Jewel Of All Trades

Use hair as an excuse to come to California and party at our friend's wedding? Yes please! I'm not going to lie though, I was a little nervous going into this one. Kara was too far away to do a run through, and I had never ever done an updo on someone with as crazy curly hair as hers. I would never let her have her big day looking anything less than gorgeous, so I was determined to get that mane of hers managed, without making her look like a completely different person.

BEFORE

In order to keep it looking like her natural hair but make the curls bigger and more formal looking, I took small sections of her clean, dry hair and wrapped it around a 1 inch iron piece by piece. This process takes more time, but in the end Kara still looked like herself with her awesome crazy curly texture. We just polished it off. Had I gone through and smoothed out all of her hair, it's just not Kara any more and her hair also has a tendency to frizz back out later anyway. Some of the ends I had to clip into the curling iron to get them uniform with the rest.

Cassidy asked me to do her hair for her wedding at Lake Chelan, Washington and I LOOOOOVE doing wedding hair so I was happy to be there for the event. She wanted long, loose curls and as we all know, curling your hair brings your hair up shorter so Cassidy purchased some simple clip in extensions to add length to the curls for the wedding. Clip-ins are the way to go if you want to leave your hair down but aren’t happy with the length once it’s curled. You can put in the extensions the morning of the wedding and take them back out afterwards, no harm and no damage done to your scalp or hair unlike regular track or bond extensions. I refuse to do any other type of extension on my clients because they are too hard to maintain for the average woman, and they cause more damage to your hair and scalp than good.

Back to the wedding hair… Cassidy had ideal hair for a wedding style because she had highlights and lowlights, which capture well in photography so you can see the texture of the hairstyle. I highly recommend getting some type of highlight and lowlight in your hair before your big day so your beautiful hairstyle can be captured in your photos and it does’t look dull or flat. This is especially important for brunettes.


I used a 1 inch curling iron on Cassidy and curled all her hair on the outside of the barrel, rather than using the clamp. She wanted some of it up and we added a small braid for an accent as well as a clip. I always use a flexible hold hairspray while curling and pinning until everything looks perfect and then use a firm hold hairspray at the end.

My first Blog! Well, second if you count my attempt at starting a blog on tumblr, only to find I didn't like it so here I am making the switch. I am here to share with you my many adventures and talents in the trade world of hair, makeup, all things food, health, holidays, and much much more! I have so much to share both successes and failures, advice and funny stories, how to's and recipes. Feel free to request for posts on certain subjects and ask questions! That's what this is for!

-Julianne