Holiday Transformation From Yellow to Lavender

See a great transformation from a few months back. Holiday takes one of our lovely clients from yellow to lavender!! <3

Worst Haircut Ever Contest Update #2

A few more gems rolled in; here are two favorites from today. We're really enjoying reading your stories! Thanks to all who are writing in!

Chubby Bumpkin

When I was in the third grade, I was a little country and a little overweight for my age...such a sad combination. Buuuut, that's what you get growing up on the East coast. So my mom was always amazing about re-decorating my room and pushing me to well re-decorate myself and feel fresh and new. 

SO one day we went to the hair salon to get a fresh do in time for picture day (which is almost always a bad idea for the record) and I was insanely excited. I sat down and let the lady chop everything up nice mid-length, the way I usually would have it done. But on this particular day I got really excited and looked up at her and said, "shorter, shorter". Okay, she said to me, we'll go shorter. So she cut my hair just a little bit shorter and I smiled and cheesed at myself in the mirror, wanting to push the boundaries. So I looked up again and said, "shorter, let's go shorter". She smiled a little and looked at my mom and asked me if I was sure and I nodded my head. Well, this went on a few more times until I let this very sweet but very ridiculous lady for letting a third grade child tell her what to do (and yes I blame my mom as well). 

I left the salon that day with nearly no hair- boy short!! And as I mentioned I was overweight for my age (in which case you need more hair to frame your chubby little face). I got home and my brothers pointed and laughed in my face and I was distraught. I cried and cried and refused to go to school the next day. My mom eventually got me out the door after teasing my hair out the wazoo (Reba Macintyre was an inspiration in our house mmkay). My third grade school photo is a chubby me in a vest with cowboy boots on it with teased out boy short hair, eyes puffy from crying....and even recounting this story now, tears are streaming down my face.

Butchered Blond

My worst haircut experience was pretty traumatic for me! I had a brand new baby and decided I needed to do something about my hair, that I hadn't done anything with during my pregnancy.  I have very thick wavy, dark blonde, hair and at the time it was a little past my shoulders.  So, I went to a salon I had never been to before, explained to the guy doing my hair that I wanted blonde highlights and a trim.  When he took the towel off of my wet, freshly colored hair it was ALL white! I sat in shock and watched him trim my hair which kept getting more chopped up by the minute.  I finally started to cry and asked him to "please stop cutting my hair".  I could tell by the expressions on other customers faces that they were also shocked by how badly he had butchered my hair.  I went to the front desk in tears and asked if I was over reacting, and through their shocked faces I could tell I was not.  I looked like Debbie Harry with bedhead! Since I had to get home and nurse my baby, they had to reschedule me for the next day. I had to wear a hat to cover it out in public, and when I returned I ended up with a pixie cut because it had been so badly fried from the color and chopped up! They fired the guy too! It took about 2 years for my hair to grow back to it's previous length. 

Do you think you can top these ladies' stories? Write in an tell us all about it at adornasheville@gmail.com.

Featured Artists: Marisol Spoon

Marisol Spoon is the creative collaboration of a husband and wife artist team Jason and Lauren Weatherspoon. Adorn currently feature's the couple's handcrafted lockets. In addition to their beautiful lockets, Adorn will have the pleasure of  hosting Marisol Spoon's art work in the salon for the summer months of June and July. Stay tuned for their opening date!

1. Where did the inspiration for the name Marisol Spoon come from?

It's a funny how things work out, but our team name comes from a children's book that Jason is working on,  the girls were originally created as illustration for the book. The land the story takes place in is "Marisol Spoon". 

Part of the name comes from our last name; "Spoon" in Old English refers to a valley, and "Marisol" is made up of two Latin root words "mar" meaning sea and "sol" meaning sun. So our world is made up of the sun, sea, and valley.

2. How did you begin to collectively work and distribute art together?

 

We have been making art side by side for over a decade and have always wanted to collaborate but could not find mutual inspiration until Marisol Spoon evolved. It would take a long time to unfold the events that lead us to where we are, but I can tell you we could not have planned it, things just seem to unfold on their own.

3. What are the challenges or benefits of a) creating and selling handmade object b) doing this together as a couple and c) doing this in Asheville? 

Wow, that is a lot to answer, the best way I could sum it up is to compare it to gambling. We take huge risk constantly, we invest a lot of time, energy and money into our business and there is no promise of a return. 

But we love the adventure, and being together, even more so now with our child. I think we would both wither away without the challenge and risk. As far as being in Asheville, we could really be anywhere as we earn primarily online and at art/craft fairs. We travel about 30 weekends a year, and living in Asheville just makes coming home that much sweeter!

4. What have your biggest inspirations been lately? 

 

It would have to be our little girl, she has lit a fire in the both of us that will certainly lead to new creations. We make alot of our belongings, including furniture, tools and even our home. Jason has already began plans for an awesome playhouse and toys, and I am working on designs for dresses based on Marisol Spoon paintings.

 

5. What can some of your followers look forward to seeing from you in the future?

Hopefully the book! But definitely new paintings and new art objects. We are constantly working on multiple projects at once, so you never know when something new will pop up!

6. Do you have any funny stories about a time when you were creating something together and it wasn't coming together or it came together with ease?

 

Well, something that comes to mind is our work trailer, Jason bought it off the side of Amboy rd about 8 yrs ago, it is funky and homemade from an old VW rear end. We left it under the bridge by the Wedge while we were in NY and it was stolen, so we put the word out and it magically reappeared. We recently needed an enclosed trailer to travel our art with and at the same time Jason happened to find an abandoned aluminum truck camper shell. He hauled it back and it fit our trailer perfectly! Now we travel to shows in homemade gypsy/ hillbilly style!

To find out more about this dynamic pair, please visit their website at: http://marisolspoon.com/
or their blog at: http://marisolspoon.com/blog/

Worst Haircut Ever Contest Update

We've really been enjoying reading some of the 'Worst Haircut Ever' contest submissions and thought y'all might like to take a peek too! Here's one of our favorites from the past two days:

 Worst Haircut Ever aka A Close Shave

I was fresh out of college and thrilled to be teaching English and Study Skills at a little college prep. boarding school in New Hampshire.  My duties there involved teaching 6 separate classes for grades 7-10, being an assistant dorm mother, monitoring evening study halls, directing various performances, and even coaching the high school girls’ basketball team.  I’ve always been the kind of girl who spent money on used books rather than clothes, makeup, or hair. That said, I have also always been a girl who cares about excellence in every area, like any self-respecting detail-obsessed English teacher.

The boarding school had a unique schedule, so my colleagues and I often ran personal errands before or between our classes.   One fateful Tuesday, I taught my first block class and then dashed into town to get a trim.  Now, I really should tell you that I had a wonderful hairdresser at this time who worked at a lovely Aveda salon.  So, there’s really no excuse for what happened next.  All I can say in my defense is that my wonderful thrilling first job paid only $8k/year and, at 20, I was as passionate about teaching as I was naïve about the amount of money I would need to live on my own.  It was a particularly tight month (in addition to low pay, some months that year, teachers didn’t get paid at all!), so I convinced myself that it made sense to save some money by walking into a place that advertised haircuts for $8. 

It was over before I could even process the “red flags”--or should I say, the red and white striped barber pole!  I can still hear the buzzing of that razor and recall the shock of not recognizing my newly shorn self in the mirror.  In a daze, I paid and drove back to teach.  That’s when the reality of my situation hit me.  8^th graders are not known for tact!  Their looks of shock quickly turned into jokes about my “weed-wacked” hair and lack thereof.  Like any Grammar teacher worth her salt, I channeled their comments into sentences that we diagrammed on the board.  Sentences like, “It will grow back, right?”  followed by fragments like “Not soon enough!” 

Heather Shirin is April's Featured Artist at Adorn

Heather Shirin is a mixed media artist creating Art Nouveau inspired portraits of women. Her series "Playing Love" is described on her website as:

"Deep wood birch panels with acrylic paint, mixed media and gold leaf. Art Nouveau designs are sketched directly on the wood with pencil, then hand painted.

The wood panel's sides are then coated with with a deep red mahogany wood stain. They have a multi layered varnish with UV protectant. They require no additional frame, and are gallery ready. This latest series was started in late December 2011 and continues to grow. Please contact Heather Shirin for her latest works available as they may not yet be online. Commissioned works always welcomed!"

Shirin also offers classes for people who would like to learn the techniques that Shirin has implemented in her pieces. These next class is 6 weeks, Friday April 26-May 31 2013 from 1-4pm. The tuition is $235 plus a $15 materials fee for specialty materials.

To find out more please visit her website at: http://www.heathershirin.com/

Win a Free Haircut at Adorn!!!

Maybe you lost a bet, were trying to save money, went to the wrong stylist, or burned it off in some freak accident. Regardless, we want to know! What's the story behind your worst haircut ever?
Adorn Salon is holding a competition. Be the one to write in with the most entertaining tale of haircut woe and win a free haircut!
Adress your story to: adornasheville@gmail.com. Be sure to include 'worst haircut ever' in the title. We're of the philosophy that it's always a good idea to include pictures and/or video, but it isn't necessary.
Also, if you happen to be one of a group of women shaved lightening bolts into their hair some years ago and came into adorn to get it fixed, we'd especially love to hear from you!


Until then, below is some inspirational material to get those creative juices flowing ;)

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Black to Blond

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                                                         Haircolor by Andrew Williams