Portland Maine Hair Salon Stylist | Tasha Zwickerhill

Hair Painting

tasha — Fri, 22 Mar 2013 00:00:25 +0000

This past weekend, I attended a class at Arrojo Studio in NYC on hair painting, most commonly known as “balyage”, the french style of hand painting highlights. If you follow my rarely updated blog, you know I took a class last year at Arrojo, and am kiiiiiinda obsessed with the staff and education at this SoHo based salon. The class was great! I definitely feel like I gained a wealth of knowledge and techniques to try out, so naturally I came back to Portland dying to get my hands on some hair in need of some new color! Luckily, Sarah called the salon, wanting to chop off enough length to donate, and feeling like her (completely virginal) color needed some sprucing up. Perfect, no? Below are Sarah’s before and after shots. We used the hand painting technique to create a very natural, sunkissed effect on Sarah’s natural blonde locks, plus gave her a nice long layered cut. Check out Sarah’s take on the experience here!

Champagne in the Hurricane

tasha — Sat, 09 Feb 2013 14:01:23 +0000

This post may be a bit delayed, but hey better late than never! Sitting on my couch, after shoveling myself out of the snow wall created by Nor’easter Nemo, I received some images from the lovely Savannah Daras, from a photoshoot we did during hurricane Sandy. Ah, what I would give to have rain now. Granted, hurricane Sandy did not hit Maine the way it did the rest of the Easter seaboard, thank goodness, but we were still maybe a little crazy to be out in that storm, with our two models, a can of hair spray (like it did anything in those crazy winds) and a photographer. Planning an outdoor shoot when you are a hairdresser is hard. Unlike a photographer that can be inspired by the day’s gorgeousness, and just put out a call for an available model, our models have to be prepped ahead of time, and be shot while their cuts and colors are still fresh. In short, our shoots often can not be rescheduled, and a back up plan needs to be in place. Jenn and I had this vision of models in cozy fall knits, the warm light of a gorgeous Maine fall day in a wide open field. Instead, we got rain and 50 mph winds. Oops. Plan B; one of O2′s amazing clients opened up her stunning West End home to us. With Kate to the rescue, we had a super fun Monday afternoon, got some great shots, and, we even ventured out into the storm at the end of the shoot for a little champagne in the hurricane.

Vidal Sassoon 5 Point Homage

tasha — Fri, 05 Oct 2012 17:08:49 +0000

Last week I got an email from hairbrained.me (a fabulous social networking site for people who work in or just plain love this wonderful industry) that they were running a contest to win admission to a master’s class at the Vidal Sassoon Academy in Santa Monica with Mark Hayes. Say what?!?!?

The rules were simple. Do an awesome cut and color. Snap a pic with your cell phone, submit it to hairbrained, and hope that your photo get the most “likes”. How could I not enter?!?

One facebook status and 30 seconds later, I already had a model volunteer, the lovely Ashley, who was totally prepared to let me have complete control over her head (love that in a model). I decided to create my own version of Vidal’s 5 point cut, a very geometric cut with sharp, clean, diagonal lines, that moved in color from a true violet to a more rosy purple underneath.

Here’s the result! Fingers crossed that soon I’ll be posting about how excited I am to be heading out to Cali in November!

The original 5 point cut.

Braided Bride

tasha — Wed, 12 Sep 2012 20:04:02 +0000

This bride was really fun to work with, because she wanted something completely different from the other styles being requested, AND I got play with making a custom weave filler (you know homegirl loves playing with extensions!). For the bride, we worked with braids that started at the temple, and wrapped around the nape and into a braided chignon on the side. For the bridesmaids, I incorporated braids into the updos for continuity. Keep an eye out for the pro shots in my portfolio, but for now, sub-par iPhone shots!

Summer Bride

tasha — Mon, 10 Sep 2012 19:55:27 +0000

Here are some shots of the lovely Ms. Lauren after her wedding day hair was finished! Soft, slightly undone, and perfect for an outdoor Maine wedding!

Bridal Blondes!

tasha — Fri, 07 Sep 2012 19:36:46 +0000

Just a Day in the Life…

tasha — Thu, 06 Sep 2012 21:05:44 +0000

Cookies delivered, playing with weaves and dogs, and cutting your own hair. Being a hair dresser is hard…or the best thing ever.

Super Rad Pre-Teen, Super Rad Asymmetric Cut

tasha — Thu, 06 Sep 2012 19:23:09 +0000

This week I got give a really fun haircut to the most adorable asymmetrical haircut, and to make it even more awesome, my client was twelve, and totally rocked it! This haircut was a more blended take on the undercuts that have been popular over the last year, still coming in really short of at the left hairline, and moved to chin length on the right.

July 14, 2012

tasha — Thu, 19 Jul 2012 19:13:53 +0000

Last week it was wedding madness at the shop. We had a bridal party of 9, hair and make-up for everyone, three stylists, 5 hours, and a lot of fun. These girls were great, and it was so much fun to hang with them and style them, that I pulled a superwoman move, and busted out 6 of the updo’s and 3 of the make-up application. And that friends, is a lot of hair and make-up to do in 5 hours! So here is some cell phone shots of the gals I took care of, hopefully some pro photos will be up soon!

Maine Wedding!

tasha — Fri, 01 Jun 2012 14:14:53 +0000

This past weekend, I had the pleasure of doing hair and make-up for a wedding held at Linekin Bay Resort in Boothbay Harbor, Maine. The location was absolutely breathtaking, with amazing views of the bay. As I worked, we could see guests paddle boarding, boating, and swimming in a heated salt water pool. I was a little jealous. Okay, a lot jealous. The bride and her bridesmaids had perfect styles to fit the location, simple and sofisticated. Here’s a little sneak peak of some photos I snapped with my trusty iPhone!