The Mane Blog: July 2010

7/25/2010

Deals coming your way

Well we are coming up to our first year anniversary and I am feeling pretty proud of what we have accomplished. We have a wonderful team of experienced hairstylists, Rosetta, David, and Maria, and myself Susan, our friendly and licenced esthetician Natalie. Assistants Angela, Gentiana and Franceska some of which are not in the picture and Victoria our full time receptionist who greets the clients and keeps us all on track and of course Lucy our part-time receptionist who will be leaving us at the end of this month to pursue a career as a teacher in the U.K. we will miss her terribly.
We are on the verge of many promotional deals that I am very excited about. One of which is ottawasavers.com, this web site will be launching mid August. Keep checking to see the awesome deals that are offered there. We of course are very much involved and am ready to offer some spectacular deals that will blow you away. Please check it out.

7/16/2010

Islands at Bluesfest 2010

Matthew Good Band at Bluesfest 2010

Crowded House at Bluesfest 2010

7/10/2010

Canada Day In The Capital

O.K. this is now the third time I am writing this blog and I hope it works.
This is the seventh year that I am doing hair for the Canada Day shows on the Parliament hill, and I am as excited this year as the first year. We are all the same team with the exception of three newbies. We all geled (excuse the expression)as if we have been working together since that first time. And in all those years this is the first picture of all of us we have ever taken together. Starting from the left we have Sharon our wardrobe magician, Cathy our newbie make-up artist, me the shortest and the only one wearing white; Tina the head of the team of hair and make-up, and Pina; make-up artist extroardinaire.
Our day started very early this year 8 a.m. to be exact, though it never seems too early on this special day. We all have our schedules of who's hair we will be doing but things can change in an instant. One of my clients was the co-host of the noon time show Mr. Ron Mclean and what a nice guy. As is evedence of the picture we took together (his idea really). In the afternoon I did Rebecca Makonnen. This was her second year as host of the evening show. She remembered me from last year. It always makes you feel good to be remembered.
Now not so say that all of the acts we took care of were not fabulous because they were but the piece de resistance was Christopher Plummer. He is an icon from stage and screen. He is debonnaire and dare I say handsome and a gentleman. And he was gracious enough to have his picture taken with me. That did it for me. The day was exilerating humbling and exhausting and I can't wait for next year.