Showing posts with label halloween. Show all posts
Showing posts with label halloween. Show all posts

Hallowed be thy Ween, or something.

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WARNING! WARNING! LARGE POST AHEAD! *tosses up caution signs everywhere*


This past weekend marked the passing of yet another Halloween in the world. Technically, it's Halloween right now, and it has not passed yet, but most of us celebrated this fine and freaky holiday yesterday! Roots celebrated it yesterday, as did 5th street! There were zombies, witches, vampires, weird things, batman(s), super marios, more weird things, more zombies, a few hairy beasts, the odd Cleopatra, gnomes, pirates and all sorts of scary and wonderful creatures walking around outside.

The zombie walk down 5th street happened yesterday, which is always funny. I think there were about 30+ zombies out there that started their walk right in front of Roots. One dude looked like he had his head blown off and there was a pile of gooey mess on top of his 'shoulders'. It was a rad costume, but not very factual. If you shoot a zombie's head clean off it's shoulders, that zombie would no longer be shuffling along, it would be dead. I guess they are already dead, so I should say it would be 'deader'? Yeah, that works.

Our beautiful and insanely talented Crystal-Lee was just slammed with makeup yesterday. She's quite popular, and here are some examples of why... Oh, and the dead lady on the bottom is our very own Sam Greeley! Her neck wound was making all of us gag. It even made her gag when she looked haha!


Just a little 'ps': You can go to my Flickr (click me!) to see more photos I took yesterday, and larger versions of the ones I am showing you here.

It was so much fun watching Crystal do her thang, and I have to admit that watching her do that all day made me once again crave going to school to learn how to do it myself. I probably will never follow through on that though, I'll just keep playing with makeup on a hobby level and making myself look disgusting. No really, I looked pretty gross yesterday! I got in to Crystal's makeup, and she so graciously didn't slap my hands away as I was digging through her kits. I made myself up to be a zombie (obviously...I love zombies!) It was fun bleeding all over the place at work, and I'm proud to say I did not leave one drop on anything! Mad skills.



Crystal dressed up like a stitched doll, and her costume could have won awards. She looked so cute that it really was a shame that I had to bite her. It was a zombie urge and I could not help myself! Thankfully she is a makeup arteest and covered up the bite marks. I wonder how she's feeling today....
*creepy music*



Anthony was busy working away in the Salon all day with
some zombie makeup that Crystal applied in the morning. He got in big trouble when he wiped it all off though! Zombies... so undisciplined. Not only was he bad with taking all his makeup off, he also could not resist the urge to come steal some candy from the front desk. I caught him in action though! I guess the chocolate tasted a lot like braaaaaaaaainnnnnssss?

Our wittle Andrea was a sparkle queen leaving trails of sparkles behind her, and on everything. She looked super pretty, and it was nice to have a bit of sparkle to counter the massive amounts of blood from zombie attacks.


Even Ida-Marie got in to the spirit of Halloween and makeup festivities! She looked AMAAAAAAZINGGGG (Hi Mike!) with her sexy wig and hawt makeup (compliments, yes, of Crystal!). I almost had to wrestle her to get a picture, but I won in the end, and voila! Look at this diva!


Bex got her bro and buddy in to give them ridiculous (SEE: Aweeesome!) hair cuts. It's pretty rad when people not only do their hair for a costume, but go all out and actually get it cut in to something that would work. These guys walked out of the salon lookin' like real charmers hey!? Hahaha, so good. SO good. Well done Bex!

We handed out TONS of candy to the little kiddies for the 5th street trick or treat festivities. They were soooo cute! I think I scared them a little though because some of them were asking me if I was really bleeding. Fake blood is getting better every year apparently!

It was super windy and raining pretty hard, so after a while of standing outside tossin' around candy, Ida and I sacrificed Anthony and Annierose to the streets and let them finish up with the kids. They came in looking like frozen popcicles! hehe.

After close, a few of us went to Staysea Brown's place and had a super fun Halloween party! We drank ice water and ate chips and told ghost stories. That's totally a lie, and you all know it! It was such a fun night, complete with fireworks and shinnanigans. Yes I have pictures, yes I will post a few. I'm debating which ones to post because we have an image to uphold and I can't let a few paparazzi type pictures ruin our futures as top models and high paid actors!

I hope you all had a fabulous Halloween, or are HAVING one as we speak! Remember, friends do not let friends drive drunk, bitten or rabid. Look after each other and eat lots of candy!

Scare ya later!

Thank you for calling,
♥Sadie

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A Hairy Situation...

Posted by Sadie the Receptionist
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Howdy ho you ravaging people!

How is the end of October treating you all? Crazy that it's almost over... and even more crazy that it's almost Halloween already! I keep forgetting, and then getting bombarded with minor heart attacks every time a fire cracker goes off and startles me. Maybe I'm just turning in to a big wuss in my new found old age... senility is kicking in early. You would think after being startled more times than I can count, that I would realize 'hey Sadie, Halloween, remember?!'

I worked in our Comox location today, which was a treat. I don't think it was a treat for the staff there though, I was a bit on the hyper side for the better part of the day. Me + hyper + being at a desk for 9.5 hours = shinannigans. It's super fun though, so -I- am not going to complain. They are all such good sports out there though, and don't get me wrong, they dish out their fair share of verbal abuse and word slinging! Only to staff though, never fear. We only harass each other, promise.

The lovely Desiree was super busy again today. She sure knows how to pamper a person! I keep wanting to get in to see her and take another film of me getting hair torn out of my body, but I would not want to steal time from her clients. I'll have to kidnap her for a few hours. DISCLAIMER: By kidnap, I mean bribe with delicious treats, money and a box full of open ended IOUs.


Hair brings one's self-image into focus; it is vanity's proving ground. Hair is terribly personal, a tangle of mysterious prejudices. ~Shana Alexander


It got me thinking about the world of esthetics, and where men are starting to fit in to that scene. Men are getting more and more comfortable with booking appointments for things such as eyebrow waxing, back waxes, eyebrow tints etc. which is super awesome! However, I think we need to progress with this trend a little further, you know, refine it. A lot of men are still on the fence with it, and most never admit to having anything done. It's totally manly! You can't get more manly! Come in, get MAN-i-'cured' and walk out fist pumping and flexing those muscles!

PRO TIP: If you are a man, and you are reading this, please don't let this happen...



That, fellas, is just not cool ok? Never do that! This is just one picture I found, but I didn't want to post a bunch more because frankly I know you guys... you are going to see this, ignore my warnings and say 'DUDE! That's AWESOME!' and go get it done.

Sigh.

But hey, it's fine, we at Roots do not discriminate against new trends. We're cutting edge baby. If you want funky back hair designs, we will do it up. I promise to hold judgements, as long as you don't go convincing my boyfriend to wax 'l33t Gamer' in to his chest hair.

Tata for now! Tomorrow marks our one year anniversary since we had a massive fire at Roots, so I'll be revisiting that day in another post :) Bring the marshmallows and weenies! It's story time!

Thank you for calling,
♥Sadie

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Do you love the way I lie?

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I have to apologize folks. I promised you a video tonight, and I don't have one to serve! I am a dirty, filthy HORRIBLE liar! I feel terrible, and I am super sorry! Just so you know though, it -is- in the finishing stages of being rendered and WILL be here tomorrow!


Here are a few technical notes, or updates if you will, on the blog front; I changed things around a bit so that anyone can comment, regardless of you having a blogger account, gmail or Twitter. Logging in with those accounts is still an option, but you can now choose to just leave your name and a comment, or comment anonymously. I hope that helps, I know it is lame when you want to say something but you are confined to the red tape of the internet!

(this is a huuuuuuge huge hint to leave comments by the way. If I could set up a nice table full of cookies and other baked goods to bribe you with, I would do it. I have not figured out how to upload delicious food yet, but I'm working on it... )

Also, I am plotting out a blog contest to host either weekly or monthly. I am not going to get in to great detail yet because I like to dangle carrots, but it should be really fun. I want to tap in to your artistic side, and award you with something for being creative! It miiiiight have something to do with photography... maybe... shh.

Speaking of photography! The Roots photo shoot is coming up pretty quick, November to be more precise. We will be putting out a model call, as I mentioned earlier somewhere down there *points down towards the sea of text below this entry* If you happen to have modelling experience, or know someone who has had modelling experience feel free to contact us and let us know. You can email us at rootsthesalon@shaw.ca, we'd love to hear from you!

We're going to have a blast at the shoot! I'm so excited! I need to go on a costume and prop hunt. I should drag our lovely miss Ida-Marie out for a treasure hunt (and take pictures... bwahaha) one of these days. We could dress up like pirates and get away with it since it is so close to Halloween!

Too far? Ok, ok, scrap the pirates idea, even though now I'm sad :( Yarr.

Speaking of that spooky holiday we all love, Crystal-lee and I were going over my costume idea (Audrey Hepburn meets old school secretary) and she is going to do my makeup. This is exciting news! I've been waiting for an opportunity to have her work her magic on me!

For beautiful eyes, look for the good in others; for beautiful lips, speak only words of kindness; and for poise, walk with the knowledge that you are never alone - Audrey Hepburn

I should add costume bits and pieces to the list of things to treasure hunt for. This is another very valid reason why I should be 'hunting' with Ida. She has an amazing eye for things like this, and I could get her to help me pick out my costume.

Ida-Marie, this is a 10,000lb hint I'm dropping, by the way ♥

Anyways ladies and gents, I am off to watch a movie and wind down for the day before drift away to dream land. Ok, I'm lying again, I'm not going to watch a movie, I'm going to watch the latest episode of Dexter. Probably not the best pre-dream land thing to watch, but it's SO GOOD!

I am excited to go to work tomorrow, as always! I still feel weird loving my job so much, it's never happened before. I quite literally l.o.v.e going to work every single day. I would be super envious of me if I were not me, which I am, so I'm not envious I suppose. One deadly sin I can cross off the list! Score!

I do hope that tomorrow is a less strange day... Annierose and I were discussing how weird our days were. It seemed like one of those off days for everyone, almost like the day of calamity! I was even clumsy today, and I can't count how many times I tried to beat myself up on walls, burnt my mouth with tea, smacked myself and ran in to random objects! I did it so much that the furniture in my house was starting to cower and shudder in fear of me ramming myself in to them again! Thankfully the clumsy part of my day did not start while I was at work, our clients might have thought I was less than sober if I was walking around bumping in to things all day.

I assure you, my clumsy day had zero to do with substance abuse!

Maybe there is some sort of astrological explanation for this! I should call up my buddies in NASA and find out what is going on!

DISCLAIMER: The calling up of buddies in NASA only exists in an alternate reality where I actually HAVE buddies in NASA. In other words, it doesn't exist.

I will see you all tomorrow WITH a video to post!

In the mean time, we would love to see you over at our fan page on Facebook, so if you haven't done so yet and you want in on the fun, head over and 'like' us. We would like you back, but I guarantee you we already do like you!

Thank you for calling!
♥Sadie

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