Burning Man hair solutions - appointments still available!

Are you headed to the Playa but don't want your hair to suffer the consequences?

Or maybe you've thrown caution to the wind and want your hair to be as wild as possible...

I offer a great range of solutions for your Playa hair needs from braid and dreadlock extensions, to cornrows to creative cuts and colors.

And as a special just for you Burners, bring in your ticket to receive

20% OFF TOTAL SERVICE PRICE!!!

Call Imagine Salon at 541- 431-1717 to schedule your free consultation, or you can contact me through my website LaylasLocks.com

How do I love thee? Let me count the hairs...

I LOVE to play with hair

I love the different textures

I love the feel of it

I love to color it

I love to shape it

I love to knot it up into beautiful locks

I love to ease out a tough tangle into smooth waves

I love to braid it

I love to tease it

I love to spray it

but mostly

I love to ROCK it!

Come see me at Imagine - I would be honored to play with your hair!

431-1717/ 943 Olive St

Festival Braids and Extensions - BOOK NOW to look great all Summer long!

Hello all you festival goers and summer revelers!

I have been offering beautiful, whimsical and creative extensions to Burners, Ravers, and all stripes of festival goers for the last 3 years, and this summer I am proud to offer these services backed by my knowledge of hair as a fully licensed stylist at Imagine Salon.

My styles are created uniquely for you based on your personality, interests, artistic inspiration, personal mythology and anything you want to bring to the table. They will last in great shape for at least two months and can be worn for up to three with good aftercare - and the best part - you automatically look fabulous all summer long!

Just a reminder to all who have contacted me and those of you still contemplating braids and or creative dreadlock extensions for this summer season.

I WILL ONLY BE BOOKING ONE APPOINTMENT PER WEEK!

Creating these bold and long lasting styles takes a lot of energy, concentration and time and I do charge accordingly:

Braid extensions start at $400

Dreadlock Extensions start at $500 initially, but are less to maintain or reinstall and vary greatly based on length or complexity of the style.

Dreadlock extensions also require AT LEAST 3 weeks of time to create the extensions. Extra charge will apply for rushed orders.

I look forward to hearing from and working with all you creative people!

Layla Dudley
Hair Artist
Haircuts - Color - Creative Styling
Braids - Dreadlocks - Extensions

www.laylaslocks.com

Imagine Salon
943 Olive St.
Eugene, OR
541-431-1717 salon

Layla’s Locks Playshop - EARLY REGISTRATION DISCOUNT!!! (thru Monday the 27th)

If you are on the fence, I want you to jump on over and get on board with this great opportunity, and until Monday the 27th - TAKE $25 OFF!!!

so all this week:
REGISTRATION IS ONLY $100!!!

Keep in mind that registration closes completely on May 1 and there are no same day sign-ups due to materials.

To remind you all that you get for this very reasonable price:

1.5 hours of instruction the basics of fake hair, braiding and dreadlock making and lots of personal attention during playshop
Tool kit including a backcombing comb, blending brush and rack to organize your hair.
Unlimited access to my extensive personal fake hair collection and craft supplies
And everyone’s favorite - refreshments!

The workshop cost is ONLY $100 from now through April 27 and $125 until May 1. Participation is limited to 8 participants to assure I can provide one on one instruction.

To register, you can call or email me at 503-957-7817 or info@laylaslocks.com

Mark you calendars... Layla's Locks Playshop Sunday May 3!

I'm so excited to offer this after my short workshop a couple years back - I've wanted to expand my teaching to a full on craft play day and now's the time so read on for details!

Layla’s Locks Presents a :

FAKE HAIR PLAYSHOP!
Sunday May 3rd
12-6pm
Imagine Salon
943 Olive St, Eugene, OR

I am a newly licensed stylist, but I have dedicated the last three years to various "exp-hair-ements" in synthetic dreadlocks, braid styles, and interpreting your divine self through your hair.

Now I’m excited to share with you some of the knowledge I have collected and teach you the basics of:

Synthetic Dreads
Braids
Hair Falls
Hair accents

Not only that, this time I’m providing you with a starter kit of the basic tools you’ll need to get started, as well as unlimited access to my collection of fake hair, beads, feathers, and other crafting supplies you’ll need to create your very own work!

The workshop cost is $125 and limited to 8 participants to assure I can provide one on one instruction.

To register, you can call or email me at 503-957-7817 or info@laylaslocks.com

A little more about Layla:

Layla is not your average hairdresser, in fact it is her third “career” in her brief thirty-something years on the planet. She attended Whitman college, graduating in 1999 with a BA in Biology and Minor in Chemistry. She has the logical intellect of a scientist, but also frequently engages her creative side. Dance and music were her unofficial 2nd and 3rd minors in college, choreographing works for numerous student troupes and founding the still thriving women’s a cappella ensemble Sirens of Swank. Her first foray into the working world included stem cell research and clinical research into diet and age related eye disease at Oregon Health Sciences University in Portland, OR. At the same time, Layla was building an underground following in Portland’s rave and club scene as DJ Velo, where she eventually met her husband and current business partner, Jeff. Together in 2003, they toured the Pacific coast on their bicycles, moved to Eugene, and founded TrueLove Sound, a thriving and innovative mobile entertainment company specializing in weddings (www.truelovesound.com).

In Eugene, Layla was exposed to the tribal bellydance scene and their costuming aesthetic, and began creating unique hair adornments for her local bellydance community in 2005. Her skill quickly grew and expanded to offer realistic looking synthetic dreadlock falls and extensions that were sought after by dancers and festival goers worldwide including customers in Canada, Australia and the UK as well as all over the United States. Wanting to expand her offerings, in 2007- 2008, Layla attended school for hair design and fell in love with the craft, the sense of renewal and the possibility for transformation that it can bring.

She is incredibly blessed to work at Imagine, a creative hair studio in the heart of Eugene, Oregon - home of some of the most beautiful freaks in the world!

Dancing dancing dancing...again!

Love it!

I had so much fun with our little performance last night. I'm once again part of a student troupe, at least for last night, and for whenever it works into my schedule in the future.

I decided this year that I would start taking dance again in an effort to exercise without the gym (I hate the gym!). This time around, however, I am approaching dance in a whole new mind frame. I need to travel back a few years to explain...

Well more like 5 years, when I first moved to Eugene, I had some crazy little idea that I would make my living as a dancer. OK not so crazy of an idea for some, and really not even for me at the time, but life had other plans for me. After an absent minded driver ran a red light while I happened to be driving through the center of the intersection, the chronic pain in my back ended those ambitions.

But looking even further back in my dance history, I was always pushing through injury. Leading up to state competition my senior year on high school dance team, I was wearing a back, ankle and wrist brace to practice every day, and in my triumphant performance as part of the all-state team, you can clearly see my bandage wrapped hamstring under my white tights and mini skirt swinging high against my chest in the kickline. Pain was part of it, and I prided myself on ignoring it and pushing it as far as it would go. I knew that I was one of the best and that I could really stand out, and no amount of pain would get in the way of that.

Fast forward about 13 years to this January, I started dance with Luminessah and I've felt so different and calm about my approach to it all. I really have no great ambition in dance anymore. I love the amazing community and people I have met and created amazing relationships and friendships with through dance. I love to have such an amazing outlet for creativity, a reason to try out new looks and collect crazy shiny baubles. And yes, I love to occasionally get on a stage and strut it, but I care not for whom and how many - I just wanna make you smile!

And that I did! I got so many great compliments last night about my projection, my "flirtatious looks" and energy in general, and yes it felt great! What felt the best was that I know my body doesn't flow and move the way it has in the past, and that's a part of life, but I know that I can perform and project my sense of fun and joy that I feel to just move again to people, and that's what its all about!

So thank you Luminessah for the opportunity to get up on stage again, and thanks to Lina and Serene for being such great dance partners!

I wish that everyone can find their sense of bliss in dance wherever it lies!

Spring is here - time to update that do!

Yes its true - we’ve reached the equinox and from here till next September there is now more day than night! That also means that hats and scarves are coming off and your hair is once again seeing the light of day!

The question is - are you ready?

Let me help your hair get there with some great spring specials!

From TODAY (March 20) until April 20 take advantage of these great deals:

NEW CLIENTS -

$15 OFF HAIRCUTS (reg. $45 women/ $35 men)

$25 OFF COLOR (reg. starts at $55 for partial weave / $75 all over color)

RETURN CLIENTS -

This spring I’m happy to extend our new client discounts of:

$10 OFF CUTS/ $20 OFF COLOR

Just so that you can spend this spring looking your best!

Call, message, email, or text me for an appointment
(keeping in mind that I reply mainly during salon hours)

Yours in rockin’ hair!

Layla Dudley
Hair Artist
Haircuts - Color - Creative Styling
Braids - Dreadlocks - Extensions
www.laylaslocks.com

Imagine Salon
943 Olive St.
Eugene, OR
541-431-1717 salon
503-957-7817 cell

Planted one row... 4 to go!

I love making my garden happen - I feel like I learn so much from the patience and timing of raising plants.

This weekend despite being severely tired, the sun came out Sunday and warmed me up and out of the house and before I knew it I was cleaning up my first veggie bed. Last year it had been home to tomatoes, but I always try and rotate so as not to deplete the soil and confuse pests that think of taking up residence on plants from a similar family.

This year my deepest bed will once again host root veggies and a few sugar snap peas. I planted a row of red samauri carrots mixed with french breakfast radishes, some teeny tiny walla walla sweet onions and some garlic that I rescued from our new lawn that had once had a home in some floating beds that I got rid of last fall because although they were pretty to look at, they were a pain to maintain.

This year I'm going to expand with three more beds along the fence, making use of the sunniest part of the yard and simplifying my layout quite a bit. I'm planning to add lettuce, spinach, tomatoes, squash, pumpkins, cucumbers, basil, beans and corn, at least.

I love the magic of it all - watching it grow from almost nothing to giant monster sized plants taking over the entire corner, bursting with edible goodness! I'm definitely planting more than I need this year with the intention of having a few harvest parties for friends, cause I hate seeing good veggies go to waste!

Yay for plants!

a 1987 animation classic!

Just uploaded to YouTube:

www.youtube.com/watch

I was 10... and its still hilarious!

Valentine's Day Fundraiser Reminder/ Friday the 13th too!

So I know there are plenty of lovers out there making plans to look and feel great this Valentine's Day and support our local Planned Parenthood in the process.

My books are almost completely FULL - but I still have room for one more haircut, or a couple more styles, updos, braids, or a couple quick color add-in extensions.

I want all you singles in on the act too...

So this national singles awareness day:

FRIDAY THE 13th I WILL ALSO DONATE 10% OF MY DAY'S EARNINGS TO PLANNED PARENTHOOD!

There is still plenty of space available and I will work late - so love your hair and love yourself with the gift of great hair!

Call us now for an appointment: 431-1717

Imagine Salon
934 Olive St.
Eugene, OR