Making It Earth Day Every Day

With the growing interest in going green, we've been steadily making efforts to make our salon as Earth friendly as possible. Also, with Earth Day right around the corner on the 22nd we'd like to let you know what we're doing to make our planet a beautiful place to live.

In an effort to save paper, you may have noticed that we have laminated "New Client Forms". This, coupled with wet erase markers has drastically reduced our paper use. We are looking to implement a new system that will allow us to do the same with our "work tickets". We have also had talks about ways to reduce our use of trash liners, purchasing greener light fixtures and will soon be making efforts to recycle our foils and even donate hair clippings to help clean up oil spills.

If you've visited the salon lately, you'll notice that our display in Well Being Space has changed to a beautiful display arranged by Trish. She reused a couple of Davines Essential bottles and filled them with an assortment of edible goodies to showcase the bottles ability to safely store food. The Essentials bottles are made used food grade plastic, therefore once they've been emptied and washed they are perfect for throwing in your lunch bag for work or using around the kitchen to store various food items. Also, you are more than welcome to refill your Essentials shampoo and conditioner containers at the salon instead of buying an entirely new one and we will give you the gift of $5 off the price it would cost you to buy a new bottle. We also, end up with a lot of our back bar and liter bottles stacking up in our back room. We've moved to using them for things around the salon and would like to offer you the opportunity to have some for yourself, free of cost. We've got a few left over so if you would like them, feel free to come by and pick them up!!

A lot of companies are making the effort to supply cloth shopping bags with the incentive that it will help save the earth by reducing the use of paper or plastic bags. Well, we now have cloth bags that we are simply adorable and come with an added incentive of 10% off your future product purchases. There are two ways for you to receive this bag. You can either purchase the bag for $5 or if you spend $50 on product, you receive the bag as our gift to you. From then on, anytime you bring the bag back with you, we will give you 10% off your product purchases for helping us be as green as possible.

Now, with all the efforts we're making to green up the salon it would only seem right to help celebrate Earth Day with a deal on your color service. As you know, we can end up going through a lot of foils in one day. In an effort to reduce the use of foils, we would like to offer you the gift of 10% off a bolayage service booked on Earth Day, April 22nd. This is a European hand painted highlight technique that uses no foils at all. This is a fantastic promotion that not only helps our green efforts but will also be a fantastic way to lighten up your hair for the coming warmer season!!

Just a reminder, the "Relief and Relaxation" promo is good through tomorrow the 17th so call and book your service with complimentary scalp massage and your gift of 15% off a service!!

Also, stay tuned for the announcement of our Mother's Day promotion!!

A Hair Artist's Dream Come True

As stylists, it is always our goal to create a hair masterpiece, an artistic and wearable rendition of what we see is the best possible reflection of you. Davines' For Wizards is the perfect line of finishing product to help complete your desired look as it was designed with the artist in mind. The packaging of this line was specifically designed to mimic that of an artist's brush collection giving us the choice of what brush to pick to put the final touch on your do. Ask Eleanor about #4 Glossy Modeling Putty or Trish about #2 Mat Moulding Gesso and you'll hear them rave about these brushes, what they do and why they love to pick them up. For Wizards is a fantastic set of tools for making your do a awe inspiring work of art.

Relief and Relaxation

We at Embellish know full well the stresses of tax season. While some of us are writing checks to "the man" others are scrambling to get their paperwork done. Thankfully, this dreadful time will be over in no time and we can all take some time to relax and enjoy a little Embellish style tax relief.

Mention this post when booking an appointment through Saturday the 17th and receive a complimentary scalp massage with your service. Also, enjoy 15% off any one service OR 15% off one product of your choice as our gift to you.

We look forward to making your tax time a more relaxing one and can't wait to make your day!!!

Parkway Tavern's Barley Wine Fest

If you haven't heard, due to extreme popularity, the Parkway Tavern's Barley Wine Fest has been extended to 2 days, April 24th and 25th!! What does this mean?!? 2 very full days of barley wine drinkin' fun!!!


Day One: You're Intro To Barley Wine
With 35 barley wines on tap, this is a fantastic way to start you Barley Wine Fest experience. This day is like a warm up to the 2nd day's extravaganza!! This is not to trump the BBQ pork and ribs that will be grilled right out front. These delectible delights will be served up until midnight with your selected wine. Sound delicious? Yeah it does!!!!


Day Two: Barley Wine Part Deux

Now, this is where all the fun begins!!  11am to 1pm your favorite tavern will be serving a barley wine brunch catered by Jonz Catering and special wines will be served only during this time. Word on the street is these are some pretty exclusive wines that you can't get anywhere else. Tickets are $35 dollars and there are a limited number of tickets available so hop on over to the Parkway and buy a ticket now before there aren't any left!!! Following brunch will be your regularly scheduled Barley Wine Fest activities but we strongly encourage you to buy your tickets for brunch so you don't have to kick yourself later.

Since Mackenzie, one of Tacoma and the Parkway's finest, announced this in the salon, there has been a definite interest in attending. If you see one of us there, be sure to say hello and cheers your favorite Daymaker!!

We're All Back and Ready To Do Some Learnin'!!!

If you've tried within the last week to book an appointment with any of 3-4 of us Daymakers, you may have hit a roadblock or two as a few of us were off on adventures outside of Embellish and far from Tacoma. Susan left for a quick trip to see Muse and jet off to Vegas, Trish explored vortexes and cacti in Arizona, Thom trekked through Montana via Subaru and Jessica spent the last week in Vegas as well!!!

As of today, we're all back and refreshed after taking a few "me days" and have jumped right back into our education routine. We took the time to apply some of our newly absorbed color knowledge..... on ourselves!! We're so excited to try these new color techniques that we HAD to try them on ourselves first!! We're also kicking off some of our short hair classes and used Eleanor as a model today.

Thom, with his years of experience working with Bumble and Bumble and doing backstage work at fashion shows, has been passing along what he's learned over the years to all of your favorite Daymakers. Today we focused on the ever coveted, fun and funky pixie. This is a look that can be as conservative or as sassy as you want to make it and what better model to use than our copper headed Daymaker Eleanor. She's got the perfect bone structure and striking features that make this short haircut turn heads!! He covered different techniques using the razor or the shear and we'll be apply his added tidbits to our hands on class next Tuesday.

As much as we love doing each other's hair, we'd really like to perfect our technical skills with the help of our clients as models. We still have some open dates so email us if you're interested in changing your look or refining your do!!

Classes are held on Tuesday mornings from 10am-12pm and all services performed will be complimentary as our gift to you!!

Cutting and Styling

April 20th- 4 models to be cut and styled to a short textured haircut

Cutting and Styling "Real Time" (BOBs)

May 4th- 5 models for a 0 degreee bob (all one length)
May 11th 5 models for a layered bob
May 18th 5 models for and angled/inverted bob

Cutting and Styling "Real Time" (Long Layers)

June 1st, 8th and 15th we'll need 5 models for each day

(female models for the 1st and 8th and male models on the 15th)

Photo Shoot: Embellish Creative Imagery

August 3rd- Model Call and Conception

August 10th- Shoot Day

August 17th- Shoot Day

 

Email or call us asap so we can fit you in to our already growing model list!!

info@embellishtacoma.com

(253) 752-8144

A New Year, A New Outlook, A New Energy

We've been working hard on continually manifesting a progressive and growth oriented energy. Along with that we've attended multiple classes and we're also holding classes for us by us. We are still have education every month and are now looking for models to help us with some hands on styling, cutting and possibly color classes. This means we still need your help to spread the word in order to help us make your salon and hair experience that much more enjoyable.

Services performed specifically for these classes will be complimentary and as a gift to you there will be opportunities for future model dates and discount coupons for future visits and businesses around town. Here are a list of the dates we need models:

Cutting and Styling

April 13th- 2 short haired models, one to be cut one to be styled

April 20th- 4 models to be cut and styled to a short textured haircut

Cutting and Styling "Real Time" (BOBs)

May 4th- 5 models for a 0 degreee bob (all one length)
May 11th 5 models for a layered bob
May 18th 5 models for and angled/inverted bob

Cutting and Styling "Real Time" (Long Layers)

June 1st, 8th and 15th we'll need 5 models for each day

(female models for the 1st and 8th and male models on the 15th)

Photo Shoot: Embellish Creative Imagery

August 3rd- Model Call and Conception

August 10th- Shoot Day

August 17th- Shoot Day

All of these dates are on Tuesdays and we will need you at the salon by 10am. If you are interested in being a model for any of these dates, please give us a call at the salon or respond via email where all remaining details will be given.

Thank you in advance for your responses and we look forward to making your day!!
info@embellishtacoma.com
(253) 752-8144

He's Back to Black!!

If your remember back to our February 25th post, "Mitch Makes Good on a Promise" we had a couple videos of Mitch Robinson's, of Tacoma's Click! Cable TV Network, "purple-izing" process. He promised his employees 3 1/2 years ago that if they met a certain sales goal that he would color his hair "Click Purple". To his delight and slight dismay they did just that after which he immediately contacted Trish to get his plan into action.

Mitch came into Embellish on the 25th anxious and full of hair questions like "How long with the purple last?" and "Will I be able to go back to my normal hair color?" We assured him that we'd be able to take him back to his normal self after he made good on his bet. We also had to reassure his apprehensive and slightly frightened son that we'd make his dad "normal" again once he was ready to take that step.

When he came back to us a mere 3 weeks later, he had a few stories to tell. His son eventually adapted to his purple headed father's new look and Mitch became accustomed to repeating the employee inspiring story that made his vibrant locks make sense. He sometimes forgot why he was getting strange looks and then smiled when he realized why. He shared with us that most of his employees and coworkers didn't believe he would do it and were shocked and pleased when he did. He also gained a little "street cred" with some of the tech team who normally don't have more than 2 words to say to him, some of which shared heart felt stories of camaraderie that this simple act of solidarity reminded them of and even choked a few up.

Mitch went into this with the hopes of inspiring his employees not realizing what doors it would open up. He not only showed extreme integrity but put a smile on a few people's faces making himself more accessible to those who may not normally be inclined to be open up otherwise. I think we all learned that purple hair along with a good story has more power than we would have ever believed. Thanks, Mitch, for allowing us to be a part of this experience!!