Absence makes the heart grow fonder...

I have had zero Internet since I moved!!! The will change come Monday. Incidentally, that is also my first day of work at my new job. I will give you a full report on that, talk about the Peerless Show on Sunday and show you something cool I found while I was moving. Miss ya! Les

Bitter Sweet

So after nearly six years of living in Logan, I have decided to move back to my hometown of Coalville. I am way excited to be closer to my family and move into a house just for me and ZiZi! That being said, I'm going to really miss my Logan family. I'll especially miss everyone at Studio 170! They have all taught me so much and I wouldn't be half the stylist I am today without them! Some of the best stylists in the biz, I tell ya.
I do have an exciting new job opportunity, though! I will be starting at Ooh La La in Park City on May 7th. I will be working Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday and alternating Saturdays. I'm so excited! Its so hard to start over and build a clientele from scratch but I can do it. I will also be working a day or two a week at my aunt's shop in Coalville. Let me know when you need me!
I promise to visit! I'll come up and make sure the Logan doesn't fall into a state of chaos without me here.

See ya on the flip side
Les

This Post was brought to you by:
-Two failed attempts at Eclair Cupcakes. No worries, I got another trick up my sleeve.
-Moni's Baby Shower tomorrow night!
-Getting to see my Same Birthday Bestie at said Baby Shower!

What I wish every week was like...

So I pretty much had the best week ever! Its felt like I am living in Music/Hair Heaven! My parents are awesome and got me tickets to see Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers for my birthday! I don't know how many of you know this, but I am obsessed with Tom Petty. The closest venue he was playing at was in Colorado. My brother and I road tripped it over there on Tuesday to see the opening night of his tour on Wednesday. It was amazing! Chase is the best brother ever for coming with me. Love you Buddy! Here is a video I took of him singing my jam!

Another awesome thing that happened last week? My college Bestie, Steph, came to see me at my parent's house! We colored her hair and hung out with my mama and the dogs. She has been rockin' the brown to blonde ombre and decided this time she wanted to do it in red! It turned out way pretty...
To round out my Week of Awesomeness, I had not one but TWO girls come in for Prom styles! This is Sydnee and she was ALL about the poof! Girl after my own heart, I tell ya...

This turned out so good! When she made the appointment, she just wanted curls but at the last minute changed her mind. I was, of course, happy to oblige! Next we have Mary-Kate...

JK! Different Mary Kate! Although I did get a kick out of thinking about funny Very Mary Kate jokes to myself all morning...

I hope the girls had fun at Prom! Mary Kate told me she was a "crazy dancer" which made me concernicus. I set my hairspray and bobby pinning abilities to Drag Queen Mode and went to work! If that didn't hold it, I don't know what will!

Like I said, awesome week! I will be making an announcement tomorrow. 90% of my viewers already know what it is but its nice to make a formal statement or whatever, ya know? I like to be official like that.

Peace out, girl scouts!

Les

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-Texas Caviar and Chicken Wings

-The realization that Zac Efron is hot if you scruff him up a bit and put him in Carharts

-Lexie's taste in men hahaha

Stella Lou and purple hair...

This is a Public Service Announcement from The Daily Do by Les:

Its never too early to start styling your hair!

Seriously, how freaking cute is that? This is my niece Stella and I did her hair last weekend. On another hair related note...Sarah and I got a little cray-cray at the salon today!

We did an ombre of a pastel purple in my bangs and into the longer side of my hair. Its pretty neat! I'm glad I finally did it. I'm thinking tutorial tomorrow...its about time!

Les

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-Friends

-Dinner with Candice, Jacie, Zach and the boys

Don't try this at home...

To preface this, our neighbors are super weird. Pretty much they should re-name our street Creep Street. Fo' real.

Gooch, her boyfriend Zach, Jacie and I were all eating some delicious ribs Zach cooked up for us when this scene was played out next door...

That would be our neighbor cutting her boyfriend's hair. When I last saw him, he had hair down the middle of his back. It is now what I can only describe as a collar length bob. Yes, I said BOB. It was like a train wreck...

I suppose I could have intervened but this was much funnier. And like I said, creeps. Please, please, PLEASE, go to a hairstylist, people! Or even a beauty school if you are being cheap. They only charge around $5 for a haircut and the students are watched pretty closely by an instructor.

About 2 weeks ago I had to fix a girls hair because her roommate convinced her she could cut it. I had to chop 4 inches of her hair off just to make it look decent. Also, it may seem like a good idea to just trim your own bangs in between haircuts. WRONG-O. Most hairstylist will trim their client's bangs for free between appointments and the rest charge $5 or less. You could find that in change from your car's cup holder.

Point of story, leave it to the professionals. There is a reason why I have to have a license to do this stuff.

Les

This Post was brought to you by:

-Ribs and Macaroni salad

-Karma (unrelated to the story above though)

-Gooch's emo hair I gave her today!

This has absolutley nothing to do with hair...

I have pretty much been living out of my car for 2 weeks. If a cop pulled me over, he'd point me in the direction of the nearest homeless shelter when he looked in my vehicle. Needless to say, the laptop hasn't always been traveling with me between Coalville and Logan.
On Friday, I did glitter toes for the North Summit Cheer Squad and should have taken some pictures! (Hey girls, if you are reading this- sometimes a toe or two will pop off. Facebook me if it has. I can fix it sometime this weekend!) They made me get in the summer mood, hence why I've been dressing like its 90 degrees outside for the last three days. Reality is, its only been about 55 degrees and actually snowed on Sunday. I'm freezing my ass off but I will persevere.
I decided to dedicate this post to Jacie, AKA Tammy the hair doll. It is her 21st birthday today! We all had work and what not but managed to go to dinner at Le Nonne and then have some cake! Jacie had a cake she wanted pinned on Pinterest...

Cute, huh? I am TOTES as good of a cake decorator as my sister, Katie so OBVIOUSLY my cake turned out exactly the same...

SEE?! Exact replica!

I am tre amazing...

Gooch loved the edible gold flakes

I forgot candles but I had a matchbook from the Wagon Wheel in Lava Hot Springs. Same diff, right? Oh, plus a toothpick. To make 21, duh.

Jacie: "Its kinda like the sparklers!"

Insert fastest rendition of "Happy Birthday" ever...

They wanted some cake, too. It was spice cake, so I gave in.

Happy Birthday Jacie Lin! Don't know what I'd do without you!

Les

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-Kitchen Needs

-4 cans of Big and Sexy hairspray for $25 at Peerless!!

-Betty Crocker

-Very Mary-Kate

I love what I do!

Have you ever looked at a toy in the store and noticed the kid on the side of the box looking like hes never been more excited in his life? Or wonder how all of those ethnically diverse children happen to be playing with the same toy at the same time?! Well, now I know how it all works! The last two day I have been working for a company that is developing a new line of toys. The toy line will be under the name "Puddle Jumper" and will be in Target. We also did some pictures for a line of RC toys called Ignite that has been out for a little while.
My co-worker, Carrie Purser, was contacted about doing the hair and makeup for this shoot but was way too busy to fit it in. She asked me if I would be interested and I was able to make it work. I had so much fun! We did it all right here in Logan at Dunker Imaging. Chris (the photographer) has a huge studio space that he and his wife (an interior designer) share. I didn't take a lot of pictures because obviously, I was working, but here is what I got...

The set the first day I was there
A couple of kids posing

A couple of the models, Ava and Emily

My work space at the end of the day!

I loved it and I don't mind working with kids (seeing as how I did it for a year and a half at CC). I hope lots more opportunities like this come my way in the future!

Les

This Post was brought to you by:

-Carrie Purser (for the job and for letting me use a makeup kit!)

-Oriental Ramen Noodles

-Scott and Sarah for letting me have a couple days off of work!

Bridal Faire

Today has been a long day...but the Bridal Show Sarah (Le Boss) and I went to was good! It was held at the Riverwood Conference Center and tons of people were there! I had to leave early because I'm a bit under the weather (Sorry Sarah!) But I did a quick up do on Jacie (Thanks Jace!) and snapped a few pictures...

This is completely not related but I thought this cake was way cute (even though its yellow)...

The other cakes and flowers at this booth were awesome, too. It was Lee's Marketplace! I would have never guessed this quality from a grocery store. I promise Lee's isn't paying me to say this...I'm just givin' credit where credit is do, yo! (That would probably be a poor investment of advertising funds on their part anyhow haha)

Check ya later!

Les

This Post was brought to you by:

-LOTS of medicine

-Ginger Ale

-Zi finally getting a haircut!

Katniss

Jacie (AKA Tammy the hair-doll) gets to go to "The Hunger Games" tonight! Not that I care, its not like I'm jelly or anything... She was kinda dressing up like Katniss so I quickly braided her hair! Katniss, in the movie, has a diagonal braid across the back of her head. The images I saw were a little more "outtie" than mine is but I think it turned out decent for a 2 minute job...

Can't wait to hear how the movie is! Hopefully I have something to post tomorrow, I'm currently in Coalville on dog sitting duty for my parents. Not much human interaction for me this weekend!

May the odds be ever in your favor...

Les

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-The Golf Channel (which was brought to me by Big D)

-new shoes my mama bought me for tending Lilly

-DrawSomething

Awesome New Service!!

Hola! So, for those that don't know, I work at a Bumble and bumble Salon here in Logan. I love it! They have a new line of products I'm pretty jazzed about (yes,I say 'jazzed'. I am aware I have the mannerisms of a 70 year old...). Its their Straight Line. They have styling products and also a smoothing treatment that is awesome!
I was the first one at the salon to try it and I was very impressed. The best part is it's formaldehyde, lye and cysteine free! Lots of smoothing treatments, like Brazilian Blowout, contain those ingredients and are about to be banned (seeing as how they are cancer causing chemicals, NBD).
Here's the part where you can pretend I took a before picture. I was too excited to do the treatment and forgot! Kimi's natural texture is tight, ethnic curls...

UPDATE!!! Kimi just sent me a before picture!!!

Super shiny, smooth and soft! It also locks in your color so it lasts a lot longer. Can't wait to do more of this service!

Les

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-Community

-ZiZi snuggling next to me

-Going to a baby shower for my friend Baillie that I haven't seen in a VERY long time

Fishtail

Ya know how fishtail braids seem tre hard to do? Guess what? They aren't! I'll show you...
I split the hair into two halves, thusly

Next I took a section from one side and crossed it over

And then did it to the other side

I continued it all the way down her hair...

Ta-dah!

There you go! I love fishtail braids. They speak to the part of me that sometimes wishes I had long bohemian, hippy hair. (Then it takes me like, a minute to do my hair and I remember why I love my short 'do!) Once I figured them out I was pretty much impressed with my awesome skills. Now you can be too! I mean, with your awesome skills though.

Dessert Wine is out...
Les

Hair Dos
-The smaller the sections you cross back and forth, the more intricate this will look
-Try to make the sections as even as possible
-Spread the braid out a little for a more "un-done" look

This Post was brought to you by:
-A fountain Pepsi
-Twilight:Breaking Dawn, AKA The Worst Movie I've Ever Seen

The Not-Knots

Raise your hand if you missed me! I'm back by popular demand Ladies and Gents. I just got done coloring Jacie's hair so I decided to do a couple of styles on her. I stole this style from my co-worker Hannah. I love when she does her hair like this. It looks like she knotted it but its just a little trick-a-roo.

To start, I back-combed her hair at the crown a bit...


She kept moving when I was trying to take this picture so I got angry and said "How dare you move, you are my personal hair doll. Hold still!" to which Jacie replied "OOO, what's my name then?!". We decided on Tammy.
I pulled Tammy's hair up like so and put it in an elastic...


Now here is the trick-a-roo part. I look a piece of hair from the ponytail and wrapped it around the elastic until its hidden and secured it with a bobby pin.

I do this to finish off most of my ponytails, it looks more finished and fancy. I then did another ponytail at the nape of her neck and wrapped the elastic.
(Don't mind Baylee, lookin all creepy in this picture. She's had a rough day..)

Hannah usually does three "knots"down her head. I love it and people always tell her how pretty it looks. Including me. I did another style on "Tammy" and also have pictures of an awesome new service I am going to be offering at the salon. You'll definitely be hearing more from me very soon!

Les

This post was brought to you by

-Jacie mauling the dog and talking baby-talk to her

-The smell of bleach (Top 5 favorite smells)

-the toothache I am developing right now...no bueno

At the heart of every joke is the truth...

I have been slacking at this so horribly! So to make up for it, I'm sharing this YouTube video my co-workers and I have been getting a kick out of. Not all of this is the truth but like the title of this post says...My favorite part? "Tell her not to come..."
Have a good weekend!!
Les

Trends 2012

A client of mine asked me what the trends where this year and it got my thinking, so I decided to write a little post!

Braids

All anyone can talk about these days are braids. Good thing I love'em!I thought this trend would start to wain but , if anything, its picking up steam!

Bobs

The haircut heard 'round the world...Jennifer Aniston's bob. I tell you what, this woman must crap gold. Anything she does sends women out in droves to do the EXACT same thing.

I luurve Rhianna's hair like this! A-symmetrical is becoming more and more mainstream and I have been doing this particular haircut a lot lately.

Pastel Color

This is a trend that I have really been digging. Pink, purple,blue, darker fading to light, light fading to dark, I've been seeing all of it! I particularly like it in the dip-dye or ombr'e style like in these two pictures.

(don't mind this creepy, eastern-European looking woman wearing a crop jacket for a shirt. Casually holding a kitten...)

Red

WOW this is blowing up here in Cache Valley! We had about 3 girls in the salon today with some variation of these colors. With this trend, (no matter if its a copper-red, vivid red, or red-violet) the key is for it to be as bright as possible! Only problem, its A LOT of up keep.

See ya!

Les

This Post was brought to you by:

-The World Best Chicken Noodle Soup, created by Candice(Gooch) Lee Evans

-ZiZi inability to get comfortable on my bed, which is driving me banana sandwiches.

-Cherry-Watermelon Kool-aid (so good, yummy!)