Art has been defined as "the use of skill and imagination in the creation of aesthetic objects, environments, or experiences that can be shared with others.”
I have always defined art as the expression of ones’ creativity, thoughts, desires, experiences, hopes and dreams.
Fine art is defined as "a visual art considered to have been created primarily for aesthetic purposes and judged for its beauty and meaningfulness, specifically, painting, sculpture, drawing, watercolor, graphics, and architecture."
Historically, the five greater fine arts were painting, sculpture, architecture, music and poetry, with minor arts including drama and dancing.
Hair, when properly studied and performed is an art. The living canvas is the medium. We see at hair shows the no boundary visions of what people can do with the hairs’ form, shape, color, texture, and length.
To achieve this level of artistry requires years of continued study, discipline, apprenticing and eventually mentoring others as well as becoming involved in shows, photo shoots, seminars, lectures, and certifications.
Statistically very few professional hairdressers undertake such involved continued studies. The vast majority don’t do much past their initial schooling, making their skills as many years out of date as the years since they graduated.
For those that take the fine art path, it is the equivalent of the musician who wakes up and practices his scales every day before practicing his repertoire. The fine artists go to see other artists teach and perform, they attend master class series.
For salon professionals or hair artists, it is the same. We live the fine artist’s lifestyle. We constantly strive to learn, reinvent, and become better in addition to collaborating our creativity with others.
These types of artists will always offer new things and speak passionately about their travels and experiences.
All too often we see hairdressers look at swatches, use the same handed down formulas for color without understanding their basis, and repeat mindlessly and complacently their daily tasks. Where is the passion, desire, inspiration and lust for creativity? This is why so many consumers are unhappy, bored, uninspired about their visit to the salon. This is why the trust has been broken and so many salon hop in search of better only to find tons of the same. Consumers need to visit, call, and ask questions and read blogs and reviews before shelling out top dollar for mediocre work. Salons don’t have to cost a fortune either just to find the right quality. In today’s market even the least experienced salons look like palaces and charge top dollar.
Top chefs don’t have to look up recipes or figure out what the spices will produce, they know. They create and whip up their next best dish.
At our salon, Hair Studio Artists live the fine art lifestyle. We strive to be those musicians and chefs. This is why we are trusted by our guest list to create freely what they know will look best on them.
This is how salons should be. Consumers don’t go to restaurants and tell the chefs how to cook or what to cook. They trust the menu and sit back and relax into scrumptious delight just as our guest sit back, relaxed and excited to see what we will whip up for them and to experience the fruits of our travels.
For us, fabulous hair is your birthright and should be affordable, reachable and forever fashion forward.
Remember, you get what you pay for and if it sounds too good to be true, chances are it is. Art is like life, often imitated. Hair is art also often imitated but for many less often artistically duplicated. Not everyone can reproduce your living canvas masterpiece.
