Hot New Trend: hair feathers

Curled feathers that match her hair

At a recent photo shoot, I had the opportunity to play with hair feathers. My good friend and client, Lindsey, had hair feathers that closely match her high-fashion red that we've been cultivating. I was surprised at how much fun they were to style. I was actually able to curl the feathers in with her natural hair.

After some research, I have decided to start offering them as a service at the salon. In addition to these feathers, I'll also be offering hair tinsel which can also be style right along with your hair. You can wash, blow dry and flat iron these hair accessories. They come in lots of color varieties. I'm looking forward to my shipment coming in.

Web promotions

I will have special web promos. So make sure you keep any eye on my Web Specials tab. This one is for new clients only. But don't worry, as new services come out, there will be specials for my faithful clients too. So post the web special on a friend's wall!

Workin it back

At the salon up to my usual tricks i suppose.  I'm currently working on a color correction.  For anyone who doesn't know this is quite the process.  In this case I'm taking my subject from a very dark Red violet Brown and trying to make her into a cool beige blonde.  I'm using a product that I have never used before so it's exciting for me to see it working.  In this process the chemicals are working to shrink the color molecules then when I go to shampoo her out it will physically pull as many of those molecules out of the hair as possible.  It works because the cuticle layer of the hair is open at this point.  Once you remove the pigment you will likely have to recolor most of the time you won't be lucky enough for the color to lift evenly and much less to a pretty tone. ANYWAY, color correction is probably one of the hardest things to do.  Let me share a story here  When I was in 10th Grade my best friend Kate and I decided we should color my hair.  Being young and stupid and having no concept of the science of color used a beautiful "mahogany brown"  now since we were coloring on virgin hair it worked out fine.  Fastforward to 10 weeks later.  My ashy roots were growing out and I decided having colored hair was fun but I didn't want to keep coloring it ( for the record I haven't stopped coloring it since then) So Kate and I ran into wal-greens and grabbed a color remover.  We got home threw it on my head and when it was done we were horrified to find that it had mutated into a lovely shade of tabby cat orange... the next day was Thanksgiving needless to say I wore a hat ALL DAY... My dad took me to my hair lady the next day and 3 hours and $120 later I was lookin like Gwen Stefani.   Point on my story is at that moment I decided it was best to leave it to the professionals.

BACK to the moment.  We took off the color remover. I was shocked.  This girl went from the darkest of browns to a dark blonde honey beige.  That just left us to tone her down to a COOL blonde and then we will seal her off with a chemisrty shot and have one happy little cheeto!!!

Hope you enjoyed the insights stay tuned.  :)

Welcome to My Blog

I am embarking on becoming a business owner. Since graduating form the The College of Hair Design, I have worked for other people never truly reaping the rewards of my hard work and ingenuity.  Starting last week, I began renting a chair for the first time at Estella Salon.

The challenge isn't in doing the work I love, it's in sharing it with the world. That's why I've started blogging about my experience. This is a place where I'll share what I've been up to and where you can see my latest work.

Thanks for stopping by. I'm looking forward to this journey.