A Week of Many Specialties!

January 23, 2013 | Shikote

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.

Veronica’s dreads have got to be nearing a year. They look great!!

If you cut the loose hairs from the tips of your dreads, your dreads will unravel a little and become shorter. Someone trimmed her ends, so we made a special appointment to give her hair some of it’s length back.

She knew she had curls but had been flat ironing because it was easier. — Katherine knew she had curls but had been flat ironing because it was easier.

I gave her hair some deep conditioning and a cut for curly hair!! She can still straighten it, but I bet she wont want to!

Jenny came in for just a trim. She’s got interesting hair texture.

I cleaned up her cut and gave it some shape without thinning it since it was already very texturized. I like her hair left thicker, and the new shape is really nice!!

Skateboarders next door. They showed up just as I was having a break! Perfect timing guys!!

Kristen came in for a late night dreads session.
BEFORE!

Kristen looks great with her brand new fresh dreads!! This took me 6 hours.

Kristen's fresh dreads look really fuzzy, especially where we blunted her ends!She's really got a ton of hair!! Perfect for a huge mane of dreads! — Kristen’s fresh dreads look really fuzzy, especially where we blunted her ends.
She’s really got a ton of hair!! Perfect for a huge mane of dreads!

Alana is a really cool girl that I met over a year ago. She came in and got some very special customized hair!!

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!!

Cam and Gabi

November 30, 2012 | Shikote

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!

The tallest people on the littlest bench!

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!

Cam and Gabi in Monahan's — 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!

Lots Going on at Grateful Dreads!

October 29, 2012 | Shikote

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!

Lane came in with half her hair dreaded.

I dreaded her other half! I love purple dreads!!

Lane and Bob Marley. Full heads of dreads!

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!

Kelly Lynne Fashion Show, Epic Hair

October 1, 2012 | Shikote

Kelly Lynne asked me to do the hair for her recent fashion show at Detroit City Airport put on by Detroit By Design. I am honored to have done this!! She wanted shapes, and that’s what I’ve been into, so it’s a great match! I call this collection…

E P I C H A I R

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536234_2406248573162_1331487513_n — Maeve is HORN CORE!

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541088_10151037726961104_94522933_n — Maeve’s first look backstage

391652_10151037727106104_2059450140_n — Closing look.

Suki Emmaline Sachs between shows. Wearing Epic Hair with Fotoula Lambros Design’s clothing!!

Models Gabi Giachieri and Paige Schank from Angela McBride’s Peace, Love, Spandex show hanging out!

One down ten to go! This first look is also one of my favorites. Simple yet stunning, and I like that it’s dark hair. Very high fashion!

Some hair pieces that I made beforehand at Grateful Dreads

My work station. Where the magic starts!

Much thanks to Kelly Lynne for having me! And to Becca Voigt. You are amazing, and I really loved seeing you again. Rich Rice I love you! Thanks for throwing these great parties all these years. Parties with airplanes. That is epic! And thank you to everyone backstage, Greg and Stephanie for assisting me, and to all of the models for being open to such experimental looks. You really wore them well!

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!

Another Fun and Busy Week at Grateful Dreads!

September 12, 2012 | Shikote

The seasons are changing. The students are coming back, and a lot of people are coming home from abroad. Back to work!

Here are some highlights of the happenings this week:

Dafna is back from Jerusalem and came in for a haircut.

When clients find me at the new shop, it feels like a reunion!

Rodney’s dreads are tightening! He came in for a “tune-up.” Look how smooth they are!

We put in Rodney’s dreads two months ago.

Casey came by, and we fixed up her hair real quick!

Kelly’s new ombré! We totally updated her look! Camellia really loves Kelly:)

Laura drove from Toledo to have her dreads fixed up! She is one of those amazing people I love to meet! Thank you!!

I like the colors of the pear tree with the hanging plant.

The sign picked up a sticker! I love it!!

There’s so much going on at and around Grateful Dreads!

Gabi’s Mermaid Hair

September 12, 2012 | Shikote

Gabi came in for some mermaid hair! I set her hair on wave clips and used heat to set the waves. So shiny!

Finished look:

Platinum Mohawk Session

September 3, 2012 | Shikote

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

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.

Clayton and the Cool Kids

August 18, 2012 | Shikote

OLYMPUS DIGITAL CAMERA — Clayton came for his first haircut at Grateful Dreads!

We watched some really huge bees ravishing these flowers.

We saw about five distinctly different bees. This is a honey bee. My favorite kind!

After a short break at Crazy Wisdom to look at some pics for editing, and a lovely little tea party, I met with Sydney back at Grateful Dreads! We put in her dreads exactly a year ago! I like that she left out her bangs. It adds softness and design.