The TEALS in “Hair ’s How”
September/ October 2009
Page 71 - 77
As well as
Page 67 top right corner
ABOVE & BEYOND
HAIR: The Teals MAKE UP: Lindsey Avenetti
WARDROBE: Elianna Bar-El & Kristen Beery
PHOTO: Taggert Winterhaulter for Purely Visual
“STRONG HAIR
These images certainly are strong… In cut, color, styling and shape. Even the finished photos fight to be noticed. Take a cue for this season’s upcoming looks and train your arsenal of skills to bring out your strengths. Find inspiration from these over the top looks that you can use to separate your work from the rest.”
The biggest comment I get is, “I would never wear that hair style!” DUH. I mean, come on, just because I am a hairdresser does not mean that everything I do needs to be wearable. Does every painting or every picture need to be hung on your wall?
Let’s ask Dianne Arbus or Salvadore Dali?
I dare not compare myself to such artists, but I do wish that clients as well as hairdressers could except our Art as Art, and except what we do behind the chair as our Craft.
Anyhow, for those of you who don’t know, we all practice Martial Arts in my family. The Samurai influence came from that including the fact that I am a video gamer. I was playing a lot of War Craft, when the inspiration came to me.
(What was I thinking?)
Kacey - I have to say Kacey is a Pro. That hair piece on her head was made out of chicken wire and it was jabbing into her skull, but she still pulled off this amazing shot. I think she looks like an Amazon. She stands like 6′ 9″ and with the hair she was like 9 feet tall. This is one of my personal favorites.
Chris - Chris was our “pitch” hitter. We called him at 6 o’clock on Monday, when the male model we had booked was a “no show” and we were to be out of the studio by 8 o’clock. Chris drove in 45 minutes to be here and pulled off this shoot in the bottom of the last inning with only minutes to spare. Chris, by the way, is a pitcher for the Chicago Cubs.
I think he looks like NEO and I am a nerd.
Candace - The inspiration for this shot was Afro Samurai, as in the new video game with Sam Jackson. I saw the hair in a clip and wanted to recreate the look of a flowing Afro. DeAnnalyn tied the rope around the bottom which gives it the whole hair tie feeling.
This is wig made out of that cheap weaving hair (that you get from Sally’s Beauty Supply) that I backcombed and dipped in wood varnish.
Adazoe - I love working with Adazoe. She is super hip, and even has her own vintage clothing store in Portland. We used her last year and decided to use her again this year. It is something about her eyes makes the character sing. We met Adazoe on the set of an LG Flat Screen commercial and we became fast friends.
This is a recycled bit from last year’s shot that we sewed together, backcombed and dipped in wood varnish.
Meridith - David, the photographer, found her on Model Mayhem. She had little or no portfolio to her name. Originally, we were going to use her only for the Color Collection, but when one of the models needed to leave in a hurry, Meridith stepped in and gave us this shot. Personally, I think this is up there with some of the best stuff D and I have ever done.
This hair piece is made out of wefts secured to a piece of drywall sandpaper, than cut to expose the color.
Kasey - This is Kasey again, the same model as in the first image. Yes, that is her real hair. The sword in the shot adds to the intensity. I like the pose.
Errienne - Was actually a Beauty School student of mine who we shot with last year. I like to tell her that we use her only to make all of the other models look prettier. But really, she is beautiful. In this photo, as well as in last year’s photo, it is her right hand that makes me love her. She does that thing with her index finger, and that I think is so real.
This was one of the tougher pieces to make. I think it took me close to 50 hours. That is actually hair that I created into a bamboo helmet. Suffice it to say that it would take almost as many hours to explain how I did it.
This is on page 67 of the magazine as well. LeAnne Marshall made the collar.
Thank you for reading.
ryan teal
TEAL salon