DIY Nail Foils

Do you love the celeb style of Minx nail foils?
Well how about getting your own for a fraction of the cost.
Now you could go and pay to have them done by someone in a salon where you will be looking at paying £20 plus for the basic treatment or you could buy the foils yourself and apply them at home.

With lots of designs to choose from you will be spoilt for choice.

Dazzle nail foils are brilliant and only costs £5 for a pack of 16 foils, enough if you are careful to do 2 applications. They are suitable for either fingers and/or toes and can last up to 8 weeks on toe nails.

Each pack comes with instructions on the back of the pack and the tools you would need are a nail foil and a small pair of nail scissors, the other tool that comes in handy is a cuticle hoof.

They provide such a brilliant finish that I guarantee once you have tried them you wont want to go back to the polish.

Dazzles can be bought on the following website

www.Haircre8tive.co.uk

Babyliss Curling wand DIY Curls and (Product Review)

                                                              Babyliss Curling wand

Do you love the thought of having nice natural looking curls? Then you should try the babyliss curling wand. Its is one of my staple tools for all my hair up work and can offer a variety of finishes. Personally I prefer the larger barrel wand and feel there is no gain from having a slim line one.

To get the perfect curl make sure your hair is fully dry before you start. Then taking two sectioning clips clip up all you hair leaving an inch and a half to 2 inch section at the back of your hair. Spritz with a good quality flexible hair spray. Then taking a section of about an inch- 2 inches wide start to wind the section around the largest end of the barrel working towards the narrowest end. Hold for 7-12 seconds. Then gently unwind (do not pull, it will pull the curl out) repeat this process with the next few sections. Once done spray the whole section again with a flexible spray.

Section off another bit of hair and repeat the same process. Keep doing this until you whole head is curled. An example of the finished look.

Depending on the amount of curl you would like you can run your fingers through the hair to break the curl up slightly. You can have a wide range of different looks from the one above, to the ones below all from using the same wand and method.

Loosened with fingers and a clip added

further loosened for a more relaxed look.

To finish spray with a firmer hold hair spray and then spritz with a good quality shine spray.

My products of choice are bed head hair sprays and Hair Cre8tive shine spray.

www.haircre8tive.co.uk

General Update

So Christmas is over for another year and 2012 is finally here.
Everything has been quite on the work front and i imagine will continue to be to a point due to the fact i am expecting a new addition to the family this year so will be up to my eyeballs in nappies and puke once again.

Although to be fair i do not intend on taking too much time off work, at the moment it looks like it will be 4-6 weeks before i do my first wedding after the baby has arrived. But with the added little person to look after it will be finding the time to come on here seeing as i struggle now :D

Going to be spending the next few months promoting my new products so that i can make as much money working from home as possible in the hope that i can cut back on the volume of clients for a few months to spend more time with my family.

I don't go in for the whole new year new this that and the other but believe that you have to work hard to get where you want to be regardless of what time of the year it is. I have laid the foundation of my products so now its the spreading the word and putting the hard work of promoting into my products as well as expanding my stock of course.

Wedding will still be a big feature for me this year as i try to up the amount that i do again from last year, each year the amount of enquiries and bookings grows by 25-50% and I'm hoping it continues to so so for the next few years, it really is my favourite part of hairdressing and if i had to choose between hair up or colouring and never doing the other again i would quite happily sacrifice colouring to be able to curl, plait, crimp and pin, so many more chances to be creative and expressive.

Any who I have rambles on enough for now, Happy new year to all my clients and  customers old and new,

New Product Photos for Hair Cre8tive

So I have had a photoshoot with the fabulous Helen Morcom and now have some glitzy photos of my products for my website

As well as a range of Shampoo's, conditioners, treatments and styling products I have also added accessories to my website :D

To check out the full range visit www.Haircre8tive.co.uk

Cornish Brides Front Cover shoot

Well as the title suggests myself and Julie from Angel Face will be doing another front cover. I feel honored to have worked with them as this will be my fourth photo shoot with them giving me 3 front covers and an inside feature on another.

The last shoot we did was for the feature and the shoot took place at the Maritime Museum in Falmouth.

We also did the last wedding fayre and had the same model to make up as we did for the feature.

So first stop is Kingsley Village on Sunday for a wedding fayre and then off to Newquay on Monday for the photo shoot. Then a weeks of weddings and wedding trials. Will need a mini holiday after ;P

Hair Accessories

Hello again lovely people :D
I have been busy setting up my online shop and facebook page and have placed my first proper order for products which will be arriving any day ready for a photo shoot so i can start selling this side of Christmas.

I have also started selling wedding hair accessories. I thought why recommend other peoples when i can sell my own.

Bridal Tiara £25

Bridal/bridesmaids headband £10

Fasinator £15

There are a few pictures of some of the items that i have for sale. I have also started making my own which will be made to order. I have started with a range I like to call a touch of pink.

Bridal Tiara £25

Matching headband for bridesmaids £10

The website is not quite up and running yet but will be ready in the next few weeks.In the mean time I have a facebook page and shop where all my items can be purchased.

http://www.facebook.com/#!/pages/Hair-Cre8tive-Products-Accessories-and-Angel-Face-Make-up/158310594264391

Jodiedawnhanson@aol.com

www.jdhairstylist.co.uk

My Own Product Range

Hello Lovely People

Just an update, I have been doing some research into having my own range of products.
I have come up with my own branding and Product name and have some products with my branding on to try out.
Fingers crossed they are as good as they look and I will then get some stock in.
Here is a picture i took on my phone when they arrived this morning.

If all goes well then I will be setting up an Ebay shop and selling from my website and facebook page. I am also looking at selling some hair accessories for weddings, tiara's, pretty clips/grips and fascinators. I'm getting all excited :D

Jodie

www.JDHairstylist.co.uk

Jodiedawnhanson@aol.com