CHECK THIS OUT... Mert & Marcus

Do yourself a favor and spend the next 10 minutes ogling this AWESOME shoot for Vogue Paris, starring two of Mrs. Whites' all time IT girls Freya Beha Ericson and the fabulous Lara Stone.

Shot by Mert & Marcus and featuring designs from Philip Treacy and Givenchy its no wonder this Masquerade Black and White series Pops in all the right spots!

Vogue Paris is celebrating its ninetieth anniversary and this collection and others starring Lara Stone are well worth the purchasing price.

Hair Expo entrants check this out, its my tip for 2011........

Topshop Unique

Day two London Fashion Week.......BIG, FRIZZ, LOUD, SEVENTIES, BIG.

Topshop Unique have gone all out with there latest collection that was showcased at LFW.

The seventies glam fros and dead center parts were effortlessly worn by the waif thin fashion models. For the more vertically challenged amongst us I'd suggest a less triangular look.

The best way to achieve an afro is to use Large Ripple Pins. You can buy them at most hairdressing outlets, hair shops ect..........what your do is wrap a small section of hair, starting from the root, around the pin in a figure 8. This will take you a good 2 hours, and the smaller the sections the better the result. Use a regular bobby pin to secure the hair onto ripple pin in the figure 8. When all the hair is completed spray with hairspray and flat-iron every single woven up strand.

Allow to cool.............

Remove and begin brushing. Always brush the underneath first, then work your way to the top, its easier and more efficient.

Topshop Unique have added pastel pieces underneath. Another very effective tip is to cover a soft bristle brush in powder and brush through the fro. Its gives an added static effect that looks sensational and a bit spesh!

SHEAR GENIUS

Whilst researching topographic fonts on the weekend i stumbled across this.........

THE BEARD ALPHABET

I LOVE IT....... Do you?

HOW MUCH DO YOU REALLY LOVE HAIRDRESSING?

Wella Trend Vision ROKK n' BIBA

Monday night held the biggest event on the Wella Professional calender......The National Wella Trend Vision Finals.

Finalists from around the country battled it out for GOLD.

I'm proud to say that the Gold Award winners of the Young Talent category were Mariam Enegd and Trish Sousa, Biba.

and the Gold Award winners of the Colour Category were Marie Uva and Joey Scandizzo, Rokk Ebony.

The two teams will head to Paris later this year to represent Australia on an international level.

Having attended the Wella International Finals in Lisbon, Portugal back in 2008 I can first hand speak of the enormity and prestige associated with this competition.

Enormity, prestige and hilarity!!

Breakfast in the communal dining room.... Sweden, Greece, Uruguay......all huddling around the cornflakes and skim milk hushing there conversations, shielding their prize winning hair model with a head scarf and big glasses. i'm not even joking.

Basically it was euro-vision for hairdressers.

I loved it!

The competition is a once in a lifetime experience (or three times if your Marie Uva and Joey Scandizzo.... hopefully third time lucky!). With themes like Techno Poetry and Nomad Couture i have no doubt the interpretations given by some wacky Europeans will blow your socks of....examples below:

Theme: Natures Goddess

Hair Style: Sculpted hair into the shape of a bird, model wrapped in bark.

Theme: Midnight Stage:

Hair Style: Black sleek bob with stars bleached out of the fringe, model dressed in red velvet stage curtain.

It really opens your eyes to the caliber and quality of work produced in Australia.

I wish I was going, I hope Patrick Cameron is hosting the awards night again and above all I hope AUSTRALIA brings home the title!!!!!!!!

Best of luck to both BIBA and ROKK EBONY.

Me and Patrick Cameron at the Wella Trend Vision Internationals in Lisbon Portugal 2008

Uptown & Down

V Magazine

Photography: Maria Testino

Hair Stylist: Oribe

Hair Colour: Anthony Palermo

Hair Assistant: Judy Erickson

"GREY HAIR IS GOD'S GRAFFITI."..... Bill Cosby

"I'm not offended by all the dumb-blonde jokes because I know I'm not dumb... I also know I'm not blonde." Dolly Parton

Ombre baby

So have I been living with my head under a rock or is Australia the big rock under which i can blame my lack of hair/fashion terms?

OMBRE (insert a accent above the E, not sure how to do this)...........is a French word meaning 'shaded'. Colour graduating from light to dark.

Ombre is the word to describe the two-toned, regrowth, teased foils, grown-out, faded-out and washed-out looks that so many desire at the moment.

The look hit it big time back when Giselle was donning her fashionable regrowth and has stuck around......now the likes of Sarah Jessica Parker and Rachel Bilson pay big bucks for what bogans (or new mothers with no time to sit in a salon chair) can grow out naturally.

Im not suggesting you stop supporting your hairdresser, hug some trees and quit bleaching yourhair. I just find it ironic that wealthy women pay big bucks in top salons and come out with colour work resembling low-income earning women unable to maintain there colour.

Anyone else with me on this??

Irony aside, its a very cool look and i'll endeavor to find out which salons in Melbourne are best at doing this 'Ombre Colour' and at what cost.

Mrs.Whites' 2011 hair fantasy #1

This will be my farm look for 2011........shown by Siri Tollerod for the J.Crew Fall 2010 Lookbook.

It's a matter of glam

This is a fairly amazing editorial by Craig McDean.......styled by Edward Enninful.

Pay particular attention to the triple wig shot, blonde-black-red, where she's lying on the dunes foundling her neck pearls. Oh so fabulous and lush.