17th September 2010 Malaysia Hairdressers Association Gala

17 September 2010 MHA Gala - Essensuals Malaysia First Outstation Show...


The team reached KL 15th morning. And all of us felt great and energetic as we were looking forward to this show. Arriving KL; we took bus to KL Sentral (only RM 9 per pers on) and from there we walked to the monorail station to reach KL Bukit Bintang for only (RM2.10)..less than Pound 2.50 to reach city centre. phew.....


15th - We headed to Toni and Guy Academy as we were to meet Jamie for the key to David's apartment where we were staying during the 3 days stay in KL. Reaching KL around 2 pm, we kept our things in the apartment and headed out for some accessories for the gala night show. And at the same time; the team enjoying each other company and shopped a little bit. The best hang out time was the massage time...we went for body and foot massage near bukit bintang about 11 pm..the 5 of us felt so relaxed after all the hard work back in Kuching...so released a bit of the tension and stress.


16th - Everyone was looking forward for the gala show....because it was the first outstation show we did for Essensuals since we were just reaching 1 year old..We prepared models' hair from 12 noon till 6 pm; doing hair cut, color, hair perm and also choosing the right outfit for them.. We thanked Chennel for her genius choices of the models' wardrobe.


Perming session...




17th September - I took cab to KL Convention Centre in the morning to witness and judge the hair competition by Hair Malaysia in conjunction with Beauty 10 Expo. I was the judge for the Junior Categories and also the Fantasy Category. It was so cool to see energetic young stylists every year (this was my 3rd year) joining this competition to show their talents and fight for some recognition. I was having fun and at the same time inspired to see that the young people were doing what they loved. I also met some amazing people from the same trade such as Billy Lim ( President of MHA), Teh Siew Yong, Jason Wong, Albert Nico, Danny Tan, Florence Lum, Callie Goh and Andy Cheong. All the said names are great people who marked an important role in hairdressing in Malaysia. Chatting with them and sharing information inspired me a lot too...

Fantasy category

photos with contestants and model

Prize giving ceremony


The competition ended at around 5pm and I rushed to Crowne Mutiara Hotel to help prepare the models for the show..The rest of the team members were already there earlier to do the rehearsal and make up... Busy busy busy....
Eventhough busy I met Xavier Mah a cool friend whom I knew from Facebook..And it's exciting to have spotted him there and chat a bit and found out he was opening up his own company...AX Public Relation Company. It was a great news and I wish him all the best...

http://lovezavier.blogspot.com/2010/10/hair-affair.html (Xavier has a blog too..check it out...)

div> backstage do hair model




I also met Ms Winnie Loo of A Cut Above too.. She had just arrived KL from New York city after her backstage appearance at the New York Fashion Week. After landed KL airport she headed straight to the gala night. She is also the Deputy President Of Malaysia Hairdressing Association.. Nice to see her again...

The shows started at 7.30pm and finished around 11pm and just nice for us to take cab back before midnight. We had to carry so many things back to apartment but feeling happy and glad everything went smooth and hoped to be there again next year. Reaching apartment, we put down all of our things and went for late dinner. We reached David's apartment at 2 am and started to pack and prepare for our flight at 7am to fly back Kuching. We had to reach airport by 5am so our taxi came at 4am... so basically we slept only 2 hours haha... plus another 1 hour in the cab.

nana alone

nana on stage

me and 2 models



Reaching Kuching at 8.40am we felt very 'home sweet home'.. and fresh but tired. The team head straight to salon and worked as normal..We started to believe that we were ROBOTS!!! haha....but it was great experience and cool agenda for the team.

We hope to do it again real soon.To us hairdressing is our passion.


Me, my team and models

p/s: We were so grateful that we got a free 3 days stay at David's place (David Mercer - Director of Toni and Guy Singapore and Malaysia; is our big brother..Here, we would like to thank him for all his kindness to Essensuals Kuching team...."Thanks David for the hospitality and sorry for the mess... ;)".


Love;

Essensuals Team xxxxxx

p/s: For more information please read http://jacstylist.blogspot.com/2011/11/hair-malaysia-2011.htm about 2011 Hair Malaysia. Cheers