Sun, Summer, and Straw

Posted by Quinn in Summer Hair

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At no other time throughout the year does your skin look so delicious. It glows with a delicate kiss of the sun’s color and sheen of protective bronzers. It smells of coconut and citrus, tantalizing the taste buds enough to want to take a bite.

Your hard work at the gym throughout the year, wins great reward as each muscle, whether delicately formed or profoundly pronounced, moves like a wild cat as you stride the shoreline in: barely your essentials covered.

A summer wardrobe carefully selected to reveal your best features, catch breezes that leave little to the imagination, and colors you rarely wear in the dead of winter.

It’s difficult to look bad in the beauty of summer’s highlights. But what about your hair? Suddenly it has become more work then any other aspect of your personal grooming.

Humidity has become cause for more frequent ironing. The sun is bleaching your color to a faded resemblance of your color intention. Curly has gone frizzy, and straight has gone flat. Your ends are drinking your hair products faster then you are hydrating your body. If you are hiding gray roots with color, they seem to be exposing your secret every two weeks as the wind blows through your hair on boat, or on beach. Male or female; your hair has turned into straw!

Now, here in the salon we could give you numerous procedures to repair your dry sun bleached hair; we could suggest a whole host of fabulous retail products that will coat sooth and calm the residuals of your relaxing summer, soaking enough vitamin D to carry you through a chunk of the winter months; but we are not.  It is all going to return to this state again next summer. And you know what? It’s hair! It grows, and in fact, the interesting fact is, that it even grows after we decease.

So! The best advice we can give to you; enjoy your summer, do what you already know to do. Perhaps just a little more often. Oil it into a braid, slick it back with some silicon protector, let it dry curly with an extra handful of conditioner dried into the curls, and when all else fails; there are a whole host of fabulous summer hats you should be using anyways to protect your face from wrinkling in the sun!

Our best beauty shop advice is for you to enjoy life’s fleeting moments, give your hair a break, and then bring it back to us at the end of summer. We will work our magic so you will never know it went awry while you were busy making memories!

Hairdressers For A Cause!

Posted by Quinn in Charity, Storytelling, TV series

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                         Gossip,
                               Gossip,
                                      and More Gossip!
                                               Hairdressers hear it all, and now they are telling it all. 

Nothing entertains more, than to hear the array of stories told in the beauty salon chair. 
Thirty years a hairdresser, now author, Robin Q Daumit claims she offered her ear more times than her talent. Stories of romance, love, and sex were among the many topics heard.

Bursting with stories to tell, she knew the time had come to step away from the chair and take on the hot seat of story telling. The collection of short stories in Confessions of a Hairdresser are all true and sure to make you laugh, cry, and encounter the unexpected. 

These juicy stories were heard by only one hairdresser, but on the final page of her book she does something rare in the business of 'book writing', she prints an invitation to other hairdressers to join in on the exciting art of story telling. An enticement is posted to others in the beauty industry to submit a short story of their own to add to the collection of 'Confessions'. The possibilities of what readers will hear, are endless!

In response to the invitation, one reader, Sandra Grifo Montimurro, submits this comment:
"What a great way to keep it going and involve others to share their stories - It's so vital and important to show and tell our stories because that is what weaves us together in community! - I LOVE YOUR CONCEPT!!"


But Weaving Communities Together Doesn't Stop There...

2% of all profit from Confessions of a Hairdresser sales are donated to Education For Life (EFL), a Charity- Foundation from Intercoiffure Mondial (The World's Elite Hairdressers - Paris, Tokyo, London, Rome, New York, Berlin). The goal of EFL is to build and support trade schools in the beauty industry for underprivileged youth who have only known a life of poverty on the streets. Currently 4 are flourishing in Brazil, 1 in Bosnia, and 1 in Bolivia. A scholarship program right here in America is also  part of the 'Teach them to Fish' concept for youth who have only known life on the streets. 

"Give a man a fish; you have fed him for today. Teach a man to fish; and you have fed him for a lifetime" 

The beauty industry is a lucrative, satisfying, and exciting way to support a personal life style, and has become the largest known network of people continuously in direct contact with the public, therefore providing a voice that weaves throughout any given community. 


Hairdressers, Manicurists, Estheticians, Massage Therapists:   
Pick Up your copy today at Amazon, and indulge yourself in the laughter, the familiarity, and the joy of being a part of this wonderful business; and then follow the guidelines for submitting one of your favorite stories to be published, - With Your Name/Salon In Print - and become a vital contributor to the tapestry we, in the beauty industry, are weaving to save lives and capture stories everyone will want to read!
Who knows, maybe a wise television producer will realize that we have created a fabulous storyboard for a television series!! 

Readers... 
Give A Copy To Your Hairdresser...
after you have read yours, and enjoy the fulfillment of knowing you have made your contribution to getting underprivileged youth off the streets, and made a permanent friend with your hairdresser. (Imagine how much faster you will secure your appointments!) 

But be careful what stories you tell your hairdresser. It might end up in print ;)