800th Hit Celebration!!!

Whoever gets my 800th hit on my website here at yourheartoutside will receive a 50% off discount card at the Aveda Institute Columbus. Screencap that you got the hit by using Print Screen on your computer , paste it into MS Paint and then send that file to me in an email and I will be more than happy to give you a nice haircut or color! :)

Thanks for all the support everyone!

Update all over!

• All my handmade business cards have been taken- I need to make more! I couldn't be more delighted.
• I made a comment card book, so if you stop in to see me, please write me one after a fantastic service! I love reading them and so do others!
• I got all my Beacon work done (and changed the 'theme' a little bit!)- now to edit the photos and submit everything. So excited.
• My attendance was high enough that I was able to be 'Gamma Honors' at my school, which means I met my goal!
• Every other day I am seeing new people in my chair who have been recommended by other people to me.

I am having such a great month and thought I would update everyone. It's almost march everyone, lets celebrate!

Monica.

Another Monica, but with a lot more spunk.

Monica came in one day to get her hair done for a lunch date with a few friends.. Before she flew back to Texas. Monica told me to make her hair big, so again, I relied on my Pure Abundance Hair Spray from Aveda and a roundbrush and went to work. Through our conversation I discovered that she is moving her family here to Ohio from Texas soon, and is thinking about perhaps relocating to a nearby town..(which I've been thinking about as well).

She was a delight to have in my chair and I can't wait until she gets settled in and comes and sees me again!

Scott.

Scott has a lot of hair.

Unfortunately, I don't have any pictures but just imagine an afro around the one below.

Scott and I met in 8th grade when we had wood shop together. I was one of few girls in this awesome class and Scott and I developed quite a friendship through our years in middle and highschool together.

After a little bit of desperation earlier this year Scott finally came to see me for a haircut. He lives on the same campus I live on so he's just a hop and skip away from me! I cut his hair and boy, whew. He had a lot of it.

Another happy guest, happy to have all that hair gone for sure..

See you in six weeks, haha!

Kelsey.

Kelsey and I have a funny sense of humor.

Kelsey has a problem with her hair on one side- when she first came to me she was a new guest at the Institute and I was determined to prove her that that one side of her hair.. Could be fixed. The problem was that it was too heavy for her, and.. It was really heavy.

Well, time and time again we have fixed the certain piece of hair for her and kept her hair nice and trimmed up while still growing it out for her. She came in earlier this week for a haircut and again we fixed the 'spot' (or aka the 'clump' as we agreeably call it), because shes going on a CRUISE this week!

I told her to take lots of pictures to share because lord knows I would love to see them!

Safe travels Kelsey :)

Morgan.

Morgan and I met a while back when she came to me to fix some highlights she got.

I was a little overwhelmed at first- there were "bleedmarks" everywhere.. Basically stripes from where the bleach comes out of a foil and lays on hair not intended to be lightened- result of poor foiling technique, right? When she and I first met I hadn't had too many highlights before, and with as thick of a head of hair as she had- I was quite nervous. Her hair is coarse!

After a while of thinking about it, Morgan asked me what would be good for her to grow her hair out- to keep doing highlights every other month, or to go back around her natural color and stick with that. I told her that honestly, I thought a darker color would be lovely on her and we went with an all over chocolate brown and her highlights still showed through a little bit to give her a little bit of dimension.

Today she came back to get her hair touched up a little bit, and I figured I would introduce her to you all!

Thanks for reading!

Jessica.

Jessica is from my hometown, and had a little bit too much color going on for just her head of hair.. So we decided to tone that down a little bit.

I don't know about you guys, but sometimes color doesn't go as planned. Jessica had planned on getting a lighter color put on her hair one day when she strolled into her salon and well.. It turned black. I'm not quite sure how that happened, but all that doesn't matter when she sits in my chair and we determine what we can do to fix that and have her looking and feeling better.

We agreed on a color that was a chocolate that would cover up the red hue she was getting left over from the black she tried to fade out. I love my standard chocolate formulas but I tweaked this one just for her because she needed a little extra reassurance with her color. Plus, shes a very unique young lady and she deserved it!

Her sister, Chelsey (yes the same one on here!) Jess, and I talked the whole time about people we had known from high school and how we predicted our futures turning out. We are, quite surprisingly, a trio of young women who really know how to handle our lives. Its nice to sit down and talk to other girls who want to be responsible but still know how to have fun. Needless to say, I enjoyed getting to know Jess a little, and I'm excited to see her tomorrow actually for a full highlight we are going to do to lighten her up a bit.

I can't wait!

Katie.

I met Katie when I had just started school- I automatically knew that she and I would click just by looking at her.

Katie was always an inspiration to me to be a better person, to smile a little more often, to not be too disappointed or hold grudges, and to just genuinely care about our profession, or at least care as much possible as a student stylist/ person can. It was nice to know that every day I could come into the school and walk downstairs when she was on the floor and I wasn't and say hi, or I could go and tell her about my day without being judged. I could always expect positive feedback from her, and that is something I really admire about her.

So, I was more than honored when she asked me to do her final service. At our school, a 'final service' is where a graduating student has any service done for them by another (not graduating) student. It meant so much to me and I looked forward to it for quite a bit!

So, she came to me with a 'little' request. We had a new series of color out that are all really bold colors including a really bold plum that she really liked. She wanted to do that color all over, and then redo her copper pieces in her hair. It was a little bit of a challenge because we had to do about ten processes total, but we got it done!

I was so inspired by her final look I did her make up as well. She was such a sweetheart through the whole thing it was all I could do. She's been graduated for about a week now and I miss her so much! Shes currently taking the Managers Program at our school and I am sure that she will be a great asset to any salon she goes to.

Congrats Katie :)

Fiona.

Fiona was so charming from the moment I met her. Adorable in every way!

She had a nice sense of style with a cute little heart necklace and a cream flowy top.. Cute coat too that she wouldn't part with for fear of getting cold, which was understandable because it was COLD in the Institute today! We were able to have the doors open and everything.

Fiona had concerns about her hair not matching a hairpiece that she has to use every night for dancing. At this point during our consultation I wondered as to where she worked because she was so concerned with the color we did. I knew it had to be serious and I didn't want to mess that up for her..

But it turns out she is a Riverdancer.

WOW!

http://www.riverdance.com/the-show/meet-the-cast/usa-canada-cast/fiona-mccabe/

Turns out, Fiona is part of the Riverdance tour cast and has been involved for over six years. She began dancing when she was four and I totally admired that. She told me at this point in her career she is so used to getting on stage every night its second nature- I never got there with my music stuff, so I really was envious and again, admiration was rampant! Such a talented young lady in my chair.

So, after a lot of debating and careful choosing of colors, we chose the very natural (for her hair color and tone) Shades of Enlightenment in the shade of Dawn, along with a lowlight of an 8N to contrast between the light Dawn, her natural color, and the 8 which is between the two.

I showed her how to flat wrap her hair and introduced her to the Pure Abundance hairspray and she seemed quite pleased. I was so happy! She had to get out of the salon pretty quick- they had a show tonight and they had no time for dilly dallying, so we said our goodbyes and off she went!

I hope tonight went well for her!

Christina.

Christina was tired of the red she had.. So we calmed it down a little and brought her back to her natural.

Christina came in my chair early this Friday morning looking for a cut and color. She complained her layers seemed too triangular to her- when I pulled them out sure enough they were the kind that probably shouldn't be on her with as long as her hair was. We addressed the color by going through with two different formulas and then afterward we did a cut. To fix the layer problem she has going on right now I suggested perhaps maybe trimming up the length a little each appointment and dusting (doing less) to the layers so they can kind of squish together if you will.

She is a teacher in a nearby school district and it was lovely to hear her talk about running and the weather like I did. I thoroughly enjoyed talking about track with her- since its track season and this is my first year in five years not running- and listening to her talk about what her views on professionalism and carrying yourself in the right manner around other people were, since a lot of our views were the same (haha!) Perhaps in a couple years when I'm in a little better shape, eating better, and have my life a little more under control I can go help coach the track team she helps out with.

She was kind enough to let me style her hair for Beacon as well- it was a really nice thing of her to do on her day off. I'll put the pictures up of that later on though, no peeking for now!

Overall, color and cut felt a lot better/ more comfortable for her. I was pleased with the results and she was too! A great way to start my day, for sure.

Khlea with a fresh cut!

So, since we got a little delayed LAST Saturday.. Khlea came in this past Saturday for her rescheduled cut.

Of course the stacking was up to her standards... But we discovered it was probably time for a relaxer retouch. Before she left we made sure to book an appointment for another relaxer and a haircut before I graduate!

Kelsi.

Kelsi said she wasn't picky.. So I gave her what she wanted and a little more perhaps.

She hadn't ever been to the salon before, so when I brought out the swatches I feel like she was a little overwhelmed with the idea that she could choose so much. She said she'd never really been asked to do that before so I was pretty excited at the opportunity.

A couple light colors and low colors caught her eye, and we decided a highlight lowlight would be best for her. Her highlights were pretty heavy in the front around her fringe, so I did a pretty heavy partial to kind of break that up/ bring out a little more lighter color in the rest of the hair for consistency.

We had a lot to talk about, since she is from the area my grandmother lives in, and since she is from a university I thought about going to before I chose to go to Aveda. Plus, she liked my doughnut earrings. Haha.

Kelsi.

Kelsi said she wasn't picky.. So I gave her what she wanted and a little more perhaps.

She hadn't ever been to the salon before, so when I brought out the swatches I feel like she was a little overwhelmed with the idea that she could choose so much. She said she'd never really been asked to do that before so I was pretty excited at the opportunity.

A couple light colors and low colors caught her eye, and we decided a highlight lowlight would be best for her. Her highlights were pretty heavy in the front around her fringe, so I did a pretty heavy partial to kind of break that up/ bring out a little more lighter color in the rest of the hair for consistency.

We had a lot to talk about, since she is from the area my grandmother lives in, and since she is from a university I thought about going to before I chose to go to Aveda. Plus, she liked my doughnut earrings. Haha.

Lisa.

I came in one day and expected to be on deck all day. Friend hands me a traveler and says "don't hate me". I look down, it's a perm. The THIRD one I've had since I got onto the clinic floor.

Now don't get me wrong, I don't mind perms. I don't mind them at all. But really? Three and not very many people have had them. "Why me?" I think. Well. Why not? I was getting good at them after all.

Today was the day I would do the perm to end all perms, according to my guest. She readily warned me that I would probably be wrapping for 3/4 hours and we would need to use the strongest perm solution on her hair.

She was right.

Lisa was studying her flashcards she made while I wrapped her hair- we didn't get to talk much because I was so focused. Peach and Purple rods soon became a christmas tree on her head. I was sweating, thats how into this I was. At first I was really intimidated, but after a bit of working on her head I came to realize how awesome this could be. Taking advantage of that idea, my wrapping just got better and better.

Total, we placed around 170 rods into Lisa's hair, all spiral wrapped up until her parietal section where we did a piggyback wrap. My instructor Lorna was a huge asset in this and when I doubted myself she looked back and kinda "kicked me out of the nest" if you will so I could trust myself and only myself. I'm glad, because that made me all the much prouder of the end result.

If I can get ahold of Lisa I will get a photo of her hair afterward, but lets just say she said it was the best perm she had ever had. I was incredibly proud and one of my favorite comment cards is hers. She said I was exceptional!

Thanks for reading!

Monica.

Monica came in to cut quite a few inches off of her hair.. You don't see that much on a campus where hair is a girls gold adorned with fancy highlights and color usually.

I asked her what prompted her for this big of a length difference, especially with no layers.. She replied and told me that she would be heading to Africa in a couple of weeks and would be very busy and didn't know when she would be getting a haircut again.

Woah.Woah, woah, woah.

After a little bit more chatting she told me she had been accepted into the Peace Corps and is basically an environmental scientist. This was so interesting to me partially because I had been reading about a spiritualist who went on a Peace Corps mission in the eighties or seventies and had became an ambassador of Brazil.. This was a really touching story but I know it wasn't realistic. Nonetheless the work that the volunteers do absolutely astounds me and I admire them so much. To meet someone who had been waiting to be accepted and was able to tell me how difficult and tedious the application process could be was inspiring to say the least. I was so excited for her. Monica will be a great asset, I am sure of it.

Anyhow, you all should go check out her blogspot- she will update when she can. She told me that a friend had to walk ten miles or so to get internet, if not thirty. I might have mixed some numbers up. Heres the link:

http://monicanoon.blogspot.com/

Thanks everyone!

Paula. (aka Step Granny)

Paula used to be bleach blonde.. Then I got her to go a little (well. a lot)

darker....Then it faded.

And then she was FINALLY happy with what we did. Her hair naturally is snow white, I try to tell her this is a really pretty thing and she should take advantage of it but noo, she thinks it makes her look aged. So I give up on the idea of snow white and decide perhaps we could go a different route and we went dark. After a couple months she had a decent bit of newgrowth and the color had faded a little because of how light her hair used to be.

She said everyone had been complimenting her on her hair color either way, weather it had been done in December or now in February, but she admitted she felt a little more comfortable with the lighter shade the color had faded to. I liked it this way as well and it seems that the cool tone that we had ended up with looked quite nice along with her skin tone. We matched the color up to an ash color and I got to use a new formula- a b/b and y/o. An ashy gold? Oh yes.

I had three total color bowls for this application- one for the newgrowth which was the same formula for the midstrand to ends, just 20 volume to cover the white, and 10 volume for the ends to refresh the existing color, and a bowl of enlightener 10 volume to lift her hair to the platinum she was used to to give her a little pizazz in the front section. To do this effectively I needed to paint inbetween foils and I was quite happy that this only took me around 45 minutes to do the all over color and paint the foils and rest of the color. I'm slowly getting quicker with these things, thankfully!We had a little fun with the camera..

And then it was time to rinse the color out, and refresh her cut. I basically brought everything back to a guide, including the sides and cut short layers on the top so that she can have some to mess with.

After we cut her hair, I used a couple products.. Damage control, and Pure Abundance Hairspray (both from Aveda.) This was my first time using the Pure Abundance Hairspray and it did wonders to cover up a couple spots I know my granny was worried about. I was very impressed with the final product and so was she!