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Mercedes Benz Fashion Week Photos You Need To See

Check out these awesome photo albums. Photos taken by Hairbraineds’ own Randy Taylor.

Two photo albums, click through to view all the pics – and they’re worth checking out! Not only is Randy a pretty decent photographer, there’s tons of neat stuff to see and some tricks you might learn!

 

Click to go to the album on Hairbrained!

 

 

 

Click to go to the album on Hairbrained!

 

 

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They Like Me! They Really, Really Like Me!

Hey err’body! I just wanted to share something astounding (to me at least) about my blog… I’m almost up to 10,000 all-time views!

Also, head on over and ‘like‘ me on Facebook:

Click here! Like me! C’moooonnnn! Do it!

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Asymmetrical

I did this on a classmate today:

Classmate 1

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Classmate 3

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Classmate 2

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It took a long time… Because this is the first asymmetrical haircut like this I’ve ever done, and my third (I think?) ever cut with a razor.

I started cutting it one way, did the whole haircut, but it didn’t work as well as I wanted. So I redid everything and spent a lot of time going through and fixing things, balancing things, eyeballing things, etc…

But the next time I do a cut like this I’ll be able to do it in half the time! This was a huge learning experience, because I never get to do fun stuff like this. It definitely beats doing little old ladies’ uniform/graduation haircuts!

The first version of it I did, I ended up with gradation in the short side transitioning to layers on the long side. It looked funny, and I experimented with leaving a longer layer on top and undercutting the short side, but ultimately ended up taking out all the graduation and converting it to layers. (Remember kids, under 89 degrees is graduation, 90 degrees and up is layering! That’s why vertical partings remove weight so effectively, because you most often pull them out at 90 degrees!)

It was a nightmare to crosscheck, too. I must have looked at the cut from a million different angles, and eyeballed a lot of it until it felt right. It turned out great though, and I was very happy to have a classmate willing to sit through my experimenting and fiddling!

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Finals = Kicked In The Teeth

I lived through my finals. Pretty intense couple days, thems were… This was the exam schedule:

Men’s Taper Cut – 30 mins

Women’s Color – 60 minutes (From application to shampooed and back at chair)

Women’s Cut – 30 minutes

Women’s Airform & Iron – 30 minutes

Perm – 90 minutes (From start to rinsed and back at chair)

Rollerset – 20 minutes

Fingerwaves (on mannequin) – 15 minutes

Combout – 15 minutes

Final written exam (200 questions) – 90 minutes

There was a lot of adrenaline pumping through everyone during the exams. It’s interesting watching how everyone copes with the pressure – a lot of people get nervous, stressed out, some people panic. I get excited and happy. I don’t understand why other people don’t get excited… I think I annoyed some people by being chipper and upbeat when everyone was all doom and gloom. Haha

In the end, I did a bit better than average, but not as good as I’d like to have done. 80% overall on my practicals (the cut, color, perm, etc were high…but I bombed the rollerset and combout.), and 82% on my written final. (Pretty good considering I didn’t study)

 

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Blue Monday

 

Cycle Four Redhead
Cycle Four Redhead – Color/cut/style by me!

 

Another pic from my assignment on Friday. I wonder what mark I got! I hate waiting. >.<

Tomorrow, the owner of one of the largest and fastest growing salon chains in Canada is giving a talk to our school. I’m trying to think of what questions I should ask him, the business side of the industry interests me a lot. Hmm…

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“Your Descriptions Were a Bit Over the Top”

I’m back in the classroom, in Cycle 2, learning perms now. Tomorrow is the end of the first of two weeks, and the Friday after next I’ll need another 3 models. Yikes! o.O

I hope I’m resourceful enough to find some, although finding a model who wants a perm will be tough.

Anyway, we had to hand in an assignment today. We were told to find pictures of different hair textures and write a description of how we would achieve that texture/look with perm tools. The whole thing was supposed to be written not for a stylist, but for a client – sort of a pamphlet explaining things to a potential perm client.

I got writers block, and this is what I came up with at the last minute of the last day I had to work on it:

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There are a few more pages, but they are just boring “And I would use this size rod, bookend end papers, blah blah blah” stuff. I got 7/10. Teacher’s comments: “Your descriptions were a bit over the top. You were supposed to keep it simple!”

I thought I was keeping it simple…

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Cool Youtube Video: Short Concave Cut

There’s a lot of good (and bad) hair videos on youtube, and I happened across this one and thought it was pretty good. I want to try it out on my mannequin!

Here’s another cool video, this one on technique:

A lot of people think that practicing technique like that is silly, and looking for perfection in everything is a waste of time. I think it’s impressive, and respectable.

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NAHA & Las Vegas!

I just got back from Las Vegas, where I went to NAHA! NAHA is the North American Hairstyling Awards, a big award thing in the industry. It was crazy cool. I got to see lots of big names, the show was cool (but loooong), with some dance numbers. While I was in Vegas I went and checked out ARCS (A Robert Cromean Salon), it was cool! A very nice guy named Christopher gave us a tour of the place, and let us play with their wicked floating blowdryers!

Heading through Mandalay Bay!

At NAHA!

GIFT BAGS UNDER THE SEATS!!!

A Robert Cromeans Salon

A Robert Cromeans Salon

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Done Cycle One! And Off to NAHA!

I am DONE Cycle One! This week was crazy with theory and practical exams, and terrifying and it aalll went so fast. But now I’m done! And I’m off with my class to NAHA in Las Vegas for 4 days! Whoo!

I think I’ve adjusted reasonably well to the crazy environment that the college is. It probably sounds like I’m always having problems at school because I just like to complain a lot (sorry!), but school is absolutely fantastic, and despite the stress and rush, awesome fun. I can’t wait to go to Vegas! And when I get back I’m on the salon floor! No more classrooms for me! (For awhile, anyway)

So anyways, I don’t have anything to say really. Just wanted to brag about Vegas. I finished and handed in my project book (an assignment to make a book that basically just paraphrases all the things in the textbook). Here is my favorite page from my project book:

The Blues Brothers International Standard Chart