shaving my head...oh boy!

this was me....
about 2 months, post-shaving-my-head-at-a-commercial-break...where I saw Erika Badhu with a baldy head...I thought she looked stunning...and very un-britney spears....

at home: I stood and stared at my head....for a long time...and rubbed it....it felt wonderful!

at work: people screamed

at home: "what did you do!?!"...came from everyone's mouth...ha ha ha ha...but that's been a theme in my life...ha ha ha (what did you do to your pants? what did you do to your walls? what did you do to your hair?")

i've been trying to grow it out since then.....many a bad haircuts (not by jerry...by some "nameless" salon in san diego..where I left with yellow hair in an unwanted asymmetrical cut) and accidental scissor-mishaps...

to today...where I take you with...a butterfly on the wall....to get my hair cut by Jerry Park at BARRACUDA salon
7769 Melrose Ave
Los Angeles, CA 90046
(323) 852-7179
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Jerry is super sweet and really cool...tell him i said hi!!!

now let's go get my hair cut.....

PS..... thanks to my friend, Ian Ruhter for filming it for me...way better than me doing it myself!

A hair story....by kandee johnson

because blonde hair makes you feel less manly when it's all short.....but boy did I get ready fast...I could just put some wax in it and go!
oh the many lives of my hair....
how we've experimented with red hair....blue and green (partly on accident)...every length imaginable from shaved head....to short chin length bob....to boy hair....to Rapunzel-length "climb up my hair"......to finally growing it out from my years of short hair prison...due to the previously mentioned "shaved-head" incident....
a long, long, time ago.....I watched some music awards show...and as I saw Erykah Badu, march down the red carpet, looking stunningly beautiful....with a shaved head....I thought for 3.7 seconds and said...I LOVE how beautiful and confident she looks with a shaved head (and, think how fast I'll get ready!)....within
1.4 minutes.....I was in the bathroom with all my hair fallen....into the sink
the best part was walking into the restaurant where I worked at the time...and everyone looking in awe (AKA horror at my hair...) ha ha ha ha
and after many accidental "trims" which turned into "head shaving #3"....I rejoice at feeling my hair on my back in the shower, again!
BUT I will tell you this...you feel a certain tough-ness, when you have no hair....like people were scared to talk to me....ha ha ha....and people thought I was just this fearless brave-hair-wearer! SO to all my ladies going through chemo or anything where they don't have all their long locks (yet!)...know that I wore the no-hair look too....and I loved it! I admire a woman with a shaved head (whether by choice or chemotherapy)...because it takes a lot of guts to bold and strong and say "this is my face, with no hair to hide behind, this is my soul shining brightly through my eyes...and I am strong and I will get through whatever challenges are before me....a little think like long hair doesn't make me a woman.....my heart and soul does!" (thank you Evelyn for bravely rocking you beautiful shaven head at the Glaminars in NY...I just thought you were one stylish sister!!! I am so proud of you...huge love...kandee)
Travel with me as we walk down kandee's-hair-of-the-past.....

this was taken at this awesome furniture store on La Brea on LA, that sells things like GIANT hand shaped chairs...and these were old movie theater seats...tons of them...this was post shaving...grow out

ahhhh...this was very Marilyn Monroe -ish!
oh...now this was in high school...kandee circa age 16! yeah...i did those streaks in the front myself....ha ha ha ha

this was shortly....well some months after the hair-shortening...you can see bits of the hair in front of my ear.....(oh man!!! Look, that's back when I had my old yellow ring!!!!)

Pompadours!!!

pom-pom-pompadours!!!!
i love em...a dash of rockabilly, elvis, punk, and fashion runway....
Zac Posen had some pomp, stompin' down his runways for fall fashion 09/10!!!

all you's gotta get is:
hair
a round brush
bobby pins
rubberbands
lots o' hairspray ( i used GHD hairspray)
smoothing cream - pomade - wax (KMS cilantro lime wax-creme)
root volumizer - mousse (I used Redken Rootlifter)

now let's get pompy!

Postcards from the BEACH!!!

Dear Kandee Family of Precious People....

I escaped the clutches of my computer and video camera....

all I had was a bathing suit, no towel, and a friend...who had a towel!

I swam in some brisk water...and it felt so good...to feel free and light...and no real cords of technology tying me to some task....well my friend did have his ipod and speakers on the beach...and my iphone was in my purse...ha ha ha ha

It was the best feeling to sit on the sand...and look out at the huge collection of water... it felt good to my soul....as any good day on the beach should end....BBQ food was consumed...corn on the cobb...(that I took a bite of, and it shot a piece of corn on my friends face...whoops! ha ha).

but if we rewind....I did this video when I was getting ready for my afternoon on the sand...

fast messy beach hair do and some quick make-up sizzle....

and it's on the cheap product side too.....we love that!!!

Save Money: How to Cut Your Own Hair

Want to save some dollars, euros, rupees, coins...
I'm going to show you how! You can cut your hair yourself!
Yes, don't be scared! I cut my own hair for years, and some of my favorite hair cuts have been done by my own 2 hands!
Take this one for example: (all me baby!) Yes, I bleached it platinum myself too.

HOW TO CUT THE PERFECT BANGS or FRINGE:

You wanna know the secret to get a really spectacular hair cut. Top stylists have learned a skill that's been passed down from stylists to stylist- the dry cut. It's not taught in schools, the art of dry cutting is when a stylist washes, dries, flat irons and styles the hair before cutting the hair. You can see where the hair puffs up or which direction it wants to go, this way, so your cut is comes out perfect! And dry cutting is PERFECT for your BANGS or FRINGE!

Now you might be thinkin', "well that's great Kandee, but you went to beauty school (AKA Cosmetology school)...I might totally mess up my hair!"
No, some of my friends that have the coolest hair, do it themselves, with no training at all! (Even Sharon Stone cuts her own hair!)
You know your face, and how you like to wear your hair better than any one else on the planet! You can custom tailer the perfect, face framing haircut for yourself!

It's so easy and fast! It's like a make-over for your face! So here how to cut your own bangs or frings, these are cute sideswept bangs! All you need is a comb, some good shears and your hair.

TIP: I blow dried and straightened my hair before I cut them. This gives you the straightest, most desirable hair to cut. (Cutting hair dry, gives you a more precise cut!)

know let's get ready to cut some awesome bangs!
get mark, get set, get combs, get scissors...get ready for gorgeous!
huge love, and even "huge-er" hair, your kandee