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'Ginger Salon's May Newsletter....Get ready for your world to ROCK!'

2010-05-24T13:50:00.000-07:00

'Ginger Salon's May Newsletter....Get ready for your world to ROCK!'

NIGHT RIDER....coming soon!

2010-05-04T20:29:00.000-07:00

SHAKE SHAKE SHAKE!

2010-05-03T08:20:00.001-07:00

Ginger written up in the Neat Sheet!

2010-04-23T20:38:00.000-07:00

Portland Prom Planner 2010

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Just like prom fashion and beauty trends for 2010, prom hair also is more sophisticated this year. “Girls are getting more adult and progressive with their hair styles,” said Mandy Zelinka, a stylist and expert up-doer at Ginger Salon. In fact, Zelinka says many gals are becoming so sophisticated they are skilled enough to do their own prom hair, which they can copy from styles seen in magazines or TV. (That’s exactly what our Parkrose promgoer Voorhees did, by the way, getting help from her mom to pull her hair up into a bun with an orchid flower detail.)

Whether you hit the salon or style your own prom hair, Zelinka says it’s important to match your hair style to the style of the dress. For example, if you’re going vintage, you might use a vintage brooch accent piece in your hair. It’s also very important to find something you’re comfortable with.

“I love sleek hairstyles for prom,” Zelinka said. “Pulled straight back on the head and into a bun is good because they’ll be dancing and it keeps hair off the face. I also do a lot of red carpet hair, like loose, upswept chignons or simple side ponytails, which are a lot more refined.”

We especially love the ease of a sophisticated side ponytail (as seen on Carrie Underwood, above right), which is an on-trend style that could match most gowns – long or short, from any era – and also would hold up well throughout the night. Salon styling starts at about $50.

Ginger Salon
1720 N.W. Lovejoy St., No. 215; 503-546-4689
+ 1319 N.E. Fremont St.; 503-867-8577
www.gingersalon.com

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2010-04-13T15:36:00.000-07:00

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KEVIN.MURPHY SMOOTHING.BRUSH.DEAL

2010-03-23T08:56:00.000-07:00

Here til they are gone. So buy em up now.

Amberleigh Does Family Feud

2009-10-06T09:05:00.000-07:00

That's right, our favorite TV Queen of Ginger Salon has taken over the family feud world. I have photos to prove it:

A little birdie told me that Amberleigh will be back in L.A. for a Loser's competition, and that she may or may not have been interviewed by TV Guide that day. Hmmmmm.................

Hairdresser power unite!!!!!!!!!!!

So now my clients are competing against each other:

2009-09-23T11:11:00.000-07:00

this is the only haircut photo i could find of Leah. Thank you, Facebook.......

Leah, my fabulous client, just sent me this link from her sister's updated status on Facebook, and i'm thinking that now, now my clients are competing to be the coolest most fabulous clients of all time. Fine by me. Fine. By. Me.

my sister's facebook status:

Leah could hack her hair off w/ a swiss army knife in a dark room w/ no mirror...and it would still look good. She could sit up after hours in a hospital bed and still have perfect hair. She could pick her head up from the trash can shes been barfing... in and- thats right ladies and gentlemen- still have great looking hair! Fresh out of the shower her hair looks better than when I actually TRY to do mine.
For all of these reasons...I hate Leah. Thank you.

Thank you for the best haircut ever.

I need to meet this sister of Leah's. She sounds amazing, kind of.

A Client Referral Letter?

2009-09-22T11:12:00.000-07:00

I asked one of my friends to write a blurb about her hair and she gave me this kind of intense in a high school english teacher way statement:

Some of my favorite hair moments:

Patients often compliment me on my hair - both younger and even elderly
women. They ask what I do to style it in the morning. "I just take a
shower and dry it forward with a towel." Thank you, Ginger Salon!

At a wedding celebration, the bride and one of her good friends told me that
my hair was amazing... they said it with an air that indicated they'd been
talking about it before. They also said, "I feel like my hair looks better
just standing next to you!" And this is over a month after my most recent
cut and with the color that Deanna gave me over six months ago! Thank you,
Ginger Salon!

I was like......oooohhhhhkkkkkaaaaaaayyyyyy............thank you? It's weird to hear how people write about you. I'm kind of creepin'.

Art Institute of Portland Project

2009-09-02T13:20:00.000-07:00

Deanna Everson from Aaron Nicholls on Vimeo.

The Art Institute of Portland's P.R. Class did this. Love them.

Say Anything Contest

2009-09-02T12:59:00.000-07:00

So last february Ginger Salon had a contest where it asked people from the community to act out John Cousack's classic boombox scene from Say Anything. I finally found the photos:

Two best friends mortifying each other:

Boyfriend standing out in the cold until the ENTIRE Peter Gabriel song is done just so his gorgeous girlfriend could get a gift certificate (p.s. he really pulled off the John Cousack Teen Angst Fabulosity):

And last but not least, a duo who couldn't find a boombox so they made one out of cardboard and stood in front of their car while it blared out the song. The tape deck of their decorated cardboard boombox had a Peter Gabriel album cover drawn on it. Classic. (p.p.s. she said her pea coat was NOT too short to pull of John's look. Whateves.)

Amberleigh rules the world. Again.

2009-09-02T12:49:00.000-07:00

I needed to repost this letter Amberleigh got from a new client. It is so freaking classic. Names have been changed to preserve anonymity:

Hello!

This is Tom from Bottle Cap, and I wanted to send you a quick email about a couple things. First of all, I went to the Miss White Trash website and listened to the Born to Be Wild song. It's ridiculous! Good work. I could ramble on about it but I'll leave it at that. You are a fascinating character and I'm glad we chatted the other day. I'd definitely like to go to the pageant this year.

Second, I need a haircut. Bad. From what I gathered of our conversation, you are a hairdresser. This is good news because I've had a tough time finding someone I can trust with the delicate equilibrium of my hair. I've gotten several lousy haircuts here in town. In fact, the only haircut I've been really satisfied with cost me 9.99 at this little place run by a southeast asian family behind a convenience store on Stark St. The hairdresser didn't speak much English, but she seemed to understand what I was saying. Maybe she's telepathic. I don't know. Anyway, I have a slightly more specialty hairstyle now that I wouldn't trust with the telepathic southeast asian lady, and I've come to realize that I'm just not good at cutting my own hair, which I've been doing off and on for like 6 years. So perhaps you can help me with my pathetic mullet.

Now I say pathetic for a few reasons. First of all, it's based less on some hipster fashion statement than it is pure functionality. I like having long hair, something for the ladies to grab on to, but my hair just doesn't grow well on top. To be fair, it's kind of thin up there and I do my best not to highlight that. So I keep it short and semi-professional up there. The back, though, well that's where the party is. Right now it looks really crappy, though, and I'm looking for someone familiar with mullets AND how to cut them. I have a feeling that you might be that special someone.

Is this something you could help me out with?

Also, good luck on the Family Feud. That's so badass that you're going to be on that show!

Tom.

I can't handle how fabulous that letter is. Oh, how we love to specialize. Done.

Ginger Salon Blog changes address

2009-09-01T21:54:00.000-07:00

Welcome one and all to Ginger Salon's new Bloggy home! We will try and keep you posted with everything possibly fabulous that we can come up with. Don't worry, we won't talk about Britney Spears more than once a month......