Shear Over Comb

For many of us, beauty school does not teach us much about the different ways to cut men's hair. I believe I got maybe a day or two of basic men's design and then spent the rest of my time PRAYING that I did not get one of our very few male clients in my chair. My prayers were not answered and I sweated through maybe 2 men's haircuts before I was sent into the real world to make Tacoma's hair dreams come true.

Turns out, I'm quite a natural when it comes to men's design. I'm a wiz with the clipper/trimmer combo and learned very quickly that men's haircuts aren't as scary as beauty school would have you believe.

This is James. In the time that I've been cutting his hair, he has kept it on the longer side in a shaggy, almost surfer kind of cut and every variation of the sort. Today, he sat down and said "short" and I immediately went into visual identification mode. We looked through pictures, decided on a length and this is what we came up with. I took his sides up first by cutting most of the bulk and the went in to clean and shape it up with the "shear over comb" method, texturized with my razor and styled him with Davines' Wonder Wax in the Defining line. With James' hair being the texture that it is, I chose to use my shears to avoid the effect that clippers can have textures like his.

After declaring me a "Master" of what I do, James let me snap a few pics and then left with a very big smile on his face.

Thank you for the adventure James!!! This + listening to Earth, Wind and Fire radio on Spotify had made my day!!

An Ombre Is Forever and So Is Good Hair

This is Dawn. If you are an Instagram-er and follow me, first I must high five you then must mention that this is the second time she has popped up on "The Grams". Months ago, Dawn decided that she wanted the look of her hair to be lighter but didn't want the upkeep of a retouch every 6 weeks. What better way to accomplish that than with an AWESOME Ombre?

Since then, we've taken up a bit of the length, freshened up her layers and have been just retouching her color in the root. Beautiful right?!?

After her last appointment, I sent Dawn home with a few products and when she came back in yesterday I noticed a significant different in her hair. It was softer, easier to work with and a cinch to blow dry. At the shampoo bowl I kept saying, "Your hair feels good!! So much healthier!!" I couldn't get over it!! Ha!!

She cleanses and conditions her hair 2-3 times a week alternating between Energizing Shampoo and Nourishing Shampoo and conditioning with Nourishing Vegetarian Miracle. After I finished blowdrying her with Oi and Melu Shield Spray, she looked in the mirror and said "My hair is shiny!! I've never had shiny hair!!" Spectacular right?!?

It's amazing what using good product can do and the blessing of being able to work with Davines has changed the hair and lives of my clients... It's changed my life too!! The fact that I can stand in front/behind my client and know that the product I'm using it going to do what it says it does without compromising the integrity of the hair is so fulfilling as a stylist!! It makes me happy, my clients are ecstatic and everyone's hair is a better strand for it.

Thank you Davines!! You're helping hair that has never had shine be the best strand of hair it can possibly be!!