As recent announcements have hinted at lately, some vital new changes have been fast approaching for Shear Terror Hair Designs. While some of these things may come as a surprise, those close to me know this has been in the making for quite a while. For many reasons, I have wanted to distance myself from the company so it stands at it’s own entity and not just a name I work under.  These announcements will be the first logical step into giving the brand a reason to have a brand name.  So without any further adieu, here’s what’s in store:


NEW NAME: The old name of Shear Terror Hair Designs is officially being shortened to, quite simply, Shear Terror Hair. Although merely a subtle name change, the direction the brand is taking under this new moniker will be a total reimagination, nearly starting everything over from scratch.


NEW LOGO: The first major change will be in the branding itself. Taking a huge departure from the death metal-influenced logos used in the past, expect to see a streamlined logo with a more corporate appearance to surface soon. Why the change? I want it to still be representative of the company 10 years from now. Simplicity is key to that.


NEW DIRECTION: The artistic direction of the company will probably be the most notable and unexpected shift. Although the brand has become nearly synonymous with the horror genre aesthetic, all of that will pretty much be entirely gone.  That may come as a huge shock to some of you, but don’t worry…with a name like Shear Terror Hair, it will still retain that underlined dark sense of humor, just much less appalling to the general public. How things will look shall be revealed in time (can’t tell you guys everything), but the main goal will be to attract and showcase a different caliber of work from a different facet of the industry, notably where avant-garde material thrives:  the high fashion market.


WEBSITE: Final steps towards an official website being built are currently in discussions as well. Some ideas are being fished around and things still need to be finalized, but at this time, materials to begin on the site are being compiled and scheduled with several individuals. Plans with this include extensive blog updates, a complete portfolio with never-before-seen photos and other interesting hair-related features.  But perhaps the most important factor of the website will be what’s going to help establish the name brand as a whole: an online store that will offer something no other hair site has made available.

SOCIAL MEDIA: Expect a major overhaul on all social media websites, while the Shear Terror merch store, YouTube movies and a few other media resources are taken down or replaced.  Twitter updates will begin to take on a much more business-like approach; the old company Facebook Page is being deleted in order to provide a new professional, user friendly page with tons of features, contests and more; Tumblr will eventually be given a facelift and possibly be integrated directly with the company website; Model Mayhem accounts will likely be deleted in order to generate more traffic to the website for inquries, booking and purchases; As well, new personal and company profiles will be set up and maintained on hair relevant websites, such as Hairbrained.me and others.


PERSONAL WORK: While all of these things are being developed, I also have to work on building an entirely new portfolio to cater to the new ideals behind the brand, which also means I will need to learn some new ways to style hair and create hair sculptures. As we grow personally and professionally, it’s important our work evolves as well.  These things are absolutely necessary in order to ensure my own work is up to par and exemplifies all the other changes being made to Shear Terror Hair.  

Obviously, this entire transition is going to take some time and the company’s presence on the internet may be elusive for awhile because of it. One thing I’ve definitely learned in life is to never get too ahead of yourself.  I don’t want to make promises I can’t keep, so I want to make sure I see these things through appropriately before they’re presented to the general public again for quality assurance.

Creating this company gave me something to live for.  The people who have followed it’s development have kept me inspired to keep going, and in many cases, shown me I am not alone in this.  The reasons behind my motivation come from a very real place.  Maybe someday my story and the true history behind this brand can be shared with everyone in hopes to return that inspiration to others. For now, though, I’m staying focused on the future and what’s to come.  So old and new friends alike, please stay tuned!

- Travis Kelley

If you’re going to celebrate Halloween, do it right.

This past Saturday, I spent hours with a client trying to make what was supposed to be a 20 minute drive to the hair color store and back.  A random snow storm had hit New York, so we were suddenly forced to brave icy roads, fallen trees, downed power lines and car accidents everywhere.  

After finally making it back, we realized the power was out too (which was gone until today).  Determined to finish the job after everything we just went through, I somehow managed to finish this color up by candlelight that night.

Shear Terror Hair Designs Web Store Closing Soon!

• Have you checked out the Shear Terror T-Shirts, V-Necks and Hoodies? If not, click HERE and have a look!  See something you like?  Make sure to place an order now before it’s all gone at the end of the year!

• NEXT WEEK, get ready for some exciting announcements about all the new changes coming up for Shear Terror Hair Designs as well!

Self | Sidney Etienne | March 2011

This photo, taken by Sidney while hanging out at his apartment after a shoot, has been used in a few publications (appearing in Filigree Magazine and two more upcoming hair-based magazines), making it the first time an image of me has appeared in print.

Behind The Scenes | Tara Ryze | Shear Terror Hair | Artifice Clothing | 2011

Olya Bahrynivsky | Steven Paul | Shear Terror Hair | Raquel Reed | 2011

Heather Colfer | Chris Gooden | Shear Terror Hair | 2011 

Trying to fit all of this into a backpack and make room for more Paul Mitchell products. Doing a shoot tomorrow night with Santiago Felipe at Webster Hall in NYC for recording artist Neon Hitch.  Always good to be a little over-prepared.

Interview from Filigree Magazine Issue #1.  October 2011.

NOTE: My opinions explored in this interview may offend some people, albeit that was never my intention. However, this marks the first time in an interview I publicly confront the problems I’ve encountered as a hair stylist within the Alt community, explain why I want to try and resolve my differences with the beauty industry and drop hints as to some of the changes in store for Shear Terror Hair Designs.  Take it or leave it, here it is…

On your blog you wrote that you didn’t grow up wanting to style hair. How did you become a stylist?

I always grew up thinking my passion for music was what my life was destined for, but it obviously didn’t work out that way. I made several failed attempts at putting bands together for many years and did other things I thought I might enjoy when that wasn’t working out (like show promotion, merch work, even touring with a band), but they all ended badly. Eventually, I began to lose interest in the music industry altogether because the more I exposed myself to it, the more I realized you couldn’t create something genuine and truly make a living out of it either.

I was living in southwest Florida during the time I was realizing this in an area called Fort Myers, which was surrounded with hair schools and salons for some reason. A lot of my friends were hair stylists, so I ended up taking jobs at salons a lot, so often that it led me to managing a shop near the end of 2005. Since I had access to free hair services all of the time too, I was always asking for something weird to be done to my hair with the cut and color. Considering all of that and the amount of promotion I was putting into the salons I worked at, a lot of people in the industry were pushing for me to get into doing hair. I never considered hair as a career option before then, but I figured maybe people were seeing something in me I wasn’t seeing. Now here I am, 4 years later, wondering what I would ever do without it.


Tell us a bit about your journey to where you are today. Were you self taught, or did you have mentors along the way?

I attended cosmetology school from the end of 2005 until Spring 2007. I learned the basics through that and from working at salons prior, although I wasn’t really enjoying the salon atmosphere that much even before my career started. I was immediately drawn to the creativity you could express in session styling, so I dove right into that instead. Nearly everything I know has had to come from trial and error and experimentation because of it, though. I’m sort of at a point now where I feel I have done as much as I can on my own, so I am looking into advanced education at the moment to take things a step further. Fortunately, I have several close friends who are hair stylists who have always been there to offer advice from a distance whenever I need a second opinion, so that’s been incredibly helpful too.


Are there are stylists - famous or not - that you look up to?

Not really. To be completely honest, I can’t stand most hair stylists. There are just certain facets of the hair industry that tend to completely consume people, creating unnecessary negative and pretentious attitudes, so I try not to be around it too much because I don’t want it to influence me. I draw my inspirations more from other artists who have influenced me throughout my life, such as my childhood fascination with surrealist H.R. Giger’s artwork or the aural and visual intensity created by film director David Lynch that struck me in my teenage years. I’ve always been attracted to the unconventional, no matter what the creative medium was, so I guess I just take that same approach when it comes to where I find inspiration and how I apply it to my own artistic vision.


What was the most difficult head you’ve worked on? And the most fun?

I put a lot much pressure on myself to constantly improve upon whatever I have done before. I think that in and of itself can be difficult. There have also been events I have styled hair for where I would have to keep a certain level of creativity up, which can be a bit challenging to stretch my brain like that. But they’re all fun to me. The whole creative process is.


Your sculpted pieces are amazing - how do you prepare them?

A little bit of creative ingenuity and a lot of patience! But, no, honestly, I wish I had more of a budget to do the types of sculptures I really want to make and not be limited to what I can create because of financial setbacks, but the resources aren’t there yet. I try my best to make whatever I can with what I have available to me now. Thank you, though. I greatly appreciate the compliment!


Shear Terror is a very creative name. Where did it come from?


While I was doing salon management, I was also in charge of promotion so I was constantly brainstorming on how to get the name out there and draw people in. That also got me thinking about what it’d be like to have my own business some day because, more than anything, that’s what I really want to do. I’ve always felt strongly about opening a hair salon / tattoo shop because the two, from a business perspective, often parallel each other and offer the most in self expression and creative exploration on an artistic level. I know the concept has been done before, but I feel like the right formula doesn’t exist for it yet, so I’d like to take a stab at it. With my first passion being in music too, it’s something I think would make sense for me to try and accomplish and do right. The name Shear Terror just came to me during that thought process. I was trying to think of a name that represented the vision and balanced the hair/tattoo combo out, and the wordplay felt perfect.

That’s pretty much why I use a brand name now instead of the focus being on me solely as a hair stylist. I want people to become familiar with it, so when I have the resources to open a legitimate business, they already know the type of work to expect and the core values behind it. Who knows what the future holds or what direction Shear Terror as a company will go. Even if a shop doesn’t happen and it evolves into some sort of creative team or something else entirely different, I’m open to it. I just want to create something that is a completely new take on the hair industry and shake things up a bit, offering people a bit of inspiration to do the same. In an industry where competitive arrogance gets in the way of the things we could be helping each other with, I feel taking this approach, creating a brand from a very DIY level, gives aspiring stylists and others a company they can relate too and grow with from the ground up.


What inspired you to create the Shear Terror short film?

Originally, the whole concept behind it was to be a 3 to 5 minute video ad to be used as promotion on the web, something that conveyed my interest in horror films and promoted the Shear Terror name. I always thought the name “Shear Terror” sounded like an old, cheesy grindhouse flick anyways, so I wanted to play around with it. At the same time too, the whole Shear Terror aesthetic was constantly being compared to Sweeney Todd, which was a little annoying because people did not understand where I was coming from with this stuff at all, so creating something that could visually get the point across started feeling more and more like a good idea.

In 2008, I approached my friend Gary Stevens about it and our common interest in the genre eventually led the idea to snowball into a film. With the budget coming out of our own pockets we didn’t have a lot of time to do things, so it was pretty much all shot guerilla style. We never had a script either. Most of my dialogue I wrote right before a scene. Even though there were a lot of people in the film, there was only 3 of us involved with the entirety of the project. Because of our approach, at the end of it all, Gary had to take all the loose footage and try to concept a story around it to make sense (not to mention he was in the military up until recently and became a father during this time as well), so it took a little while to complete.

The material is a little dated to me now and I would have liked to have seen it come out more around the time we intended it to (in 2009) because I don’t feel it represents my views as much anymore, but I understand that life happens. It was still a great experience and I’m still happy with how it all turned out. There are some things we were trying to express, like exposing the underbelly of the beauty field for the ugliness that it really is, but it wasn’t supposed to be taken too seriously. I don’t know how well it was received or if the message came across right and I don’t really care. So many amazing people lent their talents to making the film happen that I am absolutely humbled by the whole thing regardless.


You’re very open with your views on the state of the Alt modeling community. Has it, in your opinion, degraded beyond redemption?

I have always been into different types of counter culture because they offer alternatives to society’s stereotypical standards. I myself stray from what is considered “normal,” whatever that entails, but I’ve never claimed to be an “Alt” stylist. It would be incredibly limiting to my career and I don’t want to be pigeonholed. Besides, there really isn’t an Alt industry. There’s not any money to be made for it to be considered one. Unless you’re being paid to shoot exclusively for some cheeky goth, fetish or tattoo magazines (which I won’t take part in because tattoo magazines don’t credit the creative team in print) or by doing some sort of pornography (which is irrelevant to hair styling), that’s really about it as far as making money goes and the pay is minimal at best. What I don’t get is that like any real industry in this sort of field, the egos are there, the drama is there, but without any legitimate income being generated that doesn’t involve taking clothes off for some nameless Model Mayhem photographer who is probably just a pervert with money anyways, what’s the point?

I think the biggest reason I have been so vocal about it is because I see so many opportunities arising that could allow for a real industry to build, but it seems no one wants to do anything about it. I hear excuses all the time too. Sure, maybe Alt models are too short for the real fashion world, but why not create something where that doesn’t matter? Why conform to boundaries? The alternative culture is widely more accepted now than it ever has been. Look at the plethora of terrible tattoo shows that have been on TV. Look at what Lady Gaga and Rihanna are doing. I can’t stand it because it’s all manufactured garbage, but regardless, this stuff is completely borrowing from the alternative lifestyle and the people involved in it. With mainstream pop culture embracing all of this (sometimes outright stealing ideas to make their own), you would think people in the Alt world would want to be focusing more on being credited for their innovations and taken seriously for their abilities in art and fashion that has managed to find a way into the public eye. Instead, Alt seems to have become a congested mess of tits and tattoos because no one knows what to do now that pay sites are dead, as if that’s all that ever existed. It’s silly.

I’ve had many people tell me I should just keep my mouth shut, but what does that change? I’m trying to challenge others to think outside of the box because I thought that’s what counter culture was supposed to be about. I know some people don’t care about any of that and are just having fun with it and that’s absolutely fine too. Don’t get me wrong, I don’t think I am better than anyone else and I’m not trying to insult anyone for doing what they do. I’d be a hypocrite to bash anyone for doing nude work when I’ve been involved with many shoots that contained it. It’s just that when it really comes right down to it, as much as I love some of the artists, focusing on this kind of stuff doesn’t really help my career in any way and I have to respect that and focus on other things. I don’t want to see others be disillusioned by it. Being “known” in the Alt community isn’t going to pay bills or make life any easier. I guess all of that has just brought me to a point where I have decided to start switching some things up with the direction of Shear Terror Hair Designs, what it represents and the type of work I’ll be involved with. Will I still style hair for Alt shoots? Of course. But in the long run, I’m looking for longevity, so it’s time to start focusing on attracting a wider audience now.


Designers like McQueen, Westwood and Betsey Johnson were on the frontline of creating high fashion concepts that stemmed from punk and other “alternative” styles. Do you think there is room for that anymore, or has it just become sort of cliché to be “alt”?


In their individual right, they are undeniable proof that you can create something that is typically too outrageous or macabre for society and still make it completely relevant on a wider scale. There will always be room for that no matter where the source material comes from. At the same time, I feel like fashion, at least in American culture, is still stuck in a vicious cycle of recreating trends instead of instigating new ones. A lot of what is going on right now I have repeatedly seen before, and I’m only 30. There is some interesting stuff coming from Europe though, so maybe that can influence some ideas to change things here. One could at least hope, right?

In essence, I think that’s why I’m always so outspoken about pushing things forward. Nothing is sacred anymore, so you can’t really expect something that’s underground to stay underground forever. In order for things to stay interesting and survive, they have to evolve to avoid becoming stale and cliché.


How do you see yourself fitting into the puzzle of the fashion world now and in the future?

I’m not going to be delusional. I have only been doing this for 4 years, so I know I’ve got a lot of work to do still before things can really get underway. I also know that it’s time to put some of my differences aside with the hair industry and get more involved in it so I can take advantage of the opportunities that are offered. At the moment, things have been a little difficult to sell off. You know, if I was into the Pinup culture and did Pinup hair, I would probably be making bank right now because there is a huge market for that. It’s a little more difficult to appeal to the average person when you’re making sculptures out of hair with taxidermy squirrels in it though. Regardless, I can’t hold myself back from my ambitions. The avant-garde, high fashion industry is where I want to be and where I feel like I will find my niche, so I think it’s an obtainable goal as long as I continue with the same persistence that’s carried me this far.


Do you have a life motto that you hold to?

I don’t really have any mottos I live by, but there’s a song that I feel had a big impact on my life growing up. I have a very supportive Mother who I’m close too. She always said Lynyrd Skynrd’s “Simple Man” was her song to me as she raised me. The older I get, the more I realize how much I really took the lyrics of that song to heart and how they have paralleled my life.

In all honesty, I’m not looking for fame and fortune. If it finds me or my business, great, but I just want to live comfortably enough that financially, I am never held back from embarking on whatever creative endeavour I might find myself interested in. I don’t have the same resources (or wealthy families) that others may have, which can be inhibiting at times, but I can’t let those things stop me from trying to make things happen.  Hell, I have pretty much been homeless for the past 4 years because I have been chasing after my dreams, trying to make an honest living doing what I love. I think in some ways the struggle builds character. Nothing that is good in life comes easy, so I just let my passion guide me because in the end, I’m trying to live life as simply as I can, to be able to have something where I can see the world and enjoy it for all the little things that make it great and help others in need along the way.

Photo Credits -

All Hair by Travis Kelley / Shear Terror Hair Designs

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Model: Ludella Hahn
MUA: Madeline Hamilton / MaddMakeup
© 2010 Darkside Photography

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Clothing: Vengeance Designs
Model: Diana Mercado
MUA: Raquel Reed
© 2011 Steven Paul

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Clothing & Styling: Vaunt D.
Model: Sara Errata
© 2010 Amy Fries

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Model: Lauren WK
MUA: Teague Vivolo
© 2010 Dastardly Dave

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© 2011 Sidney Etienne

Interview from Glam Rock Magazine Issue#10. Fall 2011.

How did you first become interested in the beauty industry?

Actually, I had no idea this was what I would end up doing. I was sort of pushed into it. I lived in southwest Florida in a place called Fort Myers for quite a few years, and albeit a relatively small area, the hair industry there was pretty massive. I had a few good friends that were hair stylists too, and was in need of a second job, so I ended up doing salon coordination and assisting for awhile. Eventually, I started bouncing around salons, which led me to managing a new salon within a relatively short period of time in 2005. At this point, my ambitions to have a career in music were ending, so I wasn’t sure what I was going to do.

I was making good use of the free hair services I was receiving from working in salons for so long, so I always had something crazy looking done to my hair. Army camouflage color patterns, animal prints, just whatever I could think of. I had no shame. Maybe all of that had something to do with this, but for some reason a lot of people, both in and outside of the industry, were telling me I should start doing hair because they thought I would be good at it. I didn’t think anything of it, but after hearing it so often, I couldn’t help but feel like maybe they were seeing something in me I wasn’t seeing. Since my desire to do something with music was waning, I figured why not look into it? So shortly after I had started managing that salon in 2005, I went and signed up for school. I had literally never picked up a pair of shears or even cared to until my first day there.


How did you begin Shear Terror Hair Designs?

Out of necessity. There were a lot of personal things I was dealing with during my time in cosmetology school and even more so after graduating. It’s not something I really talk about a lot. Needless to say, the idea of Shear Terror was created because I wanted to give myself something to live for and work towards; a life-long goal to keep myself focused on. There are all the other obvious things that came later, like wanting to create a brand that was a completely different take on the hair industry and give myself more creative freedom in the process, but at the core of it all, it was something I created to save my life in some ways. It’s why I have invested so much passion into trying to build a company and legitimate business out of it someday. It will get there eventually. I may not have the financial means to do it right now, but that’s not what it’s all about. I’m trying to inspire others in the same way life inspired me and build something others can relate to in the process.


What was your first shoot like?

I believe it was in the summer of 2007. I graduated hair school in the spring and had just recently landed my own chair at a salon so everything was exciting because it was all still really new to me. Very shortly after that, I was involved in a shoot for an alternative pay site where I was introduced to photographer Scott Smallin. Coincidently, Scott kind of ignited my desire to start doing stylist work for photo shoots by asking me to join him for further assistance in the future after we worked together that initial time. Although plans for our eventual collaboration fell through, I still wanted to pursue session work more often. It’s almost embarrassing to look at those photos now though, because at the time, all I could really do were “scene-kid” haircuts and the extent of my styling knowledge was just to tease it profusely. Had to get a start somewhere though, right?


Who have been some of your favorite people that you have worked with so far?

I feed off of a positive working environment, so I always love it when I can be a part of a shoot where everyone has creative input and is respected for their involvement. There’s a certain ebb and flow when people can put their ego aside and create together. That’s more of a difficult scenario to establish than one would think, but when it happens, you can tell by what everyone produced to create the final images. Whenever I meet people I can share in that ability with, no matter who they are, I always make sure there is a means for collaboration afterwards, so I guess those would be considered my favorites. Aside from that though, there have been too many talented individuals I have had an opportunity to work with that it would be impossible to narrow it down simply by artistic merit.


What type of hair styles do you prefer to do?

Anything that’s conceptual, really. I tend to approach hair more as a creative outlet than I do as a beautician, so if there is an interesting concept in theme and wardrobe involved, it makes fleshing out a solid idea a lot more inviting. I really just enjoy the whole process of fitting a hair sculpture or hair style to other stylized elements of a shoot to enhance the overall mood of it. I want my work to reflect upon what else is going on so it adds to the overall production instead of distracting attention.


What has been the most elaborate hair you have done thus far?

I think the conceptual pieces stick out, like the recent eyeball hair sculptures for the Mishka Clothing-inspired shoot I was involved in with Raquel Reed this year. She actually helped me out with those, because of time constraints, by drawing the little details in the pupils. It was a fun project. Twisting a fairly good amount of synthetic red hair to make the veins was a tedious process though; repeating that 6 times over took me a little while. I’m always pushing myself to do something more elaborate than I’ve done before though, so I think all my projects tend to gradually get more detailed with what I am capable of doing at the moment. I still have a lot to improve upon on a technical level and need more financial stability to acquire the supplies for the types of sculptures I would really like to make, but I will get there eventually.


As a frequent observer of the current fashion scene, I’ve seen your work a lot and it seems like your making quite a name for yourself. What do you hope to do with that in the near future?

I don’t really know how well-known I am or not. I try not to look at things that way because I feel like it forces people to create personas that they eventually lose themselves in and I don’t want that. If anything is going to be known, I would hope the Shear Terror brand has more of an impact. That’s what I’ve been aiming for, at least. It’s why I have always marketed my work that way. It’s not about me.


Have you had to deal with any fussy or impossible models or photographers?

Unfortunately, it’s a very common occurrence. Some people get a little carried away with the social politics too. I know I haven’t always been the easiest person to work with either though. You live and learn. I’ve been taking a bit of break this year, gearing up to switch focus on a lot of things. I think when you’re in a field like this, it’s healthy to take a little time off and come back to the real world for a little while or you tend to forget why you’re doing it in the first place.


Hair Stylists often get cursed with the repetitive “What looks good on me?” question. How do you deal with the hair-challenged public?

I enjoy helping people out. I take a lot of pride in my work, but it’s much more satisfying when you’re able to have an impact on others in some way. It annoys me more when stylists are not properly educating their clients and just treating them like money. I may not know everything there is about hair, especially since I’ve been on my own most of my short career, but I still take the time to do the research necessary to make sure I’m available to provide the knowledge to my customers.


Do you prefer to work at salons or do session styling?

Even though I am determined to become well-rounded as a stylist and need to get back in a salon again soon, I definitely prefer session styling. The hardest thing to find in the hair industry is a group of stylists who work together as a team and act like a family, especially in the salon environment. That’s probably the biggest reason I haven’t been in once since 2008 and also one of the reasons I want to get Shear Terror to where I want it to be…so that team can exist.

Although I was admittedly a little arrogant when my career started off, it was hard to not react defensively when I always had other stylists being very competitive for no reason, teaching me things incorrectly on purpose or talking negatively about my clients so blatantly that they became too uncomfortable to return. There was just always some kind of nasty comment being thrown my way no matter where I worked. Since I was so new to everything too, I didn’t want my passion to be swayed, so I perused this route to be able to do what I love and not deal with as much of the bullshit. Inevitably, the negativity is unavoidable sometimes, but at least I have worked hard on myself since then by remaining humble and not taking what I have for granted. With session styling, it’s been a little easier to find other stylists who share in the same passion and have that same attitude and approach at least.


Where do you see yourself in 5 years?

With how things are right now, I’m trying to broaden the horizons of Shear Terror Hair Designs. The past few years have opened my eyes to a lot of things, so I want to switch things up a bit and appeal to a larger demographic. I’m not shunning what I’ve been doing in the Alt community completely, but Shear Terror as a brand is changing. The type of work I want to be involved with is changing. Nothing personal, it’s just time for things to evolve. I’ve also realized I need to get myself more involved with the hair industry even though I have such distaste for it at times. I can’t teach myself everything.

On a personal level, though, I would really like to see myself lined up with a major hair company as a portfolio artist or something where I am able to do more work in the fashion industry, working on runway shows or agency aligned photo shoots. I’ve always been into avant-garde fashion, so even if I have to assist for awhile until I can get myself to the level I need to be at to grab someone’s attention or if I have to get back into a salon to make money to afford to take further education in order for that to happen, that’s fine. I’ll do whatever it takes. Shear Terror might have to take a seat on the back burner for awhile, but only so I can generate the resources to turn it into what I want it to be in the future. I’m just trying to figure the details out right now, but no matter what I do, it’s always going to be about the bigger picture. Always.

Photo Credits -

All Hair by Travis Kelley / Shear Terror Hair Designs

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MUA: Teague Vivolo

Model: Lauren WK

© 2010 Dastardly Dave

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Model & MUA: Tara Ryze

© 2009 Chris Visual

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MUA: Nikki Noir

Kat Livingston | Chris Gooden | Shear Terror Hair | 2011

Responsible for Kat’s cut and color, in which she went from a platinum blonde to dramatic demi-permanent red.

Nights in NYC | Fall 2010 | © Nicky Digital  ©Webster Hall

(From Girls & Boys and Trouble & Bass 5 year Anniversary at Webster Hall, The Wild Ones at White Noise, Wolf Party at Le Souk)

It means the world to me to hear that, thank you so much!  Even though I didn’t attend a PM school, I’ve always been a huge fan of the Paul Mitchell company, so it’s always great hearing this from their students!  

I’m really glad you could take something from my work and even happier to hear you’re going after your dreams.  All I’m doing is the same thing, wanting to make my dreams a reality, so I’m right there with you!  Stay passionate!