Brigid, Hanna, and I started the day with Brigid’s dreads session. It took around four hours, and her hair created beautiful new dreads!!
Heather came later that afternoon, and we started her dreadlocks! Very different hair and locks than earlier in the day. Heather is an amazing yoga instructor in the area. I’m excited to watch her hair as the locks grow and mature!!
Happy Birthday Lion!
Happy Earth Day everyone!
I love when dogs come to the salon! And I love when amazing people come to the salon!! So I really had fun when Maeve brought in Freya, and I got to pratice some braids in her hair. I’m really making progress with my braids endeavour!
The salon has been very busy! Hash Bash just happened, and we’ve been working out some new additions for Grateful Dreads in between doing some very fun and beautiful hair!!
Alex came to Grateful Dreads about 5 weeks ago for new dreads. After around a month, new dreads will start to look fuzzy and like they are falling out. This is because the new dread work is tightening towards the center of each dreadlock. The tightening causes any shorter hairs to fall out at the roots and the ends to look longer. These pics are of Alex at his first tightening session about 5 weeks after we put in his dreads.
He came in for a tightening session, and I workied in all the loose hairs, tightened his roots and ends, and put on some tightening gel by Knotty Boy. Before tightening, I washed Alex’s hair with a clarifying tea tree shampoo and separated any dreads that were stuck together.
Thank you Alex!
I’ve worked on so many different hair types recently that I just can’t put them into a category except for happy clients who leave the salon with healthy hair that they love! I’ll let the pics tell the story:
This is a very special set of pictures. Allison brought in her daughter to talk about her hair, and Camellia just happened to be in the salon. We got to work right away while talking about products and methods to care for Connie’s very curly, delicate hair!
Connie went home to let the conditioning really soak into her hair. Her mom rinsed it out and combed through. Then they came back the next day with good results!
I really love what I do!!
Diana Mellon, Mike Frieseman, and I got together for a small shoot inside Grateful Dreads. I put Diana’s hair in hot rollers and did her make up to be very soft and warm. Mike got some great shots!
These are some very beautiful pictures, and they really create an ambience. Romantic and clean. Very special thank you to both Mike and Diana!!!!!!
Hair and wardrobe by Grateful Dreads.
Make up by Debbie Helinski.
All photos by Steve Ragland in Detroit.
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:
Fun times! We created some very artistic and fashionable looks. Thank you Diana and Mike!
Winter is at it’s peak! These are some pics of the people who are getting great hair and staying warm in the salon during this cold weather.
There were a couple pics I didn’t snap of some great work I’d love to share! I gave Teymour the best looking cut in over 10 years. I suppose we say that a lot!!
I gave Alloy Ash the most beautiful icey purple platinum dreads for her trip to Texas. Congrats Alloy Ash and best to you while you’re down south!!!
See you soon!
I make custom fusion extensions at Grateful Dreads. For Alana’s hair I colored them and made the extensions piece by piece to suit her hair type and the style she wants.
I colored Alana’s hair with some conditioning color and did some extra deep conditioning at the bowl. Then I added her new extensions piece by piece!
Alana and I had a great appointment!
I had a lot of fun preparing for this, and Alana loves her hair!! I am so happy with the results. Thank you Alana for coming to the salon!
I offer threading at Vis A Vis every Wednesday. I’ve become their patron as well. This is a very nice skin care and massage salon. The people there are so fun and friendly, and the decor is smart and cute!
There are other equally beautiful and comfortable rooms for massage and full body waxing, but they’re usually full, so it’s difficult getting a picture!
These are some of my favorite pieces of art hanging in the salon.
Vis a Vis is top notch! If you’re looking for a place for massage, make up, facials, waxing, or threading I very strongly recommend. My experience there has been completely positive every time!
Kindlefest is an annual event for Kerrytown. We all set up booths in the Farmers’ Market area, and people came from all over to celebrte the start of the holiday season. There were lots of vendors with hand made goods and yummy food and drnks fotr everyone. The fire pit and roasted chestnuts smelled really nice, and there were horns playing Christmas music. There were so many shoppers!!
Greg, Camellia, and I were at the booth talking to people about 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!!
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!
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:
I took these!
A hip urban feel. I took these photos inside the Kerrytown building. Such a photogenic place!
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!
I’ve had a very busy week with clients and with the community!
Lane drove from Alpena for some dreads work. Lane is a hairdresser and has a small shop where she lives. What an honor to work on another hairdresser’s hair! She’s got great style too. Her hair is amazing!
Bron and I twisted up her hair into a cute side-part style. I’ll do a later post of her hair taken out of the twists.
Grateful Dreads has an ad in Community High School’s student run paper The Communicator!
Thank you Linda for designing this beautiful ad!
Gabi, Suki, Mai, and I met for our first photo session as a team! What a great day! Beautiful weather, luxurious clothes, and a modern, artistic setting. We all worked very hard and had much success!
Stephanie (Suki’s mom) and Gabi took some behind-the-scenes photos with Suki’s iPad:
I was so busy I only had time to snap these pics with my little camera at the very end.
I’m so excited by this shoot. We all left feeling good, and we’re all still going with this great energy. I’m happy with how my skills and confidence have grown. Creativity was flowing through all of us. We worked hard and captured everything I had imagined! Thank you so much to everyone involved in this shoot! Gabi, Suki, Stephanie, Mai, Fotoula, and to my dear friends for letting us use this location. Thank you so much!!
Mai’s high-quality photos will be ready in the near-future. These are just some snap shots for a sneak of the session!!