How excited are you for Halloween? It’s probably really hard for you to get any work done since it’s so close. I have debated quite a lot over whether or not I should dress up. Last week I should have dressed a bit differently when I took the family to Sauvie Island for the first time. I knew that I was going to be checking out a pumpkin patch, but I was not quite sure what I had in store for me. When I think pumpkin patch, I think of a small urban lot with dirt and various pumpkins …already picked. You neatly walk up select your pumpkin, stick it in the car, and go home. For this type occasion I would normally wear some designer dress shoes. I decided to do this in my first visit to a Portland pumpkin patch. BIG MISTAKE. My first hint should have been seeing at least a dozen people in down vests and tall rubber boots. “There’s kind of a real farm look here huh”? My wife says to me when we showed up. I took the hay ride, I ate kettle corn, I tried to make sure my son didn’t stab himself on the thorns from the pumpkin stems, I trashed my shoes. They are just done. If you have Sauvie Island boot suggestions for next year send me some email. Three really big pumpkins for nine bucks…score.
Today I accidentally tried decaf and ended up with a headache by noon. I need to call Courier Coffee and
get a pound delivered. I love this coffee. This guy named Joel roasts it in his house. You call the number and place your order. Within a day it gets delivered to my mailbox by bicycle labeled with the exact time it was roasted. This to me feels like magic. I would like to somehow meet Joel personally and check out his modified bike sometime. Until then I will drink the coffee.
This past week I have had an excellent response to my blog post titled “Sienna Miller Cut and Color” This has caused quite a few new clients show up in my chair for the first time and ask me to cut it off short. It’s interesting to meet someone for the first time, and ten minutes later cut a majority of their hair off. It’s an unveiling. I find that it really excites me at times. The unpredictability of the process is fun. When hair goes from long to short quickly it changes texture. Once the weight of the length is gone, the natural texture starts to show a personality. You then need to begin to work intuitively. In this part of the process I can get into a zone and achieve a sort of flow. Art is a beautiful thing.
A few weeks back I met with writer and owner Mandy Z. of the website www.salonnw.com for an interview. This website features all things beauty in Portland. It is a very well written site. If you are at all interested in the local Portland hair scene it is worth a look. The following story she wrote about me is the feature story this week at her site. She wrote:
“If I didn’t previously know that Mister Davidson was a California transplant I would have thought him to be a native Portlander, especially after hearing of his bike tumble, resulting in 2 broken elbows and a month off work. It wasn’t until perusing his utterly fabulous blog after interviewing him that I found out of his celebrity hair status. Now, the reason I find his blog so unique is that he talks about doing hair in Portland from a California stylist’s perspective. He smartly chooses his words so as not to offend, but gets his point across.http://www.portlandpearldistricthairsalons.com/ So just what does it mean to be trained in Cali? Well, for those of you that want to hate on them, they are subjected to higher education standards (if they so choose.) Jeff was able to become licensed AND apprentice at the same time – something that could be of great benefit to our city. I think the greatest perk to a California trained stylist living in Portland is that they become highly sought after by their fellow transplants. After obsessing for years over Marcia Cross’s hair (Desperate Housewives) I was delighted to ask him about her hue. Apparently it is the perfect texture, and he used the combination of two different color lines – incorporating red, orange, copper, and gold. Yumm. As for Rachael Dratch, “She’s funny. She makes me laugh even during the consultation. She would tell me not to make her look like the singer from Journey. I was her “LA Guy” she had people in NY too. When I was finished she would goof that it was “shear genius.”
The LA glamour wasn’t enough to keep him there, and Portland’s ease of life came calling. He has since landed at Tribe Hair Studio, a recent NAHA award winning salon. His adjustment towards the NW way of doing hair may take some time, but something tells me this laid back approach to life already has him acclimated to his new surroundings. “
Thanks for the write up Mandy.
Email: www.jeffdavidsonhair@yahoo.com
