8/17/2010

Despite the number of years we've been in business, we still encounter rumors from time to time so we thought we'd address some of them here.

          #1. No, Sigel is not "Arabic", He's German. (Franz Sigel Shroy... come on!)
          #2. Sigel is not bald, he's just thinning some on top. (Also... that is just a hat that Sigel wears not a Willy Nelson type hat with attached hair. THAT is Sigel's real hair).
          #3A. One of the other school owners tells ANYBODY that will listen that we "don't have any clients". All of the reviews on this page are from our "clients". We started our salon in 1993 and our  
                 school in 1995. That's 17 years now! So, I wonder who he thinks that our hundreds of students have been working on all these years. Duh? (Worry about YOUR place... you Putz!)
           #3B.  OK, this sameAnchorage beauty school owner, (a lying one),  is telling perspective students that since his school uses Schwarzkopf color and our school uses Italian colors that
            students at OUR school won't be able to figure out how to mix color at a salon after they graduate... Duh!  To start with... not every salon in Anchorage only uses Schwarzkopf color, in fact,
           this other school used to use a different color line not all that long ago.  There are about 30 different color lines used in Anchorage. I wonder what this guy's sutdents do when they get into a salon that
          doesn't use Schwarzkopf. We have a "mixer" in our cafe once a quarter (or more) where we have salon owners come in talk with our students and in eight years we have yet to have a single salon
           owner mention having ANY difficulty in mixing colors, even those who use Schwarzkopf. Instead, they usually talk about how great our color training is. Secondly... this isn't brain surgery! 
           Not for OUR students anyway. IF you'd ever attended beauty school you'd know this.  This guy knows absolutely nothing about hair color.

           I have been trained PROFESSIONALLY in numerous places in the United States, the UK, France & Spain and am LICENSED to instruct and to apply hair color in Alaska. I have also received
           color instructor training by five different hair color lines directly from the manufacturer. This other school owner,  is not licensed, or trained, or knowledgeable in ANY type of hair color.
           If you'd like to see my licensing information you can find it here. This other school owner doesn't have a hairdresser license, an esthetician license, or an instructor's license. So... some
           color "expert" huh?
           While we're on the subject... why do you use Schwarzkopf color in the first place? We use Italian colors because they are richer, fade less, and we can offer outstanding prices to our clients.
           Watch this video for the proof! Click here. We use the colors we use because they work better than Schwarzkopf, they fade less than Schwarzkopf, and they have lower levels of ammonia than
           Schwarzkopf. So while these other students (at THAT school) are learning about false statements, rumors and the like, our students are learning the TRUTH about hair color. Gee - Mr X... kind of
            makes you wish that you actually attended beauty school doesn't it? In this video, they were able to successfully figure out how to interchange color formulas for a "6N" between 65 different
            colors! I don't believe that anyone in the video went to this other school either. Hmmmmmm? The Schwarzkoph distributor is located only a few blocks from my business and I could choose to
            carry this line if I wanted to. I decided to go with Italian colors for specific reasons of quality. Here is a chart so that the PREVIOUS students of this school can translate their formulas to your
            NEW color line. Here. I find it impossible to believe that this guy thinks that our students can't figure out how to translate a 5N to a 5 in Colore or to translate a 5N to a 5-0 in Schwartzkopf
            when he expects HIS previous students to translate a 5/505 to a 5-0. Seems a bit trickier to me?
          
            So that everybody can see how easy this is to figure out, I included a link. THIS is your FREE Schwarzkopf color chart.  #1 pick your level, #2 pick your shade #3 mix with developer. Wow!
           So apparently (according to Mr X) if a MetrOasis® student uses a "5 - N" on our clients and the label on our color says It@ly, or Allegretti, or Colore then they wouldn't be able to figure out
           how to squirt some "5 - 0" into a bowl that says Schwarzkopf on the label??? Huh? Seems simple enough to me.  All one needs to do is look at the color chart and poof, you have a formula
           translation. Now, don't you feel a little stupid Mr X? Please... stop pretending that you've actually attended, let alone, graduated from beauty school, while at the same time we've been traveling
           around the world learning from the REAL "experts". This clown doesn't have ANY color training! If you'd like, (and if you're willing to behave yourself and stop lying for a week or so), you
           could come with us when we travel to Italy in a few months to Milan, Venice, and to Brescia when we will be trained by a Hairdresser of the Year,and an international color master "Massimo".
           Interested?  I didn't think so.       Makes you wonder what else he is lying about huh?      Hey Mr X... here is another link for you.

          #4. Sue is not a "Little Person". Yes, she's a person, and she's little, but the height requirement to be a "Little Person" is being UNDER 4' 10". Sue is exactly 4' 10", so unless she freaks out and
                 takes thousands of hot bathes and jumps in the clothes dryer, she's not going to be a "Little Person" anytime soon. Close... yes - but not quite. Beside... I'm only 4' 24".
          #5. MetrOasis® is not owned by anyone living outside of Alaska. Sigel, Sue & Aly live in Independence Park in south Anchorage and have done so for the past 18 years.
          #6. That six-wheeled vehicle that is sometimes parked outside MetrOasis® is called a Pinzgauer 712 and Aly owns it now. Yes, all 6 wheels work, yes, it is legal, and no we didn't make it, it was
                made in Austria . They are now made in the UK. It is a 1973 Pinzgauer 712 made by Styer-Puch-Daimler.
          #7. Yes, Sue is ALWAYS this nice. She's even nice to telemarketers. I don't know how, but she is. Enjoy her personality and try not to take advantage of her "niceness" and make her crazy...
          #8. Yes, Sigel DOES sleep. It just seems like he doesn't. Sigel's lifestyle requires lots of espresso and a lot of drive. Be nice to him... he's getting old!
          #9. No, we didn't adopt Aly from England. Ask Sue about the 36 hours of labor and the C-section she had to go through. We have the video! Aly watched everybody change their clothing fashions,
                their makeup fashions, their hair fashions, their car fashions, their housing fashions, and she asked "Why don't people change their accent fashions?" I said that I didn't know but that it was a
                great idea. So, she spent several years studying languages and decided that her favorite accent was from a particular area in London, "Leytonstone", so she developed an accent from that area.
                I don't know how long she will keep this one before she finds another one, but I think it sounds really interesting and I thought the concept was really clever.
         #10. No, we're not from New Orleans, NO, we're not from France. Sigel has a German background, and Sue has an English background. In fact, Sue is the 12th great grand daughter of Sir
                 Thomas More. We just really like going to France, and we missed our favorite restaurant in Seattle, Burke's Creole Cafe, so that's the direction we went with the Fire & Ice Cafe.

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Sue in chignon class at Art Libre in Paris	Sue looks pleased with one of her completed chignons.  Looks great!	Elody, Shawna, Sue, Dusty, Claire, Sigel Chignon & Haircutting class at Art Libre in Paris, France
One of the haircuts Sigel did at the Art Libre haircutting class in Paris	Elody cutting Sue's hair	Elody, Claire, Sigel, Sue, Dusty & Shawna at haircutting class at Art Libre, Paris France
We learned some new facials at the Mondial Esthetics Show in Paris	We also learned some new skin care techniques at the Mondial Spa & Beauty show in Paris	We also learned some pretty cool tricks to get skin care products to penetrate deeper into the skin (Mondial) in Paris
Shawna, Sigel, Sue & Dusty at Cosmobelleza Spa & Beauty show in Barcelona, Spain	Body painting contest at Cosmobelleza Spa & Beauty show in Barcelona	Shawna, Dusty, Sue & Sigel at Barcelona Hair Fashion show in Barcelona, Spain
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We learned one style of extensions at Cosmobelleza in Barcelona and another style at Art Libre in Paris	We also learned this style of extensions at Art Libre	We also learned some lipomassage techniques that we can now add to our body treatments.

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