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Hair Expo: Sharon Blain's After Dark
[Tue 05/07/2011 12:23:18]
Sharon Blain’s “After Dark” show opened explosively as a ballerina fluttered en pointe across the stage to the sounds of an eerie yet alluring piano track. The 90-minute session that followed was surprisingly intimate, as internationally acclaimed stylist Sharon taught the audience how to recreate her signature long hair styles fit for bridal and red carpet events.
Sharon Blain
In what seemed like an effortless 10 to 15 minutes per model, Sharon sculpted each girl’s hair into a work of art through braiding, curling and padding. As she progressively built the attention-grabbing styles, she precisely described her techniques and tricks while constantly encouraging the audience to call out with any questions.
While her final look was a heavily padded avant garde style, Sharon explained how to alter the extreme style into a more marketable look by removing the additional padding necessary for stage work. She also advised how to work with unusual hair conditions, such as extremely fine or thick locks.
All of her magnificent up-dos were moulded through a combination of Goldwell oil and hairspray, with Sharon stressing that she likes the hair of her models to be held together extremely securely and yet still be touchable and believable.
She also revealed that she never uses straightening irons on long hair.
“With an iron, the hair becomes static and impossible to work with. Straightening irons have their place, but we’ve become too dependent on them and we’re losing the art of our craft as a result,” she lamented.
Rather, Sharon’s team consistently takes advantage of the versatility curling tongs provide. She pointed out that, unlike straighteners which have become entirely mainstream, most clients cannot use tongs themselves and such styling services therefore continue to rake in business.
It is clear that Sharon pours her heart and soul into all of her creations. After finding inspiration from global runways, she sketches all of her ideas. After numerous attempts at perfecting the style, she practices again and again until it becomes second nature. As a perfect example of her sheer dedication to her art, Sharon spent three hours personally constructing a bobby pin headband for one of the show’s models.
Sharon concluded by warning hairdressers against being afraid to tackle the seemingly difficult realm of up-styling.
“Sometimes we forget that doing a hairstyle should in fact be easy. We always think hairstyles are much more complicated than they actually are,” she said.
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