modern experiments in urban camouflague

modern experiments in urban camouflage: lightstyling@gmail.com

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20111211

influential hair stylist part ii progress

i've decided that i want to combine this guido palau
design with one of bleach's dip dye inspired shades:

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influential hair stylist part ii

a while back, i wrote some words about how guido palau has shaped
my hair dreams for beauty school. we've been assigned to express
this personal connection through a styling design.

in terms of color, this is where my brain is sleeping.
i call this palette spearmint lagoon:


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i wish i could tell you what these images are. i've borrowed them from
well dressed for the apocalypse, a tumblr i like quiet a lot.

20111129

beauty school daze: model citizens

this has happened a couple of times. i scramble to find a model
for a really simple haircut assignment (which is a hard sell in
these non-winter/winter times) & then i reach out to an old
friend at the last minute, who i'm sure will not be available
because they're busy bees, but then they instantly say yes!

check it out! mindy was my one-length model & i finished
without poking her in the eye with my shears. victory!

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& today i gave yz a soft a-line bob without stabbing her
in the neck. also, a massive career accomplishment.

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20111125

beauty school day #215: prince gets a perm

i love curls, i love perms & i'm sad that people are afraid
of them. they get a bad-rap because they're pretty high on
the risk scale in terms of compromising the integrity of the
hair. but as I troll the nyc streets for bob models, what do
i hear? nobody wants a classic bob, they want mermaid hair,
a.k.a. long, curly hair. perms are back, only they're not
calling the services perms, they're calling them texture.

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i was thinking something brian may-meets-lindsay lohan - circa
2007 miu miu campaign, because i like those triangular silhouettes.

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20111121

beauty school day #213: the natives

we were instructed to design an updo in honor of
thanksgiving. we all ended up tribal, attracted to the
ornamental & brightly-lit possibilities. can you guess
which one is mine?

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i was running on fumes, wasn't inspired. somehow i ended up
making something aquatic: "octopus-meets-jem wig-on-wig action,"
in which i managed to make artificial hair look like the natural
hair & the natural hair look like artificial hair. i like this
idea of giant-squid-hair, in which the 'do looks like it is
attacking the rest of the body.

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20111117

beauty school day #211: pvn makeover

my beauty school mannequin prince valentino nonsalon was fried
after all of the recent lowlights, highlights, speed-foils
partial & single process color assignments. yesterday we were
instructed to conduct a makeover. his current cut was a 90-degree
round layer state board shape gone awry + his color was a variety
of copper shades.


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i originally planned to execute a simple a-line bob, but it
somehow turned into a much more complicated cut with soft
graduation. i wanted to maintain warmth but eliminate most
of the orange that dominated his color. i went to a darker
golden brown neutral mix that kept warmth, but made the red
an after-thought more than a headliner.

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20111022

pc rae made me do it

my pal pc rae + i have an annual day out during the last leg of cmj music marathon. an oxford-based entertainment management mastermind, pc wrangles snake charmers like chad valley & jonquil. we ate bad diner food + trolled broadway for gentlemanly brogues & over-designed gigolo wear. pc's fashion laser beams spotted this gem first. "if you're not going to buy that I WILL!!" i spout. it is like someone threw-up logos all over some polyester + stitched some zippers on it. MAGIC.

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20111005

elderflower: lightest blonde with hints of mint

actually, she's just platinum + it's the lighting that makes
her locks look slightly green. i'd like to think that the green
is actually there. for the longest time i thought, "i'd dye my
hair any color except green," but my interest in developing 7up,
sprite, lemony-lime hues grows more everyday.

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20111002

janer stewart j'dore collection

i hate hair magazines. fashion magazines have the versatility to sell
everything from sex, style, to toothpaste, while hair magazines are
only selling shine. what happens is there is the creation of a gap
from overdetermined hair while everything else in the picture
ultimately fails. there is no conceptual continuity. there is no sign
of effective strategy. it is simply top heavy. the hair will be
fantastic, but the model isn't selling it, and the stylist should be
burnt at the stake. something about the lighting, the amount of sterile
gloss, it is hokey, but then, sometimes it is not. bravo janer stewart.

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20111001

haider ackermann spring 2012 rtw

menswear drapery in female context.
so androgynous, so comfortable.

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