Myspace does have its moments. For example, my friend Molly advised me to add xxx Salon as a friend and to subscribe to their blogs as they often would advertise special events and model calls. When I was younger I was asked to hair model once but couldn't or wouldn't for some reason. It's been a while.

My hair is particularly good for this sort of endeavour because it's never been colored (I did tint it a few times about 10 or more years ago) and it's long, a little wavy, and great to work with. It's like a blank slate, essentially, and I've been letting it grow out over the last few months while trying to find a new hairdresser and/or get some hair inspiration.

So xxx Salon did post a myspace blog post calling for hair models. It was just for cutting and they advertised that it COULD be very short or even styled in a very elaborate manner. I needed to open to bangs, layers, all that fancy stuff. I was to submit a picture of my hair and my phone number, they would confirm or release me by 4pm the same day. I had Demoyne take front and back pics and emailed them round 8am.

At noon the salon owner called me, told me I had beautiful hair, and asked me if I had any preference. I told her no, that the short might not be flattering given my round face, but I was essentially open to whatever they'd give me ("kids, it'll grow back"). I excitely shared the news with a few co-workers and tried to contain my excitement for the rest of the day.

xxx Salon is very cool. It has a great reputation in the city, is known as a very hip place, and the owner is a stylist to the stars. I'm not going to post the name in this blog. They did a great job and I have no complaints, but I'm just being discreet. I will recommend this salon to anyone, but for this post I just feel more comfortable not. Watch this space as I will likely go back.

After class I headed out and settled in where I immediately started my model-like behaviour--I drank a fifth of whiskey, assaulted an assistant, snorted a few lines, insulted everyone around me, and promptly passed out in the corner drooling and vomiting on a 10000 couture gown. Well, no, but I did some phone texting. I was brought a glass of cucumber water (told you it was classy) and settled in with my knitting.

It was to be a workshop for the staff. We looked at several pictures of runway and hairshow styles and the stylists talked about what designs to look for in the future, what people were asking for, what people didn't want. Posh's hair is referred to as the "pob." There's a new shoulder length. Stylists should not be afraid to tell the clients that the style isn't right for them. Layers look better when cut this way, rather than the other way. Modern styles reflect both 40s and 80s elements. Here's a good method to fix last season's popular style. It was a lot of information, and I learned a lot about the technical and artistic aspects of hairstyling. At one point the owner turned to me and aked if I was overwhelmed. I sure was! But it was valuable information, it will help me in the future to figure out styles that work for me.

There was only one other model, and she had a layered cut that they "fixed," and then proceeded to give her a second cut and style. I was next and was used as a blank canvas. The staff were asked what they'd do with my hair and it was debated and discussed--seriously, there were many opinions given, and decisions defended. I ended up with a nice blunt cut (seen here) that was flat ironed like crazy. Really, my hair has never been that straight. I was surprised they didn't want to do layers as EVERY time I get layers cut. I like it; it's simple and easy to care for, but has a lot of potential to be more.

I left my address and yesterday received a gift card for future services. I'll let you know how it works out when I go back.

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