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Super stylist Peter Gray
If you haven’t come across the work of Peter Gray before then you’re in for a treat. Peter is an internationally renowned hairdresser who has worked with fashion greats such as Maison Martin Margiela, Vivienne Westwood, Junya Watanabe and Hermès and magazines including Vogue, Harper’s Bazaar and Numéro. Peter rose to fame in the nineties working […]
Posted: December 16th, 2011 ˑ No Comments
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Tumblin’
We’ve been a little obsessed with Tumblr.com recently, cruising it for visual inspiration. So, we thought it was time we joined the club and set up our own Tumblr. Meet salonMonster.Tumblr.com where we will be posting inspirational images as we stumble across them. We’re always hunting the web for visual treats and this is a […]
Posted: December 9th, 2011 ˑ No Comments
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Flying hair
Check out this stunning slow-motion video of Lilly Donaldson’s flying hair that we found over at Nowness.com. It is totally incredible to see all the movement and beauty hidden away in what is just two seconds of video stretched out to just under two minutes. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L_Y_Q9zinss For those of you who don’t know Lilly, she is […]
Posted: December 2nd, 2011 ˑ No Comments
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Stephen and Lucy Marr’s fabulous glasshouse
The Selby has been doing some incredible photo shoots with hair stylists from around the globe recently. They give such a wonderful insight into the personal lives of some of the world’s hair superstars. This week they have posted a terrific peek into the garden and glasshouse of Stephen and Lucy Marr in Auckland, New […]
Posted: November 25th, 2011 ˑ No Comments
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Blown away
I was totally blown away by this cool bright yellow hair dryer chandelier that I came across on ReadyMade.com. They said it was from a salon but didn’t list which one, so I started doing a bit of digging on the inter webs. I tracked it down to The Dry Bar, originally from Brentwood California, […]
Posted: November 20th, 2011 ˑ 1 Comment
Filled under: Design, Salon Design -
White Wonderland
I absolutely love the beautiful use of all the different layers of white at Kilico hair salon Tokyo, Japan. It’s so crisp and refreshing. Designed by Makoto Yamaguchi, the salon is built in the basement of a building in the very trendy Daikanyama area. Rather than tearing everything out and starting from scratch Makato chose […]
Posted: November 18th, 2011 ˑ No Comments
Filled under: Design, Salon Design -
Manly hair ad
A really clever video ad by Mankind Grooming out of Toronto. I wish more salons made cool ads! Click through to watch the video.
Posted: November 11th, 2011 ˑ 1 Comment
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Classic Braun Hairdryers
I’m a huge fan of classic Braun products and in particular the work of Dieter Rams who was their chief of design from 1961 to 1995. I find his “less but better” design approach very inspiring and would recommend everyone read his Ten principles of “good” design” (Vistoe has a good summary of them here). […]
Posted: November 4th, 2011 ˑ No Comments
Filled under: Colour, Design, Tools -
We have buttons!
We’re excited to announce that our first batch of salonMonster buttons has arrived from Six Cent Press. We’ve been pinning them to everything we can get our hands on here at salonMonster headquarters. We’d like to share the button love. Would you like a salonMonster button? Just send me an email at stephen (at) salonmonster.com […]
Posted: October 30th, 2011 ˑ No Comments
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A Fresh New Look
We’re excited to announce a fresh new look for the salonMonster blog. We’ve updated it to a much more aesthetic and tasty-looking format. Instead of the page being consumed by a single long article it now sports a selection of posts from the last week in a more digestible layout. We hope you like the […]
Posted: October 28th, 2011 ˑ 1 Comment
Filled under: Design, salonMonster