First Haircut

Because I'm a hairstylist I admit to being a bit crazy about A's hair. I mean, I was thrilled when I saw her for the very first time and she had a head full of dark hair. I was in denial when it began falling out and ever since then I've pretty much been waiting for it to grow. But it's a slow process. I have watched it grow a bit and get really curly, which I love. I have watched the back get longer and longer and her hairstyle look more and more like a mullet. I have been waiting for the opportunity to give her a real haircut, but there seemed to be nothing to cut.

Lately the long part in the back had started to become annoying. It was getting in the way of zippers and tying her bib up. I decided it was time. Time for the first haircut. Before her bath I buckled her into her booster, sat her in front of 'Elmo's World' and got to work. She was totally oblivious to my spraying water on her head, combing and cutting. So much better than I thought she'd be. I think all toddlers should have their hair cut while watching 'Elmo's World'.

I basically cut off all the long straggly hairs that weren't uniform with the rest. And I cut off about an inch of the long stuff in the back. The end result was a cute little afro pixie cut. This morning when she woke up it had straightened out a lot and I thought she looked a bit boyish and I was having regrets. But after spraying it with some water again and looking at her all day I really like it. I'm hoping now that it is even it will grow even better and more quickly. But I really have my doubts that I'll have to cut it again any time soon. Perhaps before she graduates from highschool...

More Work

Okay. Now I am tired. And the bad news. I start my work week today.

Last night I went to work again and did my second model's hair for her photo shoot. And then afterwards I had to color it back to 'normal'. Normal being not, purple and blue. Fair enough.

I got off easy because my model is wicked awesome at doing makeup and she was able to do it WAY better than I ever could have. I thought these pictures turned out pretty awesome too. I was lucky to have such great models to work with.

Working For Fun

I spend a good part of my Sunday and Monday working this week. And not getting paid for any of it. You see I'm entering this competition. It's put on by the company whose color we use at the salon I work at. Here is the website. Click English (duh!) and then Trends on the grey bar at the top, then Trendzoom 2007. I did hair for both looks but these are the pictures from Nomadic Freedom, so click on that one.

I forgot to take a picture before I shampooed my model. But you get the idea. The last few pictures were taken after the photo shoot. We wrapped yarn around her body which looked really cool in the pictures but was a bugger to unravel again!










Anyway, I was really happy with how everything turned out. Both of my models are fabulous. I'm doing a photo shoot with my second model tonight. Then back to the work that I get paid to do tomorrow. And it's going to be a heck of a week too.