Jahn Styles Boquete

I got out of Beauty School in 1980, and the most popular hairstyle was the S**g. Layering the hair into these styles with shorter layers on top and progressive length to the ends was an exciting statement of the times. The most famous one was the look from the film Klute worn by Jane Fonda. It was a marvelous tousled thick look. The longer S**g became the Farrah Fawcett look. Her poster was everywhere, and her gorgeously layered mop of blonde hair was stunning, as was her smile. It's hard to believe that Charlie's Angels was only on TV for one year since the hairstyle has lasted so much longer. It was fashion's first adventure with face-framing layers, and the length determined the frame's shape in front. In the '70s, the bangs were usually shorter, which created shorter layers around the face, which were harder to control without a perm. That cut seemed to develop a need for a permanent wave which made the hair easier to style and hold the curl. On days when you didn't want to use a curling iron, you could let it air dry with the perm curl, which we called "Natural." It was natural for people with naturally curly hair, but it took a lot of work to put those perm curls into the hair. At that time, I noticed that the permed hair looked significantly damaged when it was permed again. That was because we were perming one of the previously permed ends, and every time that hair got permed over, it got drier and frizzier. The remedy for that hair was to cut it shorter every time it permed until the woman had short hair. It seemed to be a transition to being over 30. Remember how everyone said you should never have long hair after 30? Was that a self-fulfilling prophecy? I developed a way of doing root perms to avoid that problem. I used plastic wrap on the ends of the hair when I was perming long hair. That way, I only was perming the new growth and avoided getting the damage on the ends. I was delighted with how my clients didn't have the ratty damaged looking ends on their hair. This was also helpful because we started doing Highlights and Perms at the same time in the '80s. In 1976 the Dorothy Hamill wedge cut came on the scene, and it was exciting because it looked so beautiful when she skated. Hamill's wedge originally was more like a bowl cut that gradually shortened into a wedge. She has continued with the shape to this day, and it now looks like the bowl perimeter with maximum layering. She found that she liked short hair the best and the techniques changed to give her something extremely flattering at all times. That is the beauty of hairstyling to me and why it is never boring. The techniques are constantly changing, and there is always a new twist on a classic look. Nowadays, the coloring technique applied has a lot to do with the look of the style. Dimensional Highlighting and Lowlighting strategically enhance the features of a great cut. I always was looking for new ways to do things, and I noticed in the '80s that people would do highlighting with only one color. If we blended in strands of color throughout the hair, it could surely be done with more than one color. I started doing three color weaves in the hair when no one else was doing it, and I loved how it looked. I could get a much more natural blend of blond going through the hair by using a dark, medium and light tone to create the gradation of colour that is present in naturally blond hair. The Miss Clairol commercial said that there were 14 shades of blond in naturally blond hair, so adding three tones mimicked natural tonal variation. My color weaves were looking good in the hair the entire time. Because of the blending of the three tones, the line of demarcation was hardly noticeable. Some even a year later just looked like sun bleaching on the ends before the client requested a new weave. The 1980s brought in the Bob Haircut for the more conservative with no layers at all. It worked well for women with thick hair and was performed with an undercut to create longer layers over the top to turn under perfectly. The challenge was that the 80's style was for full volume, and so fine thin hair wouldn't always perform in the Bob. There was a lot of extra weight from the top layers being so long. To give that cut some lift and still preserve the smoothness and long line on the top, I learned to give "Petticoat Perms." I permed the hair underneath so that when it dried, it lifted the other hair, and that technique worked well, but fashion wanted to put layers back in the hair, thank God!!! I love creating layers in the hair and creating Softness, Texture and Movement. Fan Bangs, Mall Bangs or Volumized Bangs were huge in the '80s, the focal point was really at the top of the face, and it seemed like the sky was the limit on those bangs. I remember Steel Magnolias' line, "The Higher the Hair, the closer to Jesus." The hairstyles were so huge and full, and they mirrored the beehive hairstyles of the 1960s that I remember seeing growing up. These styles required Permanent Waves, and my Root Perm Technique was in full operation. Ann and Nancy Wilson inspired a lot of the style in the '80s, leading to a craze of hair extensions. So many people wanted them, and I will never forget the first time I put in a set of hair extensions. They were long blond hair, and I used three different shades. It was with a hot glue gun, and I had to attach a drop of hot glue to the end of a hair bundle, wait 30 seconds for it to cool and then begin rolling it between my fingers. As I achieved a small tootsie roll shape with my glue and hair, I then transferred it to a small piece of hair on the client's head and continued rolling the glue and the hair together. It was gorgeous when done, and it took 12 hours. I had, of course, burned my fingers in the process and was dead tired, but she and I were so excited by the look! Yes, hair extensions were amazing and incredibly high maintenance. Some of the pieces would fall out in the shower, and some of them would fall out. I used that method on her hair one more time and then braided in hair tracks and sewing in wefts of hair. Those stayed longer, but the problem became the breakage at the scalp as they remained in the hair. Because they were down at the scalp, the girl could not brush her hair from the scalp to the ends. Unfortunately, this created a mat of hair-like dreadlocks that had to be combed out when the tracks were changed, making the new installation longer than the first. Add to it that the women who wanted the extensions generally had fine, fragile hair; it just wasn't a good thing to do, and I stopped doing them. I didn't feel it was worth the money to get them when they would stay in for only nine weeks if you babied them. The only hair extensions I like are the ones that clip in and get removed every night. When I was working on Kauai, I had a woman who wanted tape in extensions, and I thought, "Ok, I will try these. They look safer." This woman was a surfer, and I was ignorant of what the saltwater did to the hair at first. I quickly learned that saltwater made hair melt, especially if it's highlighted, and the roughness of the water would tear the tape in extensions loose. I finally got her to keep it in a ponytail when she was surfing, but it was tough to maintain, and we were replacing them around the front almost weekly. What I learned, to protect your hair from the ocean, the hair needs to be coated with a thick conditioner or coconut oil before going into the water. Then it had to be rinsed with club soda when coming out (the bubbles remove salt or chlorine), next sprayed with a greasy sunscreen if sitting out in the sun for a while, lastly repeat all steps if you go back in the water. It works, but it's a lot of steps. Something changed in the '90s, and clients didn't want to do perms anymore, and neither did I. I think it was a look that served its time and the maintenance was just too much. Everyone had done it, had their afro look, their natural curl look. I could give some incredible long hair spiral perms, but fashion called it a day for perms as a style. Color & shine became essential, and I devised a way to grow out the perms. I taught my clients how to set their hair in velcro rollers which smoothed out the permed ends, and the hair looked smooth from scalp to end. I taught them that if they would blow-dry their hair until only the ends were damp, then roll it up in the rollers, they could drive to work with the rollers in their hair. With the car heater going, since it was Oregon, the hair would be dry, and they could pop the rollers out, brush it out and walk into work, and the style would last for three days. In the 90's I felt the evolution of stunning hairstyles. The products were changing, and shine in the hair became important. Clients were educated about the damage of perms and how to style their hair without one. Also, the volume was reduced in the crown and went to the sides of the head, which was much more achievable. These were the years that Jennifer Aniston ruled the Hair Waves. Friends was a big hit on TV, and when she debuted the "Rachel" hairstyle by Chris McMillan, she created a sensation. She became the face of many cosmetic and hair campaigns. As her cut transitioned to the Millennium style, Rachel just became more beautiful. I think she inspired so many blonde hair colors because she had them all. I assume that all the hair is hers, but you never know how to enhance skillful extensions and computer graphics. The virtual world has changed fashion because it can be changed if something doesn't look good in the photo. At any rate, I think her hair always looks fantastic, and I would hate to be the one who has to put a million micro foils in her hair. It must take hours and three people doing it because she always looks like she does have 14 shades of blonde in her hair. https://www.elle.com/beauty/hair/news/g30221/jennifer-aniston-hairstyles/?slide=35



Color became the most crucial feature of the cut, with dimensional Highlighting finally making its mark in the fashion world with the arrival of the "Money Piece." This technique is about placing face-framing highlights around the face to enhance the eyes. Beyonce is credited with debuting the Money Piece and although I feel it was evolving all along, her edition of that highlighting technique is nothing short of amazing. She is the Queen Bee, after all. https://www.popsugar.com/beauty/Beyonce-Money-Piece-Highlights-Trend-46244298


These fashion Icons I have listed above are my inspiration for my work, and they each have created an important momentum for hair fashion. I don't try to give everyone the same look; quite the opposite. I never want to be called a "Cookie Cutter." Remember that there are eight facial shapes to be framed, Oval, Square, Rectangular, Diamond, Pear, Heart, Oblong and Round. This is the marvelous part of how we each have our unique beauty, and it's really fun for me as a hairstylist to work with those shapes to find the most flattering hair shapes. Styles will come and go, but there will always be a classic look that enhances your features. You may have found that you repeatedly come back to a similar style, and there is a reason for that. It works for you, and you feel confident in that style. That is my main goal as a Stylist. I want you to feel like the best and newest edition of yourself. I want you to feel natural. I want you to have low-maintenance care, and the haircut will style itself by air drying. I want your cut to last long and let you evolve, and the hairstyle evolves with you. The best way to get a great haircut with me is to be your authentic self. The more you can share about who you are and what you like, the easier it is for me to reflect that back into your hairstyle. It's that simple and what I like to do is for us to look at photos on Pinterest that I think might interest you or hair shapes that I think will look good and then proceed from there. You have the final say, and I have no agenda. Pinterest has been a Godsend for me in hairstyling; it's so great to have lots of photos because there is always something there. I am including my Pinterest link here, and you can see what type of things I like to do with hair. https://www.pinterest.com/jahnstylesboquete/