Summer is carzy....sorry for no posts! I promise I will do better!!! More to come!!!

Bleach it once it's blonde...bleach it twice, it's gone!

QUESTION:
If you aren't supposed to bleach over hair twice, than how do you re-touch or bleach out the re-growth???



Simple.



You simply apply bleach to ONLY the regrowth without overlapping on the already bleached hair. If you have more than one color weaved in your hair than your colorist should to be careful to make sure she is only applying bleach to the roots that have been bleached, and color to the roots that have been colored......Sounds hard, to hand pick out all of the different colors and apply the appropriate color or bleach to the re-growth, doesn't it?!?!?!?......

well, it is......

and that, Ladies and gentlemen is why you pay your stylist a good chunk of change to make you pretty!!!!!...........because he/she absolutely deserves it!!!!!


-Jami

Big Girl Hair!

I see a ton of darling little kids who are growing up and are in need of a "big kid" hair cut that isn't too grown up or too high maintenance. I will be referring to little girls during this post because little boys have it way easy when it comes to maintaining a low maintenance do. Little girls are a bit more work. Mom usually is the one who is styling their hair and because mom's (at least the ones I know) are way busy, they need something that will look cute, style easy, and stay nice even after a hard time spent at recess.


So, I have 2 suggestions that you could adjust or alternate according to your own liking;

My first being a beveled layered, shoulder length style.

This darling little girl is BRIAR. She has a mom who leaves early in the morning for work which means dad is responsible for getting her ready for school before he leaves to work himself. This hair style can be washed and round brushed the night before, slept on and still look good for the next morning. It is lightly layered at the ends and around the face which means less curling of layers, and you can still pull it back in a pony tail! which is always a bonus!!! The bang is left longer to blend in better with the longer layers and to avoid falling in the eyes.

Next suggestion is an: A-LINE BOB

There are many variations to an A-line Bob. You can stack it in the back, create a drastic angle or a more subtle angle, texturize it heavily or leave it more blunt. There are a million different ways to adjust this classic cut.


The reason I favor this cut for young girls is because, it is indeed a classic. Bob's have been around forever, and that is all for good reason. A bob is a low maintenance style that always look good, even after a hard days playing and running it will still maintain it's shape and style. It is a very low maintenance hair style. Wash and round brush, or curl under with a curling iron. That's it!!!!!


There is one catch with this haircut, you might not be able to pull it back it in a pony tail depending on how short you decide to go. But other than that it is a no brainer!








Cute ASHLEY has had gorgeous long hair for as long as I have known her. She always looks darling and has had fun wearing her long hair in fun different ways. But her and her mom came in ready for a change. Ashley was ready for a more grown up cut, and so we decided to go with a lightly stacked, shoulder length, A-line Bob. And it turned out awesome, she looked so cute (and so grown up!!!!)











***An A-Line is also a great cut for fine hair. It will give the impression of fullness and body because of the shorter layering in the back which gives volume and height to the crown. It also doesn't require much hair product use so it won't way hair down either.


-Jami

Summer = Highlights

A lot of my clients choose to highlight their hair right as the weather is warming, which makes sense because the sun naturally highlights our hair anyway. That is why we always see children with a perfect head of highlights!!!! (too bad you can't bottle that)

Highlights are a great way to add some sass to your hair, whether they be bright, pale blonde, and bold, or golden, subtle and soft. Here is an example highlights I gave to Whitney. She had dark long hair, I gave her chunky highlights and then glazed them over to calm them down so they weren't so bold. It turned out gorgeous!!!!

Dark, with small highlights

light, with chunky, heavy highlights

side profiles

***Treat highlighted hair with care. Bleaching hair tends to make it dry and more susceptible to breakage so use a good moisturizer and deep condition it twice a week. Avoid bleaching over hair that has already been bleached, this is a sure way to cause breakage and irreparable damage. We had a saying in hair school that said, "if you bleach it once, it's blonde, bleach it twice, it's gone!"

I don't know about you, but I would like to keep my hair.

-Jami

I'm a sucker for a Faux Hawk

Meet, Logan.

A cute and handsome young man. He has had his hair long and shaggy for sometime now. So when he was bored with it I offered the idea of Faux (pronounced "foe") Hawk. I love the Faux Hawk because it is trendy and short but still can look clean cut with a bit of an edge.

Before I cut his hair I highlighted it not only for the obvious reasons to add contrast with highlights, but more to change the texture of his hair. Logan has very fine hair, by highlighting it, it swells the cuticle and gives hair body, to help it stay in place and be more manageable.








-JAMI

Smokey Eyes..... fun with make-up!

I love the look of "smokey eyes" and have had a request to do a tutorial on how to achieve them.

So I will show you how to achieve "smokey eyes", done Jami style. I don't like it looking to "racoony" but prefer it more subtle.

Step 1

I always start by applying cover-up to my eyelids and underneath my eye. This creates a consistent tone to work with. Eyelids are thin skin and can appear inconsistent and blotchy.

Step 2

Apply eyeliner to the inner part of the eyelid, both upper lid and bottom lid, this is called the water-line of your eye. It is where your eyelid touches your eyeball. I recommend, MAC's eyeliner specifically made for the water line. It is called Khol eyeliner. It prevents bleeding into the eyeball which can cause irritation. * Be sure to line all the way around your eye including near your tear duct.

Step 3

Black out your eyelid by applying a dark color from the rim of the upper eyelid to the crease of the eyelid. I used Mirabella's cake make-up in burnt umber. * Cake make-up is a water based makeup that you wet first to apply. You can apply it thin for lighter colors, or thick to make it darker. Think of it is as "watercolor" for your eyes.

Step 4

Apply a dark brown eye shadow in the crease of your lid. Also apply a darker color of eye shadow,(Black or burnt umber) eye shadow in the corner of your eyelid.

Step 5

Apply a dark eye shadow just along the bottom lid, concentrating more of it in the corner. Then smudge by using your finger tip or a Q-tip.

Step 6

Apply a glitzy eye shadow in the crease of your lid. Either sparkly or metallic, something that reflects light and catches the eye. I used MAC's gold dust. Also apply mascara to both upper lashes and lower lashes.

Finished Product

* when wearing bold make-up on your eyes, such as "smokey-eyes" be sure to wear a very subtle lip color. Only accent one feature at a time when being so bold, otherwise you will look like a drag queen... (if you are a drag queen.....scratch that last sentence) ;0)

-Jami

From Blonde to Brown

Jordan is my sweet and beautiful friend who has been blonde for years now. She is naturally medium brown but has been able to pull off a heavily weaved blond pretty well. Her hair has taken a beating though for it, with the highlighting and the use of a flat-iron. It was time for a change and to get back to healthy hair.

Because she has breakage around her face, we decided to cut off the length in the back of her hair so it would blend better with her sides.

I then "filled" her hair with a warm orange-red, based brown to replace all the missing pigments in her hair before coloring it the desired color. I also randomly selected to add a few highlights and re-touched some of her bleach so I could then glaze over the top of the high-lights to give her 2 dimensions in her hair instead of just a solid brown.

(P.S. Jordan was very kind to let me take her photo's but made me promise to mention that she had not done her hair this day and had it thrown back in a pony-tail hee,hee,hee)

The back of her hair was way longer than the sides due to breakage.

Here is the end result.....

Brunette & Beautiful, as always.

*The only way to "fix" breakage and split ends is to cut them off. It doesn't matter what anyone says, once your ends are split, that is it! Even professional hair products claim they can "fix" split ends. It is a bunch of crap. They can help, smooth, add moisture and protein etc..... but if your hair is breaking and splitting, you will need someone to take shears to it!!!!

That is why I suggest a trim every 8 to 12 weeks (depending how hard you are on your hair) This may sound like a lot of trims, especially for those of you (like me) who are trying to grow your hair out. But ist is better to cut 1/8th of an inch off your ends every 8 - 12 weeks then 4-6 inches off your hair every 6 months to a year.