Cutting Curly Hair Methods
"Learning to artistically cut and groom curly and over-curly hair presents a challenge to the well-trained barber-stylist". a quote from the Standard Textbook of Professional Barber-Styling, Milady Standard revised 1983. To do this a stylist needs...
What does Edge Control Do?
You might have seen the infinite number of women on and off social media who suddenly developed numerous baby hairs around their hairlines. They talked about “laying” their edges and you wondered what does edge control do? If you haven’t tried it,...
Starting Dreadlocks With Short Hair
Dreadlocks have certainly come a long way from being rebellious to maybe the most popular hairstyle around! The last 10 years has also brought a large number of people who are starting dreadlocks with short hair. How does a style that could get you...
How Do You Keep Natural Hair From Frizzing in Humidity
It’s July and Ottawa, Canada, is the humidity capital of the world! All the ladies with super curly hair are asking how do you keep natural hair from frizzing in humidity. Isn’t it glorious to have regular stuff to complain about after that...
When To Wash Dreadlocks For The First time
People behave differently based on how they were brought up and when I make dreads for a new client, one of the questions that come up is when to wash dreadlocks for the first time. Over my career in hairstyling, I have spoken with clients who wash their hair...
Unprecedented Growth of Hair
While the quarantine changed the lives of everyone, some in a challenging way, one of the good things that I found came out of it was the unprecedented growth of hair. I have clients that for years swore they were doing right by their hair, yet it...
Importance Of Eating The Right Kind Of Food
Being quarantined and living on a tight budget, many people had to decide what was essential and this made them consider for the first time, the importance of eating the right kind of food. While everything was normal, buying that burger and fries was a...
Hanging On By A Thread
Hair salons are allowed back to work and whew! it was just in time because I think most of us were hanging on by thread! If the Premier had extended the emergency measures once more I would have had to do a sit in outside his offices! There is only...
Hair: Its Power And Meaning
t has been an emotional last two weeks with lots of turmoil and angst which led me to think about hair: its power and meaning. I did so because the last time there was this much upheaval on this grand scale was during the 1960s Civil Rights Movement....
How To Look Good On Video Conferencing
The authorities may have put my salon on lock down but in staying active in my other business I was having challenges on how to look good on video conferencing. I admire video influencers because I know how much work they put in to look fabulous all...