Once upon a time we did Hair-Ventures with Carrie’s crappy Olympus camera and anxiously waited for Tuesday morning to share our Hair-Venture shenanigans with our pals due to the crappy phone service contracts we could afford… Thankfully these days are gone. So in light of...

  Education is everything if you want to succeed behind the chair and find excitement in your craft. Some get that license and never look back, missing out on the thrill of concurring new skills, meeting fellow knowledge hungry souls and being exposed to the constant changes our...

We were so excited when our friend Tonya wanted to share her experience  with all of us Hair Nerds! Here is her Hair-Venture.. Education in the Hair Industry is key to mastering your craft. I know this is a given to most. We all have our mentors and inspirational teachers, that are...

Arriving at the  gorgeous St. Vibiana Cathedral, you could feel the excitement of what was sure to be an amazing night.  This was the culmination of the six stop Black Ops Tour and finale including the What’s Next Awards.   We were hurdling to the moment everyone had anxiously been...

The CosmoProf Spring Style Show happens every year smack dab in the middle of the beautiful Downtown San Jose. Over 10,000 stylists from up and down the peninsula flock to get some education from Hair Heroes and get their hands on all the latest top notch products from their favorite...

Over 4 years ago in February of 2009,  Lisa Vann  invited 125 stylists to attend a fashion hair show with her dear friend Tony Masciangelo at the Alexis Hotel ballroom.  It was a way to bring some of the high fashion and editorial stylists from around the world to the Pacific Northwest....

When Toni & Guy tweeted an invite to their blogger event (don’t you just love the internet?)  during the Fashion and Beauty Blog Conference,  we immediately booked a last minute flight to LA.   Toni & Guy invited fashion and beauty bloggers to experience an extensive...

The 3rd Annual Wella Student Competition has become one of the most exciting Student Competitions in the hair world. This competition gives young student stylists a huge platform to create and display their work, meet amazing Super Hair-os and exposes them to a whole new realm of the...

The Wella Professionals 3rd Annual Student Competition has held a special place in our hearts from the beginning. Our Hair Nerd Carrie placed as a finalist in the first student competition in 2011, and even though she says her model ended up looking like a burnt out, red headed Marilyn...

When we decided to make ARROJO Expo a huge focus during our Chicago beauty weekend it was because we wanted to be at an event that celebrated hairdressers.  We wanted to be with our favorite people in this industry… our family… people that focus on the craft and care about...

Even though we are California girls and shiver at temperatures in the mid-50′s,  we are headed to America’s Beauty Show in Chicago this weekend to brave the snow!   Typically at a show, we immerse ourselves in education all day because the thought of missing an incredible class...

The Hair Nerds are headed to ABS Chicago!  While we weren’t originally planning on attending .. we booked flights as soon as we saw the ARROJO Expo announcement.   We love education and products at shows, but our favorite part of a hair show is truly the hairdresser community coming...

Sunday morning began far too early after Saturday night’s Power Point shenanigans, but isn’t that how it always goes?  We have traveled enough as a trio to make Carrie set her alarm for an hour earlier than everyone else! So while she rocks out to Pandora and does her makeup,...

The best times at a show are often found in the hotel after the convention center has closed.  We have maintained that you should attend all 3 days of ISSE Long Beach if at all possible forever.  The reason is a lifetime of entertainment is packed into this 3 days weekend.  In fact,  we...

Don’t get trapped on the trade show floor! The best gift you can give yourself this year is a hands-on class at ISSE Longbeach.  Think of it as a late Christmas present to your career…  We sat down with a few of the educators and here are our suggestions.   The Bombshell-...

You have been counting down the weeks until the International Salon and Spa Expo in Long Beach, CA for months, but now that the show is nearing you are starting to panic.  With over 40,000 attendees,  it is easy to get overwhelmed… Fear not, our hair loving friends… The Hair Nerds...

ISSE Long Beach, Jan. 26-28, 2013; Long Beach Convention Center It is EXACTLY one month until ISSE Long Beach !!!!    We adore this show for more reasons than are possible to list, but mostly because the education is killer.  If you are going to shows and not taking classes then your Hair...

*******Hair Wars is a hair infused battle usually between local salons. Originally starting in Detroit night clubs in the 80’s by DJ “Hump the Grinder” Since then these Hair Team throw downs have gone nation wide, giving any salon willing to compete the platform to stand on and...

We were invited to judge Hair Wars in Las Vegas this weekend and well…How could we turn this event down?   Crazy Amazing Hairdressers…Check! The Ghost Bar at The Palms… Check! Liquor Fueled Weekend… Double Check!   Whatever your plans were this weekend,...

Typically, we have every single detail of a show mapped out weeks in advance, but we wanted to try something different for ISSE Midwest .  We met up with our #HairBestie  Steve Elias and decided to stow our neurotic ways for 24 hours.   Keeping it low key we  documented  our entire day...

While we are admitted #ProductWhores,  our one true love is education.  Let’s face it… if you never sought any advanced education, you would still be the same punk you were right out of cosmetology school.  With classes from the top stylists at your disposal, continued education is...

NAHA This year’s NAHA show was attended by a record number of more than 3,000 guests and was also seen worldwide via live online streaming broadcast on HairDesignerTV by an additional 40,000. The NAHAs were hosted by famed entertainment journalist and star of E! Network’s E! News...

Waking up in Vegas for many isn’t always easy…you feel like your head is going to explode and you struggle to remember how you got all the way back to your room from the other side of the strip. But this Sunday morning came as a treat, we woke up bright eyed and bushy tailed ready...

We know we attended NAHA, PBA Beauty week and Cosmoprof North America but the details are a bit fuzzy.  Not because we were white girl wasted  (gotta keep it classy)… but because of our intense sleep deprivation.   These Nerds need more than 4 hours rest in a 72 hour period. We all...

When word got around that The Teals and Jake Thompson were performing on main stage this year at the International Beauty Show in Las Vegas, we immediately packed our bags and purchased our tickets to head to Sin City. Not only were we able to continue our nerd-stalking towards the Main...