Maeve

September 13, 2012 | Shikote

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:

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!

Summertime at Grateful Dreads

September 2, 2012 | Shikote

I am so thankful to have started something that people love! Grateful Dreads gets busier every week, and that is thanks to all of you. Thank you!

Here are a few pics of what I did this week:

Ashley came in to get her dreads freshened up! Look at the pretty yarn in her hair!

Ashley’s baby likes to pull on her dreads which caused a lot of loose hairs. We got those all worked back into her dreads!

Stu is my newest regular! I’ll fade you!!

Jeremy’s hair felt a little dry, so I nourished his hair with some Original Moxie products. We got all the loose hairs tied in, and I put some Emollience salve on his ends.

Jeremy Porter does Quantum Touch Massage and is an Orgonite vendor. His studio will be open in the next month! I’ll post links. He is amazing!

So beautiful and on her way for the big presentation!

I’ve been studying for my audition in my downtime.

Summer has reached it’s peak, and fall is in the air.

Gluten-free Dog Food in the sign out front!

This flower is inspiration for hair color.

Cool Video by Mai Truong, Melania Sneak

August 30, 2012 | Shikote

Mai made this from our Tuesday shoot!

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Mai Truong, Melania Plasko, and I got together at Grateful Dreads this Tuesday afternoon for a photo shoot! Melania makes clothes and collects them, so we used her clothes and designs. You can look at Melania’s Lookbook to see more of her designs. For this shoot I did her hair and make up in the salon, then we ventured out to an older cemetery in town. I love Melania’s bangs, so I styled her hair around them in every look! We did a smooth first look and agreed to get bigger as we went. I did her makeup using lavender and metal tones. I added some huge thick eyelashes, and we made lipstick out of a mix of eyeshadows.

The first look was very smooth and sleek. I did this with rollers and clips and using an Ibiza boar’s bristle round brush.

I used Kevin Murphy Color Bug at her roots!

These are just shots with my phone! Mai got some beautiful, high-quality shots which I will post as soon as they’re ready.

Saturday Morning Farmers’ Market

August 5, 2012 | Shikote

Farmers’ Market is across the street from Grateful Dreads. I walked through on my way to pick up my special order of triple tea tree shampoo for cleaning dreadlocks. Yay!! Here are some of the highlights!

Tasty Bakery
gluten free and vegan yummy desserts!

It’s important that anyone with EBT know about this. You get double your food money when you shop at most farmers’ markets. Eat fresh!

The Kerrytown Concert House is getting a makeover!

The Espresso Bar hosted the Batata Shop for a pop-up! I went right inside to say hi to Tawnya! She’s really cool and makes very yummy sweet potato goodness. She really radiates a bright light.

So good to see you Tawnya! Next time you’ll have to come by the salon for some relaxation and yumminess for your hair!

Maeve, Daighna, and I

August 1, 2012 | Shikote

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!

Thanks to everyone involved!

Paige Glamour

August 1, 2012 | Shikote

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!!

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