Saturday Night Lights, Camera, Askin!

WHHHAAAAAZZZZZZ UUUPPP! How goes it folks?! Before you head out to enjoy a serious night of partying with your peeps you gotta check out tonight`s video! In it I discuss body wave and the best ways to achieve it using a rockin new tool... Check it Out!

Who Needs a Piano Bar? Hair in The Lobby at the Hilton Hotel!

So if you haven`t yet noticed we don`t exactly care where we do hair! evoke Salon prides itself on truly believing that everyone should be okay with having their hair done anywhere and at anytime! It could be that we just love what we do that much or that we just like to get down and dirty wherever and whenever we can! Seriously we love startling people with where we might pop up to do hair next. As you will be able to see in this video the Hilton lobby in Austin Texas was no different. In this clip we decided to go live to air on the hit online show POP17 from the lobby at the Hilton. We figured that this might draw some attention sooo... WHY NOT! This was a lot of fun as the host Sarah Austin and Leora Isreal were up for it and in a big way. Hey, they needed their hair done for an amazing paparazzi style entrance in to a V.I.P Nikon party we all later attended. We Love This video... Check it Out!



Jon Di Mauro

evoke salon In The Huddle - Live from SXSWi 2011

 Okay we promise this is the last video of SXSW! We just had such a phenomenal time and have a lot of content from there. This one just had to be  shown though because the team over at Huddle Productions put such great work into producing it. We met the Huddle team on Monday afternoon in the lobby of the Austin Convention Center after an indroduction by our mutual friend Joallore Alon aka @clickflicka. We chatted for a bit and came to the resolution that they could help us out and NOW! They could shoot a professional quality video for us on the fly ! We then (at the same time... incredible) recieved a call from our good friend Leora Israel informing us that she was in the Blogger lounge upstairs on the 4th floor. 

She also informed us that Gary Vaynerchuk was up there and that we could talk about his haircut which we were supposed to do at some point during that day. After we spoke with Gary for a little while connecting and setting our time we went over to Leora`s table and went to work. The team from Huddle productions were funny, engaging, talented, courteous, professional, and on and on. Needless to say we had a great time doing the video and were fortunate to have it all come together. So many pieces fell in place and well...


We Highly recommend you Check Out this video... We think it`s Reeeally well done.  And know it was really fun to make!




Jon Di Mauro

Jason of evoke Salon Styling Soleil Moon Frye`s Hair #SXSWi !!!

Honestly i`m a huge fan! Not only has Soleil Moon Frye become a great mum and a fantastic actress, she is a fantastic entrepreneur as well. She has been all over television over the years with most of her big roles coming during my childhood and adolescent years. I loved her as Punky Brewster, and was happy to see she still had some success in Sabrina the Teenage Witch. She later made appearances on Friends and has taken that success over to the online community. With the Little Seed she seems to have hit her element and is very happy in life. It was a pleasure to meet a childhood character I loved and see the inspiring woman she has become today. Check Out This Video For More...



Jon DiMauro

SXSWi... Incredible.

We had an absolutely incredible experience at this years SXSWi;  we went down there to do the hair of one specific person and came home having made great connections with some fantastic people.  Quite frankly, it feels like the book "the secret" played itself out for us in Texas.

Originally we had contacted Gary Vaynerchuk and were heading down to "South By" (as I have learned to call it) specifically to cut his hair live on stage after his keynote.  Unfortunately, rules and regulations governing this event didn't allow for this to happen as planned, which we were informed of the night before we were scheduled to leave!  Well,  it all worked out in the end as the crew at Vaynermedia were quick to make other arrangements.  We were told that although this could not happen on stage,  Gary would  be happy to have us back at his condo where we could cut his hair and talk shop for a while.  This was a trade off we were happy to make,  as any face time with a guy as inspiring and cutting edge as Gary is Great time!

What made this whole story feel like something so special was that it did not stop there!  Just before Valentine`s Day of this year, we were invited to an incredible event called #LoveAHeart.  So, citing the fact that we are inspired by being social busy bodies, we gladly attended.  This event was amazing for many reasons, primarily because we were able to donate a substantial amount of money to the Heart and Stroke Foundation.  We did this by bidding on and winning dates with some cool cats (our party is on the way folks... stay tuned) that were auctioned off for charity.  The other reason hammers home the point of "the secret" in that we met a Great new friend in Leora Israel.  If we thought we were social busy bodies, she is incredible and turned out to be in contact with some of the sweetest and most influential people in the social media world!  Through Leora (who we kept looking Great the whole trip!) we were able to get off a plane and go straight to work... which did not end!  We were able to meet and style hair for the Facebook team,  who were great hosts.

Randi Zuckerberg is the sister of Mark Zuckerberg and is an absolute sweetheart!  It honestly felt like I was doing her hair in the salon,  because she reminded me of so many of my great clients.  We also were  happy to style the hair of Erin and Charles,  two key members of the Facebook team (We love our T-shirts!)   


                           


We had an incredible time and were very happy to have encountered some amazing people who we learned a lot from.  A special thanks goes out to Leora for having been so influential in us building so many great relationships.  Keep your eyes peeled,  because this is the beginning for us!  We are so pumped and excited by the ideas and opportunities running through our heads,  and look forward to sharing.

Jon DiMauro