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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. […]

October 5th, 2011

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 […]

October 4th, 2011

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 […]

September 30th, 2011

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, […]

September 29th, 2011

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 […]

September 28th, 2011

Fantastic Salon Flickr Page

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 […]

September 27th, 2011

TSA Hair Pat-downs

I’m about a month late on this one, but the New York Times has an interesting article about TSA hair pat downs in US airports. It sounds like there have been a couple of instances recently where TSA agents have singled out travellers with naturally large hair for special hair pat-downs even though they did […]

September 23rd, 2011

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 […]

September 22nd, 2011

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 […]

September 20th, 2011

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 […]

September 19th, 2011

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