Photo Shoot 2011

HAUTE, HOT, HOT!

This is Britt, another one of our lovely models who participated in our in-house photo shoot, recently. As you can see from the "before" image, her hair is quite long and the color was very uneven with major new growth at the roots. Even though the ombre look is very trendy, with colored ends and mid-shaft that devolve back to the root area, that is a very deliberate and articulated look. Britt's look was the result of waiting too long between highlighting appointments. We simply evened out the color and substituted some of the darker sections with a fantastic icy blond look. In the first look, notice the long barrel curls and how the color is consistent from root to ends. In both looks, the long bangs help make a great statement. In the first look with all the hair down, it helps frame a great face and in the second look, the bangs help to draw attention away from her long forehead. Along with the long bangs in the second look, the hair gathered on the side, in the back, tells a great story of simple sophistication.

Photo Shoot 2011

DRAB to GLAM!!!

This is Alicia, who participated in our in-house photo shoot. Notice the color - bright, shiny and consistent from scalp to ends. This is very important if you like to wear your hair up one day and down the next. Yes, there is maintainence involved but the results are fabulous and really enhance your image. Notice also the different colors of lips in each look. The softer, coral tone really lends itself to the casual, chic look that both the hair and clothing are portraying. The darker, vivid red lip color is very high fashion in this look, which is enhanced by the graceful upswept hair that is very reminiscent of the early 1900's Gibson Girl look.

Photo Shoot 2011

The first look at the photo shoot images from Sunday. As you can see from Aivy's "before" look, she has super straight hair, with the remnants of a long ago hilite framing her face. Teresa lightened her hair all over with a much warmer color and shaped up the cut while taking about an inch off the length. The first look was styled with all her hair framing her face while allowing the texture of the cut and the dimension of the color to be the star of the show. After we shot this look, Teresa then simply restyled Aivy's hair to create a voluminous and glam look.

Let us know what you think!

Annual In-Salon Photo Shoot

Mouton's has been a part of the Global Hair & Fashion Group for several years. Each year the some of the team members travel to either New York, Miami or LA to take part in the domestic shoots. Additionally, one of the principals of Mouton's, Teresa travels to either London, Paris or Milan to take part in the international collection shoots with the other members of the Global Hair and Fashion Group. This past weekend, the producer, photographer and the makeup artist of the group travelled to the salon and most of our in-salonMouton's team members participated in the shoot. Leslie Sowell, Michelle Molina, Kimberly Lewis, An Ngo and Sherri Long were all scheduled to do a model. However because we had such a great model turnout, all of those who came to assist wound up doing a model or partially doing a model as well. Kelly Day, Jennifer Carrouthers, Ashley Parker, Carlyn Kalush, Becca Petty and Souky Mosana all help to round out the styling crew. Our own Jessica Mathews along with a personal friend of hers, Chelsea Birk, an accomplished makeup artist in her own right, secured all the clothing for the shoot from the Pink Hanger in Colleyville and also from an up and coming line of clothing from a new Texas designer.

Kathryn Foster who is a very talented stylist at Mouton's was a model as was our new intern, Selena Morales. Of course, the entire process was managed by one of our customer service coordinators, Stephanie Shawl, who did an amazing job, conducting the model call and organizing the schedule for the shoot. Over the next few days, we will be releasing the 21 different looks and crediting them to each person or persons involved. Continue to watch this space!

In-House Photo Shoot (part 2)

As we mentioned in our prior post, we always try to get several different looks from the same model and from the same haircut and color. We wanted to show you how this works. This is Michelle's model, Chesley....

obviously the last photo is the before pic....

In-House Photo Shoot

top photo: work by Jenny, model: Jill

second photo: work by An, model: Souky

third photo: work by Kimberly, model: Jessica

fourth photo: work by Jennifer, model: Amanda

last photo: work by Jada, model: Alex

On Sunday, March 20, several of our Mouton's team members volunteered their off time, to practice their skills. We focused on how to execute photo shoots and get great images everytime. As you know Mouton's Salon is constantly published in all of the hair -focused magazines and we want to make sure that everyone has an opportunity to learn the techniques that go into having a successful shoot. Michelle, who has participated in many location shoots for Mouton's was there on Sunday, as was Jennifer, who even though she has been with Mouton's for 11 years, had never joined us at a shoot. Also, joining us were Kimberly, An, Jada and Jenny. Souky came as well and was a model for An. Sherri came to help where needed and wound up not only doing makeup and assisting the photographer, but wound up doing a "look" as well. Everyone got at least 3 different looks from their models, which is an important part of doing photo shoots - being able to be flexible and achieve different looks with the same model and same haircut and color! We are posting just one look from each team member here on the blog, but will be posting more images on our FaceBook page.

Well done, ladies!

LOXX Salon Photo Shoot

We just want to give a big notice of recognition to 5 of our talented team members from Mouton's Salon. On Sunday, Leslie, JessicaM, Michelle, Jenny and Ali stepped up and took their day off to help create awareness for our new salon brand, LoxxSalons. On Sunday at our Euless location, Loxx Salons held a photo shoot for the drill team members of Grapevine HS. This was actually our 3rd photo shoot for the local high schools - we had shot Colleyville HS and LD Bell HS in Hurst, previously. Because the Fillie squad is larger than the others and because Loxx was open for business at the same time, we needed lots of extra help. These ladies from Mouton's all volunteered to help do whatever needed to be done. What they wound up doing was a lot of styling and makeup! Thanks to Ali and Jenny for a great job on the makeup and to Leslie and Michelle for just clearing the way and doing hair in the corners and on the edge of the desk. Leslie and Michell have traveled with Mouton's doing photo work, so they were able to make some sense of all that controlled chaos.

Big nod to JessicaM, who not only doubles as a front desk person for Mouton's Salon but has really grown into her role as organizer and media person for both brands. Because of her, it was organized and well executed.

We also want to mention Kami Myles of http://www.kamimylesphotography.com/ who has really worked hard at all three of our Loxx shoots.

Check out these pics of our Mouton's ladies in action and on the Loxx Salons FB page.

Oribe Style Class

On this past Sunday, we invited Adam Livermore into the salon to share with us his knowledge of our new product line, Oribe, as well as to show us a new and exciting finish out techniques. Adam is a competive stylist, who has competed and won several awards and honors within the international beauty industry. When not working behind the chair in NYC or on an educational events he is collaborating with top fashion photographers and designers. He has worked backstage for several fashion weeks for Giorgio Armani.

Trend Release Story Boards

This passed Saturday evening a small group presented the Fall Trends to our team members. This is something we do for the beginning of Fall and Spring. The group spends time outside of work to prepare to educate our staff on the season's hottest trends for Hair Cuts, Color, Makeup and Fashion. This year each member of the group created a story board to represent their trends. The 3 trends they presented were: Summer to Fall (a how-to), Old & New (vintage styles worn today) and Yesterday to Tomorrow (taking inspiration from yesterday for today's trends). We would like to applaud Jenny, Diana, Sherri, and Jmat for all their hard work. If you're in the salon over the next week take a moment to check out their story boards!

We would also like to thank Bess & Evies, Ma Dame Fiery, and Letticia Howland for letting us use their beautiful pieces for the show. Bess & Evie's attended the event and sold their unique vintage pieces to our staff. So thank you Kalen, for our gorgeous dresses, stylish cowboy boots and vintage pearl snaps!

Anniversaries

As the month of July draws to a close, we want to take a few words to say thanks to the following people who celebrated a job anniversary with us.
Leslie Sowell who has been with Mouton's Salon since 2001. In addition to seeing customers, Leslie has taught for us, she regularly assists with inventory control and is an all around hard worker. She consistently sees more customers in any given week, than most of the rest of us. Thanks, Leslie, for your hard work.
Ashley Parker has been with Mouton's salon since 2004. Although she still sees customers two days in a week, she also splits the salon director responsibilities with Jessica Wenth during the remainder of her work week. If you need something done, and soon, Ashley is the "go to" person.
Tracy Tarbet celebrated two years with our organization earlier this month as well. She spent the first 18 months with Mouton's Salon and for the last six months has helped to launch our new brand, LoxxSalons. www.loxxsalon.com Tracy will be operations director of this new concept as we look for growth opportunities going forward.
Jenny Myers and Monica Adamson also passed a celebration date earlier this week. Both ladies started with Mouton's, one year ago. In just a short time, they have made tremendous strides in adapting to our culture and standards. Jenny joined us from another salon group in Ft Worth and brought great insight to us, while Monica joined us after moving to Texas from Santa Monica, CA, where she attended the world famous Vidal Sasson Academy.
Congratulations ladies - all five of you, for doing such a great job and upholding our standards.
We appreciate you all.

Farewell to Lindsay......

Aaahh....today is a bittersweet day for all of us. Lindsay Lane Huckins is leaving today to become a full time mom. Lindsay has been with Mouton's Salon for the last 3 1/2 years, and has been a complete asset to our entire organization. Lindsay started with us as a customer service coordinator, which included responsibilities at the front desk as well as other duties. After a period of time, Lindsay made a decision to get licensed as a cosmetologist and went through all of the requirements that entailed. After doing so, she came back to the Mouton's team in a different capacity. Since that time, Lindsay has excelled at her job and has also been an integral part of the growth of Mouton's Salon. During her time as a hairdresser at Mouton's, Lindsay was part of the first and the second team that put together an in-house Trend Release for the rest of the team. The Trend Release is now part of our culture at Mouton's, thanks to Lindsay's initial inputs. Lindsay was also tasked with creating a teaching tool regarding our retail products. With some assistance from Brett (hubby), she presented the team with something that we have used during our intern trainings and only now are having to update. Earlier this year, Lindsay devoted a great deal of time to an extracurricular project that is close to her heart, Revive Africa, www.reviveafrica.com, all the while, maintaining a full schedule at Mouton's. Mouton's had the great pleasure of hosting this event which was a great success.

We will miss Lindsay and her beautiful smiling face, but we are extremely happy for her and Brett and look forward to the arrival of baby Harper.

Lindsay, we pray many wonderful blessings upon you and Brett and we, your Mouton's family want to be among the first to wish you much success in your new role as a full-time Mom.

Teamwork in Action

It's all about the TECHNIQUE

SHOES....??

4th Annual Mouton's Salon In-Salon Photo Shoot

So many people to thank for an excellent photo shoot yesterday at the salon. As you can tell from the title of this post, this was our 4th annual in-salon shoot. As many of you know, we have been doing photo shoots around the country - LA, NY, Miami, and around the world - Milan, Paris, London, for many years. Four years ago, we decided to start doing one shoot a year at our home base. The results have been spectacular, with our home base shoots being published as much as our location shoots have been. This year will prove to be no exception. Big, big thanks to all of our team who took the opportunity and had the time to take a Sunday (our day off!) and show up and generate some fabulous looks.
Leslie, Kathryn, Sherri, Diana, Teresa, Ashton, Michelle, Kelly, Kaylee, Kimberly, Jessica W., Cher and Deanae from the Mouton's Team ----BIG THANKS and JOB WELL DONE!!!!!
Thanks also to Becca from Regency Beauty Institute, www.regencybeauty.com
who showed up and hung out and helped.
Courtney - your makeup was fabulous. Thanks to both you and Tannin for coming over to assist us. Tannin - great behind the scenes photos and thanks for helping our photographer out. He really appreciated it.
Tiffani and Hannah from our sister salon, LOXX www.loxxsalon.com
- great job at modeling, ladies. Hot stuff!
We want to give a special thanks to Macy's, www.macys.com, and Dean-Kingston, in Ft Worth www.dean-kingston.com , who provided the clothing for the shoot. As you will see from the pics to come, Michelle did a great job at picking out the clothing for the shoot and she and Kelly excelled at dressing the models.
Watch both Mouton's FaceBook page and www.moutonsalon.blogspot.com for great photos of our shoot.

Another Honor

We celebrated Erin Joseph's anniversary this month as well. She has been with our team for 3 years. Erin is a Front Desk Coordinator, Project Manager, and Computer Fixer :) Erin coordinates our Photo Shoots each year, and our Company Picnics. In her off time she enjoys cooking! And, she is originally from Chicago! We are honored to have her on our team! Thanks for all that you do for us!

In the pic, she is on the right with Rachel and Stephanie.