Project Selvedge

For the second week in a row, we helped out fellow Hip Strip business Selvedge Studio with the hair and makeup for Project Selvedge. This week their challenge was screen printing!

Retro glam with a screen print anchor! Ahoy!

Inspired by the red X's at the end of Higgins, this was the winning look!

Greek Goddess

This look had a little bit of a grunge/punk feel with a good girl on the inside ;)

All the lovely looks together! You can always check out their website for more info http://selvedgestudio.com and see the show live this Friday April 16 @ 7pm at Selvedge Studio.

The Amazing Abby!

I wanted to take a minute to introduce our newest addition to the shop. Fresh outta school, Abby won our hearts over as a model at the Avant-Garde Hair Show and is now part of the team as a Front Desk Assistant and our shop apprentice.
The awesome thing about having an apprentice at the shop is that it gives our stylists someone to rely on when they need assistance and also lets the apprentice be paid while they are continuing their education. Salons in larger cities usually require stylists to apprentice for a few YEARS before they are cutting hair on their own. I think we are lucky to be able to provide more hands on experience while getting a great addition to the team!

♥ BoomSwagger Crew

Project Selvedge

Last week we teamed up with fellow Hip Strip business, Selvedge Studio to do the hair and makeup for Project Selvedge. For those of you unfamiliar with Project Selvedge, think Project Runway with less Tim Gunn and more Matty...
We were lucky enough to be asked to contribute hair and makeup for the models and this last challenge was a doozy! All the clothes has to be made out of paper with additional points for use of recycled/reclaimed materials.

Here's a taste of what you may have missed...



Check out the Selvedge Studio website for more info www.selvedgestudio.com

Think Pink!

Most people are either too shy or too scared to do a dramatic pop color in their hair (for anything other than a party or Halloween) but it's a great way to stand out in a crowd. Speaking from personal experience, I have had the Roy G. Biv of hair color through out my life (IE: every shade of the rainbow). But as I started to get into "real" adulthood (early twenties you can still squeeze out of the adult category) my pop color became non-existent. I was too worried about what people would say about a 28 year old with green and blue hair. Could I really sit in a business meeting and be straight faced when my hair looked like a peacock? As it turns out, I could...


Granted, I have it easier because I work at a salon. But I feel like pop colored hair is no different then tattoos or eccentric clothing and within reason, should have a place in the everyday business world.

That being said, we had an amazing chica come into the salon today to try out a vibrant shade of pink. She was in the very capable hands of Morgan, who has had a few clients request pop-colors in their 'dos before. And it turned out awesome...


She was thrilled and I was happy to see another "adult" take the chance on some color.

♥ Kash & the BoomSwagger Crew

Happy (Almost) Birthday!

I cannot believe that we are soon approaching our one year anniversary at BoomSwagger Salon. On Friday April 2nd we will officially cross the one year mark here on the Hip Strip. The past twelve months have been an amazing time for our entire staff and everyones hard work has certainly paid off in a busy schedule and an amazing clientele.

YEA! HAPPY BIRTHDAY!

In celebration, we are going to reinstate the "Recession Special" on Mondays. You can get your hair done by an Advanced Stylist at Stylist prices...which means almost 20% less then you would regularly pay. This only applies to specific stylists, so please ask for the "Recession Special" when you are booking.

We are also going to give you 10% off any of our products when you buy three or more throughout the month of April.

It's our birthday, but you're getting all the presents :)

♥ BoomSwagger Crew

New Products and March Makeup Madness!

After a much needed break, we are back on the blog! The big news this month is the new line of Catwalk Curlesque products. You may be familiar with the previous "Curls Rock" line from Catwalk which had the devotion of most every curly-haired female I know. However, Catwalk has started to restructure and rework their entire line and Curls Rock has transformed into Curlesque. The packaging has a much more refined look and the products are better than ever.

They kept the formulas on their best sellers like the Curl Amplifier the same (I think they would have had a riot on their hands otherwise), but added some fancy science-y stuff to some of their new styling products. For example, they now have two mousses in the collection which have "Total Style Recall Technology". In layman's terms, you can scrunch your second day hair back to the original style without the use of extra products, water, etc.

Our manager Crystal's perm is looking more full and less frizzy with the new products. And even though it's been a good 20 years since she used mousse, she's already purchased the Strong Mousse and is carrying it around in her purse in case of hair emergencies.

To get the full rundown on the new product line check out Tigi's website.

Also, this month is MARCH MAKEUP MADNESS!!! Which means any of the awesome Bedhead makeup that we carry can be snatched up for a steal. When you buy any three or more products you get 10% off the whole sha' bang. (and who needs only one eye shadow anyway?)

♥ BoomSwagger Crew

Sucess!

Models, pre-runway show... We had 15 fabulous models that tore up the Badlander last night!

Sweet enough to eat! Brooke's model got a cotton-candy hair do and some candy sprinkle lips.

Models getting the rundown before the doors open.

Let's start the show!

Many thanks to every model, stylist, DJ, photograher, bartender and audience member who made this show such an amazing night for everyone involved.