All about Karen Kawahara

makeup artist: Karen Kawahara Most people don't wind up powdering celebrity noses by a fluke. But for Kawahara it "just kind of happened." After working as an Ann Taylor saleswoman, she got a job 13 years ago as neceptionist at Armondo Salon in L.A, filling in occasionally as a makeup artist. "I'd never done it before and was self-taught through trial and error. I would put makeup on someone and go, 'Ew, that doesn't work!' and take it off!" But eventually she started liking her work, and so did others. Her first celebrity client was Sandra Bernhard, who hired Kawahara to do her makeup for an appearance. "She got compliments and I started getting booked on jobs," Kawahara says. "Most makeup artists get experience working on models, but I worked on real women, so I developed extra tricks for correcting flaws and enhancing what's there." Her expertise has brought her stars from Hayek to Claire Danes to Meg Ryan.

Karen's trademark Though she hasa light touch, she doesn't confine herself to one signature look because 'each woman is different and her mood and style changes day to day. Good makeup requires an integrated approach, complementing hair and day. Good kaeup requires an integrated approach, complementing hair and clothes," she says. "With a forties dress we might do red lips [as on Julianna Margulies, below]; for a sexy mood, sulty lashes and eyes."

Her philosophy More does't mean better. "A few dabs of color is enough for a face most of the time," she says. "I see women piling on makeup in airports and restaurants or in the car. Every woman looks best with a fresh, clea face and a bit of lively color. You want to enhance what you'v got, not cover it all up."

Karen's Tips and Tricks For Makup

• Enhance skin tone with tinted powder. To even out your complexion, dust translucent powder over sheer foundation. If you're sallow, use a pink powder, try yellow if you're ruddy.
• Find the right undereye concealer. Choose a moisturizing formula for delicate undereye skin, not a drying one meant for blemishes. To offset any blue cast use concealer with a peachy tone for light skin or red for dark skin. Anything too yellow will give the area an unflattening greenish hue.
• Blend shadows well."Your eyes don't look like part of your face when colors are just sitting on top of the lids unblended," she says. Soften hues more by brushing translucent powder over them.

The Look of CHANEL

The day before a fashion show is usually a designer's sweet hell, A waterfall of coffee and a flatbed of cigarettes fuel a fitfully controlled frenzy of pinning, preening and purging  Request to interview a designer the day before his runway show? Why not ask for front-row seats to the Oscars while you're at it? Your odds are about the same. Unless you wan to talk to Karl Lagerfeld. In fact the instructions are to come see him while he's doing final fittings, when he's more relaxed. Less than 24 hours to go before the show, yet in Coco Chanel's legendary studio whith the mirrored curved staircase, two veteran fashion editors, who are also close frends, are hangging out. Rock is playing in the background. The design and production teams are milling about but ready; no pins in mouths, no voices pitched up a third. Seated at a long table, waiting for the next model to get dressed, Lagerfeld is playing with a dozen or so rings precatiously perched near his knuckles since he is also wearing driving gloves, "I think I lost one of them. Either a Buccellaty or Chrom Heats. I'm sure it fell off in a shopping bag somewhere," says the designer. "I should ask some one to find it." While he agrees the rings might say put if it weren't for the driving gloves, he says it's not worth giving them up. "Why do I wear them? Because I'm ne."
    But Lagerfeld is no more disturbed about the missing ring than he is about his imperding presentation. "Why should I be? We are professionals here," he says with abrupt matter-of-factness. "This iconic image of the designer running around, furiously draping dresses into the night, is ridiculous. Because you are in a panic doesn\t mean you are creative. It means you are not organized. How can you run a business like that?" As he speaks a model comes out. Without taking a breath or shifting position, Lagerfeld sticks this arm in ther direction and says in French that someone should shorten the skirt, It's making her look matronly. "You see," he says, "this is why you have to be organized, You need time to review, to change. Fashion can't always be about impulse. You need to plan."

    Chanel's plans have worked out beautifully since 1983, when Lagerfeld became Hair designer."The name was middle-aged," he says. "But at least it had and image. An archive. Some of these names they want to revive have nothing to recapture." By reintepreting, renovating and refreshing, Lagerfeld has made the house's bags, shoes, pins, jewelry, couture and,, of course, Chanel jacket more covetable than ever. With this gloved hand he brushes off taking credit. "Fashion is not about these two or three weeks.That's only 5 percent of the year.You need people who understand their jobs. You can make a great collection, but who cares if your company doesn\t know how to maket it or to sell it? I don't think success in fasthion is any secret. It's what happens when people work together well.|

    Lagenfeld has played welll with others for more than 50 years. "It's because I don't take myself too seriousely," he says. "I don't do this to achieve things, to enhance my social life, or make more money. I have no ulterior motive. Fashion is a greet way of life, I am not a frustrated artist. On the contrary, when you design you are working class." And the work continues, with the new backing of his Lagerfeld Gallery collection (by Tommy Hiffiger), his riotous onetime-only H&M stint, and, this season, a venture in menswear. "But not for me to wear," he insists. "I design my nightshirts. Otherwise I design for others. I prefer to be a client, to shop, to go from there to ther. I am perfect for the world of fashion becuase I propose, then I buy, I think I do both thins well. Where is the next girl? And where is that ring?"

How to manage the time of the busy days

Friday, Saturday, Sunday alway are the best busy day of a hair stylist. If you have a lot of customers, and will get more and more,  you have to learn how to say no to your customer and pretend wasting your customer's time.
There are 2 ways to do this.
No.1 Give your card to them, and tell them that it's better to get a reservation before them come.
No.2 Raise your price and you worth.

Why do i use the hair straightener in salon?

= As we know, a hair straightener is a tool which is designed to straighten out the hair. it's a popular tool to make a straight hair style at home, and it's not a new thing in decades. Actually, this tech works since 1700s. i always use a hair straightener to straighten out the hair of customer who want to make a staright hair style afer drye her hair with the hair dryer.
Customers offern comes to my salon to ask for make a straight hair for them with chemical. Chemical straighteners are also quite old, and will damage by changing the structure of the hair. But it easy to set a straight hair style for a long time. After chemical, a hair straightener is also necessary too.

Make a Hairstyle for your Dog!

Sometime people come to me for a help: make a hairstyle for his dog! It's not joking. Ofcause i don't want to got a bite.So, i always suggest him to cut the hair for her dog by himself.

I collect some dog hairstyle pictures bellow.

No.1 lion dog hair style: style your dog as a lion, if the hair of dog is not engh, please try a wig.

2. Lady Dog Hairstyle: the point is trying to make up your dog with band, cloth and accessories.

  

3. Fashion Dog Hairstyle: just copy the most in celebrity's hairstyle to your dog!

Top 5 Hair Dryer Tips in Salon

Hair dryer is the best tool to dry the hair of customer after cleaning, and it's also a important tools for hair styles. There are 5 tips from the experience that we use it in Salon everyday,

1. Choosing a hair dryer:  more powerfull is great, more setting is great, the high quality is required, don't choose the cheap one, please choose a perfessional hair dryer.

2. Before using your hair dryer:  Dry your customer's hair with towel as dryer as possible.
3. Dry the hair:  Hair drying with the head upside down, and be sure not to blow on one place with the hot air over 3 seconds.

4. Styling the hair with hair dryer: keep styling on drying hair.

5. Hair dryer attachment: you should know how to use hair dryer attachments, it will help.

Missing Whitney Houston Forever

Whitney Houston (1963 - 2012)

Whitney Houston is my best favorites singer and celebrity. When i was young, I had ever been listenting to her songs every night for serveral years, and now her songs also easyly take me back to yesterday,

Missing her smile, her voice, her movements and her hair styles.

The Six Basic Ways to Use your Barber Scissors

The barber scissors is the most important tool for a professional hairstylist, please choose one which to suit your hand and easy to handle it.

With the development of haircut art, there are the six basic ways to use your barber scissors for haircuting..

1, Direct Cuting: Direct cutting is one of the most widely used methods for trimming a hair style.

2, Slicing: Scissors will commence a "V" shape on the decline, scissors will closed, for the weight but keep the length of hair removal.

3, Edging: The blade of scissors as the use of the cutting knife to create the texture of the haircut.

4, Point Cutting: The tip of the scissors and form the hair with a small angle.

5, Twist Cutting: Reversing the hair and then cut the hair form slide or back, remove the haircut's weight and length.

6, Back Cutting: The direction of the scissors toward the hair root slip cut or cut back and forth sliding in the middle of the hair piece to add texture and softness.

How to modify your face shape by using haircolor

Oval face:
Staining Review: Stain the whole head dye without concern, as long as the face on both sides to retain the darker color is more attractive, more persuasive, to highlight the elliptic.
Fashion Tips: closely linked to the wide collar collar collar or highlight a perfect oval.
Square face:
Staining Review: prominent facial hair around the jaw bone, light coloring to express the depth level. Edge of the part is not too bright color, hair color, the outline of the long hair is not too shallow, or the outline of the face, it is not easy to be asked out.
Make-up Tips: focus on softening the hip bone part, and positive surrounding site should use dark colors in order to eliminate the harmonic square jaw line.
Oblong face:
Staining Review: dyed hair color of the cheeks on both sides of a lighter color than the top of the head on both sides of a deeper level, highlights some of the color of the forehead and bangs.
The apparel Tip: try to avoid the V-neck or straight neck. Elongated face, wearing a high collar.
Makeup tips: Take a short face, the deep dark foundation or blush on the cheeks, chin part of both sides.
Heart face:
Staining Review: infected with the darker hair above the ears is the balance of light-colored stain, look at the bottom of the hair, it will give the following face relatively extensive bone.
Clothing Tips: V-Neck, heart-shaped neckline to show beautiful heart-shaped face.
Makeup tips: the chin area significantly brighter.
Round face:
Staining Review: You can try dyeing range is concentrated near the forehead and head position can make the face look slender, her hair, the two sides face dyed darker, to make the cheeks look thin.
Clothing Tips: to avoid the mouth of the high-necked round neck, V-neck collar and a straight line is more appropriate.

First article from a hair stylist

I am a hair stylist from Kentucky, this is my first blog, I would like here to record my experience on haircuts, and some ideas for customers to design the hair style. If you are a hair stylist as me , please leave your blog address to facilitate our exchanges.

Is well known that the fashion industry, the haircut styles trend of a variety of short hair, long hairtype, long hair, new hair layers of not seeking hair stylist for hair consulting services as a focus onproviding customers with at the same time, the most important thing is to provide the most appropriate service for our customers, and do not just impose our own ideas on ours customers. And how to do this, please follow my blog.


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