Whew what a crazy few weeks! Since it has been longer then intended I figured I'd check in with all of you. Between working in the salon and LA FASHION WEEKEND things have been a little nutty.
In the salon: Every Friday we have an old client tat comes in and its her "social hour" which is really a few hours. She comes in for a treatment and blow dry but stays for hours talking to anyone she can. I think I've mentioned her in the past. Well every week she insists on telling me that in her day they didn't have sunscreen and she now has all of these medical issues and I should never forget to wear sunscreen. She also thinks I am the most fashionable person on the planet and for those of you who know me knows she probably doesn't get out very much! Every time I wear a hat she says "oh I love that scarf. When I was your age we used to wear scarves on our heads like that". I try and calmly tell her that it's a hat and she laughs at me and says "oh it is? you are just so fashionable. you are the only person who can pull that off". Now i know she is old and delusional!!!
We have another old client who has been known to be....well not the nicest. The first time I met her I said a proper hello and greeted her with a big smile. She proceeded to purse her lips at me (like she just ate a lemon) and nod her head. She refused to say a word to me. I knew I was in for it. So I decided I will win her over :) It has become like a game! The second time she came in I greeted her with a smile said " Hello are you having a good day?". Her response (hey at least she responded) was "Honey, I never have a good day" (picture old, ex jewish new york woman). Let the game begin!!! So I have been working on her week after week, I've been hearing her war stories of how she has made people cry or told them they would be beautiful if they didn't put tattoos on their bodies. Needles to say the last couple of times she has come in she has smiled at me, thanked me an actually been somewhat kind to me. I am waiting for the shoe to drop at any moment and I will be very prepared. If my next blog is tear soaked you'll know why :)
LA FASHION WEEKEND: What a very long 3 days. I did hair for designers like Betsey Johnson, Karen Capili, Kelly Nishimoto and more... There were 15-30 models per show with about 8 hair stylists. It was a lot of estrogen in a short period of time mixed with people that have egos so I am sure you can gather a mental image. At one point one of the models I was working on got into a cat fight with 2 other models and the tension was ROUGH! Every station was pretty much playing different kinds of music and one of the models didn't like the music our station was listening to and made some snap comment. My model then snapped back and a third model thought my model was attacking her. WHAT A MESS! There is no drama like the drama between hungry girls! (We hadn't had lunch yet)
On Saturday a model and a designer (I can't say which one) got into a fight as well. The designer said and I quote " You are a c*nt and I hope you trip on the runway". Never ever a dull moment.
Backstage was chaos. It was hot in a tent and the girls are sweating off their makeup, their hair is falling everyone is getting naked and changing people are running around like crazy. It was just like I pictured it to be.
All in all it was a great experience. I can't say that I understand fashion very well because the outfits women wear to these events is sometimes more of an event then the runway. I have attached some photos and I will probably upload a picture blog next so I can show you all my updated work and some more fun photos on what's happening. I will be doing pick ups this week on Sexy Evil Genius so hopefully I'll have some more photos from that as well.
Being part of Fashion Weekend landed me in the background of the news doing hair. I will get the link soon and post it along with the link to the Boys and Girls Club PSA I worked on :)
Until next time...
