Archive for August, 2009

Style Your Short and Curly Hair

Posted by Sandy on August 27, 2009 with 0 Comments
Oh so easy and fast

Oh so easy and fast

Back of DVD

Back of DVD

Short & Curly – Turn your short, curly hair into the straight style you want.

This DVD was made for YOU to lessen your styling frustrations. I wanted to show every woman with short, curly hair how to style it in 10 minutes. Whether you wear your bangs forward or back off your face this DVD interactively shows a model blow drying (styling) her hair, thus allowing  you to join her in styling your own hair.

The back of the DVD visually lists the tools you need. Just add your favorite styling products. Enjoy!


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Don’t You Just Love a Bob?

Posted by Sandy on August 21, 2009 with 0 Comments

Do you know why?

Because the Bob has been around since the time of the Egyptians and Nefertiti and her bangs. Bangs are just a smaller version of the Bob.

Classic Bob with curved ends

Classic Bob with curved ends

Want to know how to simplify your Bob blow dry?

We as a human race carry a round brush with us 24/7. How wonderful! But most of us have no way of realizing that is OUR HEAD. Let me tell you how to use that round brush to get your bob to be smooth and the edges to gently curve under on their own.

Instructions:

After drying the roots of your hair somewhat (at least 5o% dry)  Part your hair down the back of your head. With the paddle brush in left hand  place the brush close to the back part by reaching across the front of your face to the back part.  And keep the dryer in your right hand. Pull the brush from the back part to your cheek. Continue till the hair is dry and naturally falls in a nice curve. For longer hair you can use your neck as the round brush, also. repeat the same on the other side of your head.

Reason:

1. Faster under 10 minutes for a beautiful silky looking style.

2. Fewer tools, your favorite brush and maybe a flat iron. The paddle brush bristles are far more comfortable on your scalp than a round brushes. a round brush is hard on your wrist and makes today’s Bobs’ too round.

Other Help:

For more information on blow drying a Bob or other simplified styles in fast, easy and repeatable methods with fewer tools and products visit www.stylelikeapro.com . Or email sandy [at] stylelikeapro [dot] com. I’m always here to help.

1 of 8 DVDs

1 of 8 DVDs

Every style longer than 3 inches always has some curve format to it, whether it be a big curve with a round brush or an elongated curve (like above) youcan use what god gave us our HEAD!

Filed Under: Hair care, Uncategorized, drying hair, easy, hair styling

What’s It Like to Have Green Hair?

Posted by Sandy on August 18, 2009 with 0 Comments

Let me apologize!

I forgot to take a picture of this client’s EMERALD GREEN hair. So imagine that you are in the land of Oz. Yep, that’s how green! She didn’t even know about the unwanted “green” in her hair until her daughter said, “Mom, do your know your ends of your hair are green in the back of your head?” Her long hair framing her face was not green just the top long layers of highlighted long hair was green. Let’s call her Genny. Genny called the salon in a panic, feeling humiliated for walking around for an entire week with green hair ends.

Please dont roll in the grass!

Please don't roll in the grass!

How did she happen to acquire “green” hair?

Blonds always have to safeguard their hair against absorbing chemicals into their hair from a swimming pool or jacuzzi. The chlorine from the pool and the heat from the sun react together to change bleached hair green. Bleached hair from the sun or from highlighting have only a pale yellow color (hopefully) left in the hair structure. this pale yellow to white  is a great canvas for the chemical reaction of “green”.  But, Genny hadn’t been in a pool or jacuzzi.

So how did she acquire this “green” hair? Genny was in Tahoe for the weekend and decided it was too beautiful not to get some outdoor exercise. So being tired from biking and finishing her heavy ride by a golf course, Genny decided it was too beautiful of a day not to enjoy the bright sun, blue sky and puffy clouds roll by. She opted to enjoy looking up via the support of the golf course grass. Yep, that’s right, now we know what it means to be grass green. Can you believe that, the land of clear skies, great mountain air and crystal blue water, golf courses in Tahoe  spray their grass to be greener.

What’s Genny to do?

Great color for grass!

Great color for grass!

That’s right call me, her hair color mixologist. What will I do for her without harming her hair further? By this appointment her hair has faded somewhat, which means her hair will not hold onto the green chemicals for very much longer. All I have to do is hasten their exit with a shampoo, bleach and peroxide combo to the areas of the hair that were severely attacked. the after shampooing the hair with a clarifying shampoo, I highlighted, low-lighted and toned her hair. The toner was an additional color green neutralizer, because it was was a light beige blond toner with a low volume peroxide. The toner had a hint of red in it to counteract the hint of “green” remaining. then to preserve the integrity of her hair and replace moisture, Genny was given a conditioning treatment.

Voila!

Genny left feeling relieved, happy and feeling good about herself!

(I knew that you can get grass stains from sliding on the grass but, I never in a thousand years, realized that golf course grass could turn your hair green. Let’s add that to list list of “Don’ts for Blondes”.)

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Want Your Man To Feel and Look Younger ?

Posted by Sandy on August 15, 2009 with 0 Comments

Tint….Why?

Yes you heard me. Have him get his hair tinted. No I don’t mean with women’s traditional permanent, demi-permanent or even semi-permanent hair color. There is a new men’s color by L’Oreal that appears to be the BOMB.  I have used it twice on my husband and I have to tell you I was impressed from after his first shampoo. Not from the first minute.  At first blush the color looked awfully ashy, kind of a gray-blue hue. After the first time My Man  shampooed his hair, I loved the color of  his hair. It  was  so neutral. I don’t know how to explain it, the color was not red, yellow or blue, just neutral. and what was superb about the color was that his white hair was tinted but in a translucent manner. Looking straight at his head. My Man’s hair was different but looking through from the side you could tell their was an effervescence of color over the white/gray hair. I say Hooray.

What L’Oreal has done for people, especially men is that once applied, the color is on for only 5 MINUTES. Did you hear me? 5 minutes, any longer and the tint goes darker. Also, this color only is formulated for short haircuts. I think this is a great way to satisfy clients desire to tint but not to have to be married to it. there is no line of demarcation. the color just fades. The downside is that I think I’d like it to last longer than 3 1/2 weeks. But don’t most people with short hair get their haircut every 3-4 weeks? It’s also cheaper than traditional color. Example $40 versus $60 on up for a tint, and it can be added on to a haircut by an extra 15 minutes.

Why not the traditional tints for men?

dont hide under your white Hair!

don't hide under your white Hair!

Every male clent I have tinted over the years with all manufacturers tints have never looked or wore as well as this one. they have always had a red undertone by the second or third week. If not that, then there’s a line of demarcation. The summer sun exposure will tell whether this hair color for men will wear well as expected.

What’s  most important about this hair color?

Besides everything I said previously about the hair color. It brought My Man’s skin color back. He looked healthier, even carried himself differently.

I say to ALL MEN, just DO IT!!!

Checkout the skin tone.....

Checkout the skin tone.....

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Does Your Man Like to be Called “Bald”?

Posted by Sandy on August 11, 2009 with 0 Comments

Why do men wince at being called bald?

Photo by Bobaloo Rox

Photo by Bobaloo Rox

When I as a stylist, ask a man about his hair or lack there of, I often get a subdued laugh or an embarrassed look. these men often act like bald is a dirty name or a name that they would  rather not be
associated with. It’s just a fact or is it? A lot of men are choosing to have their heads these days. Should we still call them bald?

Of the men that I have questioned about their lack of hair, most have said they have chosen to shave their head. Reasons vary.

  1. It’s easier to take care of, they don’t have to style and pay for haircuts.
  2. Their significant others love to feel the smoothness of their head.
  3. Their hair is thinning or always has been, therefore, just shave it off.
  4. It’s the popular thing to do.
  5. To hide ethnicity.
  6. Great for men who are graying and are or feel to young to have gray hair.
  7. Too hot to wear hair.
  8. To make a lifestyle statement

What is the meaning of Bald?

Destitute of the natural or common covering on the head or top, as of hair, feathers, foliage, trees, etc.; as, a bald head; a bald oak.

Isn’t it funny that the first word of this meaning is DESTITUTE. Means you have a loss of something. But, if you choose to have no hair are you really bald. One hasn’t naturally lost any hair at all.  Should there be a delineation between the sexes for being bald? Perhaps not, a ponytail or the mullet is the same for both sexes.

Are there more sensitive names for choosing to be bald?

Or am I being too sensitive to our genetic plight.How about Smooth Headed, Chrome Dome(hmm),Smoothy, Que Ball (hmm), Hairless (yuck). What are some names you have heard for being bald?

What could change if not the name?

Your attitude towards being bald. I was informed today by Lee Rodrigues of technologydojo.net that his response or attitude towards someone when they refer to him as a “skin head” that he actually thinks of his being a “monk” rather than a skin head.  It can all rest on your outlook on…. life.  If what defines you rests on just the exterior part of who you are, your hair or lack there of, get over it. Don’t get me wrong, I love my hair and I make my living as a colorist/stylist. But, if I came up bald or have the need to shave my head, I’d do it with pride. My hair is not me, alone. It occupies 1/5 of my body exterior. There’s more to us than just our hair. If need be, tattoo it for both men and women. Wear head bands and for men you could call it “Man bands”. Both men and women could wear scarves. Yes men. In the movie “Bottle shock” one of the main characters wore a scarf to keep his hair out of his face. Again, it’s all in your attitude within yourself. But, if your identity is not hairless, there are well made wigs or toupees. With wigs you can change hair color and hairstyle on a whim. But always keep a hat on hand for those really hot or cold days. No need to get skin cancer from the sun or to lose needed body heat from the winter cold.

However you handle being “smooth headed”, carry your pride of your appearance within you first and then the outside will shine.

Define Devine BALD

Define Devine "BALD"

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Is Short Hair is Here to Stay?

Posted by Sandy on August 4, 2009 with 0 Comments

Short hair is so personal-ality oriented!

Short hair is so personal-ality oriented!

What’s good about short Hair?

Short hair signifies individualism,  one of a kind, someone who does not necessarily run with the flock. Just looking at a women with short hair, that hair can be from spiky short to half way to her chin. There are so many varieties of styles that constitute short hair. While long hair usually is defined by the amount of layers in the hair.

So what’s Really Good about short hair….

is this….

1. Can take less shampoo and conditioner. I say can, because it’s a habit when you start using gobs of anything, because more is better or this stuff is cheap so I can use more.

2. Change style on a whim.

3. Less time to grow out that whim, by the use of different styling products.

4. Distinction between you and all the “long hairs” out there or at least in your clique.

5. Change color of your hair is easier, especially if you go from blonde to red to black to blonde every month or so.

6. Growing out your hair. watching your hair growing from short to long is visually easier than watching your hair growing from long to longer.

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