The original peek-a-boo of the 1940s

Destined on a hair journey for a discovery, Mishi found just that at hair-storian Jeff Hafler's museum in Twentynine Palms, California. Lo and behold, Mishi came across a 1940s Duart Perm Machine once owned by one of Veronica Lake's hairdressers, Earle Adams, who donated the perm machine to Hafler's museum in recent years. Giving a brief narration into the life of Lake, Hafler stated that she "was famous for her hair and it was believed that after she was asked to cut it during the war, it was the demise of her career". During the Great War, women went to work in the factories with Lake's popularized style. Reports claim of women unable to see through their bangs and consequently lost their fingers or got their hair caught in the machines! Lake was pressured to make a statement and shift the hair trend by cutting her hair, which ultimately back fired never to return into the lime light.

The caption reads: Veronica Lake was known for wearing her hair with a sultry swoop covering one eye. It was coined "The Veronica Lake dip" and was copied in hair salons across the country. But in 1943 the peekaboo blonde hair do was a war menace. Defense plant workers wearing the Veronica Lake dip were getting their hair caught in the machines, and the War Productions Board, promoting its own image of Rosie the Riveter, asked the star to give up her famous trademark "for the duration." On the advice of Paramount she posed again for Life with her golden tresses braided and pinned to her scalp and announced, "Any woman who wears her hair over one eye is silly." She had done her part for the war effort but without her sultry, languid dip her movie career sputtered into oblivion. -Femininity

Mugshot: J's Golden Ombre

I first did Jennifer’s hair over a year ago. She loved it and over the course of time, it has held its beauty. She scrolled through many pictures showing me her hair’s evolvution. I love it when people come in after a stretch of time reporting that they loved their cut & color so much that they didnt need to come back for a while. My ombre clients typically come in twice  a year to do the ombre full service. But you can also come in after 3-4 months for a partial ombre, just to bring up the line a little bit. Jennifer and I had a great time doing some gorgeous hair!

tying the knot

We had a fun time working with Jaime and her lovely crew of family and friends on her special day at the Fairmont Hotel in San Francisco. Mishi styled Jaime's hair into a classic, elegant low bun, which turned out to be the perfect thing for Jaime's veil. Congrats to the newlyweds!

morphing mod

We had a blast working with the team at Oh Happy Day on their Mod Party in celebration of Banana Republic’s Mad Men Collection for Spring 2013. Mishi rocked out classic 60s dos creating a masterpiece of Marilyn's, beehives and renditions of Raquel Welch’s voluminous locks. I had my play time with the makeup by recreating bombshell Christian Hendricks sultry eyes, poppy cheeks and lips. Get the look by checking out our how-to hair tutorial.

Rene Furterer

There is much for us to be proud of including our trusted product line by creator Rene Furterer, who began in the 1950s in his career as a hair dresser. Motivated to come up with a solution to the a constant stream of gals with over-processed hair that resulted from constant bleaching to achieve Marilyn’s coveted locks, Furterer pioneered the art of recreating beautiful hair using the curative elements of plant based ingredients. Furterer built the foundation of his product like based on the idea that “beautiful hair grows from a healthy scalp like a plant in fertile soil”. Harnessing the nourishing and restoring properties of essential oils and plant extracts, Furterer created a pharmaceutical grade product line customizable to every condition of hair.

In 1980, Rene Furterer partnered with Pierre Fabre Laboratories a pharmaceutical company as a way to bring the quality of ingreditents to be some of the finest in the world in phyto-cosmetology. Today Rene Furterer salons and products can be found around the world...Morphic being one of the them. If you ever get a chance you must check out the Rene Furterer Institute and Salon located in the heart of Paris!