Mandy Zelinka owns 77 Salon in Portland, Oregon, and wrote to me after I blogged about
Jenna Bush’s wedding half-updo urging you to sharpen your skills with our
online updo classes. At 31 years old, Mandy totally gets the whole thing about brides
choosing today’s definition of elegance over yesterday’s traditional piled-high updo. The photo here shows Mandy’s most-requested knot. “I have had people email me from all over the country asking me how to tell their stylist to do it,” she reports.
For her own article on the same topic, Mandy had earlier written: “Moments after a bride has been proposed to, her mind immediately starts to race. An overwhelming sense of urgency to find the most skilled professionals to assist in creating the atmosphere for the most important day of her life. Then it happens...horrific visions dating back to her high school days. PROM HAIR. Panic flushes over her entire body. Images of teased, overly hairsprayed tresses fill her head. Ten minutes into being fiance’d she is already exhausted from the preliminary planning process.”
Mandy’s happy to let brides know that their wedding need not repeat their prom experience, and she agrees that
hair styling education is the answer. “There has always been a proficiency blip when it comes to hairstylists and the ’do,” she says, adding that few stylists “are able to efficiently manipulate the locks of brides.” Mandy writes a blog of her own at
seventysevenportland.blogspot.com. Check it out!