Jason Stanton

Today Jason Stanton arrived at Refuge Salon and bestowed upon us wonderful advice and little jewels of wisdom. He started at the age of ten, styling his mothers hair in Sheffield, England and has continued on ever since. He told us if we can see it, it can be done..... in terms of hairstyling and of our career goals. He's done hair for Chanel, Fendi and worked with many great photographers over the course of his career. He was incredibly humble and very kind and had his tea with milk and sugar. I cried the entire visit, his presence an absolute inspiration and a touching day in general was had by all.

Maya

Shes my god daughter and i cut her hair but I'm mostly posting this cause shes so awesome!

FAUX HAWK!

Today i a sweet version of a mowhawk/fauxhawk/punkgirlhair! I did it on my friend Victoria today and it came out so cute. Shes my friend Valerie's younger sis from Arizona and she goes back this Saturday and wanted a new 'do so i hooked her up and picked a cool haircut out of her phones photo log and just went with it. She loved that i picked such a cool cut and was sold and we went with it! It came out cute and she looks bad-asssss!

Im a Blond Machine

I love doing blonde's. From platinum to subtle highlights against dark hair, i love it all and I'm confident doing it all in tones and variations! getting to full platinum has been hard on my friend Jill hair and scalp, we've decided that today was the last day for the double bleach and tone process it takes to get her hair on point to platinum. From now on, we'll do finely sliced highlights with low level developer and tone the hell out of the highlights! Her scalp will be so happy:) My friend Paria had gorgeous dark blond hair and a did a wonderful platinum highlight with huge subsections and it was a hit! Everyone from her job dug em! Awesome.

Stuff In My Mind

So, i did a wedding this past week and it was so fun! The ladies all came into Refuge Salon and Emily, Julio and I did the hair for the Bride, Maid of Honor and some family members! I loved it and i got to do a really fun up do on the Maid of Honor! I'm also trying to grow my hair out so its less like a Christmas tree and more like a pretty flow-y curly mane. Lets see what develops on that! I'm also doing a lot of color lately and its going really well ( for men and women ) and i have another wedding coming in October which I'm super excited about!

FUN

JENNIFER LOPEZ'S BIRTHDAY TODAY!

Today is Jennifer Lopez's 40th birthday! i love JLo and I'm so happy shes celebrating another year of fabulousness! Feliz Cumpleanos BB!

ME AT WORK

Dandruff Woes

Having always had massive amounts of hair, Ive also had massive scalp issues but have come to learn how to deal. i have had itchy scalp for years under all this hair but rubbing my scalp with oils alleviates discomfort and and helps moisturize my scalp, especially in the summer and especially because i dye my hair. i also try to drink alot of water and i use an ENJOY hair / scalp mask and keeps my scalp under control. Baking soda also works, adding some water to it and placing it on the scalp for 10 mins helps exfoliate the scalp.

SHEARS

I just got awesome new shears and they are amazing! i love them!

Blow Dry Diva weekends

Every Friday and Saturday Refuge salon is offering an awesome Blow Dry Diva deal; 35 bucks for a blow out so you can look super hot for the weekend with out sweating to death in the summer heat! Im a super pro at lovely, smooth and voluminous Blowouts and so are most of our stylists at Refuge. Check Us Out this Summer and get a great style with out breaking into a sweat!!!!

Julio COMBSSSS

Just got a new Julio comb, its so BOMB! I use them all the time for sectioning and really simple trims and sweep, wispy layer cuts! YAY!

LIFEBOOKER

I love lifebooker.com. Ive created some new, great relationships with some awesome women who have found me and my service deals on lifebooker.com! I did a wonderful color on a lifebooker client and will be doing some brazilian blowouts care of advertising on lifebooker! so cool:)! On another note, I love my clients and learning more and more about everyone in my chair. I met an awesome guy who is a music producer manager and he was so cool and we were so on the same page about life n stuff even though hes from new jersey and new york. we had a great time and when i offered him a beer, i know he'll be loyal forever!

BUSYYYYYY

ive been so busy this week. but i had tons of fun! i did my best friends highlights and low lights. i used a really low developer bleach and a warm mahogany blond as a low light and it came out great:) she loved her hair and so did i. ive really gotten into the mahogany blonde thing and its reaped awesome results with all my blond clients.

HAPPY 4TH EVERYONE!

Enjoy the holiday weekend and go to the beach! the ocean air makes hair look awesome!

JENNIFER LOPEZ, MY ABSOLUTE FAVORITE

I love all things JLo and she can do no wrong in my eyes! She rocks and i think she always has a wonderfully polished appearance and truly sees herself as her greatest asset to her business. Shes the shit, shes the bomb and no one has been able to top her in how fashionable and graceful she is, all marriages and engagements aside.

Another pic from Rapunzel-esque Photo Shoot

Swedes!

4 awesome Swedish dudes rolled into our salon last night around 8 looking to get cool haircuts before they go back to Stockholm this Saturday. I picked the most stylish of the bunch, his name was martin, and he was very witty and was looking to have some fun on this side of town. All the stylist said Goldroom, Littlejoy, Shortstop, El Prado and Masa for dinner! We all shared a great time together over Hansen's sodas and haircuts and everyone left pleased.

Many Hairs

Yesterday I worked super hard, i was in the salon til 8:40pm! I had all repeat clients and one referral from my friend Janet. She referred me to a awesome young french dude visiting here for the summer. He was so sweet and had a great wealth of knowledge about music so we had tons to talk about. I did my friend SJ's highlights and used highlift color instead of bleach since she had so much virgin root coming through. My treat to her was throwing 2 panels of mahogany-red blond highlights and looked so purrrrtttyy. pics to be posted soon.