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Last Updated: Nov 14, 2008 - 12:49:26 PM |
***image1***Dale Williams is back in business with Overhead Hair Design. Returning from a brief retirement, Williams is exploding with energy in a new salon that she shares with her son, Ray Hardy, offering cuts and color from the conservative to the extreme.
Prior to retirement, Williams had 25 years in the business. Seven of those years, Williams had the business located where she has re-opened, in the Superbodies building on Ironbridge Rd.
Both designers, though Hardy is an apprentice, are strong in visual design. Just returning from a hair show in Charlotte, N. C., Williams says, “The show was just awesome. There are so many different things we can do.” Not that Williams didn’t have a reputation for doing different before; she says she was cutting designs into men’s and boy’s cuts before it became a stylist’s trend, designing logos and team numbers into young teens’ haircuts, and on the day of this interview, had deep purple mixed in her own hair color. The style today is to approach color into design for women and men. Most recently, she used a spider-web design on bleached hair for a musician for his upcoming rock concert. “We can do it all, from the conservative to the unconventional,” she says. “We want to be a funky shop; we want it to be fun.”
During retirement, Williams had the time to develop her visual arts exploring every aspect from paint to fabric to clay. Her art, showcasing her talent and energy, is displayed throughout the shop. Hardy, also a talented graffiti artist, has painted murals on the walls that compliment the funkiness of the hair stations where mechanical tool boxes are utilized for their hair tools. “It’s industrial but real artistry,” Williams says. “That’s my approach to decorating.”
When it comes to hair, Williams and Hardy agree that the consultation process is the most important. “We want to take time with each client,” she says. “Find out what they like and what they are looking for with their hair.”
Overhead Hair Designs will be celebrating their grand opening with an open house on Saturday, November 1. Along with food and prizes, which include free haircuts, music will be provided by The Lunar Canvas, an alternative rock band, and Aaron Bonner on acoustic guitar. Weather permitting, music will be located in the parking lot, with guests touring the salon.
To find out more about Overhead Hair Designs, you may visit www.overheadhair.com or call 751-0101.
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