Inspired Home: Bright Boheme

I am head over heels with this lovely bohemian home featured in Light locations (visit for more images). The home belongs to the wonderful photographer, Debi Treloar.

A Little Permanent Color

Elias Wessel for Vixen kaleidoscopic cover shoot

I'm feeling some color lately. I'm a stylist after all, so I recently colored my hair from a technique I've been wanting to try for a long time now, but sometimes, I get a little sparkle in my eye and want to throw in something colorful to this mom 'do. I love a little flash of color peeking through a nice, blonde or brunette fall of hair. Now some of these scene hair colors are more vibrant than I would do, but they definitely have that creative vibrant edge that is so much more than the typically faded out, poorly done at home punky color.

I am a little partial to a soft, cotton candy pink, or a hint of aqua. It could always be added by way of a weft, but I prefer the real thing, it blends so much more naturally, as shown on whichgoose at the last pic. If you could have one hidden spot of color... what would it be?

Paul Mitchell

Avril Lavigne

highlight hair poll

Elias Wessel for Vixen

Modern Short Hair Coloring Cool Tips

shrinkle

 top formula's book via behind the chair

shrinkle

whichgoose

A Hair Story

What do you do, when it is midnight, you are thoroughly exhausted, you have a sink FULL of dishes and a bed full of 5 loads of laundry to fold so that you are contemplating camping out on the living room floor (which, you have done before)...?

Why, you highlight your hair, of course!! As a stylist, I kind of have this down. (visit here for some of my work)  There is a lot of bending, and twising, and turning, and super cramped arms, and the use of multiple mirrors is absolutely necessary (I use 3)... but it saves $100 or so and I can do it whenever I feel like it, though I don't do it nearly as often as I should... can you tell?

Another perk, is usually when I get my hair done in fancy salons, there is almost always tiger striping (when the color bleeds out of the foil around surrounding hairs, leaving ugly stripes of color). I don't know what is up with that, I can understand a rare instance of slippage, but every time!? It is easier for me to tiger stripe on my own hair since I can't really see what I am doing, and tension is really hard to control in the foils... but it is rare and hard to see when I do it, easy to fix and mask if I'm too lazy to fix it. Plus, I have complete control on how heavy I want the highlighting, which parts I want to leave out of the foil to add dimension and allow the color to grow out...

I was feeling the need to go dark, especially after I digitally darkened my hair in my last post, and the weather is cooling down (thank heavens), but I was out of the supplies to do it, so I just highlighted it instead. I love a little snow bunny hair when everyone else is going darker anyways. I plan on going in and adding some platinum pieces and lowlights similar to the photo below, but a girl can only do so much in one night, and I need to get more color.

ps... can you believe I sold these vintage safety steampunk glasses for $18 within two hours of listing them in the vintage section of my shop? Perhaps I priced them too low, even though I was so very tempted to keep them!?

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