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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
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 … 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
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
Thakoon’s Spring/Summer 2012 collection runway for New York Fashion Week: “Don’t get too close!” warned an animated Odile Gilbert, holding up two blue hands. Anyone who did risked inhaling a cloud of clay powder she was peppering onto models’ heads. “Thakoon wanted color in the hair,” she explained. And color he got—blue, green, lilac, terra-cotta, … 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
The other day while reading Style Bubble, we came across this amazing looking presentation by Delfina Delettrez called ‘Love is in the Hair’ that we thought you all needed to see. It combines jewellery and wigs made by opera wig maestros in Rome to create the most astonishing and thought provoking pieces of art. We … Read more
One of the best Flickr pages we have come across of late here at salonMonster is created by a Portuguese salon called WIP Hairport. They have some of the coolest haircuts we have seen in a long time not to mention that it is such a simple concept for a page that anyone with the … Read more
Graham Clark has taken a very unique approach to painting – he paints pictures with his own beard, yes you read that correctly, he uses his beard as the paintbrush for his creative art. What started as a joke between friends, turned into a foray into art for Graham. He uses the sale of his … Read more