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Raul's Corner
Welcome to Raul's Corner.
Raul will keep you up-to-date on the latest salon, fashion trends, video and book reviews and articles related to our industry; all peppered with his own eclectic style.
On the Viewing Railroad with Raul
Videos on Hair and Fashion
Here are a few videos one may find on Amazon.com, Seattle's own booksellers:
The Perfect Wedding Series - HAIR
Tabatha's Salon Takeover Season 1
Shear Genius Season 2
Hair World by Marjori Madura
Read the latest collection of book reviews from Raul. Read about the plight of "Miss Debbie", as she is known, a beautician, who opens a beauty school, in 2002, in Afghanistan after the fall of the Taliban.
Read Raul's review on Patrick Cameron's latest book "Dressing Long Hair".
For make-up techniques you have to check-out Kevyn Aucoin's book, "Making Faces", whick absolutely blows you away, with step-by-step directions for dozens of different looks.
Finally an absolute must is "Bad Hair: A Collection of Bad Hairstyles So Bad You Can't Look Away".
"In a world in which stylistic innovation is no longer possible, all that is left is to imitate dead styles." - - Frederic Jameson
In the last several years, hair fashion seems to be locked in a cycle of rehashed looks from recently departed decades. The straight hippie hair came back into vogue combined with hair coloration that looked, for all the workmanship, home made. In the mid 1990s, a return to the bohemia of the early seventies was replaced by overwrought interpretations of the 1980s fairytale fantasies.
"In a world in which stylistic innovation is no longer possible, all that is left is to imitate dead styles." - - Frederic Jameson
