A business journal for independent beauty pros, by salonMonster
These inspiring large scale drawings were created by Hong Chun Zhang. Hong was born and raised in China surrounded by a very artistic family. Searching for more creative freedom, she moved to America to expand her fine arts education. Hong created these drawings using charcoal and graphite. Her work has been exhibited internationally and she is … Read more
I’m always looking to promote handmade/handcrafted items so I thought I’d share with you some of my recent hair accessory finds on etsy. It’s a great place to source out unique original pieces for your salon, clients, or yourself! The beautiful crown bobby pin pictured above is made by Alpine Gypsy located right here in Vancouver … Read more
Thelma Madine, the seamstress and dressmaker from the UK’s hot show My Big Fat Gypsy Wedding has created another bizarre masterpiece. This time it is made out of 250 metres of human hair and is valued at over 50, 000 pounds or a little over 78, 000 US dollars. Thelma had a team of dress … Read more
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, … Read more
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 … Read more
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). … Read more
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 … Read more
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 … Read more
These amazing Hair Hats created by Japanese artist Nagi Noda are from a few years ago, but hats made to look like animals made from hair are just to way too cool to be left in the past. Nagi Noda was a Tokyo director of music videos and commercials. Three years have now passed since her … Read more
Backstage at Yves St-Laurent 2012 Stefano Pilati-designed gold hair cages: Slicked-back wet-look hairstyles: from vogue.com: ” If last year’s must-have accessory was the YSL cage bootie, this season’s statement piece may be the cage barrette. Palau fastened the large metal hair ornaments, made of stiff concave gold bands anchored to an oblong base, over his … Read more