THE NOTEBOOK

WELCOME

YOU are the SUBJECT and YOUR BEAUTY, in all five dimensions, is the TOPIC.

The objectives are:

To provide you with information that is helpful and informative
To provide a sense of community to ask and answer your questions
To present ideas which are inspiring and honest
To assist you in looking and feeling your best
To share health, beauty and fashion inspiration from around the world

Since 1980, education has been the foundation of my career as a hair designer. I was fortunate to work with some of the world’s greatest hair artisans. One in particular, Russell Hyde, shared with me the key elements of hair design, art, beauty, thinking, seeing and where to discover true and endless inspiration. During the late 1980’s and early 1990’s I had the opportunity to work, one-on-one, with Russell. I’ve never been the same since.

Also, I discovered another four pieces of the beauty puzzle that changed my perspective on hair design and beauty:

1. Color Analysis
2. Style Personality
3. Face Shapes
4. Body Types

I quickly came to realize TRENDS are secondary to the INDIVIDUALIZED WOMAN. A great haircut or haircolor is only great if it is great for the individual woman.

I began questioning… What is beauty anyway? Is it physical? Is it something a woman is born with? Is it something that can be developed?

We’ve all known someone who we thought was beautiful, untouchable until we got to know her. Then, we found out otherwise.

One the other hand, we’ve also met someone who didn’t appear beautiful at first glance, until we got to know her. Then, out of nowhere, we begin to realize the true meaning of beauty. Wow! She is amazingly beautiful – inside and out.

Since 1980, I’ve had the privilege to work with thousands of women in the salon. In doing so, I’ve come to realize beauty is found, or developed, in five dimensions:

Physical
Spiritual
Mental
Emotional
Social

Beauty can and should be enhanced physically. However, it doesn’t stop or start here. It’s the “graces” in all five dimensions that define beauty.

It’s important to know, there is not such thing as perfection. In fact, it’s the imperfections that are most beautiful and most human – these imperfections are what make a woman most beautiful.

In my opinion, our society has distorted our views “destructively” regarding beauty –especially as we begin to age. Again, it’s not that we shouldn’t do all we can to enhance, protect and preserve beauty. What I’m speaking of is the internal, destructive nature of media hype and what we now have come to believe as truth.

As human beings we take-in and send-out information through our five senses:

Touch
Sight
Sound
Smell
Taste

These five senses give us an endless opportunity to design beautiful experiences to tantalize and revitalize others as well as ourselves.

Sincerely,

Dorlon Peckham
Genesis Salon
775-828-9797
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www.genesissalon.com