HAIRAJUKU SALON

12365 Foothill Blvd.
Suite 104
Rancho Cucamonga, CA 91729

(909) 463-3439

www.hairajukusalon.com

Yesterday, my hairstylist, Jesse, made her dream come true! She finally opened up HAIRAJUKU SALON in Rancho Cucamonga!! All the girls working there are absolutely fabulously cute and fun! She's doing a promo this month and giving a gift of $10 off cuts and $20 off color to launch her grand opening. Hairajuku is by far the chicest salon in all of Rancho Cucamonga that I have seen so far!!

"Hair"-ajuku is a play on harajuku... get it?!?!

For those fashion and Gwen Stefani challenged, harajuku as described by Wikipedia is the common name for the area around Harajuku Station on the Yamanote Line in the Shibuya ward of Tokyo, Japan. The area is known internationally for its youth style and fashion... The area has two main shopping streets, Omotesandō and Takeshita Street (Takeshita-dōri). The latter caters to youth fashions and has many small stores selling Gothic Lolita, visual kei, rockabilly, hip-hop, and punk outfits, in addition to fast food outlets and so forth. In recent years Omotesandō has seen a rise in branches of expensive fashion stores such as Louis Vuitton, Chanel, and Prada. The avenue is sometimes referred to as "Tokyo's Champs-Élysées". The area known as "Ura-Hara" (back streets of Harajuku) is a center of Japanese fashion for younger people. The term "Harajuku Girls" has been used by English-language media to describe teenagers dressed in any fashion style who are in the area of Harajuku. These girls may be members of various sub-cultures including Gothic Lolita, Ganguro, Gyaru, and Kogal, or may often cosplay as characters from an anime, movie, or manga.

That being said, I should also mention that Jesse gave me a fabulous haircut/color and has convinced Tracy, the owner of Hairajuku and the adjacent/attached clothing boutique (Miso Fly), to carry tweed & loop earrings.

Now, you can find tweed and loop earrings in Miso Fly Clothing Boutique! Yay!

Miso Fly is located at 12365 Foothill Blvd. Suite 104 Rancho Cucamonga, CA 91739

The cool looking mural welcomes your arrival to Hairajuku

Jesse, me, and her girls

Paul Mitchell products adorn the walls

This is what Jesse calls her "color bar"

Here are Jesse & Amelia sporting tweed & loop!

You can see Miso Fly Clothing Boutique & Hairajuku from the 15 freeway when exiting Foothill Blvd.

Here's Tami, Miso Fly's manager

Shameless plug

Tonight was Kami & Chad's engagement party! Stephanie Bronson, party planner extraordinaire, planned the entire luau fête filled with grass skirts, leis, tiki torches, skewers, pineapples, and all things Hawaiian galore!

I, of course, couldn't help myself by shamelessly taking pictures of my favorite clients sporting tweed & loop gems!

Jen & Kami

Here's Steph (Miss Event-planner) with tweed & loop's lime & lavender hoops

Amy's wearing tweed & loop's coin drop earrings

Here's a close up

If you're in the mood to throw a big party and have no idea where to begin, or if you've recently gotten that notoriously bling ring on your left hand, give Steph a call. Check out her site for her contact info: http://socaleventdesign.com

What a good looking couple!

Custom-made

Here are a pair of earrings I made for an online client who specified that she likes silver stars and cloisonne hearts... yes, I'm beginning to work with silver... humph!

Kimi!

My roommate, classmate, pastry-chef, and cellphone talk-a-holic friend, Kimi!
Also, one of tweed & loop's best clients!

Who says dentists aren't on call?

(here's Kimi with the pager we all have to rotate through wearing overnight)

These earrings were custom made for her



This might have been my very first pair (pre-tweed & loop).

Some of Kimi's creations:
Lemon white chocolate cake with lemon curd and fresh berries... yuuummmmy!
(background: Kimi's lemonbars)

Jen & Me

Jen Hallverson is a girl I met through Girls' Night. She recently got into the Marriage and Family Counseling program at Loma Linda University, which will be her stepping stone to pursue her true passion: "art therapy." She's the artist in our bunch. Her work is both refreshing and nostalgic. She'll be coming out with a website soon... so keep your eyes & ears open for JEN HALLVERSON!

Thanks for your words of inspiration and motivation, Jen! You rock!


Here we are in my room after school (and a shopping spree at A Rolling Stone).


... what I decided to do with the crystalline rock Jen picked out. We were a bit hesitant about this idea, but it fruitioned into perfection!



This quartz piece was entirely Jen's idea... very tweed & loop, if I say so myself!

Here is Jen with one of her pieces at her Art Show in Riverside, CA
Jen is wearing tweed & loop earrings with a J.Crew necklace

This piece is called "Eve"
Medium: wood, varnish, cloth, paint, and wax

Artsy-fartsy people

Vegas Dancer - circa 1950s

One of my favorite patients used to be a Polynesian/Tahitian dancer at the Tropicana in Las Vegas during her earlier years. Today, she is a member of the Red Hat Society. I made her these earrings because she had to miss a luncheon with her "society" ladies due to her dental appointment with me.


No worries HIPAA, I got her permission.

A Rolling Stone ~ Redlands, CA

There are a few hidden gems in Redlands... A Rolling Stone is one of them... and you can find lots of gems inside as well!

A ROLLING STONE is owned and operated by a Graduate Gemologist (Leah Chapman). It is located at 320 E. Citrus Avenue Redlands, CA 92373 (909-798-2282)

They are open Monday-Saturday from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m.


It's a small shop, but you don't need much space to have a HUGE amount of beads!







Here's Leah with her cat and co-worker, Jagger.








The booty from where I pillage for my creations!

virgin tweeds

Here is a display of my very first collection.

I took these over to my sister Teri's house for her advice and criticism (which she loves to give freely ;P)

Most my inspiration comes from family and friends... the occasional vacation to exotic places (i.e. Belize, Brazil, Mexico, Minnesota ~ that's pretty exotic for this urban girl!)... and retail stores I adore (particularly Anthropologie and small boutique stores like DenM!).

I mostly make one of a kind earrings, but upon personal requests, I will do the dubious task of duplicating my work.

My style changes from time to time... Lately, I am really into turquoise, pearls, and rich colors (purples, greens, and oranges).

I realized this was something worth pursuing when I came home from my sis' house with 4 less pairs.

Something is in the works right now with a fellow friend about to get hitched, but I am not at liberty to post my work until the day of her wedding!

Keep posted for more on t&l

Girls' Night

Every Sunday night, in drab and dreary Loma Linda, there rises an occasion that deserves much to celebrate...

GIRLS' NIGHT!

I love that we started this and have kept it going... but most importantly, I love all the girls! We are mostly dental-related, but amongst the ranks we have an artist, pastry chef, intensive care unit nurse, event planner, physical therapist/expert biker, and a guest friend or two to round out the group!

This week's Girls' Night was fondue at Tara's house. Stephanie (super duper event planner) asked me to bring my earrings along, so I thought I'd take pictures of my most devoted clients, my beautiful friends. Thanks for your support guys!

You may find her sporting these in the near future:

I got these turquoise beads from my trip to Belize

Here I am buying beads from a Belizean vendor on Ambergris Caye, Belize

Here we (Beatrice, Clara, and I) are buying beads, necklaces, earrings, rings, carvings, and other souvenirs from San Ignacio, Belize

*necklace not by tweed & loop

This is Tara's friend, Crystal, who drove out from Michigan to move her brother to Loma Linda for medical school. Here she is with what she called my "Grecian" earrings.

Here's Shelli and her earrings (Shelli's a physical therapist and just became an "expert" biker... the next step up from expert is ----> PRO... yeah... she's that good :P)