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A post on beauty?  Here?  Call those ladies at the beauty counters that gave me funny looks when I said I didn't know what a primer was and they'll shake with laughter at the mere thought.  Furthermore I should destroy this category of posts having now met PROPER beauty bloggers that have me all mesmerised because they have The Knowledge that can magically separate a good lipstick from a crap one.  Still, I think i can just about manage a Thumbs Up post to a hair/beauty salon without hopefully needing too much technical nous and I am insistent this time on the Thumbs Up even if I might be talking complete cuckoo...

I don't have the locale knowledge to call it the best.  I don't even get enough haircuts to claim that everyone will come out with miraculously great hair.  I just know that Pas de Deux has become the salon whereby I will plan trips to New York around a time when this shaggy mane needs a hefty trim just to go in.  Obviously I'm not demanding with hairdressers which is why I'm rarely faithful to one particular salon in London - a 2-3 inches off and a trim of the fringe.  That said,beats headphones for cheap, even with a slight and subtle haircut, there's still a wealth of difference in technique to be found in amongst hair stylists and having been to Pas de Deux twice because of some lucky New York trip timing, I can say that Stella there is precise,cheap dr dre beats headphones, exacting and knows how to get a ruler straight fringe without jabbing your eye out.  I jest but I can recall a hairdresser who got over-enthusiastic with the shaving brush to get rid of the spiky bits of hair and ended up taking out my contact lens with her incessant brushing...

Pas de Deux's two hair stylists are Tomo and Stella and they're joined by two colourists as well as the famed Fumi,Coach Messenger Bags, who I know as The Girl Who Does Good Brows.  They're a crew who broke off from working at Prive in nearby Soho Grand and set up shop on their own towards the end of last year.  I followed The Girl Who Does Good Brows aka Fumi through emails which is how I ended up at Pas de Deux...

The feel of Pas de Deux couldn't be more different from the sheeny shiny and slightly corporate Prive.  There's an indoor reclaimed wood swing inside for a start...

I don't ask of heart palpitating decor when it comes to salons given my inexperience and because of my primary goal of coming out with a semi-straight fringe.  That said, Pas de Deux is lovely - rustic without it being twee with small vintage touches seen in the equipment storage that doesn't seem to overstate their love of the yesteryear. 

I especially love the blackboard which faces the hair washing basins.  Currently there's a lengthy review of Black Swan which actually spoiled the film a little last time I got my hair cut here, as I craned my neck to read the whole thing.  I'm all for blackboards with lengthy passages of text written on it so more of that please...

Like i said though, it is all down to the exacting trim/fringe maintenance and The Good Brow Lady that makes Pas de Deux a pleasure to go to rather than a chore.  Shame on me for finding salon epiphany in the wrong city but my irregular hair cutting does mean salon trips across the Atlantic isn't as ridiculous a notion as it might sound...

Though I am considering a twice-weekly visit during New York Fashion Week where I might get a hair gloss treatment just for the hell of it...

Yup, you heard right.  HAIR GLOSS treatment.  Am I defecting?  Is this the turning point?

Jumpin' for Jumpers

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>> I'm not a huge fan of rebloggin' other people's posts but I've been in a basement working like an elf all day long and have come up gasping for air and images like this are providing me with fodder to go "Ahhh...so this is what joy is?  Stringed up colourful jumpers encasing a person as though his/her life depended on it..."  Both Nicola Formichetti (stylist) and Gary Card (set designer) have recently blogged these images from what I believe is an unpublished set of images from Uniqlo's Holiday 07-08 'Crazy Cashmere' campaign,monster beats headphones, photographed by William Selden.  Formichetti and Card's Uniqlo work has always nailed a winning combination of managing to incite a smile on even the hardiest of scrooges from their toy masks shot on cute kids to the puppets constructed out of more of the colourful cashmere,cheap beats by dre studio headphones, again shot by Selden.  These images here don't rely on animal googly eyes or toy references but instead concentrate on the cashmere at hand by letting it to paint a picture mid-air.  Who needs a winter coat when a gazillion cashmere jumpers in a rainbow spectrum can just attack you simultaneously and make knots and tangles around you...

Subtle Repetition

It's true... I'm a sad act.  Ever since some girl back in year 12 set me the challenge of not wearing the same outfit twice (of course you can mix up components more than once... THAT would be an insane challenge...), I have more or less NOT worn the same outfit twice since going "Mufti" in year 12, tweaking combos, accessories and pairings but never really repeating the exact outfit twice.  Hence why I actually don't have a favourite outfit as such and seeing as I don't have one, I just try and come up with a new one every time someone asks me to ponder such question...

Nevertheless, that doesn't mean someone isn't going to be fooled into thinking "Hold up... you lying scoundrel... you've *gasp* worn that same outfit before!!!", purely because tried-and-tested colour combinations such as the one above - pale mint green and sherbet-y orange - collide time and time again, exemplified by my outfit today and an outfit last year prompted by Luxirare's shockingly stunning jacket.  My love affair with this colour combination actually began in good old Toppers (Topshop...) when in 2000,Coach Carly Handbags, they went all pale and pastelly one summer and I went mad with my Chinese New Year savings and came home with dropped waisted frilly dresses and skirts in those exact shades.  Since then these colours have come out like clockwork and I thwart the repetition loophole once again!  That is one big HAH to whoever it was that set me that slightly ridiculous challenge back in year 12.  This year, this combo has been significantly lifted by recent acquisitions such as this Sara Berman studded leather jacket that is ultra soft and is definitely an unusual colour in the scheme of all things leather.  Underneath, the peach flag is flown by a pleasingly oversized Lonely Hearts onesie that came back with me from down under as well as a surprise from Weekday who very kindly sent me the 'Wink' leggings from Laura Mackness' collection.  I may be stubbornly sticking to this silly bet that has pretty much informed my wardrobe for a decade but I'll allow myself some patterns of repetition... 

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Reading the Radar

>> I'm not a huge fan of Tumblr style/image-based blogging.  It's like the mental stream of consciousness without words and more often than not I'm presented with beautiful images but wondering why the person who posted it thought the image worthy of a spot on their Tumblr/blog or what not.  That said, I do recognise when said blogging method is effective.  I've spent a morning combing through Reed and Rader's portfolio.  Dripbook users will ve very familiar with this photographic duo and their animated GIFs have also been cropping up on Refinery 29, Fashin Fags and Dirty Flaws are a fan too.  They've been on my agenda for work purposes as well and I've been meaning to talk them up somehow on the blog.  I did think there should have been a more meaninful and purposeful way of doing it other than "Here are Reed and Rader's amazing pieces of work...enjoy". 

But actually, there kind of is no way of doing it... "robots, computer games and the internet" informs their aesthetic but from their wide ranging portfolio, you get more references than you bargain for, which are sort of impossible to articulate.

So... I guess there's nothing for it but erm... here are images by Reed and Radar...err... ENJOY!

 

 

 

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