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YSL 2012: Cage barrette
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 […]
Posted: October 10th, 2011 ˑ No Comments
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Mourning Objects Made from Hair
I couldn’t resist posting about this although it definitely has some morbid undertones! is a designer who has worked with such creative talents as Alexander McQueen and Vivienne Westwood. She has boldly created a jewelry line made from hair and cremated ashes of dead loved ones. She calls them wearable body pieces which include human material. […]
Posted: October 6th, 2011 ˑ No Comments
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Watercolour Beauty Trends
Accessories designer and painter Marion Bolognesi continues to amaze me with her gorgeous watercolour paintings. Based out of Brooklyn New York, Marion’s illustrations have been used in movie posters, magazines, and printed clothing brands. Her recent project was a collaboration with Antoine Neufmars of Art Trend and Direction at Rouge Magazine in China to illustrate beauty trends. […]
Posted: October 5th, 2011 ˑ No Comments
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Hair and Jewellery Installation
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 […]
Posted: October 4th, 2011 ˑ No Comments
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Twin Shadow’s Clean Cuts Tour
Wednesday night we were lucky enough to have the musician/band Twin Shadow stop Vancouver to play a show at the Biltmore. We’re long time Twin Shadow fans and have posted about his albums before on this blog. George Lewis Jr (aka Twin Shadow), has fantastic style, is always rocking great hair and is a really […]
Posted: September 30th, 2011 ˑ No Comments
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Contessa 23 Finalists
The lucky Contessa 23 finalists have been announced. Join in the fun October 30th at the Gala Event in Toronto and see who wins. Canadian Hairstylist Véronique Beaupré, local B, Montreal John Jen Hoe Chong, Blunt Salon Inc., Edmonton Johnny Cupello, JC Salons, Toronto Alina Sulaiman Friesen, A Michael Levine Salon Group, Vancouver Edwin Johnston, […]
Posted: September 29th, 2011 ˑ No Comments
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The War On Drugs
Based out of Philadelphia, The War On Drugs offer up a momentous rock album full of surprises with their latest release “Slave Ambient”. This album will help get you and your clients pumped up in the salon. Lead vocalist Adam Granduciel combines a little bit of Springsteen and a little bit of Dylan with some […]
Posted: September 28th, 2011 ˑ No Comments
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Pump Up Your Retail
There are several things you can do when setting up the retail space in your salon to help entice clients to purchase more of your lovely hair products. Paco Underhill, owner of research and consulting firms and author of “Why We Buy“, has some great tips in his book on how you can increase your retail […]
Posted: September 22nd, 2011 ˑ No Comments
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World’s Largest Afro
Aevin Dugas of New Orleans is the proud owner of the world’s largest natural afro. Her gorgeous coif has a circumference of over four feet! Although she wouldn’t change a thing about her hair, it can sometimes be a challenge fitting her afro through some tights spaces! Check out the video below for more on […]
Posted: September 20th, 2011 ˑ No Comments
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Top 10 Worst Dressed Cities
According to a study conducted by GQ magazine and MSN Travel, Vancouver, the city where salonMonster HQ is has been voted 3rd worst city in the world. Why is this? MSN Travel had this to say: “There is one reason, and one reason only, why we’ve decided to include Vancouver on this list of […]
Posted: September 19th, 2011 ˑ No Comments
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