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....

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!

Well Mercedes-Benz Fashion Week for the season Fall/Winter 2008 is a week away and I look forward to giving everyone a update on what to expect from the hairdressers point of view. This is my 12th year doing fashion week and I always look forward to it. I am also going to be on the Project Runway team on Friday the 8th its great energy and fun to see the designer’s final looks.

My friend Nicole and I went shopping yesterday. We went to Woodbury Commons in New York State just off exit 17 on the thruway. We were on the hunt! We both love just going from store to store putting the things we might consider buying on hold with the sales people for a couple of hours. This gives us time to look for other fabulous finds and not to make snap decisions. Then, we’ll go have a cup of coffee and the debating begins. We discuss the pros and cons of everything we put on hold, and decide whether or not to return to claim our booty.

I am so happy to have my website available again. I did not appreciate the last one I had until I let it lapse, and didn’t have access to it. I guess its a lot like so many things we get used to and don’t really appreciate until they are gone. Appreciation is a good word to start 2008 with, I look back at 2007 and with appreciation I look at the real learning and growing year it was, I got to visit Singapore and Chile through Redken and experience it with my good friend Justin Issac, what a gift.