‘weaves’

The Weave Shop Grand Opening

Saturday, June 5th, 2010

100 0578 300x211 The Weave Shop Grand Opening

This evening I went to a pinktastic grand opening located right down the road from me. Atlanta’s housewife Lisa Wu Hartwell was the host for the evening. Business womenpreneur LaTonya Saunderson is the owner of The Weave Shop.

100 0551 238x300 The Weave Shop Grand Opening

Lisa Wu Hartwell and LaTonya Saunderson

100 0533 164x300 The Weave Shop Grand Opening

100 0554 300x214 The Weave Shop Grand Opening

100 0553 225x300 The Weave Shop Grand Opening

100 0549 300x189 The Weave Shop Grand Opening

100 0536 300x196 The Weave Shop Grand Opening

This full service salon is her 8th venture and she plans on opening more. She is best known for doing sew in weaves starting at 50.00. Her new loctation is in Lawrenceville, Ga but she has salons in Michigan, and New Jersey too. If you’re in the market, LaTonya also offers franchise opportunities.

100 0539 196x300 The Weave Shop Grand Opening

100 0598 300x185 The Weave Shop Grand Opening

100 0599 300x236 The Weave Shop Grand Opening

LaTonya is working on manufacturing her own hair line and taping a reality show. Wow she is a very busy lady,my goodness!

100 0561 225x300 The Weave Shop Grand Opening

Pole La Bella in the building

100 0583 154x300 The Weave Shop Grand Opening

100 0544 300x252 The Weave Shop Grand Opening

Lisa,Grace and April

The salon was so cute and was decorated with a lot of pink! You know I was loving that lol. Many fashionistas came out to support LaTonya and her good friend Sarah Stokes from Making the Band 2.

100 0594 300x222 The Weave Shop Grand Opening

LaTonya,Mom,Lisa and Sarah

100 0552 300x230 The Weave Shop Grand Opening

Friends out to support

They both grew up in Detroit,Michigan and Sarah was quoted as saying that, “we go way back, we use to call LaTonya, “Tonka” when she was a rapper” lol. They have supported each other through the years and she was happy to fly out from Los Angeles where she resides now with her 3 children. Sarah is working on a new single to come out late this fall.

100 0542 215x300 The Weave Shop Grand Opening

Buddies for life

100 0581 225x300 The Weave Shop Grand Opening

Lisa,Ed and Sarah

100 0570 300x253 The Weave Shop Grand Opening

I asked her how did she like working with PDiddy and she said, it was the best experience of her life. She told me she was also wearing a Cache dress with BeBe stiletto shoes.

100 0575 297x300 The Weave Shop Grand Opening

Sonya, Lisa and friend

The party was very nice and everyone loved the pink decor in the salon. The food was very good and the cake was too yummy ! It was made by Chris who owns MeleCotte.

100 0535 300x197 The Weave Shop Grand Opening

Cake by Mele Cotte

100 0596 166x300 The Weave Shop Grand Opening

100 05971 300x268 The Weave Shop Grand Opening

Enjoy the pics and I want to congratulate LaTonya for helping women all over the world. She shows us all that women can do the damn thing! I would like to thank April Love and Melanie Mitchell for the personal invite.

100 0541 300x265 The Weave Shop Grand Opening

100 0576 300x250 The Weave Shop Grand Opening

100 0532 300x228 The Weave Shop Grand Opening

Melanie,Lisa and Pia Pia

100 0585 202x300 The Weave Shop Grand Opening

Wendy,Me and Lisa

Bronner Bros Hair Show pt. 1

Saturday, August 15th, 2009

dsc025371 225x300 Bronner Bros Hair Show pt. 1

I’m going to write this post just like I saw it, so bare with me and keep up lol. I absolutely love Atlanta! You just never know what your going to see here. I dont care if its 105 degrees outside,you just may see somebody in a full length mink coat, or a guy with a baton and a pink tutu…snaps!

Well Bronner Bros came back this year and they brought out every Rainbow Brite character you could ever imagine to their hair show! Im not saying that in a bad way,im talking about characters that were fierce,fly,died,fried,glued,quickweaved,sprayed and layed to the motherf*ckin side!

dsc02546 225x300 Bronner Bros Hair Show pt. 1

When we got the the show,my daughter became very overwhelmed quickly because she just didnt know what to expect. It was her first time…po baby!Ive been in the beauty industry well over 15yrs. I owned a nail salon in Cleveland many moons ago, and I was doing my thing with the nail art back in the day. I entered many nail competitions and I remember the more drama you created or attention you drew to yourself, the better! Add a lil pink fairy dust and an attitude and you were sure to win, ha! I have plenty of trophies to prove it!

dsc02553 225x300 Bronner Bros Hair Show pt. 1

Is that Michael J? I cant!

Fun and Entertainment is exactly what the Bronner Bros brought to the Georgia World Congress Center today! Gazillions of people came out,if you missed it today,get your booty down there tomorrow! It was pure excitement in the air!  Every hairstylist,barber,nail tech,manufacturer,salon owner,product specialist,shampoo assistant,masseuse,quick weave specialist,hell the whole beauty industry was there, plus!

dsc02570 225x300 Bronner Bros Hair Show pt. 1

Walking down the isles at the show I saw, flea market finds,antiques,Fucci bags,glitter and sparkle for your hair,shoes,guy in gator suit worth $30,000…why? lol, rainbow colored hair of your choice, just about everything you would want to buy or not lol.

dsc02534 225x300 Bronner Bros Hair Show pt. 1

Big Badd with Gator outfit…oh my!

On the other hand,I also saw some great healthy hair stations,pinktastic hair products,motions,clairol,f.h.i heat,Derek J doing platform work,platform stylists ,PZI jeans with some huge afro girl models, and I did see some classy and stylish hair do’s as well.

dsc02556 300x225 Bronner Bros Hair Show pt. 1

Clairol

It was a mesh of young people hairstyles and my kinda hair lol. I loved every minute of it! Bronner Bros had something for everyone and the demos and educational courses that were offered this year were great! I also loved the hair competition portion where it was down between a 15yr old girl that had red feathers in her hair andsome type of short do and a guy rockin a gold n fire engine red bob. The girl won but he gave her a run for her money! Im going to need that guy to show me how to work the runway one day,he worked that stage okay! I also loved the commentator he was a hoot saying, “Should she stay or should she go”?Then they played,” To the Left”  by Beyonce, It was the funniest thing! The hairstylist who did the 15 yr old model’s hair won $1,000. I could buy soo much Betsey Johnson with that money! Maybe I will enter next year! Hmm?

dsc02532 300x225 Bronner Bros Hair Show pt. 1

The winner of the hair competition and model

In the V.I.P. area I got to mingle and chat with Jamie Foster of Sister 2 Sister magazine,Tiny and Toya,Sheree from the Housewives,Young Joc,Drumma Boy, Al B Sure, OMG Girls, and cutie pie Cymia! I had so much fun today and going back tomorrow for more pink carpet access action! Here are some pics from the show today, and tomorrow I will have part 2. Toodles!

dsc02462 150x150 Bronner Bros Hair Show pt. 1dsc02464 150x150 Bronner Bros Hair Show pt. 1dsc02506 150x150 Bronner Bros Hair Show pt. 1dsc02504 150x150 Bronner Bros Hair Show pt. 1dsc02511 150x150 Bronner Bros Hair Show pt. 1

dsc02517 150x150 Bronner Bros Hair Show pt. 1dsc02516 150x150 Bronner Bros Hair Show pt. 1dsc02522 150x150 Bronner Bros Hair Show pt. 1dsc02519 150x150 Bronner Bros Hair Show pt. 1dsc02528 150x150 Bronner Bros Hair Show pt. 1

dsc02533 150x150 Bronner Bros Hair Show pt. 1dsc02530 150x150 Bronner Bros Hair Show pt. 1dsc02531 150x150 Bronner Bros Hair Show pt. 1dsc02539 150x150 Bronner Bros Hair Show pt. 1dsc02568 150x150 Bronner Bros Hair Show pt. 1

dsc02526 150x150 Bronner Bros Hair Show pt. 1dsc02544 150x150 Bronner Bros Hair Show pt. 1dsc02541 150x150 Bronner Bros Hair Show pt. 1dsc02542 150x150 Bronner Bros Hair Show pt. 1dsc02551 150x150 Bronner Bros Hair Show pt. 1

dsc02567 150x150 Bronner Bros Hair Show pt. 1dsc02548 150x150 Bronner Bros Hair Show pt. 1dsc02547 150x150 Bronner Bros Hair Show pt. 1dsc02550 150x150 Bronner Bros Hair Show pt. 1dsc02582 150x150 Bronner Bros Hair Show pt. 1

dsc02581 150x150 Bronner Bros Hair Show pt. 1dsc025601 150x150 Bronner Bros Hair Show pt. 1

www.bronnerbros.com