hair education – Ingrid Hair Inspiration

Lives changed this weekend.

Posted on January 27, 2015 by ingridhairinspiration

This past weekend was the Long Beach ISSE show. A beauty industry gathering I look forward to every January. This year I traveled with my girls master stylist and Kevin Murphy educator Kristy Jarvis, my extremely talented little sis, Lindsey Fuentes, our Canyon Salon top Nail Artist Terry Viscara. I’ll refer to us as the “beauty gang” we roll to these events, classes, pop up events, photo shoots together. These girls are always down! We met the owners and dear friends Christy Calafati and Nikki Corzine there later and all had the best dinner at “555”.

Kristy Jarvis studied with the famous celebrity stylist Ted Gibson. A major shift transpired over two days in her career than set her on fire ! That fire was so bright it could’ve lit up the world!

We came as one person , and at the end of the weekend, we left with our passions ignited And feeling inspired and educated to our cores.

Thank you to Mike Johles from LA shear and Aaron Johles from Ibiza Hair for all your support , help and love! Nina Kovner for simply being a passionista and spreading the love, Jericho for teaching me things I never ever knew!! ( 7 minute Blowdry ) and haircut techniques so simple with great impact! To Editor in Chief of American Salon , Salon Today and Modern Salon, Stacy Soble. She took time for me to hear our story of the Canyon Salon raising awareness about domestic violence , shooting a documentary, our huge fundraiser in April, and what is “Ingridhairinspiration” ?

Thank you to the many new friends I made, the vendors that sold me a truck full of supplies! To the makers of Patron, SARK cards , The Hyatt , every single person that poured their love into the 2015 International Salon and Spa expo!

All of you brought it together and gave us the best weekend of 2015 thus far!

Oribe Hair Care on the Road.

Posted on November 8, 2014 by ingridhairinspiration

What? Two tickets for Nikki (a owner) and me? We are invited to Milk Studios to experience a brand. I believe they have a beautiful job over at Oribe making a super high end, sexy, classy product line that emanates fire and fabulousness. It screams “the best”!

The Canyon was is discussion many years about carrying this line, when were moving to our new location Instead we decided to carry another brand from Italy. To be honest the name slipped my memory. It was cute, and every body bought it. New Salon, New Product. They go together. Unfortunately for all that product we moved there were no points. No treats. No gifts.

So we yanked it.

Unite has come and gone, and is now back. Making a huge resurgence in our salon. Theyr’e just at the perfect position at the perfect time. all aligning beautifully. we have full representation of Unite. I have to say Kevin Striwerdtka is our man. He is always there for us, and I do appreciate support. All the Unite Peeps are a class act.

We currently carry Kevin Murphy, Alterna Caviar and bamboo, UNITE. ELC, Bumble went away recently. That was a slight heartbreaker. We go way back.

But I’m talking Oribe. We’ll see what goes on Dec 8 at The Milk Studios. Are they going to impress? I’m sure they’ll deliver a stunning show, and I count down the days to be moved.

There’s always something to learn.

Posted on October 25, 2014 by ingridhairinspiration

Last night we had an assistants class at The Canyon Salon. We have them once a month on Friday nights where the assistants learn many different moving parts of the business. We were blessed to have inspiring and talented teachers come from all around the world! Ranging from our own stylists to big name famous stylists. Our teacher last evening was the awe inspiring Amy Edwards. Allen Edwards daughter. First I must say how honored I am to be in the room with this woman, but to see her in action as a motivated educator was bar none show stopping. The way she was comitted to the students GET what she was CONVEYING was something I really got. As an educator myself, and someone who strives to know how to do everything exactly perfect so I can teach exactly perfect like a blue print constructed my an engineer is nuts. First of all thats not realistic. It’s not custom tailored. It’s robotic. I stopped striving for perfection and began striving for excellence many years ago and the stress level in my head went away, I got out of my head and was able to be present to all of life’s/hairs on your head REALNESS. Last night was real. It had structure, yet flexibility. What a great combo for our up and coming rock stars at The Canyon Salon, and me. I got to learn it all to. Thank you to Allen first for making such a rad kid. thank you Amy I look forward to working with you again.You tube video will be uploaded today. It’s hilarious. I tell you why later, but I have to go to work. Have the best day ever. You create everything. So create greatness!