Hair There and Everywhere

AUSTRALIAN SESSION STYLIST OF THE YEAR

Sun, 29 Apr 2012 03:24:36 -0700

a few weeks back i found out i was a finalist for the australian session stylist of the year award...

truly an honour, and such a privilege to be a finalist alongside sarah laidlaw, daren borthwick and lores giglio.

the winner is announced at hair expo in june, just over a month away, but i thought i'd take this opportunity to share the images i submitted... 6 shots from the past year's work that i think represents where i'm at in my career at the moment...

it's been quite a good exercise to reflect on what i do well and what i need to work on to get better at my work.

www.dlm.com.au
http://portfolio.richardkavanagh.com
www.rodneywayne.co.nz

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VOGUE ITALIA - 3 GYPSIES BY GIANLUCA SANTORO

Thu, 26 Apr 2012 17:47:28 -0700

I have been waiting for what seems like an eternity for this shoot to come out.

Shot during the antipodean summer on the central coast of NSW, Australia over 2 days.

Photographer - Gianluca Santoro

Styling - Bex Sheers

Makeup - Natasha Severino

a special big thanks to Jodi Nicholson from The New Black salon in Newcastle for her and her team's help with the hair.

Lots of Forceful 23 hairspray, plenty of Power grip and Powder refresh.

Sexy surfer Gypsy weirdos.

www.dlm.com.au
http://portfolio.richardkavanagh.com
www.rodneywayne.co.nz

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TOAST AND TEA ANYONE?

Wed, 21 Mar 2012 20:49:05 -0700

some girls will, some girls won't, some girls need a lot of loving and a some girls don't...

i don't know why that song just popped into my head, but it did...

troyt coburn is a very talented man. when it comes to making stuff look good, he's one of a kind.

and when the stuff looks good to start with... well that's even better.

michael azzolini frocked the girls up (and the boy) and yolanda made them pretty.

i brushed their hair a bit and then pulled it a bit too.

sweet as bro.

www.dlm.com.au
http://portfolio.richardkavanagh.com
www.rodneywayne.co.nz

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5 thousand and 6 sexy words

Thu, 15 Mar 2012 20:34:00 -0700

a picture says a thousand words...

so here's 5 thousand and 6 sexy words for you

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ilona novocek by adam flipp for cream magazine.

stylist - sarah bonett @ rpr

makeup - erin shaw @ dlm

shot at sun studios.

www.dlm.com.au
http://portfolio.richardkavanagh.com
www.rodneywayne.co.nz

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fatty boomsticks (from fit to fat and back again)

Sat, 10 Mar 2012 15:26:10 -0800

after tearing the ligament off the bone on my my right hand a couple of years ago and spending the best part of a year in a series of casts and post surgery splints (i still have a screw in my hand) i got a little gun-shy when it came to training.

prior to wrecking my hand i was a conscientious trainer, spending the best part of my adult life either training or competing in various combat sports.

i had an average kind of career as a fighter, some spectacular wins, including a welterweight golden gloves title.

and some spectacular losses, including being knocked out in 20 seconds by a giant novice in his first fight.

the main thing for me was that i loved the intensity of the training.

and being fight fit, competing, and surfing regularly for recreation, meant that i kept in pretty good shape as a by-product.

i've also been a very keen experimenter of various dietary fads.

10 years a vegetarian, one year a raw food vegan, amongst other regular fasting and cleansing regimes...

in october 2011 i saw a bunch of pics of myself looking a little on the chubby side. and, although somewhat in a state of denial, i noticed my clothing choices reducing to the fewer and fewer roomier items in my wardrobe...

something snapped. i guess it was the fact that my size 34" pants were becoming too snug to be comfortable, my belt was cutting into my belly when i sat, it was getting uncomfortable to tie my laces and even my large size shirts were becoming a little on the snug side.

i couldn't hide it any more. i'd become a fatty boomsticks. i wasnt proud when i looked in the mirror. in fact, i didn;t want to look in the mirror...

there were more and more 'bits' i was repulsed by on my body.

and i jiggled like mad when i ran..

three weeks before christmas, with the gentle nudging of my wife, i started on a detox called the clean program by a new york doctor called allejandro junger.

it's basically a nutritionally dense, low irritant, largely alkaline diet supported with extra fibre, minerals and probiotics.

it's now march and i'm still largely following a clean diet.

it's just so good. i find myself craving a salad with rice and salmon (i was never a salad fan even as a raw foodist) or a smoothie rather than bacon and eggs.

i still love coffee. and sometimes i eat steak pie and lamingtons.

but mostly i eat what's in the pictures here...

best of all, i'm now comfortably back into my 30" waist pants (yay, i'll be able to wear my hussein chalayan pants again!)

and my medium sized shirts are roomy and comfy again.

oh, i also don't jiggle nearly as much.

and i love myself sick when i look in the mirror (ssshhh don't tell anyone ;-))

thanks honey for making me do it...

www.dlm.com.au
http://portfolio.richardkavanagh.com
www.rodneywayne.co.nz

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ELIZA SYS BY PETER AZZI

Wed, 07 Mar 2012 17:25:28 -0800

sometimes it's funtimes with hair.

i love adding hair, and making it do things that seem to defy logic...

like to many big gigantic curls.

curls that you have to fight your way through to get to the girl.

or a swoop or swing that defies gravity or logic...

like this...

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pretty punk - photographer, nick hudson

Tue, 06 Mar 2012 03:11:44 -0800

pretty punk

punk

pretty

pretty punk

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that fifties buzz

Mon, 27 Feb 2012 19:36:00 -0800

while we're on that 50's tip, here's a shoot i did with elvis difazio for shop til you drop australia...

this gorgeous canadian had amazing hair.

and a mild ornithophobia.

that didn't stop her putting the bird on her shoulder.

what trooper.

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CLEO - CHRIS COLLS

Mon, 27 Feb 2012 15:32:05 -0800

i wish you could see this house...

in sydney's northern suburbs, it's an historical home built by one of australia's iconic architects.

people come here to visit it.

if you love mid century modern you'll just want to live here.

everything is as it was in the 60s and it's just how you'd do it today if you could...

and the girl...
pops of colour, tropical flowers in her hair,

a dusty textured chignon

and hats, headpieces and banana earrings...

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WARNING: BOOBS! Denim Nation by ELVIS DI FAZIO for Tangent Mag

Sun, 26 Feb 2012 19:37:27 -0800

elvis elvis elvis.

i can't even remember how many hairdo's i had to do on this shoot. i think it was 14 in total...

in one day...

on my own...

pretty darn cute denim story though eh?

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siren shoes

Sun, 26 Feb 2012 18:26:57 -0800

i'm back in sydney and it's so nice to feel the warm sun and moist air on my skin after winter in new york.

michael azzolini is one of my favourite fashion stylists in all of australialand and troyt coburn is one of mew favourite photogs.

i especially like troyt coz he loves the hair...

a big old blowdry with loads of my favourite redken rootful and guts.

brushed out and shined up with shine flash.

and all day swinging a wind machine.

should have seen my guns after this one!

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NYFW - NOMIA

Sat, 18 Feb 2012 05:45:00 -0800

Nomia is a pretty sweet label based in manhattan designed by a young brooklynite.

the lines are clean and graphic and totally wearable.

i wanted to create a really simple graphic look that felt quite androgynous but still made the girls look sophisticated.

with a really strong low side parting and a severe sweep across the forehead, the highly polished look felt like a cross between 40s prepschool boy and elegant hipster.

to add an extra graphic element we added easilengths hair extensions to each of the girls ponytails and then cut the tails blunt and square.

redken rootful, fashion work 12 and glass were essential in creating this look.

www.dlm.com.au
http://portfolio.richardkavanagh.com
www.rodneywayne.co.nz

Have you supported my book's crowdfunding project on pozible yet?

http://www.pozible.com.au/index.php/archive/index/4724/comments/0/0#info

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NYFW - TRIBUNE STANDARD

Fri, 17 Feb 2012 21:39:00 -0800

described by harper's bazaar as the new guard at new york fashion week, tribune standard is a fledgling label taking flight.

and this, their 5th showing was a literal interpretation of taking flight.

with pheasant and feather prints in golds and taupe, clothes cut to make women look beautiful, frocks fringed with feather beading, i was tasked the task of creating the hair to top off the look...

my idea was to make it a futuristic olive oyl with references to the 20s and 40s chinoiserie and accessorised with a tortoiseshell hair comb.

my team really had to step it up a gear to make sure each girls face was lifted into catlike beauty with a super tight and polished wet look chignon at the crown.

i needed lots of redken rootful, guts, hardwear gel, and forceful 23 hairspray to make this hair look schmick as.

the big buzz came when tribune standard was asked to ring the closing bell at the new york stock exchange to officially mark the end of new york fashion week.

100,000,000 people watch live on cnbc while tawfik (the designer) and 6 models tolled the bell.

a hundred million!!!!

sheesh

www.dlm.com.au
http://portfolio.richardkavanagh.com
www.rodneywayne.co.nz

Have you supported my book's crowdfunding project on pozible yet?

http://www.pozible.com.au/index.php/archive/index/4724/comments/0/0#info

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this is my new york

Fri, 17 Feb 2012 09:28:41 -0800

you have to ask yourself the question - what is a turkey doing wandering around downtown manhattan?

here i am in new york for fashion week, fall/winter 12.

just over 2 and a half miles down the east side from where i stay is battery park and the statten island ferry.

it's where you can go see the lady of liberty.

she's pretty big.

and free as a bird.

i think you have to pay to witness her liberty however...

running home from my very free viewing (from a distance) of the statue de la liberte and nearly ran headlong into this guy!

a turkey, roaming freely around the cars.

i also saw some other pretty cool stuff... see?

www.dlm.com.au
http://portfolio.richardkavanagh.com
www.rodneywayne.co.nz

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TRIBUNE STANDARD - THE NEW GUARD AT #NYFW

Sat, 11 Feb 2012 12:05:48 -0800

tomorrow, sunday 12th february, new york.

tribune standard, the label that's making waves as the new guard of fashion at new york fashion week will show.

i'll be putting these little babies in the girls' hair but you'll have to wait and see what else...

the clothes are really truly beautiful.

prints and textures that are so wearable, modern and yet timeless. elegant yet individual and even slightly quirky.

i've got a good feeling about this one.

tawfik is not just a man, he is the man

stay tuned for the looks, the frocks, the coats, the tops, the skirts and the hair...

www.dlm.com.au
http://portfolio.richardkavanagh.com
www.rodneywayne.co.nz

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sleeping beauty

Tue, 07 Feb 2012 18:20:30 -0800

it's a dream!

she's a narcolept

it's magdalena velevska winter 2012 shot by liz ham

styled by jolyon mason

and the dresses... oh the dresses. THE DRESSES!!!!

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Whoopee!

Tue, 07 Feb 2012 10:20:36 -0800

This is a whoopee pie. It's kind of like a ginger kiss. I didn't kiss it. I ate it. One girl cookie in Dumbo, Brooklyn served me my first ever whoopee pie.

I'll never be the same again

From my handheld device which has the capacity to surprise recipients of my emails with strange words and grammatical randomness.
www.dlm.com.au
www.portfolio.richardkavanagh.com

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Winter in NYC

Mon, 06 Feb 2012 12:38:58 -0800

I'm in New York Shooting Rodney Wayne winter 2012. It looks AMAZING!!!

Wait til you see it!

From my handheld device which has the capacity to surprise recipients of my emails with strange words and grammatical randomness. www.rodneywayne.co.nz
www.dlm.com.au
www.portfolio.richardkavanagh.com

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Robyn Lawley By Gianluca Santoro for Black Magazine

Sat, 04 Feb 2012 18:59:29 -0800

you simply wouldn't believe how much hair this girl has.

you may remember robyn from the incredibly gorgeous italian vogue cover and editorial featuring 3 plus size models shot by steven meisel. decadent and sexy are the first two words that spring to mind.

and that was what made her perfect for this shoot depicting two sides of the dominatrix.

gianluca wanted her to have two distinct looks, one for in studio and one for on location.

the location hair was marcel waved on a really small iron using redken hot sets 22 before being brushed out and then pinned into a loose bob with flyaways and dirty texture.

when we got into the studio, the hair was gelled back, braided and wrapped up on top of the head in a very 'sound of music' inspired do.

the rope tying was quite something. really... the books that guy had...

www.dlm.com.au
http://portfolio.richardkavanagh.com
www.rodneywayne.co.nz

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SHANINA SHAIK BY NICK LEARY FOR SUNDAY MAGAZINE

Fri, 03 Feb 2012 18:58:33 -0800

it was so nice to have the opportunity to work with the gorgeous shanina, winner of australia's make me a supermodel.

nick and carly wanted to make her look effortlessly beautiful and stylish in her knickers while keeping it timelessly fashionable.

her hair was blowdried with redken satinwear 02 to add smothness and shine before being set on a curling iron with new iron shape 11 for shine and control.

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www.dlm.com.au
http://portfolio.richardkavanagh.com
www.rodneywayne.co.nz

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