THE INDEPENDENT CHAIR

Japanese artist Takaya Hanayuishi uses very unique items to create these incredible headpieces.  Using fruit, vegetables, and flowers, these creations are used in live performance pieces, photo shoots,  and weddings. Originally studying culinary arts, Takaya started working with plants and food in 2004.  He calls his work “unity of human and nature”.  After arranging these … Read more

Happy Holidays from the team at salonMonster. Wishing you and your families all our very best. We’re going to take a short blogging break while we focus on overeating for the next few days, but we’ll be back on the 28th.

  In case you don’t already know him, let me introduce you to the “master of Haute Coiffure” and celebrity stylist, Charlie Le Mindu. From his slightly controversial runway shows, to his extravagent wig designs and famous roster of clients, Charlie knows hair.     Charlie was born in France, where he started cutting and styling … Read more

  If you’re looking for some hair inspiration, you may want to check out the book Hair’em Scare’em by Robert Klanten. Published in 2010, this book is 219 pages of full on avant garde eye candy for hair. Covering great trends in hair outside the mainstream, there’s sure to be something in this book that catches your … Read more

These extremely unique necklaces were created by 23 year old art student Kerry Howley who lives in London. Taking inspiration from damask wallpaper patterns, Kerry titled her hair art piece Attraction/Aversion. Inspired by peoples aversion to cut hair, Kerry used her mother’s friend’s cut hair and spent over 60 hours working on each of the five … Read more

So this has been floating around for a bit and many of you may have seen this already but I thought that Cosmetologists could benefit from it. It’s called 23 and 1/2 Hours and it’s about trying to minimize how much time you spend sitting. The statistics are crazy and way beyond what I would … Read more

Here’s a beautiful holiday music video from one of my favourite Canadian bands Diamond Rings. I’ve blogged about them before (and how awesome their album is to play in the salon) and thought I’d share this video of  John O playing piano at home over the  holidays singing Give It Up. I wish he’d come to … Read more