Vain Salon

What’s up Denver?!

So by now most of you know i slay follicle all over North America for everyone from the deprived to the celeb world ( Molly Simms, Dave Navaro, Anne Hathaway etc..) The question has been HOW? Jason how do you meet these peeps? Jason what’s it like to design a collection for a major manufacturer?  Answer – Love what you do and do it like your life depends on it with style and flavor.

So here is how it goes… It started for me back in 1990 when I was at MICA (Maryland Institute College of Art) and  went into my neighborhood salon in Baltimore – Geometrics – to get my fade tightened up for the weekend.  Owner Hep Preston took the punk rock, breakdancin, surf kid with the skateboard and baseball hat under his wing as an apprentice.  Thanks Hep!!! This salon was hot!!!  They were doing movies, riding Harleys ad getting tattooed way before it was trendy.  I was 19 and figured hair would pay the rent till i started selling my paintings. Learning via apprenticeship was free, artsy and fun. The Geometrics crew taught me to channel my vision through scissors, razors and color. They told me I could do whatever I wanted. This being in stark contrast to the typical school mentality of telling the stylist what they can not do.

After Baltimore I mowed hair in DC then NYC next stop Holland. Denver? Snowboarding. I gotta keep all my creative juices flowing.. the way I ride waves, snow and concrete is another of art to me. I love shredding hair and boards. I am always involved in urban restoration, architectural design, music fashion and my 59 DeSoto (that’s a car).

Here is what to look for this season: BRAIDS!!! Who watches Entourage? Did you see Sloan wearing the side French braid last week and Ashley with the braid down the Mohawk section this week?  Braid it or not this is how to change your look without looking like its prom this fall.

Check out in next week for the next chapter of how the punk rock, breakdancin, surf kid with skateboard became the “HAIR NINJA” whose work ended up on television, in the magazines and on film.