Makeovers!

Welcome!

Paul Mitchell The School design team had an amazing opportunity to makeover 12 high school students from the Phillips School. The Phillips School is an alternative high school located in Annandale, Virginia. The Phillips School helps support students and their families through education, family support services, community education and advocacy. The Phillips School helps the students to maximize their full potential and be productive members of society. For more information on the Phillips School you can check out their website at http://www.phillipsprograms.org/index.htm.

The high school students received new hair cuts, creative styles and updos. Most of the students also had their makeup done to create the total look. The students were very excited and enjoyed their experience here at Paul Mitchell The School.

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Princess Night!!

Welcome!

It was Princess Night last Friday and it was an awesome event. The line was out the door of Paul Mitchell The School. The little girls had their hair, nails and makeup done for $10.00. For another $3.00 the little princesses could have their picture taken with Cinderella. It was a magical night for many little girls. Some little girls saw Cinderella for the very first time and couldn’t contain their excitement. Cinderella took over 140 pictures with the little princesses and signed autographs for them as well.

Paul Mitchell The School raised over $2,600. All proceeds benefiting: Food 4 Africa, Children’s Miracle Network, Andrew Gomez Dream Foundation, The Larry King Cardiac Foundation, and The Leeza Gibbons Memory Foundation.

Lets Dance!

Welcome Back Everyone!

Every Wednesday and Saturday mornings we have our future professional/staff team meetings called “Pow – Wows”. The meetings first start off by one of the staff members taking attendance. The meeting lasts about 20 – 30 minutes and they are packed full of information about new events, fundraising opportunities, student sponsor programs, school policies and procedures. This past Saturday future professionals and staff members got energized with some Latin dancing. A few of the future professionals and staff members got up to show off their talent as Latin dancers. They danced the Merengue, Salsa and the Cha Cha. It was a fun and terrific way to start off a Saturday morning.



Stay tuned for more exciting activities next week.

Guest Artist

Welcome!

Every Wednesday we have the honor of having a guest artist at our school. The guest artists have been salon owners, makeup specialists, skin care specialists from Dermalogica, and recent graduates just to name a few. This week our guest artist was Learning Leader Lani who showed us creative and artistic ways to design our Paul Mitchell T-shirts.


Plain T-shirts can be rather dull so we spent the morning decorating our shirts. There were four stations set up around the room. Each future professional was given a colored dot on their hand which represented the station you were assigned to. After 30 minutes we rotated stations so we had the opportunity to be at each station. The four stations included cutting, ribbon and jewels, fabric paints and markers, and iron letters or patches.



Many of the future professionals created fantastic t-shirts in just under two hours using everyday items. Along with the fantastic t-shirts, the future professionals made awesome headbands with the scraps that they cut from their t-shirts.

What to do for your hair?

Welcome!

Few people are ever happy with their hair. We all struggle to find the right products that will work with our hair and not against it. No matter what type of hair you have Paul Mitchell has something that will work for you. All of Paul Mitchell products are color coded so if you can’t remember the name at least you might remember what color the top of the bottle is. Orange is for the Color Care line, blue is for Moisture line, green for smoothing line, dark green bottle is for the Tea Tree line and so on.

If your hair is dry and brittle, it lacks moisture. Hair normally has a moisture content of approximately 10%.

If your hair’s moisture content drops below that then you would need to increase the hair’s ability to attract and retain moisture. This is accomplished by using Paul Mitchell’s Moisture and Tea Tree Lavender Mint products. The Moisture line hydrates and revives your hair. The Tea Tree Lavender Mint also hydrates your hair while providing a calming lavender scent.

If you need more fullness and volume, Paul Mitchell’s Extra Body products are for you. These products have thickening conditioning agents that add volume and body while adding shine to your hair.

If your hair is color treated Paul Mitchell’s Color Protect is what you would want to use. One of the main ingredients is sunflower extract which protects the structure of your hair while providing UVA and UVB protection. It also helps your color from fading.


Check out the link below for other Paul Mitchell products.
http://www.paulmitchell.com/Products/Pages/Products.aspx

15 Minutes of Fame

Welcome Everyone!

This past week Future Professional Stephanie Cluff made her television debut on ABC’s Extreme Makeover Home Edition. The show was about a family who helps community kids make better choices for themselves and to steer them down the right path. The Family tries to provide a happy home to many of the kids who come from broken homes. The Family needed more space to help these kids. They would spend all of their money helping the kids and because of this they were not able to fix or make the repairs needed on their home. I sat down with Stephanie to discuss what her experience was like on the show.
Question: How did you get on ABC’s Extreme Makeover Home Edition?

Stephanie: My husband (Max Cluff) works for G & M Contracting which was one of the companies that Extreme Makeover Home Edition networked with.

Question: Where was the home and when was it filmed?

Stephanie: The home was in Hyattsville, Maryland and was filmed in August of 2009.

Question: What was the most exciting part?

Stephanie: Seeing how many people came out to give their time and energy. The scope of the project was much bigger than I realized.

Question: What was your least exciting part?

Stephanie: My husband living there for one week on location. My husband, Max was the night project manager. His shift was from 11 pm until 11am. He would sleep from 2 pm until 7 pm most nights in a trailer. The foundation and all of the excavating of the land was done in the middle of the night. The cameras were only there during the day to film, so you didn’t get to see all the work that was done during the night.

Question: Did you get to stay on location with your husband?

Stephanie: I was there on the first day when the crew surprised the family and also the last day when they did the big reveal (Move That BUS!). I needed to be home to take care of our kids.

Question: What changes did you have to make?

Stephanie: At the time I was a night school student and my Mom had to fly from Utah to help out so that I could come to school at night.

To see the episode go to ABC.com Extreme Makeover Home Edition “The Tripp Family” and check out the website of G & M contracting on how the home was constructed of all green materials.

Tools of the Trade

What hairstyling tools do we use here at Paul Mitchell The School? We use everything that you normally would think of blow dryers, smoothing and curling irons, clips, combs, brushes and of course scissors. Yes, they all help in making you look fabulous but did you know they each have a special function? This may be common knowledge for most of you but for a novice like myself I wasn’t familiar with all the different functions. The blow dryer with nozzle helps direct the heat to dry and give your hair shine. The smoothing iron is for the smooth and shiny look and the curling iron will give you that Victoria Secret look.

The clips aka duckbill clips are used for keeping the hair in place when cutting, or coloring. Each of the combs have a special function, the large white comb is used for detangling wet hair. The 408 comb (black/various colors) is used for precision cutting when the hair is wet. It includes numbers on the side 1 – 6 inches for cutting the correct length. The 424 comb aka the green comb is used for cutting dry hair that is thick or coarse. The 416 comb aka the red comb is used for cutting wet hair that is curly or coarse. It can also be used for dry cutting.

The brushes we commonly used are the paddle brush which is great for flat wrapping hair to remove 80% of moisture. It is also great on the short graduation cut. The style brush (black rubber brush) is used for the leafing and beveling technique and it will give your hair a great shine. The sculpting brush is used to create the shape and style of the hair. The boar round brush is great for coarse curly hair to grab the hair and give it a sleek, smooth style. The thermal round brush is great for the guest who wants the added volume.

The scissors we use at Paul Mitchell are small, medium, large and texture scissors. The small scissors are 4 ½ - 5 ½ inches in length and are used for the graduated, short layered hair cuts and also for detailed work around the neck and hairline. The medium scissors are 6 inches in length and are used for long layered cuts and for point cutting. The large scissors are 6 ½ - 7 ½ inches in length are used for one length cuts and scissor over-comb techniques. The texture scissors are used to remove weight from thick hair or to blend the short lines of a hair cut.

Hello Everyone!

Reduce, reuse, and recycle! This week I was appointed manager of the Go Green Team. The Go Green Team is a student run recycling program that helps to recycle product waste that we use here at Paul Mitchell The School. Each week one of the team members takes the recycling waste from the green bins that we have set up at the school and brings the recycling products to the McLean Bible Church in Vienna to be recycled.

Why Is Recycling Important?
Recycling preserves our environment, saves money and
Energy. It turns recyclable materials into products that we use daily.

What Can Be Recycled?
Boxes (flatten) newspapers & Inserts, cereal boxes, catalogs & magazines. Plastic bottles (milk jugs, soda, laundry detergent, salad dressing, cooking oil, shampoo, soap, cleansers). Rinse lightly. Remove lids and crush. Aluminum and steel cans. Rinse lightly. Crush if possible.
YES TO ALL EMPTY aerosols cans (such as Hold Me Tight, and Hot Off The Press).


What Can NOT Be Recycled?
NO Plastic bags or wrappers, waxed paper or containers, waxed cardboard, styrofoam, paper towels, tissues, paper plates or cups, or foil type gift wrap. NO food contaminated boxes, pizza boxes or egg cartons.

NO Magazine or yogurt containers, plastic trays, toys, cups, styrofoam, flower pots, or extra plastic bags. NO motor oil, pesticide or solvent bottles.

NO Foil or pie trays, propane cylinders, siding, beach or lawn
chairs, pots, pans or other scrap metal.

NO Window glass, drinking glasses, mirrors, ceramics, crystals, florescent or light bulbs, Corning Ware, or Pyrex.

Where Does It All Go?
The bottles, cans and paper collected for recycling are taken
to a material recovery facility to be sorted by material type
(aluminum cans, steel cans, glass bottles, plastic bottles,
newspaper, etc). Manufacturers buy the sorted recyclables
and use them as raw materials to make new products.


Recycling Facts
PAPER and CARDBOARD are made into paperboard boxes and shirt inserts.
PLASTIC is made into new plastic bottles, carpet fiber & backing.
CANS are made into new steel products and aluminum cans.
GLASS is made into new glass containers of the same color or used in asphalt to pave roads.

Game Time!

Hi everyone!

I hope you all had as an amazing week. This week as a member of the design team I took part in the Fourth Annual Robinson DECA Fashion Show. DECA is an association of marketing students at Robinson Secondary School in Fairfax, Virginia. The theme was “Game Time is Anytime”. There was over 70 marketing students and 20 Paul Mitchell students. Each of us was assigned to a different scene.

I was paired with Stephanie Cluff who was kind enough to take time from school to help the design team out. The scenes consisted of the following - Choose your own adventure, Jumanji, Monopoly, Trivial Pursuit – sports edition, Battleship, Candy land, Clue and Thin Ice. Thin Ice is the scene Stephanie and I worked on. We had four hours to transform each of these students into their characters for the fashion show.

It was an exciting but exhausting challenge for only 20 of us to get all 70 students ready with hair and makeup in time for the fashion show. The Paul Mitchell Design Team was definitely up for the challenge. The fashion was amazing and the models all looked awesome! It was a great experience to work in real time under the pressure and to be able to see your work come alive on stage. In the pictures below you can follow the transformation of Nora (a senior from Robinson Secondary School) from start to finish.