Welcome to a (belated) new year!

Hello friends! I know we are now in March and spring is right around the corner, but I have just realized I have not posted a new entry since October! Wow. Unacceptable!
New Years Resolution for 2012: Post more entries!

With a new year, came some changes! I recently moved to a new place that I love which is in south Fort Myers bringing me a little farther away from work. The "snowbirds" are in full force here in Cape Coral, Florida. The traffic has been crazy lately. If it wasn't for how much they stimulated our economy I would be very annoyed!

Another change for the new year is my hair! I no longer have long flowing locks. I now have sassy short hair! I must say it was a big change but I am absolutly loving it!

also, we added a new member to our family....

Her name is Winnie, and she is a Teddy bear puppy. Yes, teddy bear is really her breed! It's a mix between a Shit-zu and a Bichon.

Now that I have you up to speed, lets talk about hair trends for the Spring!

This season is all about adding new twists to old styles! The retro style waves are all the rage on the red carpet, were seeing more celebrities go for the short Audrey Hepburn pixie cut, the 80's asymmetrical cuts are making a comeback, and braids have been everywhere from the runway to your local schools.

I love how now-a-days anything goes as far as hair and makeup is concerned.

Now that the warmer season is approaching, I am having more requests for highlights and lighter tones. Ombre hair is still a phenomenon because of its low maintenance and high fashion look. Blondes are wearing more platinum, icy blonde tones, redheads are going for more of a vibrant look and brunets are rocking the sun kissed honey highlights.

Since I haven't posted in a while, here is some fun photos of my lovely clients!

Fun hair!

This is Jenna!

She is the receptionist at our salon. She has great hair and I've used her as a hair model before for the hair show. I was very inspired by Dev, a singer who has really awesome hair!

I pitched the idea to Jenna about doing this haircut on her because it suits her style, face, and personality and she was very excited to let me do this cut on her! Here is the results :)

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Happy new years everyone! I apologize for my lack of blogging lately! it's been about 6 months since my last post! My new years resolution for 2011 is to update my blog more! I've done a lot these past few months! We just finished moving Hair to be Different to our new location! It's about 100 square feet larger than our last location, its more visible on the road, and we now have a boutique room to display our inventory of purses, jewelry, candles and more! We are very happy to have it up and running! Here are a few photos of the new salon!









Other than that, I have been busy at the salon doing some fun colors and cuts. Also, I had some weddings latey so i got the opportunity to take care of some brides and bridesmaids. They say 2011 is the year of the Rabbit according to the Chinese horoscopes meaning lots more fun weddings to come! So far I have a few coming up this year and i am anxious to meet all the brides and work with them on there special day! Like I've said before, hair design and updo work are some of my favorite things to do at the salon! Here are some more styles I have done in the past few months.

Short Hair pics

This is some of my past work of short hair. These pictures are of some of my friends and clients who were nice enough to let me photograph them after I had cut, colored, and styled there hair.





Allison is a client of mine who is deffinatly not afraid to have fun hair! Here is one of her latest styles!






This is my good friend Amelia, she is a nail tech and is going to school to be a teacher. She has awesome hair to work with! I did a lot of fine highlights throughout the top and went in with a darker color on the bottom.






This is another friend of mine Ashley who is currently a hair student in the process of getting her license. This funky coloring techinque was done for Strands Salon fashion show in 2007. She was a good sport and let me go wild on her hair!

This is Allison. She is going to school to pursue a nursing degree.She is constantly having me change her color and cut and this is just one of many looks I have done on her hair! I love the dramatic look of the light blond against the dark red!

Kirsten has been my client for almost 3 years now! She had originally came to me with very long hair and was looking for a dramatic change! She hasen't gone back to her long locks since!

This is Lisa and it was a fun transformation! She came to me with this long curly hair and wanted a dramatic change! I think hats exactly what she got!

This is another look I did for Ashley. Shes never afraid to let me play with color!

This is my #1 client, my mother Sandra! She was the very first person who trusted me even from hair school to do whatever I want! This is just one of her many looks she has allowed me to do for her!

This is Shanna. she has been a client of mine for almost as long as I've been doing hair! She switches back and forth between this length and super short hair! This is the lightest color we've done in her hair and it looks great!

Adrian and her twin sister Katie have been coming to me since about 2007. She switches from short and blonde to long and brown so its always a pleasure to have her come in!