsburgh Steelers hair is a homage to his Samoan heritage. The length of Polamalu’s hair: 3 feet long (and counting). Quite a scary thought considering the man is in a contact sport in which almost anything in reaching distance is used to tackle and pull men to the ground.
Worst case scenario? A football player gives him A Million Dollar Hair Cut (well Head and Shoulders anyways).
Recently I attended an amazing color class and I thought I would share a little bit about my new application discovery’s with you.
Now possibly this might not be news for some of you? But for me and those of you who do find this as news, I think you will enjoy.
So we are taught when applying hair color to saturate the hair and apply to both sides of the section, especially on the gray, yes? Well in my case yes and as a colorist its something I have been doing for years.
Next time do 2 things different.
1. Take 1/8 inch to 1/4 inch sections, depending on density and porosity of the hair and apply your hair color to just the back of each section. By doing this the small sections and the compression will keep your color properly saturated and safe from the possibility of overlapping of color.
and…
2. When working around the hair line, especially grays, try using a brow brush to apply the color, to keep the color from smearing on to the scalp and prevent color from staining the skin.
These new hot tips have worked wonders for me, not only in time, but results. I urge you all to give it a go!
This one is for the stylist’s! So at the salon the other day we had a client in whose hair had a little challenge covering the gray with her formulation. The areas that gave us the biggest challenge were around the face by the ears.
For those of you who have had these challenges we have some solutions. Here are some great tips and tricks that have worked for us in the past and some that I have learned from fellow stylists for those problem areas, especially around the face!
Often times the hair around the face and ears will get filled with salt, due to the amount of sweat a person has perspired. Salt in our sweat will cause the hair to become very dry and resistant to color. Also product, minerals and chlorine will have a major affect on our color results. The best solution if this happens is to detoxify the hair prior to coloring. My recommendation would be to use Pureologys clarifying and detoxifying shampoo: Purify, prior to coloring. If you feel that there is an excess amount of build up of product, minerals, chlorine or salt in the hair use shampoo and leave on for up to 20 min capped under neath a dryer. Follow by applying your color to your manufactures instructions.
Here are some other great tips to try if clarifying the hair does not work.
1. Prior to coloring the hair apply a small amount of the hair color pigment only (not using any peroxide) to the challenging area and after apply color throughout entire head (including the challenging spots) in normal fashion.
2. After applying color to challenging areas, cover areas with foil.
3. Pre-soften the hair by applying a small amount of 20 volume peroxide to a piece of cotton and rub the challenging areas with the peroxide.
If any of you happen to have other tips and tricks we would love to hear them. Please comment or write us at: info@thehairstylistblog.com
The hairstylist blog will teach you how to cut a long layered hair cut with a disconnected layer and framing around the face. It will have a very similar look to Jennifer Aniston hair, with a little bit of a twist! You will learn step by step instructions on how to create this hair cut. You will also learn some really great texture cutting techniques. This is an advanced training video, not a basic hair cut. Notice the before and afters for the transformation of this look.
Basically this cut is broken down into 7 easy steps with an optianl 8th step.
Step 1
Isolate the top portion of the hair from temple to temple, creating a horse shoe partinging.
Take a 1 inch center section in the center back and cut blunt with a concave layer technique.
Move going center right over directing everything to the center.
Move going center left over directing everything to the center.
Step 2
Isolate the bottom (The hair that was just cut).
Take a 1 inch Mohawk section from front to back of crown.
Establish your disconnected layer ** Note your disconnected layer should be longer than your layer that was previous cut underneath.
Follow through the Mohawk section at a 45 degree angle cutting blunt from short to long.
Step 3
With the top section still isolated – Divide the hair from left to right with a center parting.
Starting on the right side Take diagonal pie shaped sections going from front to back.
Follow your guide staying at a 45 degree angle cutting the hair blunt from short to long.
Repeat on opposite side.
Step 4
Dry hair smooth and straight with minimal volume.
Step 5
Establish length by using a point cutting technique to create separation and texture on the ends.
*Optional to create a more angled back length by visually cutting the hair shorter on the sides and gradually getting longer towards the middle.
Step 6
Isolate the bottom hair from temple to temple leaving a small section in the center back out as a guide
Over direct hair up and over to the 45 degree angle to which it was cut and blend disconnection with texture by finding the disconnection on the bottom and point cutting on the top of each section.
Step 7 (*Optional – This will create more texture and separation around the face)
Take a triangle pie shape section in the front of the hair from which the point that the head slopes down to the forehead (view on the video to get a reference point).
Comb hair to a 45 degree angle and pinch or squeeze hair to have it fan out.
Deep point cut the hair for seperation.
Step 8
Visually slice cut the hair throughout the top layer to create separation and texture throughout the top disconnected layer.
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Hello THSB readers. Our new site is now up and running. We are so excited for this new platform! We owe it all to our friend Amber from LuckyStoneMedia.com
