This weekend was the North American Hair Awards people from all around submit photos and compete in different catagories. This year the event was in Las Vegas... Good place to put Hundreds of out of control hair school students, and hairdressers? Sure? The weekend started off nice and slow for me, on the plane i got to me Nick Hemsley and his super fashionable salon team. We talked all about NAHA and how excited we all were. Nick a bit more because he was nominated for newcomer of the year... Later in to become the newcomer peoples choice winner! This year we stayed at the Luxor, which I had never before realized but is a VERY creepy place. Me along with my Hair Nerd friends got all dolled up headed the Beacon room.
Beacon is another photo competition that is specifically for Students! The winners get a free ticket to NAHA as well as many wonderful classes during the weekend just for them. The speakers at BEACON are fantastic so the team and i decided to get a tiny listen in. After our BEACON advernute we all had to get ready again (girls) for the NAHA coctail party.
The cocktail party was so fun all the people were great and the food was tasty. I got meet a bunch of cool people from the hair world. Seeing all the excited nominees made me even more jazzed to go to NAHA. Most of the party was spent giggling with Steve Elias. Steve's Birthday was that weekend so in honor of that we all decided to got to Fremont street for dinner.
It was my first time on Fremont so i had no idea what to expect i was totally over whelmed with the cool lights and music. We did see some very crazy stuff though lots of Naked people dancing, Zoro, and at the restaurant a crazy couple of three. There was a Limo waiting outside for us!... nope but there was one a few blocks that was cheeper than the cab for all of us to take to we headed back to the Hotel in style!
The next day I got an early start trying to get a few good pictures of hairdressers in the early hours of the morning, I got into the press room and stared the editing process. After a while of people rapidly printing things out and passing around business cards i decided it was time for brunch. Brunch was with the Hair Nerds, and all of Tantalum magizine. The restaurant acted a little bit like they had never seem a large group before so we got a bit spread out, which was a bummer, but the food was hot so everything was okay. The schedule got very busy after eating I had to run to the BEACON room, then back to the press room, over to the show, and try to find the VIP room for that night.
After running around it was time to get ready (AGAIN)! My dress was good, hair was ready, and shoes were on. As Me, Jamie, Erin, Carrie, Amanda, and the Hair Husbands all walked up i swear we for a brief moment were in a James bond movie. It almost brought a tear to my eye getting to see all my friend from school and teachers there to support our school.
As i walked around before the show i was taking pictures and showing off my press pass to EVERYONE that walked by. You could say that i was WAY STOKED about an all access press pass were all of my big time HAIR HEROS would be!
The show was so well put together the stage was beautiful and all the contestants worked very hard. I was so proud at the end of the show because i was reminded once again just how HUGE and FANTASTIC our hair world is.
here is a link to NAHA so enter for next year!
www.probeauty.org
here is a link to BEACON so you better enter for next year!
http://www.probeauty.org/beacon/
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