Preparing for the upcoming editorials.

A few weeks ago, I designed the hairstyles for Celia Kritharioti’s runway show for the Madwalk Fashion Rocks event. It was a last moment assignment so I spent a week without hardly any sleep, to prepare. The combination of lack of sleep/food with inhaling massive clouds of hairspray, was hallucinations-inducing.

Initial sketches and tests.

Back at the studio, preparing enough hair for 18 girls. The lineup of models kept changing and thus, the hair colors that were required.

6am call, I fell into an assembly line trance, models sitting down, getting done, next.

I don’t remember much from that day, most of it I later saw in photos online.

18 girls in 13 hours, in a hairstyle that required 1 hour and 20 minutes, getting it down to 45 mins for each model, with the help of the assistants that my agents got for me. When it was over, I felt exactly as if I was drunk. Loved it. Fell inside a taxi and slept the way home.

[Big thanks to Giorgio Constantine and Haris Farsarakis for their awesome backstage photos, scattered in this post.]

I have an extensive vintage combs collection, this type is my favorite and quite rare. You kill three birds with one stone; comb, tease and section, all in one tool. And if they’re made of lucite, I’m in lust. Ah, they don’t make them like they used to.

Researching the old ways, the best ways.

Have had these GOLD blix nail things on my left hand for about a week now and as a direct result of it, have made many new friends and acquaintances. They really are a conversation piece. Also, they are incredibly beautiful and easy to have. I gots mines dones at Νύχι・Νύχι. Tell them I sent ya.

Experimenting. And investigating the old techniques.

Researching and prepping some styles for an upcoming magazine shoot.

Prepping for Elle magazine shoot. Spring-summer 2011 trends, they asked for colorful ideas.

Very excited to use my 1930s metal curlers to set this custom lace wig, after I dyed her pink. They are genius, because they continue to generate heat into the hair, long after you remove the wig from the dryer, giving a stronger hold.

Hair I dyed and processed for a customer, to use on her projects.
Canary yellow yak hair, gold human hair and silver turquoise mohair.

So many hair types, each with it own distinct behavior and reaction to water, heat and products.
Each bundle came from a different person’s head, carrying the history of what they ate, how they felt, where they lived, the cocktail of their race mix.
Hair is a veritable biological cultural capsule of time and history.

Pimping out my beautiful boy. #cork
He now looks like a bathroom scale.

unbeknownst to me, there was this little blog post.

http://www.miss-athenes.net/?p=3906

Preparing something. A formula. NOTHING to do with YataFix. Something else.
I hope I don’t get myself blown up in the process.