Everyone knows how big an image shift a simple haircut can make… But nobody personifies this better than one of the coolest people ever: DOCTOR WHO!
David Tennant - Before
DOCTOR WHO!
This was really just an excuse to post pictures of David Tennant. I’m not gay, but I would totally pretend for David. /swoon
I got my first tip!
From a nice older lady, with 100% grey hair that was quite curly (she’s lucky, all the other old ladies keep getting perms to get their gray hair to curl). She had some pretty severe “wings” above her ears – something I am very familiar with, since my hair is curly as well. I was a bit uneasy at first when it came to texturizing her hair to fight the wings, and give her more volume in the temples and crown, because I have no experience with it whatsoever. But it turned out great, her wings became a nonissue! What really helped was that her hair was drying quite fast, so the natural curl was starting to show through, and I could quite clearly see what needed to be done where.
A tiny bit of work with my texturizing shears (not very much at all, since her hair was so fine and thin) in the indentation area of the “wings” below the temple evened the hair texture out nicely and stopped the hair from flipping out.
We all had little girls to style today too, a Big Sisters program was scheduled to come in at 1. (Big Sisters is a program where 11-13 year old girls hang out with younger girls who aren’t…well, having a great life so far.)
They showed up at about 1:40, leaving us 20 minutes to style/updo all the little girls before our next clients got here. O.O
I was super lucky to get a girl with a short, slightly graduated bob. And even more lucky that she knew exactly what was going on – she sat down in my chair and said “Ok, so we only have 20 minutes so you can’t afford to do a full head of ringlets. You got a straightener? Ok good. Just straighten my hair.”. I asked her if she wanted it a bit wavy and she said that would be great, so I just did some super quick flat iron waves, finished with a shine wax to define strands and ends, and she was happy. Thank you fate, for sending me the short haired girl!
And finally… A guy came in wanting to look like Edward Cullen:
James Dean Light (With 80% Less James Dean!)
The guy didn’t have that much hair to work with. He was about halfway to toupee-town (that’s as nice as I can phrase it), but he really knew what he wanted, and was sticking to his guns, so I did my best. He was happy with it. But inside… All I could see was:
Steve Buscemi
How awesome would it be if Steve Buscemi played Edward Cullen though? I’d totally be into Twilight then.
Well we took Sam down to a flat top (EW!) and a fade (DOUBLE EW!) in class… Poor Sam, he’s so ugly now.
I was surprised that the other girls in the class had a very hard time doing the flat top, because to me it seems like the easiest (although ugliest) thing you could do to hair. They also had a hard time trimming his beard into a style. I think maybe it’s just a guy thing – I’ve have more clipper experience. The girls in class kick my ass at girl hair styling, with curlers and whatnot, because they’ve had more experience with those things. (Or at least, that’s what I tell myself…)
Hey look, it's K-Fed!
Check out the big disc of hair just behind Sam’s apex – they went crazy putting hair in that one spot, and then put thin hair all over the rest of him. lol
I really like cutting men’s hair. It’s too bad most men don’t want to go to a male stylist. But oh well, in the town I live in all I’d be able to do anyway is an endless series of faux hawks.
They love the faux hawks here. It’s like the official town haircut.
Today we highlighted Sam’s hair again – this time with an ugly (in my opinion) application to the tips, and also with the “shoe shine” technique. Very 90′s looking. We used Ex-Lite w/ 30 Volume developer and tried to lift it as much as we could. Then we put a 7.4 demi-permanent color all over his head, which darkened the highlights some and added a slight orangey copper tinge to everything.
We also did a medium gradation on the back, up to the occipital area, using shears over comb, and blended in with taper shears over comb around the ridge line/weight area. In my case I went through and trimmed his interior a bit with some heavy notching, and removed the corners from an early (ugly!) cut.
Monday is our first male cut on a model. W00t!
More work on Samuel, our guy mannequin. Here’s his first cut:
A bit silly if you ask me. (Might be the mustache though. We were supposed to trim it off when we trimmed the bear, but Samuel was adamant that his ‘stache stay.)
And the second cut:
This one was a planar/uniform cut. The interior sculpted on a plane above his head, and the sides/back above the occipital bone were done with…well…kind of planar…? I’m a little confused on that actually. We cut it planar but people still kept calling it uniform… The nape was uniform anywhoo.
