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Blog Post: Garbage never looked so good

Alison — Mon, 13 Dec 2010 21:51:00 GMT

“One man’s trash is another man’s treasure” was taken to stylish interpretation for the Urban Trash fashion show on November 13^th. ‘Trashy’ inspiration was taken from candy wrappers to bottle caps, the result was the ultimate in reduce, recycle, reuse.

Urban Trash was a charity event , held at Effex Night Club in down town Albuquerque, that featured original designs for hair, makeup and fashion; born from the minds of Albuquerque TONI&GUY Hairdressing Academy students.

Given one rule: no conventional fashion material, students pulled together a glamorous fashion show and live auction for over 200 attendees. The event opened with a high fashion runway walk to showcase all 23 creations. The dresses were then auctioned off to further benefit the Rape Crisis Center.

Magan Vigil, creator of one of our top grossing dresses tells how she got her inspirations.”A couple of year ago my cousin passed away from leukemia. She stayed at the Ronald McDonald House. They collected soda tabs.... So in remembrance and thanks to the Ronald McDonald House I made my dress out of those tabs. I sewed all of them!!”

To close out the night attendees voted for their pick of the top three designs, judging the overall look of hair, makeup and dress. Chris Tsosie and Angel Gonzales, two Junior A students, took home the 1^st place prize for their look “Operation ‘Trash’”; modeled by fellow Junior A, Sydney Cubbage.

2^nd place went to Sarah Ahlstrom, DJ Padilla and Jessica Mileys’ “Smoked Out.”

Karen Ankrom-Escudero, Nanci Najar and Katrina Lucero took 3^rd place with “Urban Sweet Life.”

“It challenges us to explore, use our imaginations. Be creative and take us out of our comfort zone pushing us to be better” explains Chris Tsosie.

Amazing work from all our growing stylists who created the transformation from garbage to whimsy.

Blog Post: Rocked the style at Rock the Ink

Alison — Wed, 24 Nov 2010 16:44:00 GMT

Move over, Betty Grable. A new generation of pin up girls hit the stage last month at an event to showcase their beauty coupled with TONI&GUY students’ creativity.

Students from the Albuquerque TONI&GUY Hairdressing Academy helped contestants channel retro fabulous attitude al la Dita Von Teese as they styled hair and makeup for the Miss Rock the Ink pageant, held Oct. 9 -10 at the Hard Rock Casino. Rock the Ink was a 3 day ultimate tattoo and entertainment festival, in which the Miss Rock the Ink pageant was one of the main events.

Students worked thru the morning on the show floor during the two days of the pageant, styling hair and makeup for 16 of the 20 contestants and two hosts, with attendees as on lookers.

“We all networked with the public, models and even got offers to do shoots’ with photographers” recalls Desirre Lee, one of TONI&GUY’s students creating these amazing looks. The looks had to be changed for the competitions three rounds – casual wear, swim wear and pin-up.

The students did an amazing job, keeping professional and always staying creative, even with the time crunches they had between rounds.

As Karen Ankrom-Escudero, a Junior and one of the girls creating the vintage makeup looks, explained it; “I learned to be calm and collected and go with the flow of things. I loved being able to show case my work on stage at such a special event!!”

Amazing work from all our students who participated!!

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