After the hair show this weekend, and running around with my old, old, OLD school Canon Rebel XT taking pictures, I came to a realization.

I got my tax refund a little while ago. $1300 straight into my bank account. Now, I’m decidedly poor – I own exactly enough clothes to get me through the week, I don’t own a car, and I eat the cheapest food you can think of. So getting $1300 that I wasn’t prepared for is quite a shock, and I’ve spent weeks agonizing over every possible thing I could do with it – New glasses (mine are broken), new clothes (my shirts are eventually going to just be a pile of loose threads), a car (Ha!), tools for hairdressing, paying off the debt that I’ve racked up going to hair school…

What did I do with it? Here’s what I did with it:

My New 7D

And I ended up stretching my finances more than a bit – I’ve got about $100 to live off of until my next paycheck. I’ve got no savings, I’m living paycheck to paycheck. I thought about what to use the money for more than most people think about anything. I knew what the smart thing to do was, but I also knew what the right thing to do was.

I had been trying to convince myself that I don’t want to be a photographer anymore, and that I should focus entirely on hair, but I now realize that I can’t do that because being a photographer is who I am, and I believe it will ultimately contribute as much to my success in life as being a hairstylist will. Some day, anyway. I just have to work extra hard to make myself better at both things.

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I just got back from ABA in Edmonton – well actually, I just finished shooting Episode 1 of CrossCheck with Josh and Randy Taylor, and now I’m eating spaghetti with liberal amounts of both seasoning salt and parmesan cheese. The hair show was earlier. Today was one hell of an eventful day! Got up at 7 am to leave for the hair show, spent most of the day there, rushed back and got home literally 30 minutes before the show was due to go live, found out our Skype video calling wasn’t working and I had to rush to fix it all up, download Josh’s video segment to insert into the end of the show, get Josh and Randy on the line and ready. All in all we were finally ready one minute before we went live, with only 60 seconds to spare.

Anyway, the hair show wasn’t bad. Tabatha Coffey spoke on the main stage and I like her, she’s cool beans! And I managed to walk around the hair show with a huge wad of cash in my pocket and not buy a single thing. Nothing. Go me! I took a few pictures, although it’s been awhile since I’ve had a camera in my hands. I want to get back into the swing of things with photography. Some day I want to be like the Canadian Randy Taylor! haha

I was pretty much in love with this model at the Redken stage:

Jake Thompson had some ultra cool stuff going on at his stage:

Surprisingly, the Nioxin stage had some nice stuff going on too:

And some silly stuff:

And this is totally a crappy picture but I just really dig the green hair on the model, so, deal with it!

And here’s another pic of the kickass redhead who made all the other models look like they dropped out of posing school. Why? Because it’s my blog and I like redheads dammit.

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The cat’s out of the bag, here’s the secret project I’ve been involved with!

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Watch our first episode!

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A video on failing miserably. It’d be on iTunes except my software is messing with me and I had to record this with xsplit because my webcam software stopped working, but xsplit encodes videos that Premiere won’t play… Grr! It’s a fail video on failing. How fitting!

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I need some Y.S. Park brushes…

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A video I did by request on YS Park combs, the best combs out there. It may seem silly to make a video about combs, but they really are the Rolls Royce of combs! And it’s difficult to know which combs to get when you’re looking online!

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I’m posting from my comfy bed! Because I can’t sleep… And I wanted to see how my iPhone would handle wordpress. So far so good!
Here’s a page from my diary I was just writing in. It’s the things I want to make mental notes to work on in my haircutting right now.

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A video rundown of my everyday kit in the salon. I’m hoping to get other hairstylists to make some videos of their kits too!

You can follow the threads on Hairbrained and Hairmaven to see if other stylists share their kits.

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