We are so very proud to announce this years NAHA nominations! Congratulations to Jake Tompson in the Avant Garde catagory and new comer Nick Hemsley from our Parleys location, and our own Artistic Team for the salon nomination!

Las Vegas here we come!

Join Lunatic Fringe, Salon Keiji, Landis, and Paul Mitchell the School for our annual Giving Back is the New Black charity event and hair fashion show!

There will be a silent auction, cash bar, light cusine, dancing, and mingling. Tickets are $25 in advance and $30 day of the show Tickets may be purchased at any Lunatic Fringe Salon, Salon Keiji, Landis, and Paul Mitchell the School.

If you would like to make a donation to any of the non-profit charities involved in this years hair show you may contact Jenner at jenner@lunaticfringesalon.com

The non-profit charities involved in this years Giving Back Is The New Black event include Cancer Schmancer, The Andrew Gomez Dream Foundation, Food 4 Africa, No Limits, Gary Sinise Foundation, The Childrens Miracle Network, Best Friends Animal Society, Magic Johnson Foundation, The Morris Animal Foundation, and The Western Resource Advocates.

Each year Paul Mitchell the School holds a Next Top Stylist competition that combines the on your toes styling of Shear Genius with the firece approach of Americas Next Top Model. This year the first prize for winning the competition was the creation of a new collection with Paul Mitchell’s editorial director Lucie Doughty.

Jennys collection is both elegant and modern. The twists and curves of the hair compliment the sophisitcated makeup and dresses. It is soft, yet state of the art, it’s vintage meets 2012.

Here is that collection:

Congratulations Jenny! Welcome to the Lunatic Fringe family!

Hybrid Collection
Director / Coordinator
Fumi Eguchi / Steven Robertson

Support
Chelsea Laterza 
Jeremy Mcdougle 
Casie Norris 
Jon Kimble

Make up 
Jillyn Neslen

Photography 
Fumi Eguchi

Lunatic Fringe Salon began offering the makeovers to teens last Christmas and decided to continue the successful event this holiday season.

“It’s my goal as co-owner of this salon to continually find new ways to give back and become ‘day makers’ to a community that has been so generous to us.” Co-owner Matt Fine said in a release.

He continued, “Having a family member with Down syndrome, I am consistently reminded how important it is to offer families with special needs a peaceful moment. Our hope at Lunatic Fringe is to offer encouragement by bringing out one’s natural beauty. The Christmas Mother Daughter Makeover gives us an opportunity to do just that.”

Lori Meyer and her daughter Brittany were among those who received a makeover at the salon that is typically closed on Monday.

“It is an amazing opportunity to come in to get a free makeover and spend time together,” Lori Meyer said, adding, “It is amazing for them to take their time, their day off to come in and give us a little pampering for the day. It is really nice.”

All of the participants at the event were from Young Life Capernaum Ministries, which reaches out to teens and young adults with disabilities.

“Young Life Capernaum is thrilled to benefit from the great talents of the stylists at Lunatic Fringe, as the salon provides both our friends with disabilities and their mothers with the chance to spend a morning together and to receive haircuts and styles,” said  Southern Division Capernaum Coordinator Suzanne Williams.

She added, “It is an incredible gift to be able to offer our families such a fun and yet, practical morning together and certainly upholds our desire to remind all of our friends that they are masterpieces.”

Fine said he hopes to continue to the tradition each year.

“It was a huge impact for our staff and we look forward to doing this year end and year out,” he said.

Click here to view a video of the Nashville team giving back!

This was the third year for Help-Portrait. It is an international movement: a shift in thinking about photography. It is a collaboration of photographers, hair/makeup artists, and general volunteers that come together to provide the unique experience of a professional photo shoot for the needy members of our community. We invite people that otherwise would not have the opportunity or be able to afford a professional portrait. This year, we worked directly with the Road Home Shelter and on Dec. 10, 2011, as many as 178 people came to the SLC Photo Collective where they were greeted with free food provided by Chartwells (from the University of Utah), free hair and makeup provided byLunatic Fringe Salon, and free portraits and prints provided by photographers involved with the SLC Photo Collective. Hundreds of frames were donated by IKEA, and close to 1,500 same-day prints were made possible by a generous contribution from ZAGG. It was awesome to collaborate with so many local organizations and people who were all eager to give back this holiday season. -Dave Brewer, SLC Photographer &  Help Portrait organizer

This is the second year Lunatic Fringe stylists have donated their day, in order to celebrate another’s beauty, that our stylists may have never had the chance to meet. Unlike a monetary donation, Help Portrait provides our team the ability to directly effect each and every individual they encounter; a special moment that is not commonly provided in the charitable world.

Touched by this particular individual, stylist Steven Robertson was the lucky one to have been able to spend an hour of styling time with Dionne, a beautiful woman residing in a homeless shelter in downtown Salt Lake who had not seen or had a photograph of herself in over 20 years

Meeting Dionne absolutely made the entire Help Portrait event day a total success. To see a woman; beautiful, strong and struggling to make ends meets every day, and be able to provide her with some one-on-one attention to remind her how beautiful she is, is a moment that you could not attach any amount of money to. A great experience that I will cherish my entire life. -Steven Robertson

Stylist Robertson with Dionne

Dionne's first photograph in over 20 years

Help Portrait will be a annual event for Lunatic Fringe Salons nationwide, and we are always excited to share our craft and passion with others. A video diary of each locations experience will be posted as soon as they are released

Happy Holidays from us at Lunatic Fringe Salon

The Nashville Family

Recently, our Lunatic Fringe- Nashville team raised funds to be able to donate 15 h0t tools to Magdalene, a residential program for women who have escaped many hardships to improve the lifestyle of themselves and their families.

Tools donated included smoothing irons, curling irons and blow dryers.

A small donation for a large cause. Not a better feeling in the world

Lunatic Fringe-Boise recently joined up with OATHS (Organization Assisting the Homeless Student) by offer back to school cuts and styles for local children and surprised mothers, in Boise. Read what OATHS had to say about the experience:

August 15th was one of the best days in the one-year history of OATHS. Lunatic Fringe Salon in Boise offered to cut and style the hair of homeless students free of charge. Last Monday evening, for more than three hours, eight stylists generously donated their time and expertise. When it was all over, twenty kids and their mothers had gotten the best salon treatment of their lives. One grinning eleven-year-old boy said, ”This is the best place I have ever been.” A grateful mother, who wasn’t even expecting to get her hair done said, “This is the first time I have ever had my hair done in a salon.” Now these students are excited to go back to school and show off their new hairstyles courtesy of the generous stylists at the Lunatic Fringe Salon. Thank you!! – OATHS

Here are some pictures from the event!!

Boise thanks everyone for being able to participate in such a fulfilling, great event!

Congratulations Amanda on your editorial feature!