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American Salon Declares Their Choice Products
The results of the 2011 American Salon Professional’s Choice Awards are in! It is an . This is voted on by American Salon Magazine reader’s and these are the winner’s from each category. Tell us what you think about the choices in the comments. Anything you think they left out? Shampoo: Redken Color Extend Shampoo The […]
Posted: August 30th, 2011 ˑ No Comments
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More Hair Art
So here is yet again even more bizarre and wonderful hair art. This time it’s by Augustina Woodgate, an artist from Buenos Aires but working out of Miami. She spent four years collecting hair by setting up a mobile hairdressing station in numerous cities. Then she began creating all sorts of amazing things with it. […]
Posted: August 23rd, 2011 ˑ 1 Comment
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Hair Art
So here is the latest bit of hair art that we think needs to be shared. This is all art created by Gregory Euclide who uses many different materials to create is installations. In the one above he uses acrylic, baby’s breath, eurocast, fern, hair, hosta, moss, paper, sedum, sagebrush and wood. I won’t talk to […]
Posted: August 22nd, 2011 ˑ No Comments
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2011 British Hairdressing Awards Finalists Announced!
British Hairdressing Awards 2011 Finalists Announced Who will be The One? Hairdressers Journal International is delighted to announce the finalists for the nine regional and six specialist categories for the British Hairdressing Awards 2011. The British Hairdressing Awards, launched in 1984 by Hairdressers Journal International and sponsored by Schwarzkopf Professional, have celebrated and rewarded the […]
Posted: August 16th, 2011 ˑ No Comments
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Bjork Realeases First iPad App Album
Bjork, the always intersting and experimental singer from Iceland has released what would seem to be the world’s first album that is an iPad app. The app album is called Biophilia and only has a couple songs available as of right now including the single Crystalline but will be releasing at least two songs a […]
Posted: August 15th, 2011 ˑ No Comments
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Our thoughts are with you, London.
As the UK digs in and prepares to batten down the hatches for another night of widespread violence, it lifts hope to see so many Londoners on the streets this morning raising their brooms in unison and cleaning up their city. “Riots are about power, and they are about catharsis. They are not about poor […]
Posted: August 9th, 2011 ˑ No Comments
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Alexander McQueen Extravaganza!
Yesterday at the Met in New York what looked as though it must have been the coolest show of all time ended. It was the Alexander McQueen Savage Beauty exhibition. It celebrated and catologued McQueens incredible life as a designer. The exhibit was put on by The Costume Institute and the bulk of the clothes come from […]
Posted: August 8th, 2011 ˑ No Comments
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More Surface Collective!
When I was looking at the Surface Collectives site before my last post I managed to miss the fact that they have already decked out several salons in Vancouver where salonMonster is based out of. So I felt it would be a pity not to show a few of those salons and their use of […]
Posted: August 3rd, 2011 ˑ No Comments
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Wall Tattoos
Have you always wanted to have some cool art in your salon but no idea how to find something cheap enough? Well wall stickers or tattoos are an affordable and creative way to liven up any space. Surface Collective is one of our favourite makers of wall tattoos here at salonMonster. They make a whole […]
Posted: August 1st, 2011 ˑ No Comments
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His and Her’s Bow Ties!
So we recently discovered this amazing line of bow ties made by a company called Forage. They make limited runs of spectacular bow ties for both men and women. Forage is made up of two artists, Stephen Loidolt and Shauna Alterio who met in school in Kansas City and now work together in Philadelphia. Check […]
Posted: July 29th, 2011 ˑ No Comments
Filled under: Art, Colour, Design, Fashion