This week has been most exciting at Indulge Salon on South George Street, York, Pa.
Our college students are pretty awesome and they bring of flair of fun. We had a client named Rainya (hope I spelled your name correctly) she came in with super dark hair that had some previous dark color tones on mid length to ends. She wanted to be blonde. The knowledge to take hair to a lighter blonde is vast because of the many variables to consider taking hair from darkest brown to blonde shades. Did you ever see the movie “what lurks beyond?” There is more to the appearance of dark than just what you are seeing which is darker pigment. Indian, Asian or truly blue black hair can be tough to lift up with the contemporary lighteners. The darker pigment is so strong that it might not want to lift without damage. My advice to all the dark hair colored women, have an alternative darker blonde color if your hair refuses to lift to the lightest blonde. Even after you have tried the lighter colors, the natural red pigment called melanin can come screaming back into it becomes it lives in there naturally. In the beginning, you may want to make two week appointments to keep it toned which is a lighter color that knocks out the yellow-orange tones that can creep back in. After about a month you can keep your color maintained to its beautiful desired tone.
As you know, when I fly, Kimberly, the owner of Indulge Salons, it seems that I attract a story. Normally, I just want to get to my destination which was Buffalo, New York about an hour a way from Rochester, New York. I was there on business doing some speaking with Salon owners from all over.
This adventure includes two legs of a trip from BWI to Philadelphia. Easy enough right? Of course not, we were hanging out on the tarmac waiting for another plane or clearing to park the plane. Now you know that USAirways is my “favorite” airline to work with but they had a comfortable price for the time I needed. The second part of my flight was from Philadelphia to Buffalo Niagra Airport which was super cute. Well, longer story short I almost missed my flight from the Philadelphai to Buffalo. I was meeting my daughter in Buffalo and she was waiting for me at the gate in Phila. She had stalled whomever was the gate keeper because we could not miss that flight. I was presenting and couldn’t miss the deadline time. I finally got off the plane and RAN to the gate. Barely made it so a shout out to the girls at the gate in Phila helping us make the flight. I’m telling you…..this airline just keeps moving gates, not as efficient. I don’t get it. I don’t have issues with any other airline like them. They overbooked the flight back to BWI by 14 seats. I was not budging. I have done it to help someone else out but tonight I had to get home. My son has an upper respiratory condition that has developed and I just couldn’t be away any longer.
Shout out to the lady Helen that I sat beside in Philadelphia. Her daughter just got married in Germany and Helen’s husband is a real cowboy. I learned how to make my cowboy boots fit better. You buy them tight, fill them with water until softened and then you wear them all day until the boots fit you perfectly and mold around your foot. Now this was a trip that was worth the information.
The reason I report my air travel adventures is because I’m consistently shocked at the dress code of travelers. I should say what dress code do they live by? I saw and smelled hair while I sat in my seat. I must say that people were hot and sweaty this trip more than most. Is it policy to not spray a fragrance on a plane? We need it to survive guys! For those of you that travel all of the time, I feel sorry for you its not fun doing this day in and day out for those close quarters in a plane.
I’ll keep you posted on my fingerlakes winery tour next blog post!
Chasta, one of our Sr. Stylists of seven years, and I had been invited to train behind the scenes of a workshop with Christoper and Sonia Dove. they are reknowned haircolor and haircutting artists that represent Wella Sebastian.
This day was pretty intensive working behind the scenes. We are always willing to do whatever it takes such as shampooing their models, applying haircolor, blow drying and styling hair for them. Even though this may be a help to them with all of the models they work on, we felt prvilieged to work with them all day. We were the ones that had the opportunity to learn more advanced thinking on “how” they formulated haircolor, how they strategically managed the design of the cut for the model’s face in addition to what they were demonstrating for the show. We also experienced some pretty cool ways to highlight and to use the NEW Innosense haircolor product line that prevents scalps from itching. We learned how to use this really cool product called Color I.D. This was the most amazing part of the “shadowing”.
Blurring the lines from highlighting this fall and winter 2014
Color I.D. allows the stylist to formulate a color and then we can add an ingredient to the formula and actually lay it onto the next color without it bleeding onto the next color laying on top of it. As you can see in this photo that the depth of the amethyst olor on the bottom and base is a stunning backdrop for the vibrant red violete mahogany color on the top and sides. We are calling this collection “Blurring the lines” which blends the scalp into the highlighting, balayage, and the other colors that sit next to the the base root color.
