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How To: FIsh Tail Braiding

Wow! Today is the last day of 2010! Can you believe it? I'm sure you have your new years resolution in order ready to take charge starting tomorrow! Here at the salon we have our own personal goals, which i hope will benefit you, us, and our community.

One of my favorite things about New Years Eve is the getting ready part! I love all the festive looks that are in this year. This week we bring you a how to that can be used for a casual afternoon in or, mixed in with a cocktail dress for tonight!

Our wonderful Beth after:

Hope that made sense to you, please let us know if we need to further explain. This is a tricky one to write down..But hope this helps and hope it inspires you!

Happy New Year!

Salon Xmas Party!

Last night we had our salon party! Our wonderful Shelley hosted all of us in her beautifully decorated home! Full with amazing drinks and food, we played dirty santa and had a lot of laughs.

Have a wonderful Christmas!

How To: Holiday Special- Up Do's

Happy Friday everybody! Christmas is right around the corner! Literally! and with that comes Christmas parties! Oh how I love Christmas Parties... So for this weeks How To we are doing two different Holiday hair up do's. One for the more fancier put together girl, and another for a messy sassy chic type of girl.

The first one is the more put together up do, Kayla our receptionist is our model today, all you need is a little rubber band and you might want to check out the Teasing how to down below, because teasing is necessary in both of these.

This second one is what I like to call sweet and sexy. The messy up do/bun that takes 2 seconds and is still cute with a holiday dress and fun earrings. Emily is a stylist here and was awesome enough to let us use her hair.

The Results

This look is great for hair that has dimension in the color

So there you have it ladies, you got two different looks that you can feel free to make your own! Try it and let me know if it works for you! Hope it inspires you to spice up your holiday hair!

how to: Teasing

It surprises me to know how many of our clients don't know how to tease their own hair...Without teasing life would be a waste. Just kidding, life wouldn't be a waste, but it would be close to it. Flat hair is MISERABLE. Flat hair is a jerk. Flat hair is not pretty. Flat hair is rude. But teasing...oh my sweet teasing...teasing is a little white lie kinda. Teasing is a sweet little trick that can help those with thin hair/or a small head. (But please don't take advantage of Teasing, Snookie did, and look where it got her)

Anyways, If you've always wanted to know the tricks of teasing, here is a little tutorial we put up for this week's How to!

What you'll need: VERY IMPORTANT- A Fine tooth comb. Flat hair. and Lot's of hairspray.

The steps

The Beautiful Megan and the results! Thank you Megan for letting us use your hair!

have a wonderful weekend :)

How to:

Sometimes during the holiday season people seem to struggle on simple things, like curling your hair. For holiday parties it's fun to dress up and spice up your look, so here is little reference on how to spice up your curl for short hair!

What you'll need:

3/4 of an inch to 1 inch in diameter of a curling iron and Hairspray. Our Bumble and Bumble Classic Hairspray is nothing short of perfect for this hair do.

Molly is our model for today, here are the steps:

The beautiful Molly in the end!

Hope that inspires you to spice up your hair just a bit more this season!

Have a wonderful Thursday!

Not too busy to look friendly for the holidays

Since it is Christmastime again, we know that there will be many family get-togethers, office parties, church services and shopping. So, since no one wants to look like a frump in the midst of having to do a gabillion things, here are a few little ideas to help you not only have an attitude in the spirit of Christmas and giving, but when people look at you they will see a delightful sight as well :) Ok, let's start with the hair(since that is our specialty).

1. A good rule of thumb always blow dry your hair and use some sort of product and styling tool on it. You can go anywhere from there. You can flat iron and shine spray it, or curl and hairspray. This just gives you something to work with. Once it is styled, you can sweep it into a side braid or half-up using bobby pins for your errands...then for a dressier look tease the hair in the crown and let hair down.

2. Accessorize and add lips. Throw on some earrings and a belt and a CUTE big bag is as easy as Target, then throw on some brighter lips(check out heidi's) (This is for your errand-running)
bag

3. Bring a nice cardigan and a good pair of dressy shoes to exchange with your flats/boots that you wore for your errands.Then you can throw on some pumps and cardigan for the party. This could work nicely with a great pair of dark straight legged jeans!

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Holiday hair tutorial

This holiday season give yourself a treat and do your own hair. A duo that looks like you got it at the salon but really only took a few minutes. A soft messy romantic side shingon with a cute holiday dress is sure to impress the guest!

Step 1

Using a round brush, blow-dry hair smooth and straight, focusing on the top sections.

Step 2

Once dry, use a large-barrel curling iron to create waves from the ears down.

Step 3

Build height and volume at the crown by teasing hair gently with a fine-tooth comb.

Step 4

Gather hair into a low ponytail. Twist it along the nape of your neck, pinning as you go.

Step 5

Once you reach your ear, shape the remaining hair into curls, and pin them back over the twist.

Step 6

Spray the hair with hairspray and shape bang area with hand. Give yourself a one last good spray and you're good to go with your holiday hair!

Give it a try!

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