One Week at Grateful Dreads!

Veronica had an appointment for her birthday! We did this beautiful updo with dreads and orchids! I love how her dreads mimic the branches of typical orchid plants!

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Happy birthday Veronica!  What a perfect summer day!

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Karina moved, and I’m still getting over this. I’ll miss you badly Karina!!
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Josh came in for some heady dreadlocks! BEFORE
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He’s wearing a glass bead from Grateful Dreads!
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Complete!  AFTER
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Katya and her mom drove about 8 hours to come to Grateful Dreads!
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Dreads during the process.
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Now that is a lot of hair!!!
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We left out the front, and I shaped her bangs to look cute naturally.
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Katya and her new dreadlocks!
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Cheryl and Katya.
Cheryl grew up in Ann Arbor and is a U of M grad, so it was really nice to host part of her visit to town!
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Amanda is amazing! She happened upon us while visiting A2 from southern CA. I love her blonde hair with darker full bangs!!
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Chad BEFORE
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AFTER. Happy hippy!
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Candyce’s fresh new dreadlocks. She also makes dread falls which will soon be available in Grateful Dreads!
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Teymour and Izzy. A fun summer session!

It’s been a fun and busy week!  Thank you to all of you who’ve stopped by!  Happy Summer!

Sneak Peek of the Shoot Last Night

We did a photoshoot last night at Grateful Dreads.  Mike Frieseman took the photos, and Diana Mellon did some modeling.  We had a lot of fun and created some really amazing shots.

These are some pics I snapped with my phone:

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Diana is modeling a dress by Fotoula Lambros Design.
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Dress by BCBG.
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Mike Frieseman taking photos inside Grateful Dreads
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Group photo!
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Diana and Mike

Fun times!  We created some very artistic and fashionable looks.  Thank you Diana and Mike!

Many Visitors at Grateful Dreads!

This was a fun week at the salon. There’s a lot of great hair happening here! It’s funny how some of the people I see regularly, I still have not snapped a picture!

Kindlefest was this weekend, and the salon has been busier than ever! I’ve had a lot of long-time clients and many new faces come through. Here are the pics!!

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Heather’s new shape
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We did pink underneath!
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Mulugeta is a new regular. He has a really cool look!
Mulu likes his hair long on top.  I really love his hair cut!
Mulu likes his hair long on top. I really love his hair cut!
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Megan is an OG! She drove out from the eastside!
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Black with icy purple and blue
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Purple ombré bangs with bright green eyes! Megan I love your new glasses!!
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Theresa’s cute curly new do. We really nourished her hair!  Theresa is an experienced massage thereapist in Ann Arbor.
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Amber’s hair is amazing!! She’s a local entrepreneur and a mommy!
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Look at this gorgeous hair!! Her curl is all natural.
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That’s me!
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Camellia and her sister Zoe!
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Zoe
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Zoe and Greg. Cute!
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I love Courtney’s bright red hair with her bright turquiose Moog shirt!! She has some fat dreads under all that red hair!!
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Moog Fest + bright red hair!
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I put up some lights for the holidays. I love how the salon looks after a job well done!

The holiday season is here!!  Kerrytown is bursting with activities!  The trees all have lights and there is Christmas music playing at the Kerrytown Concert House.  The Farmers’ Market is full of wreaths and trees and shoppers!  It’s so special to see all the families and to be there with my own family especially during this time!

Cam and Gabi

Fan Cam and Gabi met at Grateful Dreads for quick Kerrytown photoshoot!  Fan Cam is an extremely motivated and talented model.  Gabi is a talented photographer as well as a gorgeous model!  I knew they would really get along, so I was so happy to host this shoot.  I love getting artists together for collaborations!  We all had fun and got some great photos!!

I had already cut their hair, so I left things pretty natural.  I styled Cam’s a little bit, and Gabi did some very light make up.

Photos of Fan Cam by Gabi Giacchieri:

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I took these!

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Cam and Gabi inside Grateful Dreads.
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The tallest people on the littlest bench!
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I liked that I-beam in the back on the windows.

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A hip urban feel.  I took these photos inside the Kerrytown building.  Such a photogenic place!

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Cam and Gabi in Monahan’s, Kerrytown photographed by Grateful Dreads. 

Thank you Gabi, and thank you Cam!  You are both so talented and fun, and you both have amazing style!  I think we all enjoyed ourselves.  Special thank you to the person who loaned us this great camera!

Maeve

Maeve is royalty of models.  I love working with her and her hair!  She’s so gorgeous, highly educated, and speaks from her amazing experiences.  So cool!  We met early for the shoot and got ready so fast that we went out for breakfast while we waited for Daighna Rayner, the photographer, to arrive.  The day before, Maeve came to Grateful Dreads, and I deep conditioned her hair and braided it to dry.  When I took out her braid for the shoot, her hair looked beautiful just how it was!  I did a little detail work to create some smoothness.  Maeve did all of her make up in all of the photos.

This is a very special shoot.  I put a lot of myself and my ideas into this and was able to meet with both of my favorite designers, Kelly Lynne and Fotoula Lambros, to pull from their new collections.  Given the concept and the model, we were all excited!

All photos by Daighna Rayner for Daighna Photography:

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The dress in the last picture is the Monroe dress in black by Fotoula Lambros for Fotoula Lambros Design.  The dresses in the above pictures are both by Kelly Sager for Kelly Lynne.  The machine in the top picture is a Linotype and is how newspapers used to be printed.  Maeve looks like she is from that era in Kelly Lynne’s beautiful lacy dress!  I really love the red puffy sleaves on the middle dress.  So haute couture!

Maeve has amazing energy.  Thank you to all of you involved in this shoot!

Maeve, Daighna, and I

Måeve, Daighna, and I got together on Sunday and had the first ever photo shoot at Grateful Dreads!  We got very creative, worked hard, and had a lot of fun.  I love that I get to spend time making art with such wonderful people and am so thankful!  The pics below were all taken with my iphone.  The real pics were shot by Daighna Rayner and are currently being looked through and edited by her.

Here’s a sneak of our last look.  Måeve in a beautiful grassy meadow.  She’s wearing the wrap dress designed by Fotoula Lambros for Fotoula Lambros Design.  This dress was the closing look in FLD’s most recent Detroit fashion show but in white.  She graciously loaned us the black one for this shoot.

Look at those clouds!

The rest of these photos are of the salon after the shoot.  I really love my new salon!  And I really loved this shoot.  Everything about it.

Most of those clothes are by designer Kelly Lynne. She and I pulled from her newest collection which was totally fun!

A very special day

Thanks to everyone involved!

 

Paige Glamour

Here are two good shots from a recent photoshoot with Paige Mobley.  Marygrace D’Aleo did her make-up and brought the red dress.  I styled Paige’s hair off her face and neatly to the side for the beauty shot, shown first.  For the last look of the shoot we got very glamorous with a roller set, and I pinned her hair into a bob.  Paige is an excellent model and really worked the look!

I am so happy to have worked with the photographer, Acacia.  Watching her work was energizing, and her edited pic below is a piece of fine art.  What a pleasure to work with such an amazing and talented artist!

Photos by Acacia:

The faux bob!  Very glamorous!!