Hair dressers hear in negatives and do the positive.

During a consultation i experience that most customers speak in negative words when describing what they want: Examples are I don’t want you to cut my hair short. I don’t want the back long. And what happens? You got a hair cut that WAS cut too short or they did leave the back long.

There are reasons for this. The brain negates negatives and leaves the left overs. For you that means I (don’t) want my hair cut short will then mean to the stylist “I want my hair cut short”. Weird hey?

Hairdressers if they have been trained to listen instead of cut first will understand what you mean because they should repeat back to you what they are going to do in the terms of what they hear in their own professional language and then proceed on your hair cut once they feel that you both are on the same wavelength.

Before I became a hairdresser  I remember sitting in the chair so excited because I found someone to cut my hair. I stalked the mall and waited outside a salon and watched all the ladies who had thin hair like mine until I found someone wearing the hair that I liked. I stopped her and asked her if she could come back in to the salon and I could talk to the stylist and show her the hair cut that she just did on this lady and do it on my head.

Yeha!

As I am sitting in the chair “I don’t want any layers and I want a bob like that lady”… well guess what I got… YIKES. I cried for days not realizing some of it was my fault for telling her in negatives and positives and dang the SHORT chunky layers.

Unfortunately this is very normal and requires the stylist to LISTEN for those ques of negatives and do the opposites from what the brain is interpreting. Just like when a boss says … “BOB! Don’t be late”… and.. Bob is late for work…

So when you go into a salon and are having a consultation try being aware of the conversation before the hair is washed and cut. Do you feel she understands you?  Are you explaining with pictures and descriptions in words that don’t contain negatives (get it?? 

Also listen to the stylist word choice. What words does she choose to explain back to you as to what she is going to do for you. Is her words a reflection of yours? Does she understand you? If you are a detailed person try to find a stylist who has a tidy shop or station, see if they are organized and on time (most of the time anyways). I know these are generalities but this gives you an idea of thought processes of the stylist and the salon.

If you are an easy going person and want someone creative… does the hair dresser express themselves through their environment if it is a one chair salon? Do they express themselves through their clothes and how they present themselves.

Some hairdressers let their creative juices flow on the customers who develop that trustin them and they preform miracles when they can combine what they hear are the parameters and join their creative ideas together. Then you have some spicy hair.

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Hair for the academy award hair is simple, sleek, chique and elegant with a hint of tidy with 40′s Basic Glamour.
Hair is not big but has gentle volume. To give you a quick example picture a loopy bun.

Yes the bumpie is alive and somewhat more elegant than a plastic piece jammed into the hair.
For wedding hair and updo’s the main details for the hair is this:

Updo’s
1. Hair is smoothly backcombed with approximately 2 inches of height at the apex of the head, some fullness on the side but still fairly tight to the head (Helen Mirren)
2. There are a few elements of 60′s bouffant roller stetted curls (Sarah Jessica Parker)
3. Hair is not high on the head but sits further behind the back of the head above the occipital bone that circles around the head and mostly can not be seen from the front when looking head on.
4. Hair is loop like with a few detailed elements of twisted sections that sit on the surface of the hair.

Hair Styles
Hair is still glossy smooth with heavy side parts (Sandra Bullock)
Hair styles are simple simple simple classic hair.
There are a few boy hair cuts and styled smooth and pushed forward from the crown and then swept to the side.
Overall the hair styles are approximately shoulder length with very few layers.

Hair Color
Dark shimmery sheen for dark hair levels 1-4 with no highlights fuller deeper basic color with less dimension is very prominent. (Sandra Bullock)

For medium based hair in levels 5-7 hair has larger highlights underneath and then the highlights traverse into smaller and finer highlights on the top.

Light based levels 8-10 were not as apparent or a focus for many of the stars but there are a few such as Merryl Streep that have dainty blond highlights that are in the same family of tones as the base color.

Make-Up
Warm nude eye shadows with strong eyeliner but in browns so that it doesn’t overpower the eye. Blush and lips are very gentle colors that have that sun kissed golden look but with a touch of creamy color.

If you would like more advice about make-up or help with your style. Book an appointment now by calling 250-675-4713.

Chanel and Lanvin have encouraged the high messy bun. Think cinnamon roll on your head.  Tasty and fun. Add little dashes of decoration for the icing on top of the updo. And Voila you will be the the hostess with the mostess.

The simplest way to create this look is by brushing your hair upside down. Take a firm elastic band and secure a tight ponytail on top. Twist hair like a rope so that it is starting to turn on itself and secure with bobby pins. The best way to secure a boby pin is to slide the UNOPENED bobby pin on the sides around the up do gabbing a bit of hair then in a sharp angle (90 degrees) slide underneath the updo and scrap the scalp. Imagine that you are sewing the bobby pin in like the letter “L”. This should anchor the hair to the scalp. If placed properly and you have a medium amount of hair that is shoulder length the most boby pins you should need are 10- 12 max.. I can do my waist length hair in 5 bobby pins but it had taken a lot of practice to get it down to that amount.

For a great explanation and tutorial by Yves St Laurent

If you have any questions about hair let me know as I would love to answer them for you!