STATIC SALON OR FILM STUDIO...YOU BE THE JUDGE???

If you remember a few months ago, Static Salon was the host to ScissorBoy, an online instructional series for hairdressers that helps provide weekly episodes on all different hair dressing techniques. Three of these episodes were filmed at Static. At Last...one of the 3 episodes has been released.

Scissorboy Episode 44
Reverse Blending Technique Featuring Ivan Zoot
Clipper Guy is back in an action packed episode! If you cut hair in the professional beauty industry, 99% of the men's haircuts that you cut will be some sort of variation on the classic men's tapered cut. This cut takes 3 steps: back and sides are tapered, the top is layered and all blended together.
The blending is the hardest part of the cut, and Ivan shows you a "trick" technique called reverse blending, which eliminates the hardest part of the cut. If you get good at this, you can build business anywhere in America with solid haircutting skills.
This is what Ivan calls "classic barbering 101", so watch the video because you are in for a rare treat:
http://click.icptrack.com/icp/relay.php?r=79072871&msgid=918163&act=GTMR&c=371040&admin=0&destination=http%3A%2F%2Fscissorboy.com%2Fvideo%2F%3Fepisode%3D44

STATIC SALON....WHAT A SIGHT!!!

The other morning I drove my usual way to the salon, got stuck in the usual traffic at the usual spots on the freeway and then turned off Melrose onto Gardner as I usually do, but when I pulled to the usually broken meter in front of the salon, I didn't have a usual feeling! The sun was shining and the birds were chirping as I got out of my car I looked at the salon and felt so grateful and so proud. Static is a beautiful, fun, quaint, sassy, exciting and life changing place. I am so proud to be a part of this salon!

So, I decided to do the unusual thing...me and the salon, well we had a photo shoot. In all her glory, here she is.
This is the salon window seat, where else can you lean back, cozy up with the pillows and sip on your wine or coffee and chat with other clients and stylists all the while taking in the sun and waiting for your color to process??? I love this seat, many good stories are shared right here on this seat!

The Color bar, where we mix you up some sweet Paul Mitchell cocktails for your locks!

The Wash House where we indulge your senses with a relaxing experience that melts your cares away!

The Front desk (which we tiled ourselves) where you will always be greeted with a smile and probably a hug too!

The Steamers to speed your processing time up although we know you like to stay and play for hours on end, we also know that you have to work and pick up kids and do all the other things that life has to offer...

The front entry with our fun bench from the show Monster Garage (thanks Larry for this find), this also happens to be the photo shoot wall, many a photographer has walked by and asked to use this wall as a backdrop for their master piece.

The Iggy Pop shrine! How can you walk into the salon and see Iggy and not smile...

Some of the stations where the Static Stylists perform their magic and change peoples lives!!! This is where self esteem is created!!

For all those of you who have been to Static Salon before, you know what I mean when I said earlier that Static was an amazing place to be and for those of you that have now been on my salon photo shoot adventure, you are starting to see what a magical place Static Salon truly is!

WE LOVE YOU STATIC SALON AND EVERYTHING YOU STAND FOR! IT IS A PLEASURE TO STEP INSIDE YOUR WORLD EVERYDAY AND HAVE NEW ADVENTURES WITH YOU EVERYDAY!!!

MEET GABBY

Gabby is one of our many Grove Guests (meaning she works at the Grove) This was Gabby's first time into the salon and when she called to make her appointment she mentioned that she wanted Green and Black hair. Right away we were totally excited! We matched Gabby up with Greg and magic happened....Gabby has naturally black hair and had never had another color besides black in her hair, so, when she wanted to go ALL out and get GREEN, we knew that it was going to be a process. Gabby stuck in there and at the end we were all totally excited about her transformation to FUN!!!!!

PLAYING WITH BROOKIE

We at Static Salon feel so blessed because we have such wonderful people around us all the time. Brooke and her boyfriend Kurt and their friend Scott, own ThinkTank (a graphic company located directly above us). We have become like family because we see each other everyday and are going through starting new businesses on Melrose at the same time. Every chance we get we steal Brooke to try fun things on her. Then of course we always make her pose for a picture as well. Thanks Brooke for being such a great sport...we love you!!!

p.s. for those of you that are looking for a really cool graphic guy and web designer (they did all our stuff) check out ThinkTank at http://www.thinktankdesign.com.au/