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Tuesday, September 11, 2012

Creating a Following!

Just another shout out to my wonderful clients! I had two more people from my last salon call me and find me! Mary and Christine, THANK YOU!! When you leave a salon the salon owners/workers act like you have died and like they have no way of knowing that you were even human to begin with...luckily I have plastered myself ALL OVER THE INTERNET and these two ladies have found me and I couldn't be happier!

I love these connections and that is why I love this business!

Cheers Ladies!!

Wednesday, May 2, 2012

Big Curlers

These are the curlers that add that big body, and big HAIR glam look. If you have very fine hair, use the smoother curlers and not the velcro curlers. The velcro curlers are not as gentle and get caught and tangled sometimes. When your hair is damp, use a volumizing product, mousse or gel, whatever you prefer. Use a hot set spray after your hair is in curlers. Sit under the dryer, or air dry as you clean your house or lounge around eating chocolates and VOILA. Loosely comb out the curls with your fingers or the rat tail end of a rat tail comb...DON'T OVER COMB OR OVER TOUCH. Hair spray, shine spray...and you are GLAM.

This is a smoother look, for body and less curl, but the big curlers were used for this, wrapped as shone above. Have fun ladies!!

Sunday, April 1, 2012

Doin the Blonde Thang...

This is the lovely Caroline...She came in with very ashy/green hair on her crown with very red bangs, red sides and red underneath. She is a natural level 7/8. On the crown, where it was ashy/green, lifting with bleach got it very light, around a level 8 with gold tones, which I toned/lifted again with a color formula, leaving it a soft blonde without bleaching it again and to get rid of the gold but lift out that final ashy-ness.

I stayed off the scalp or it would have lifted it too high and created 'hot roots'. When doing a color retouch however, I lift the dark roots to the light blonde using high lift color. Caroline's roots were her natural color so they did not need to be lifted, we just needed to match them. I did foil her bangs to get that final red out and stayed away from scalp and any hair that wasn't red.

Using bleach that is not powder is ideal. Redken Blonde Icing is the bomb. Its conditioning and has an ammonia free version as well. All bleach/all lifting is damaging. If you can, before you get your hair lightened, condition, condition condition. Every day. For a week or longer before you bleach your hair out, and AFTER. Put some of your conditioner in a spray bottle with some water and make your own leave in conditioner. Condition the ends only if you tend to have an oily scalp. Get a conditioning 'mask' hair product and leave on for five minutes. After five minutes the hair cuticle has let in all its going to let in, but if you want to leave it on all night, go for it. If your hair has broken from so much damage, the best repair is Redken CAT, but don't over do it. Too much protein can also damage the hair.

I don't work for Redken, even though I mention them a lot, and I'm always up for using any product that I think is kind to the hair. I try new things all the time. I will be taking a Lanza color class. I want to learn about a 'kinder' color line and this line seems pretty cool. Everyone's hair is different, all hair has different needs and is at different stages. I heal people from the inside out so this seem a natural progression for me.

Hang in there everybody! Its almost summer!

Sunday, February 22, 2009

Photos of my work:

Prices listed here on this blog page are my traveling prices, where I bring my creativity and talents to you in your own home or your desired location. I've been doing hair in and around Denver for the last five years...love photoshoots and fashion hair... I'm constantly updating my photos and here are some of my favorites!