All About Beauty Show

This past weekend the entire salon went to the all about beauty show. It was two days with the first day as a trade show with various presentations on spring and summer trends in hair ,make-up, and clothes. The instructors were amazing and was tons of fun.(and we even got to have a lunch break, this is an exciting and rare event for hairstylists.) The second day We all went for hands on training.(very expensive, but well worth it!!) Jen and Jeff trained with Guylaine Martel from Montreal and Loved it, Loved it, Loved it! A Master Series Cutting class showcasing the hottest looks for spring and summer. She is an amazing International stylist and very inspiring. Stacy Trained with another french artist named Carmen who has been doing hair for nearly 40 years. She was brushing up on all the latest updo techniques and styles for this years fashion shows, grads, parties and weddings. Quinn and Sheryl Trained the entire day with celebrity hairstylist Micheal Shawn Corby. Who travels the world and whose clients include Reese Witherspoon, Lindsay Lohan, Pete from Fall Out Boy, Rosario Dawson, Nicole Ritchie and so on.... The girls spent an actioned pack day learning new cutting and styling techniques to bring them to the next level.
(check out this link of him http://makeovers.ivillage.com/new-look/0,,9l8qlmbd,00.html)
Over the course of the next few weeks we will meet and share with one another everything we have learned at the show as well as what we pick-up in Toronto and put together our elysium spring collection called FLOW.

Can't wait!!! See you at the salon.

Contessa 17 2006 Alberta Hairdresser of the Year

These are the images That won 2006 Alberta Hairstylist of the Year. This was one of the easiest and most relaxed photo shoots we have done to date. The photographer was awesome Christy Dean at www.bluefishstudios.ca very organized, quick, diligent and creative. Andy Dos Anjos did all the clothing styling and last but not least hair was obviously done by the elysium hair army. These photo's evoke so many different emotions from people that they truly border on being a piece of art. The inspiration is a Victorian ship wreck. We wanted to capture the moment of them being washed up on shore and allowing the viewer
a glimpse of what their life might have been like, obviously with an elysium twist. I think one of the coolest haircuts we have ever done is on melony the copper head girl with the shaved line behind her ear. Very edgy but some how she stays femine and pretty at the same time. Also Fernando the guy with the shaved cross in his head I just decided to shave the cross in his side and sent him to wardobe.... when he came back he had a tattoo of a cross on his chest that I did not know about, very cool.

(BIG FAN OF THIS SHOOT!)