Ashley

Stardust

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The photos from Grateful Dreads’ first photoshoot are here!  Ashley is so gorgeous!  I really love her style. We met up early that morning, so I could make her hair platinum and touch up her mohawk before the shoot (you can view the process in the next post).  Then I made her hair huge and added some bright purple and deep blue to the back!  Ashley did her own make up then we drove out to a beautiful spot on the river.

All photos by Amy Hubbarth:

I love Ashley’s confidence!  And I really love the one-lens sunglasses!  What a special treat to work with these two amazing artists.  Thank you I love you guys!!

Platinum Mohawk Session

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Amy Hubbarth took some cool pictures while I worked on Ashley’s hair.  They drove from Detroit for Grateful Dreads’ first photo session!

Finished Look!  This is what platinum looks like!!

We liked Ashley’s roots, so I used foils to apply the bleach.  After a double process bleach, we then applied a toner by Goldwell.  I dried her hair and made it big and billowy and then touched up her sides with Oster 76 clippers, faded her nape, and lined her up!

Special thanks to Denise the barber for teaching me all about clippers.  Denise owns and operates Goodfellows Barbershop in Royal Oak.

Summertime at Grateful Dreads

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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!!
Ben: Before
And after!
Ben is a jazz drummer.
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.
Dreads!

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!

Jen’s curly hair!
So beautiful and on her way for the big presentation!
Erin and Nick visited from Seattle!
Erin and Greg are OGs
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.

Autumn colors