Posted December 22nd, 2009 in Ume's Interests | 4 Comments »
If you have watched any Japanese films or drama, you may have seen this actress Kyoko Fukada. She is about the same age as me (or older) and I’ve seen many of her dramas/films while in Japan. Although some says bad things about her, I kind of like her. She is cute, and I like her hair style and make-up 
It was really a coincidence, but I was at Yuko’s place to get hair cut today, and I saw a photo of Kyoko on the cover page of a Japanese fashion magazine. Now she has short hair!
According to the magazine, this is the shortest hair that Kyoko has been with. My image for her always had been “long hair” “brown, light color” “cute”, but now she looks like a lady. I really love her current new looks. Unfortunately I have no guts to cut my hair this short, but my hair is now short too. It’s not because I saw her hair style on the magazine, I had been thinking to cut my hair to medium bob since few weeks ago.
I love my hair style now, it’s nice and short, and easy to shampoo I colored hair brown with few low-lights. It’s summer!
By the way Kyoko’s skin is so beautiful… what does she use??
Posted November 23rd, 2009 in Perth WA, Ume's Interests | 6 Comments »
I was very excited to try this hair salon in Northbridge. One reason is that I was dying to get hair cut, and another is that I wanted to meet this stylist “Kazu”. I made a booking with Kazu and had a chance to chat with him on Sunday.
Kazu has been working at this St James Hair Studio for 10 years now. He was also a hair stylist in Japan, worked in Tokyo for 9 years, then moved to Perth. Along with his job at this salon, he goes back to Japan annually to update his skill and knowledge by attending on seminars and catching up with his friends who are also hair stylists.
At the salon, I showed Kazu a sample photo of a hair style and told him how I want my hair to look like, then moved to another chair to get shampoo. He put a steamed towel on my neck and massaged my head, it was so good. He told me my muscle is tense - I didn’t know that there’s muscle on the head! And, he could tell right after touching my head that my body is tired. He is a pro!
He gave me lots of tips as well. I asked him how I should dry my hair, naturally or by drier? How to use hair iron and curler? He gave me an advice on all the questions I asked, by demonstrating! He showed me how to dry my hair: wear heat-proof conditioner on the hair first then blow dry completely with strong hair drier. Then straighten up my fringe with iron, and curl the bottom of my hair with curler. Wow my hair looks so different…
If you are seeking some tips or answers regards to hair, he is the one He has many patrons here, including Japanese, Malaysian, Singapore, Australian etc. I recommend you to book him at least 1 week in advance… oh and he is going on holiday from 04/Jan till 24/Jan next year.
St James Hair Studio
Shop 2/218 James St, Northbridge WA 6003
Tel: 08 9228 3339
Posted October 29th, 2009 in Jakarta | 2 Comments »
My hair is now getting messy again and need to get trimmed … It’s shame that I didn’t have time to go to a hair salon while I was in Japan. I think I need to color my hair soon too.. My hair is originally dark dark black, and not straight. My mum used to cut my hair when I was little, and I always looked like I was wearing a black helmet :p I don’t like my hair because it’s little wavy, and go messy if I don’t take care of it using treatment and hair wax.
I’m flying off to Jakarta sometime soon and I’m thinking if I should go to a hair salon there… but I doubt if they can do the job as I expect. I mean, I can’t speak Indonesian and they normally don’t speak English, so it’s gonna be hard to communicate and tell them how I want my hair to be done.
If I end up going to a salon, I will be with mother-in-law. If she goes to a salon, she offer me to get “cream bath”. … I think I wrote about it long time ago on this blog, but when I heard about this “cream bath” thing I thought it was something like a “special treatment”. Then I found out that hair salons in Jakarta and Japan are pretty different. :p I was surprised when they used cold water for shampooing too! It was a kind of culture shock…
I think some foreign people will experience culture shock too when they visit Japan’s salon. I mean, there are some weird hair salons across Japan. One of them is “maid salon”, where all the staff wear costume of maid and serve you. It is a kind of cos-pure (short term for costume-play in Japanese) Some of the salons have a few different kinds of costumes, and their services don’t only limit on hair-cut but also nail care, heard spa, ear cleaning… Of course they are targeting on male customers ( ? ) though customers are not allowed to take photos inside and touch the staffs.
Well, I heard that hair salons in Perth don’t normally do shampoo and hair-blow as a service (or include in their prices). If so, do customers go home with hair all over their clothes? Or with wet hair? It’s just surprising to me that Japanese salon usually does shampooing and blow-dry as a part of the procedure.
Except for the surprise of cold water, hair salon in Jakarta was fun to me. Once they spread “cream” on my head, 2~3 staff come over to me and start to massage my arms and shoulders. Ummm writing about this makes me want to get the massage! Yes I think I will go to a hair salon in Jakarta. Not for a hair cut, but a massage perhaps :p
Posted September 6th, 2009 in Perth WA | 2 Comments »
I had my hair cut and colored in Perth few weeks ago. The lady who did my hair is Japanese. I knew about her from Perth News - a Japanese website in Perth. She currently uses her house as a salon.
As I hadn’t had my hair cut for awhile, my hair was a mess! She showed me few Japanese hair catalogs, and I decided to go with light marron color hair. I asked her to make a fringe too, just for a change. My hair is around 10cm below shoulders, and it was $120.00 including cut, color, shampoo and dry. I think it’s pretty cheap.
She said that she’s been working as a hair stylist in Tokyo since she graduated her school in Japan. She also has experiences working in a hair salon in Perth, and last year went back to Japan for 3 months as holiday. As soon as her old colleagues knew she was in Japan, they called her up and asked her to work in the hair salon that she used to work before. According to this story, she must have been a good worker!
When I told her that I was getting married in few weeks, she offered me to get aqua-gel nails. She’s into nails (manicure, pedicure) too and brought a machine from Japan.
This machine produces UV -Ultraviolet light. Aqua -gel become solid under UV, so what she does is brush aqua-gel on nails and put the fingers inside of this machine. After 30 seconds the gel becomes solid (but not too hard). I decided to have this aqua-gel nails done, I knew I had to do something with my nails before the wedding anyway…
I got graduated pink color with silver stones.
Her price list:
☆CUT Mens $20 / Ladies $30
☆Colour $100～（include cut&shampoo&pretreatment&browdry）
☆Perm $100～（include cut&shampoo&pretreatment&browdry）
☆super straight perm $200～（include cut&shampoo&pretreatment&browdry）
She uses Japanese products such as Shiseido、Milbon.
8am～3pm
YUKO san
0450 32 4916
happy_kappy [at] hotmail [dot] co [dot] jp
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