I had the amazing opportunity to Model for Redken brand during the Redken Undressed show that took place on Monday. It was held at the Deerfoot Inn Casino and showed off some great work by the amazing Sam Villa and a huge team of amazing Redken Stylists. I was whisked away on Sunday morning to the amazing prep salon, Me Hair and Body, where I met the stylists, Sam, and all of the other models. They took some pictures, measurements and a good hard look at me to finally decide on the finishing look. I went straight into wardrobe where one of the stylists, Chantal, found me my outfit; Leggings, a black camisole, a beautiful hand made vest made by Sam’s wife, and of course some killer heels. As soon as that was done I was placed in a chair to get my hair dyed into a beautiful shade of dark purple- like brown and bright red for my bangs. We then went to the Deerfoot Inn to rehearse for the upcoming show.
There had been a huge mix up and all of the models were not allowed into the stage area that was located inside the casino (since we were not 18). As you can probably imagine, that was extremely frustrating since the models needed to be a part of the show as Sam was going to cut all of our hair live, onstage for the audience. However, after a long and hard-fought battle, management at the hotel still wouldn’t budge and we quickly had to think of what we would do! Our solution; using wigs on stage to show the audience how to do the cuts, then during breaks and lunch, the models were waiting on a platform outside the Casino entrance for the hairdressers to get a closer look at the cuts and dyes on real functioning humans. Many pictures were taken of us and many questions asked about how we liked all of our cuts. My personal favorites were the cut on Leah (Bottom Right) which was an edgy blonde cut with peach colored highlights, and a beautiful braid on Monique (Upper Middle) which was essentially a fancy ladder braid. Once it was done we had a mini photo shoot with Celene, another stylist, who took amazing pictures which you can find on her Instagram @celenedupis.
Although the mix-up was very disappointing and frustrating, this day of modeling is, by far, one of my most treasured memories. It truly was a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity that I will never forget! I would love to say a gigantic thank you to Madeline and everyone at Me Hair and Body down in Douglasdale for giving up their work space for the day. Secondly to all of the amazing stylists who I could not thank enough for being so kind and amazing throughout these two days. I would also like to thank, last but not least, the one and only Sam Villa for letting me model for him and for being such an amazing person and a huge inspiration!
