Hi friends!

It’s been awhile since I’ve been able to hit you with a bit of education, this time with easy ways to use simple texture and lighting to create bolder looks.

Here we have Lindsey, with the most beautiful natural red hair I’ve had the pleasure of running my fingers through! Her hair is very long, with minimal layering, and stick straight. Most red hair I’ve run in to has had some sort of texture, whether it be a frizzy texture, curls, waves. But hers is the only smooth texture I’ve worked with. The inspiration for the collection was to light large silhouettes and shadow the models and their bodys, creating a focus in shade, shadows, and color. Here is Lindsey’s hair on a previous shoot that I just ironed the last 2 inches.

I don’t like to make life complicated with having 30 trillion steps to create things. If it takes to long, I won’t do it. If it’s too involved with multiple processes, I will check out. That goes for cutting, coloring, and dresswork. And that mindset was no different with this collection. We took what we had, and what we’ve already known, or done, and applied it to a new collection. Lindsey’s hair being so straight, we need a quick way to build texture. Almost like a crimp.

Now let me side track for a moment and tell you about my car. It is cluttered. Very very cluttered. Full of many items from documents, extension hair, books to some clothes, tools, spray paint, fabric. So we get to Jake Garn’s house for this collection and realized that we had forgotten product (hairsprays and all involved), and bobby pins; both scoring high points in the ‘necessary for a photo shoot’ catagory. How did we not think of it?? Not really sure. So in our minor panic, I thought for a moment . . .’I bet my car has all these items’! AND, ‘Maybe there is a crimper in there too?’. Keep in mind, we’ve never used a crimper for our photos, so why on earth would there be one?

Back to the process. . .

So we go out to my car to find tools, and I’ll be damned if everything we needed, plus a waffle iron crimper, was there. This is why I’m constantly reminded that EVERYTHING ALWAYS WORKS OUT!! To style Lindseys hair, we simply took half inch horizontal sections, starting and the bottom of the head and working upwards, while spraying Paul Mitchell’s Worked Up hairspray on each section before ironing. After all hair was ironed, we let it cool off and then brushed through the hair, adding a bit of back-brushing on the interior (between the temple and recession of hairline all the way around the head). Once we completed, we added a stronger spray, yet still workable, to smooth down the fly-aways around the silhouette of the shape. Here was the result: 

Lindsey was the first girl of the night we shot. And we immediately got excited when we saw the raw images on the computer. Not originally planned, we then grabbed some of the newly discovered bobby pins from my car, folded the hair underneath, bobby pinned it in to her nape area, to get another shot for the collection. We’re so glad we did!! Look and see:

Has a bit of a dark, Asian vibe I feel like.

Do enjoy the collection and let me know of any question you may have regarding hair dressing!

-Steven

Credits:

Photography: Jake Garn

Hair: Steven Robertson and Janae Johnson

Make Up: Paula J. Dahlberg

Model: Lindsey Maxwell