Posted by admin on February 21, 2010 – 10:58 pm
Dear Seth,
This week on Lifetime TV’s “Project Runway” you really turned it out. You smoked the competition in the mother/daughter challenge. Seth how is it you are pulling off this whole dirty rocker look and you are a father in your late 30’s? Maybe we should go out for a drink or something. You will probably want to have a straight up double shot of Jack Daniels rocks with a cigarette chaser. I will have maybe a micro brew. We could be best friends. We can discuss the merrits of neck tattoos, My Bloody Valentine records, overly zippered shirts, plaid and houndstooth prints, spiky hairstyles, black nail polish, parenthood and life as striaght men in the design world. Then after we are both good and toasted, you can teach me how to wear a bandanna around my neck and somehow make it look cool. Good luck with the rest of the season. I will be pulling for you as you design one Hot Topic inspired look after another. Hit me up for a haircut when you come through Portland. BFF – Jeff D
The creative process has taken hold on a few of my recent clients. First up is my client Kate. Kate is a bit camera shy so I was only allowed to snap a photo of her color. I respect your need for privacy Kate. She came in with 3 inches of ash regrowth and solid blonde in her midshaft and ends. “You can do anything you want” she said. It was her thrid time in my chair. I took liberties and gave her some soft ash lowlights and touched up the highlights. This was the finished color.
A few weeks back I also had a new client Mariah. She has a super hip style. She wanted some funky color. Here I worked some reds through the midshaft and ends. I also put a few dark blonde panels in the fringe to help show off the long bangs I had cut.
I managed to convice my son Milo to allow me to give him a full haircut this week. I casually mentioned cutting his hair. I then changed the subject. ”GET SCISSORS” he demanded. My wife held him on her lap and he happily smiled in the mirror and I cut his 20 month old head. Hold still.
My biggest triumph this week comes courtesy of finacial GURU Dave Ramsey. I paid off the last credit card and I
used my
Scissors!
Posted by admin on February 11, 2010 – 3:05 pm
This month an unusual colaboration occured between Tribe Hair Studio, Urban Gypsies Clothing, and Candy Ultalounge. The Tribe took the stage and rocked out some serious hair for the benifit which included: live hair demos, a Bumble and Bumble booth, a trunk show by Urban Gypsies, and lots and lots of coctails consumed during a live DJ set at Candy Lounge. I did hair hair some styling on the blonde in the photo below who later modeled Urban Gypsies latest looks.
On the fashion front, a few trends this spring are starting to emerge. First is Lady GaGa inspired sheer clothing and bra straps. Other trends that will continue are military inspired coats and gold metallics. UNLESS you are living here in Portland. In Portland the trend seems to be moisture wicking fleece snuggie body condoms paired with dominatrix boots and wet hair. I haven’t seen a woman show skin here in 4 months.
My ten week old Boston Terrier Tilly is starting to make herself at home now. She seems to have a love affair starting with one of my sphynx cats Mr. Kitty. Maybe they can keep each other warm.
Bravo’s “Sheer Genius” is starting up again for it’s new season. Please enjoy the drama of these stylist who are big on drama and not so big on talent. Maybe I’m just bitter after losing a spot on season one to stylist Paul Jean.
Posted by admin on January 29, 2010 – 1:48 pm
Last week I opened an email from Holly. She had just seen The Golden Globes and she was inspired by Jennifer Aniston’s cut. She wanted to know if I thought this cut would work for her. I was exited to give her the change she was looking for.
Holly was happy with her existing color, so I only needed to put a few highlights in to match her roots. I started the cut by removing about six inches off of the length. I then put in some new face framing layers, and a shorter fringe. We kept the fringe a bit longer than the photo to allow Holly to try out her new shorter style. I was really pleased with the finished look. Since Mrs. Aniston’s stylist Chris McMillian charges $800 bucks for a cut, I was also happy to save Holly $745 today.
This week also brings big changes to my personal life. I would like to introduce you to my new Boston Terrier “Tilly”. She is currently 8 weeks old and she weighs in at 4lbs. I find it funny how much attention a puppy gets. Two days ago on my way to get coffee, a woman on the street stopped me from 100 feet away. “Is THAT a Boston terrier? she yelled. As I approached, I learned that she wanted to do some “energy work” on Tilly. She bent down to put her hands on my young pup who was shaking like a leaf due to the cold air. She appeared to concentrate, closed her eyes, placed two hands on my pup and sat silently for a minute. “Oh yea, she’s really nervous, she is really unsure, and she’s not sure about this leash, yea… I think she wants you to pick her up” the woman said. “I think Tilly wants me to go in here and get some coffee” I said to the stranger. “I will be sending her some LIGHT!” she proclaimed as we walked away.
I would also like to nominate this young gentleman for the worst haircut of the week award. I snaped this shot in line at the pet store. Dear Mr. Green shirt you can:
a. Wear you hair in a short clipper cut
OR
b. Wear your hair in a ponytail
You can not do both.
Posted by admin on January 11, 2010 – 10:42 pm
Imagine with me for a moment that you are a woman with a really nice head of hair. You are minding your own business riding TriMet home on New Year’s Eve. Suddenly you realize that the man sitting behind you has cut off all of your hair and then squirted super glue where your ponytail once was. Police have charged Portland resident Jared Weston Walter with a host of crimes stemming from what they say are multiple incidents of random cutting and gluing of women’s hair. The media has named him “The TriMet Barber”. This crime has got me thinking.
-If you want to cut off hair and glue hair, go to beauty school then take a hair extension class. You can actually get paid to do this.
- If you are a woman in the Portland area and you have a jacked up haircut from the “TriMet Barber”, bring me the police report and I will be glad to give you a complimentary haircut.
As I was looking for Vidal Sassoon haircut videos on EBay I came across a disturbing seller named “mrhaircutter” who seems to have created an entire business selling videos of women who are not happy about getting a short haircut. Who on Earth would pay to watch this? Maybe I’m old fashioned in that I enjoy giving someone a haircut that they actually LIKE.
In celebrity news, reality star Kate Gosslin paid stylist Ted Gibson
$7,000 for new head of hair extensions. Ted claims that the process took twenty hours to complete. Fifteen of those hours were spent trying to convince her to cut her bangs short. I don’t think that this looks like a $7,000 job, but at least America will no longer have to suffer another day of looking at her tri color reverse female mullet.
I had a customer recently call me with a rather strange request. He was looking for a stylist who would do both the shampoo and the cut. That seems straightforward enough I thought to myself.
He was also looking for a male stylist who “Has a lot of body hair…. particularly on his hands and forearms.” I paused for a moment. This has got to be a joke I thought to myself. Then again maybe it wasn’t. Maybe there is a person out there that needs a human gorilla to do their service. I glanced at my hands and arms. I see only a moderate to light amount of arm hair. “Uh.. Yea, I’m not going to be able to help you with that one.” I said.
And finally….. This afternoon while driving to Trader Joe’s I snapped a photo of this man on the corner of NE 33rd Ave and Broadway. He had a cardboard sign that read “Out of Gas- Stranded” He gets a gold medal for smoking a cigarette with a gas can between his legs while checking his phone.
Welcome to 2010. It’s a rather strange year so far…….
Posted by admin on December 29, 2009 – 10:30 pm
Today I looked out the window by my station at work and I took a photo of the white streets. This is the first time since moving to Portland that I have seen it really snow. At first I became excited like a little boy. My excitement quickly turned sour as I realized that my clients started to cancel one by one. It also dawned on me that I was going to have to drive home in the mess. A small snow shower can turn these city streets into a stand still. I felt like I was back home in California with my car in total gridlock. At least I didn’t take the bike today.
I will resume my bike commute this week, since I have now obtained a totally bombproof cycling jacket. Last week while riding in the rain I got totally soaked on the way home. A local company called Showerspass makes this jacket. They even make a jacket that they call the “Portland”. With a name like that I had better stay dry. I had three choices for colors:
1. Ninja Black – Looks cool off the bike, but cars can’t see you and I end up with two broken arms…….again
2. Florescent construction worker yellow – Cars can see you, but if you wear this thing anywhere but on a commute then everyone who sees you will look at you and think – “bike dork”.
3. Jeff D Blue – As the name suggests, I went with this one.
My wife sent me this funny photo she snapped while walking by a shop in West Los Angeles this week. A magnet set titled “Grow up to be gay – No. 32 Hairdresser”. We had a pretty good laugh over that one. Two young boys are on the cover. You get scissor and comb magnets.
Tribe Hair Studio was featured in a Russian hair magazine this past month. They gave us a nice photo spread and wrote a story about the salon design. They found us since we won the 2009 North American Hairstyling Award (NAHA) for best salon design. It looks nice, but we will have to get a translator to read it.
And finally…….Google sent me a letter stating “Jeff Davidson Hair – is a favorite place on Google”. Thank you Google I will hold onto the precious shares in your company and I will refuse to sell them until you take over the world.
