pleased with final looks
proud of our abilities
thankful for the love!
The Encore team loves every part of helping people reinvent themselves through hair (and sometimes personality) but also just enhancing natural beauty.
We take pride in each and every color, cut, highlight, blowdry, Brazilian Blowout, quick bang trim, updo, relaxer and perm that we do and relish in the love you all give back. We are so thankful to have you all!
Speaking of “thanks”, we also want to thank every one of the 1341 people who have repinned one of our hot blondes with a bob. Yes, one thousand three hundred forty-one repins as of today! Here it is at right, or click the words for a direct link and more information about the picture we call Encore’s Most Pinned on Pinterest! Enjoy our other pins too!
Thanks again ladies and gentlemen!
Melissa – Salon Director
The Aveda Color Conserve line is great for those with artificial color or highlights. The shampoo is a gentle cleanser that doesn’t strip the color from the hair. The conditioner help to lock the color in and protect the hair against UV fading.
The other two items in this line are the Strengthening Treatment and the Daily Color Protect. The Strengthening Treatment is a maske conditioner so it has similar benefits to the regular conditioner but with more hutzpah! It is designed to be used after shampooing and left on for a few minutes before rinsing. Daily Color Protect helps to seal in color and prevent fading for up to 6 weeks (Aveda’s guarantee). This is used like a leave-in treatment applied to damp hair and left in the hair to air dry or in heat styling.
If you have colored hair, these products and products like these should be your hair’s best friends. Stop in to see us and see what products might be best for you and your hair and hair-color needs!
See you soon,
Melissa – Salon Director
Encore recently had the pleasure of glamming up some beauties for a wedding. The bridal party was 8 strong not including the bride! We had fun creating unique and classy up-do styles as well as a few fabulous blowdries for the moms with shorter hair. Almost every stylist got in on the action to make the few hours these ladies spent in the salon a special memory for all. Here is a little collage of the afternoon…
We love getting caught up in the excitement of a wedding! As always, don’t forget to think of Encore for your wedding or special event up-do and fancy blowdry needs! We have several stylists that are ready and able to perfect any style you throw at them for weddings, galas, proms, or other special events.
We look forward to seeing you soon,
Melissa – Salon Director
Remember back to May of 2013 when I described the benefits of the original Kerastase Nutritive orange line? If you said ‘yes’ but shook your head ‘no’ you can click here to go back and read about the line or just take my word for it – it was great for normal to dry hair!
The new Nutritive line is similar to the old line in that it treats normal to dry hair from the inside out, offering moisture and natural shine. However, the new line uses Iris rhizomes which are kind of like plant roots (but a little bit more complicated) that add antioxidants and extra proteins to the products for even more softness and nourishing moisture. Most of the names of the new products are the same as before – Bain Satin 1 and Bain Satin 2 (shampoos), Lait Vital (conditioner), and Masquintense for fine hair and Masqueintense for thick hair (deep conditioning masks).
The two NEW, new products added to the Nutritive line are Immersion Nutritive and Touche Perfection. Immersion Nutritive (the larger bottle) is a pre-shampoo for very dry hair that adds protein and vitamins before shampooing the hair. Touche Perfection (the skinnier bottle) is a replenishing balm to nourish and smooth dry hair after blow drying or air drying. Touche Perfection is one of those great moisturizers to keep in your purse or your desk at work that helps rehydrate and tame static fly-aways that always seem to pop up halfway through the day! So feel free to stop in and ask us all kinds of questions about these and other new products!
See you soon!
Melissa – Salon Director
…that is the question! With two fun, fresh trendy color styles why wouldn’t you go for a change?! To help you decide to “get-er-done” I will try to explain the differences between ombre, the hot trend that is still trending, and balayage (bah-lay-azh… think ‘Taj’ Mahal), the new trend on the Trending Train to Trendom. . . . . what?
The ever popular ombre style can include drastic color changes as well as more refined, gradient looks. Ombre generally refers to a style where the root color is darker than the color of the ends of the hair. Usually people keep their natural hair color as the base color or use something close to it to allow for an easy grow-out process. Sometimes we see reverse ombre or brightly colored ombre variations.
The ombre style is most beautifully worn curly so get our your round brushes and curling irons. Here are examples → on the left is a drastic color change and on the right is a beautiful, more gradient color change (actual color, cut, & style on the right is by our very own stylist – Hedieh!)
The trend coming back for a 2014 revival is the balayage technique. Balayage as a technique started in France in the 70’s. The word is literally translated to “sweeping” which is the way a stylist ‘sweeps’ or paints the color onto the hair. ← This is sometimes used by itself and sometimes combined with the ombre style to give it a more fluid transition between colors. Generally, balayage is used to offer “sun-kissed” highlights or a more subtle change to the hair. The picture on left shows a more contrasting “sun-kissed” look while the right side show SJP with a subtle combination of ombre and balayage to soften the color around her face. Isn’t she hot?
So if you are hip and want a fresh start for your locks this spring (happy first day of spring today!) then stop on in and we’ll make it happen together!
See you soon,
Melissa – Salon Director
P U R P L E – it’s so hot right now
Here are a few purple dos just for yous! Check out some of our lovely ladies from left to right – super hot purple highlights on a fresh purple base (color/cut by Lisa), double-take lowlights for a bright blondie (color/cut by Cindy), funky “get back to class” two toned purple lowlights (color/cut by Joyce).
Stop in to get your purple on! See you soon,
Melissa – Salon Director
As we get back to the product education side of this blog, we see a few of our old favorites reformulated and repackaged. The previous Volumactive line got a face lift and is now going by the name – Volumifique! This volumizing line is under the Resistance category previously mentioned in this here blog, right about here.
Like before, this volumizing part of the Resistance line is designed for weak, naturally fine hair and adds volume to otherwise lifeless hair. The image on the right shows the products from left to right as I describe them. The shampoo (Bain Volumifique) and conditioner (Gelee Volumifique) offer structural reinforcement, a soft and evenly shiny finish, and complete absorption. As the name suggests, the conditioner is gel based rather than cream based so it really tries to help amplify your hair without weighing it down. Mousse Volumifique and Spray Volumifique are designed to add body as a lightweight mousse and a spray volumizer (duh, just read the names). They are best used on damp hair before styling.
Happy 50th post to us and happy volumizing to you,
Melissa – Salon Director
Thanks to all the love and support of our fabulous clients we have won a new award…
the Angie’s List 2013 Super Service Award! Oooh Ahhh!
For those who don’t know, (straight from the horse’s mouth…) “More than 2 million households use Angie’s List to find high quality service companies and health care professionals in over 700 categories.” Aside from the certified reviews they offer other services like a live call center, a magazine, service provider discounts, and a “Complaint Resolution Team”. In short, AngiesList.com is a wonderful tool to get personal, trust worthy reviews and recommendations of service providers.
For 2013 we passed strict rules in service providing, maintained an overall “A” rating in reviews, had a complete profile listing, and passed a background check! And tried our best to just be as awesome as possible as often as possible. So thanks for the reviews and thanks for being pretty darn awesome too!
So stay awesome people,
Melissa – Salon Director
What am I talking about? … Kerastase Fusio-Dose Instant Treatments
These super concentrated, “made-to-order” treatments are designed with the on-the-go client in mind. They can last several weeks in the hair and only take 5 minutes so they easily fit into your color, highlight, or cut appointments without making you run late for work or to pick up the kids. AND, they have versatility to suit most hair needs.
There are four basic vials or Concentres (shown on the left side of the image) and four basic toppers or Boosters (shown on the right side) that are combined to make personalized formulas of hair happiness. There are at least 16 different formulas and can be increased to two Boosters for even more options!
The colors of the vials and toppers correspond to the colors and “jobs” of the other Kerastase product lines to make it easy to remember. Although there are some variations, the colors generally mean: pink for protection and shine of color treated hair, orange for nourishment of dry hair, green for reinforcement and strength of damaged hair, and purple for replenishment and density of fine hair.
So come in and check them out, we are happy to formulate a special mix specifically for your hair! It is pretty cool to see the Booster mix with the Concentre!
See you soon,
Melissa – Salon Director
…an exciting word!… One of the more interesting words in the hair industry is shampoo. It can be a noun or a verb; clean you up and feel so good!
Google defines shampoo as: (n.) a liquid preparation containing detergent or soap for washing the hair, and (v.) to wash or clean (something, esp. the hair) with shampoo.
The word shampoo in the English language dates back to 1762 and (by way of the Hindi word chāmpo) is derived from the Sanskrit root capayati which means to press, knead, and soothe. In the early years the word shampoo mostly referred to the cleansing and massaging services offered at bath houses. Later on the word meaning changed to something more simple of applying soap to the hair. Now the word means two things thanks to more modern formulas of shampoo (the noun) from the turn of the 20th century.
At Encore we have lots of nouns to choose from to suit any hair type and are more than happy to hook you up with a verb or two in our wonderful back-massaging, kickback-and-put-your-feet-up chairs – and yes, we literally have recliners for shampoo chairs so come in and check them out. – photo credit: allmyhair.wordpress.com
Stop in to see us soon,
Melissa – Salon Director
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