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!
Wow what a great week! I just can’t say enough about how much I love the challenges that come into this salon!! I am so thankful to have so many special talents as a hair stylist. These are some of the fun people I got to work with this week.
You can see this custom process in the next post!
The salon is getting busier, and I’m looking for an assistant. If anyone finds this type of hair interesting and would like to learn, please contact me!!
On another note… I’ve hired a professional graphic designer who is working on a few things including the signs for the salon!! I apologize that there is no sign yet!! It’s my (very realistic) goal to have an awning and two signs up by the end of Fetbruary. Thanks for being patient!!
These are some interesting pictures from last week!
This is a good before and after sequence. Lisa started her dreads a year ago with micro braids and didn’t do anything to disturb her hair except wash it. When she arrived at Grateful Dreads, her hair was very clean and somewhat dreaded. I worked on her hair, separating some and locking other parts, for about 3 1/2 hours. We had great success!
The next pics are of Cora’s locs. She’s had them for 4 years, and they were actually started by someone I’ve worked with before! Hi Renée!! Cora’s mom is so happy to have found someone in Ann Arbor to help with her hair, and I’m so happy to be found! The blonde woman in the chair is Cara. She came in for a cut just as we finished up Cora’s hair. I love the contrast of hair in this picture. Especially because their names are so similar!
Cora just got back from a tropical vacation and into the cold snow. Stay warm Cora, and I’ll see you again soon!
Alloy Ash, Steve Ragland, and I collaborated for a photoshoot last Sunday. Steve had some very beutiful ideas, and I had this cute sweater I really wanted to shoot. Ash has a Doc Martens collection spanning from the 90’s, so we had fun with that too!
I took these pics with my phone while they worked.
This was a fun shoot! Everyone was very professional and we worked fast. I got to play with some more alternative looks than usual, and that’s always fun. Alloy Ash you are truly amazing! I could go on and on. I keep thinking about your cool pink shoes!
I love the people who come to Grateful Dreads! I’m really happy with these pics. For anyone who follows this blog, you can see the progress of Josh’s and Cam’s hair. You will also recognize Nicole from previous posts.
Xiao Hui Fan
It’s been two months since I first cut Cam’s hair. He’s growing it out, and it’s looking so good!. You can click here to see his first cut at Grateful Dreads.
Josh has had his dreads for 10 months! We put them in around Easter time. Click here to view Josh’s dreads freshly done, and click here to see them after 10 weeks!
Emily is an Ann Arbor townie and a U of M student. She’s also a nanny, and she’s really nice!
I touched up her roots and put in some icey Carribean blue! She’s had her dreads for around 6 years and has previously maintained them herself or in California where she does a lot of modeling work.
How lucky am I to have so many amazing clients visit me in just one week! Thank you so much to all of you for being so cool and loving good hair!
Cheers!
This is the only pic we got, but I love it!
Haha his hair looks great! Maybe you’ll spot him around town with his German-ispired do.
Bron went back to Chicago. I knew she was going to leave, but it came up so fast! It was really nice having her in the salon.
So long Bron! I miss you already!!