I am leaving for Florida on Friday and I am looking forward to diving in the beautiful blue water.  I get so much inspiration from diving, I will put a new cut online for printing down load, so come back and see what new shape that has inspired me from the tropics and the sea.  I can hardly wait.  Tomorrow I am doing hair for L'Oreal's Centennial Celebration 50 years,  I will get some pictures of the event.  The interns will be dressed in period costumes and the hair will reflect the times.  Can't wait it will be fun. Come back and see the pictures....

Yep, it's that time again. Time to put away the seriousness and let your hair down. Well, maybe. See, I grew up in the Caribbean, living in and traveling through wonderful places like the Bahamas, Puerto Rico and Virgin Islands. Of course, as a kid, the dreadlock was reserved for the island outlaw. Now, seems like everyone has a friend or grandmother with dreadlocks. So, I decided it's time I educated myself on the techniques of "locking" hair. No, I can't get away with it myself. Being married to a hairdresser has limited my choice of hairstyle to whatever my beloved wife chooses for me.  But I can always dream...

Ok, so I seem to be drifting for a minute. Sorry. The topic of this post is 5 things I didn't know about dreadlocks. Perhaps they might surprise you as well.

I've just read an article teaching me how to color my hair with Koolaid. Ok, so being a child of the 70's and 80's, I understand the desire to call attention to myself with blue hair. But, to be honest, I don't think I'd want my blue mohawk back in the day to smell like Mountain Berry Punch. Which, according to the kids coloring their hair, it does!

Yes, this is pretty much only something pre-teens would do to each other. After all, how many of you want a big fat cartoon character breaking through your salon walls while you are charging your client $200 for a foil-highlight that lonely rich woman with Surfin' Berry Punch accented with Pink Swimingo? Oh, YEAH!!

Now, if you're still interested, this kid has some tips for you:

I'm not an expert. Heck, I haven't even spent the night at a Holiday Inn Express. I'm just a tech guy that knows enough about computers that I got roped into helping my wife with her website.

Having said this, I have spent many a time sitting amoungst hair stylists and colorists, chatting away about work. Countless dinner parties, holiday parties, lunch parties, brunch parties... well, you get the idea. Hairdressers like to party, this is true. But when they are partying, you'd think they'd want to leave work behind. Not so. They like to talk too much. And when you get two or more hairdressers in a room, they talk hair. This style, that color, this cutting technique. So much so, that I've decided I'm an expert on how wacked out people get about their hair. And I've decided to exact my revenge.

Redken Symposium kicked off January 2009, and we are fast tracking to NYC Fashion Week in February. Symposium was an awesome experience. As for Fashion Week, I will be there with my kit to do hair and with my camera to take pictures backstage.  I have been working in NYC during fashion week for 13 years and am glad to be there for another season.       

Here in New York our latest designs are focused on disconnection, deep point cutting, cutting the perimeter last, and asymmetry with balance.  Lets take fashion for instance. We can have a dress that has a symmetric top with an asymmetric  hemline or just the other way around.  Lets think of a hair cut that has the same principles we can have asymmetry as long as it balances the head and body.  Designing clothes and hair have the same principles balance is key and knowing the fabric your working with.

The Team from PureOlogy lead by Phillip Wilson did a live model presentation right after the Redken Creates Team; it was a sweet representation of what PureOlogy stands for.  For those that don’t know PureOlogy is a brand of hair products that now partnered with Redken.  Congrats and welcome

Here comes fashion week!

Tomorrow is my first show, so check in for the latest in backstage news and candid photos.

Tuesday afternoon officially closed RAC but opend EDS for the Exhange Facilitatiors.  We were to meet at the pool for an adventure that was to be a surprise.  We all gathered with Yida Pellerito, Mardina Knight, Christine Shuster, Suzanne Sturm heading up our group.  We boarded a bus for a short ride to a place called Skyventure.  Yida's idea was to experience indoor skydiving.  We were all exicited and nervous.  Let's just say our adrenaline was running just a liitle high.

Saturday a group of Redken facilitators participated in a finishing prep lead by Chris Baran we went through a few techniques like root tonging, spiral tonging, the Marcel wave and the frizz to name a few.  The Marcel wave was the best and my personal favorite. This excersize was to get us ready for the big Finish on Monday where close to 900 hundred Redken Artists from all over the world

Well its 9:28pm and I am just sitting down at my computer to write about the days events. I arrived in Orlando yesterday and am staying at the Peabody Hotel. I had to quickly check in and rush over to the Apple Store in order to have my iPhone checked out, again!