I feel bad today, the salon let my friend go. I tried to not think about it all day but it got me feeling really down. I feel that the guy has been tossed around from salon to salon and no one ever helps him get grounded.
To all stylist starting off in this career... from the bottom of my heart, I will say that doing this is not easy. In fact it can be really hard on your self. First off you have to know lots of people to stay busy. Second when your not busy you have to learn to keep to yourself and be strong. Also make sure you are ready to be on the floor. Just because you have that pieace of paper,aka, license, it doesn't mean that your a stylist just yet.
When I got out of school it took one horrible blow dry to realize I wasn't fit to be behind the chair just like that. I stood behind the stylist as a back up, an apprentice. I watched them take sections skillfully in their hand, hold it up and point cut with such focus. It takes time to build that eye.
I went through a year and a half watching them do the things I was expected to do. How to cut, color, style, consult, communicate, and much more. These are things that you can't expect to get so suddenly.
In all honesty I really hope that he finds his way in this crazy field. I for one have learned a lot from him. He has a lot of guts to just keep going. Also he believes in himself far more than I can ever say I believe in myself. I respect that.
Heartaches are often cured with cookies n milk!
Spreading Love through Hair and Makeup
Wednesday, June 30, 2010
Wednesday, June 23, 2010
Everyday is like Sunday • Morrissey
inspiration comes from music for me. I get so many ideas from the music I listen to, in fact after listening to Morrissey I decided to do hair, that it was some how my calling, I know it sounds like the typical thing to do but i guess i'm just typical that way...
A couple that changes together
Stays together! Brendan and I have decided to go back to the roots of it all! Where rock n roll was born, where Elvis gained his crown, and punk began to steam its roots. I'm talking about Rockabilly.
If you've ever seen cry baby then you know what I'm talking about. I guess we just feel like we belong to that group, we both love vintage, we both love blues, jazz, and punk. And we both love Morrissey.
I guess there is something classic about us that makes it so perfect.
Monday, June 21, 2010
Comic Book
Ive been trying to write a comic lately. I have faith that i can do this, and I will do this but I don't really have anyone backing me up. It's really scarry breaking into a whole new world that I'm not familiar with.
The story is about a Russian Gang that turns its back on a member named Alexa. She was really good at her job, a little too good and so the Mob boss' wife goes after her and leaves her for dead. After being hosptialized she is rescued by a CIA agent that convinces her to take her revenge and capture the bad guys.... i dont want to keep going on from there but there is def more to it then just that!
I love to write I do it whenever I can. Its my escape from the world I live in and know not that I need to but I guess we all do once in a while.
I have a story line, I have a strong charatchers I just need to style it and make it so good it gets published!
Passion goes a long way... I'm told
The story is about a Russian Gang that turns its back on a member named Alexa. She was really good at her job, a little too good and so the Mob boss' wife goes after her and leaves her for dead. After being hosptialized she is rescued by a CIA agent that convinces her to take her revenge and capture the bad guys.... i dont want to keep going on from there but there is def more to it then just that!
I love to write I do it whenever I can. Its my escape from the world I live in and know not that I need to but I guess we all do once in a while.
I have a story line, I have a strong charatchers I just need to style it and make it so good it gets published!
Passion goes a long way... I'm told
Festival Hair
Hello Ladies!!! This post is for you!
After going to Coachella I noticed a lot of girls had great looking hair. There was def a big hippie chic trend this year as well as a very retro 60's hair look. I ate up everything I saw and I'm happy to share it on here!
First things first I did see the dread lock look everywhere I went.
I love the look as long as you maintain it. I hate looking at filthy natty dreds, nasty. I was very surprised to see how this look was everywhere and how different it was on everyone.
Next big thing was the goth look, I happen to love this.
that was taken from the vidal 2010 autum winter look, I think after the wedding I will be doing this... maybe. The XX front woman wears it well... as did the noodle in Gorillaz who is also in Little Dragon!
And the biggest hit, the style you cannot go wrong with is loose curls and a hair band!
Wear it in a loose bun throw it in a straw hat too!!! You cannot go wrong or look crazy thats what I did I teased it up, put glitter in it, wore a feather head pieace and yay I had festival hair tooooo!
Head pieaces were very big. Some people made them and some bought them but it was neat to see people crowned with feather and butterflies and all kinds of thing.
Whatever you do just have fun and wear sunblock on face and on very pretty hair color!
After going to Coachella I noticed a lot of girls had great looking hair. There was def a big hippie chic trend this year as well as a very retro 60's hair look. I ate up everything I saw and I'm happy to share it on here!
First things first I did see the dread lock look everywhere I went.
I love the look as long as you maintain it. I hate looking at filthy natty dreds, nasty. I was very surprised to see how this look was everywhere and how different it was on everyone.
Next big thing was the goth look, I happen to love this.
that was taken from the vidal 2010 autum winter look, I think after the wedding I will be doing this... maybe. The XX front woman wears it well... as did the noodle in Gorillaz who is also in Little Dragon!
And the biggest hit, the style you cannot go wrong with is loose curls and a hair band!
Wear it in a loose bun throw it in a straw hat too!!! You cannot go wrong or look crazy thats what I did I teased it up, put glitter in it, wore a feather head pieace and yay I had festival hair tooooo!
Head pieaces were very big. Some people made them and some bought them but it was neat to see people crowned with feather and butterflies and all kinds of thing.
Whatever you do just have fun and wear sunblock on face and on very pretty hair color!
Saturday, June 19, 2010
Pin Head?
I really have been interested in Pin up styles since I was really young. It's part of beauty history that is very important. Thanks to this art form we can see how it was done. In todays world we have managed to replicate the look.
Here are some pictures of the look
Here are some pictures of the look
Thursday, June 17, 2010
a brother
I have an amazing brother. We are 7 years apart, he's the younger one, sometimes i wish i was the younger one, but we are what we are for a reason. I love him so much and I miss him around. You never think as a kid how much a person can be so important to your life until your older and you don't see them as much.
When I was a kid I was a stupid kid that wasn't educated enough on what a true relationship is with your sibling. No one ever told me that they would be the one that would understand you completly and totally. No one tells you that they would be the one by your side going through the same shit and feeling the same shit. I treated him so unfairly and I regret it everyday.
I know I was just a kid when I would knock him around, tell him to leave, and tease him. He was just trying to love me. It wasn't until we moved to fl that I realized holy shit this guy is going to know me and be there for me for as long as we live.
I moved two hours south of him and its been really hard. After my ex and i broke up I started to realize we were drifting apart. We were becoming so close and we finally understood each other as equals. Then one day is was weird.
A lot of it had to do with my spiral into drug abuse. He was ashamed and disapointed in me. With REASON. I lost him...
Another reason was his angry bitch girlfriend that made him feel like shit all the time. It was making him so confused and stale and it sucked him so dry! He wasn't the same and he became a weirdo robot for this person that he actually never loved.
When I moved it made things worse. We def started to see things differently. I was starting to feel like we would never connect again, and it hurt more than breaking up with someone, more than falling off a scooter, more than anything.
I would watch as he grew older and his personality was just awesome. I started to watch him grow in music and grow in all aspects of life and I was just proud of my brother. STILL AM
He was doing so much with his life and I wanted to be apart of it but I knew I was just not really wanted around. I guess I was just not needed.
Last week we picked him up and took him to see rev horton heat. The exp of driving to jax spending time with our family and getting to exp a show like that, made us closer. And then I did something for him that I know made things different.
I pushed him to break up with his gf, and i freed him from his box. We brought him back to our home, and i fed him as much insight and love and passion and art as I could. He soaked in my words my exp, my love. And we bonded more than ever before.
we smoked, we drank, we laughed, we sang. There is nothing stronger than family. Sibling are just close, we are a tribe that is connected through blood.
I love him so much and i write this after he just left. It was very hard, I cried to myself because the distance is a pain in my heart.
If your reading this... I hope that you get one thing, nothing matters more in life than a sibling. They are connected to us more than anything we can be connected to. The love and the pain and the heart is stronger than anything. Love them for who they are and stay close... you never know what can happen... and its up to you to see their pain, their joy, their life
When I was a kid I was a stupid kid that wasn't educated enough on what a true relationship is with your sibling. No one ever told me that they would be the one that would understand you completly and totally. No one tells you that they would be the one by your side going through the same shit and feeling the same shit. I treated him so unfairly and I regret it everyday.
I know I was just a kid when I would knock him around, tell him to leave, and tease him. He was just trying to love me. It wasn't until we moved to fl that I realized holy shit this guy is going to know me and be there for me for as long as we live.
I moved two hours south of him and its been really hard. After my ex and i broke up I started to realize we were drifting apart. We were becoming so close and we finally understood each other as equals. Then one day is was weird.
A lot of it had to do with my spiral into drug abuse. He was ashamed and disapointed in me. With REASON. I lost him...
Another reason was his angry bitch girlfriend that made him feel like shit all the time. It was making him so confused and stale and it sucked him so dry! He wasn't the same and he became a weirdo robot for this person that he actually never loved.
When I moved it made things worse. We def started to see things differently. I was starting to feel like we would never connect again, and it hurt more than breaking up with someone, more than falling off a scooter, more than anything.
I would watch as he grew older and his personality was just awesome. I started to watch him grow in music and grow in all aspects of life and I was just proud of my brother. STILL AM
He was doing so much with his life and I wanted to be apart of it but I knew I was just not really wanted around. I guess I was just not needed.
Last week we picked him up and took him to see rev horton heat. The exp of driving to jax spending time with our family and getting to exp a show like that, made us closer. And then I did something for him that I know made things different.
I pushed him to break up with his gf, and i freed him from his box. We brought him back to our home, and i fed him as much insight and love and passion and art as I could. He soaked in my words my exp, my love. And we bonded more than ever before.
we smoked, we drank, we laughed, we sang. There is nothing stronger than family. Sibling are just close, we are a tribe that is connected through blood.
I love him so much and i write this after he just left. It was very hard, I cried to myself because the distance is a pain in my heart.
If your reading this... I hope that you get one thing, nothing matters more in life than a sibling. They are connected to us more than anything we can be connected to. The love and the pain and the heart is stronger than anything. Love them for who they are and stay close... you never know what can happen... and its up to you to see their pain, their joy, their life
Wednesday, June 16, 2010
silversun pickups show!
Tonight we went to go see silversun pickups which was a band I knew was one to catch this year.
Through many sources of media silversun pickups has been the band to see. 'Nown for its mellow guitar rifs and soft whimsical vocals, tonights show brought all that and then some.
Singer was as quirky as a poet conducting the audience to sway and pulling them in with his guitar effects.personally I connected with the drummer chris gaunlao who was amazing at drums, giving so much intensity and vibe.
The female bass player also drove the audience crazy. She sang vocals in one song off the ep pikal it was very sweet and she was graceful.
The show was very magical and it hit a note with all who was there!
Through many sources of media silversun pickups has been the band to see. 'Nown for its mellow guitar rifs and soft whimsical vocals, tonights show brought all that and then some.
Singer was as quirky as a poet conducting the audience to sway and pulling them in with his guitar effects.personally I connected with the drummer chris gaunlao who was amazing at drums, giving so much intensity and vibe.
The female bass player also drove the audience crazy. She sang vocals in one song off the ep pikal it was very sweet and she was graceful.
The show was very magical and it hit a note with all who was there!
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