For a while now, stylists have been educating clients on how to take care of their hair.  This began as far back as Cleopatra and her amazing bangs and black henna. You know she had an awesome stylist!!!  What wonderful style!!  The latest hair care philosophy is to use any gentle, sulfate-free shampoo from the Deva Curl, Unite, or Kevin Murphy hair care lines, and not to shampoo every day.  This allows not only your natural oils to balance out, meaning not over produce and cause oily hair, but also the oils to work their way down a bit and naturally condition your hair.  It also means you're not breaking down your hairs' naturally occurring keratin and hence causing breakage.  I have seen a great improvement in my clients’ hair because of this.   It has allowed many people to grow out their hair to lengths that they hadn’t been able to reach in the past.  It has cut down on frizz in curly and coarse hair and allowed people to color their hair who otherwise were limited by the fragility of their hair.  However, I am noticing something else; their scalps are suffering.  

          Who knew that poor scalp health would be the outcome of this? I think that like most things, some people like to take things to the extreme.  Like, " just how long can I not shampoo and not have gross hair?"  Surprisingly you can go for a good while without it.  Some people have even resorted to only rinsing and conditioning.  This is something that guys are infamous for.  Don’t lie, we know who you are!    Yes, these things may help your hair become stronger and shinier and less frizzy, but as a result it can also cause your scalp to become coated and suffocated. In some cases it can potentially lead to hair loss or finer, thinner hair (the very things you may be trying to avoid in the first place.)  It can even cause flaking.  Oftentimes people mistake this for dandruff but this is not necessarily so.  Dandruff is yellow, flaky, waxy, and caused by a fungus that prefers oily hair as it linked to yeast that grows in oil.  At this point lots of people think that they need a dandruff shampoo.  Dandruff shampoos may kill the fungus, but if you are taking good care of your scalp in the first place, fungus shouldn’t be growing there.  This is where good care of your scalp come into play. So what’s a girl or guy to do?  Friction!  When you do shampoo, try to give your scalp some lovin’!  Take a minute and give yourself a really great scalp massage while shampooing.  This is of course while using a sulfate free or no sulfate shampoo right?  Think of it as you would a cleanser for you face.  If you use a crème cleanser you probably take a minute and really massage it in and around. You’ll notice that it exfoliates from the friction from your fingers, not from just a sudsy foamy cleanser.  While I am shampooing my clients at the shampoo bowls I have a system.  I start on the sides and work in a figure eight pattern.  I then move towards the back and the sides and then work my way to the front, the top, and the back again (all in figure eights.)  You don’t have to do it my way, but I recommend you invent a system so if you zone out in the shower you'll be less likely to forget to really massage your scalp. 

         So here we are at yet another stage in how to better take care of our hair and look even more fabulous.  Who knows what will be next, but now is the time to start taking care of your scalp.  A healthy scalp means healthy hair. So, let’s do it!

Voodoo Hair Lounge will have professional body paint artist, Star Oakland in the salon this Friday and Saturday doing face painting for the Halloween holiday. Star was one of the featured artists at our Last Saturday art party in August, and has had photographs of her work displayed in the salon since then. She worked for twelve years in Los Angeles, and has been featured in Ameca, an Italian fashion magazine, AustrAlasia magazine, The London Press, M Celebrity, and Yogi Times.  In 2004 the BBC covered Star’s work in a television show called Heaven Earth, she was also featured on the Discovery Channel in a documentary about famous body painters.  Star painted performers for an Ice Cube and Mack 10 music video, performed a live body painting for singer Perry Ferrell’s birthday party and painted popstar Beth Heart for her appearance on The Late Show with Jay Leno.

So come by this weekend, bring the kids, and get some paint to compliment your Halloween Costumes!

Green Runway Fashion Show

This Friday, Voodoo stylists will be styling hair for the Green Runway Fashion Show. This new era benefit is dedicated to raising awareness, action and resources to localize Boulder’s energy future. The New Grid presents The Green Runway, a benefit for New Era Colorado. Inspired by the annual Telluride AIDS Benefit, this theatrical fashion show reveals a wide array of sustainable clothing from couture and avant-garde to active and everyday casual. For 70 minutes, a union of local volunteers will model these progressive collections in highly choreographed dance routines strung together by a seamless, fast-paced beat that communicates the influence of energy efficiency.

Doors open at 6:30. The show begins at 7:30. Tickets start at $35 and can be purchased online at bouldertheater.com.

After the show, catch a free ride on the New Era Bus to and from the Prop Gay Studio 54 theme dance party at the Southern Sun (bus runs hourly from 10pm-2am).

Voodoo had the opportunity to work with the wonderful ladies at oneseam to style hair for an eco-fashion shoot for their newly launched website. It was on location in Evergreen, CO, although it was no nature shoot!  There was a cool old gravel making factory, that had all these abandoned buildings and fun places to take pictures that we shot at.  They had some really rad clothing!#*,  some even by Gretchen Jones, the winner of this last seasons project runway.  It was a blast working with these ladies.  Check out the pics we took from the shoot… Here’s a sample, others can be viewed in the event photo section on our website. Enjoy!!!!

www.oneseam.com

Oneseam is a new interactive shopping experience connecting women with high fashion’s eco-innovators—designers who are dedicated to leading style movements, but are thoughtful about the environment. We’re looking for visionaries—those who are passionate about fashion that makes women look and feel uniquely fantastic

Our grand opening party was a blast, to see more photo’s check in the event photo section of our website. Many thanks go out to all our friends who helped the party go off without a hitch. DJ Booty Buster put the new house sound system through it’s paces, and kept the place rock’n all night long!  A special thanks goes out to all our gorgeous and patient models who let us do our voodoo on their hair and make up, as well as our wonderful local  businesses who chipped in with their very unique Boulder offerings.

Brie and Sally from Alchemy Mineral Blends for doing an amazing job on the make up for our “Dia de los Muertos”  models.
http://www.alchemymineralblends.com/

Book Cliff Vineyards for the incredible libations. http://www.bookcliffvineyards.com/

Leaf for the yummy appetizers. http://www.leafvegetarianrestaurant.com/

The Cup for the delicious cupcakes and late night coffee. http://www.thecupboulder.com/