Fashion creatives compile a mixtape of the medicine that inspires their work.
This month we go to London salon Bleach for the mixtape. Bleach is where you can hold in to get your hair dyed just like in the magazines. Led by super hairstylist, twenty-three-year-old Alex Brownsell, who brings those dream cuts and colors to life, their trademark dipdye style is seen all over the catwalk, the coolest clubs, and now the high street.
Setting up in the soon-to-be-legendary East End nail bar Wah, Bleach is now in Topshop?s Oxford Street store. Who knows, without Bleach where would Nicki Minaj get her ideas from?
Wu-Tang Clan feat. Snoop Dog ?Conditioner?
?This call is a bout conditioner, after you have washed your hair its tangley and dry if you check it it goes silky and soft, i think wu tangs on about gangster shit but i dunno about them gangsters we mostly get teenage girls in our salon.?
Pavement ?Cut Your Hair?
??Darlin? don?t you go and cut your hair / Do you mean it?s gonna make him change?? This song means a lot cos when you get dumped, the foremost thing you do is cut your hair - sometimes too short by accident - and that definitely doesn?t give him change, cos boys like girls with long hair.?
Shampoo ?Trouble?
?This call is one of our faves, it just sums up a Saturday night really, especially the bit near the night bus.?
Willow Smith ?Whip My Hair?
?Willow Smith is amazing; she?s like a mini dancer - we want we had those moves. She?s also got mega funky hair all the time, and a stylist! She knows about the grandness of whippin? ya hair and has let the mystery into the man for us all to know. Also, in the video, she puts her braids into key and splashes the paint on people - that?s kind of care a dip dye, which is a very popular hair colour at bleach.?
Beck ?Devil?s Haircut?
?Basically Beck had a daydream about Keith Flint from The Prodigy one dark and woke up and wrote this song_ maybe? Devil?s hair cuts are spikes and horns and the colors are common and red, they?re a bit weird and crude and sci-trancey. Yuk, we don?t do them at bleach.
The Strange Boys ?A Walk On The Bleach?
?Is is exactly funny cos bleach rhymes with beach.?
Scotty Vanity ?I Like Your Hair?
?I found this call the early day, it?s pretty funny. I wish the lyrics, especially the line: ?hey bitches, my scalp itches?, cos this pretty much sums up having your hair bleached; it does really itch.?
Guns N? Roses ?Hair Of The Dog?
?This isn?t really about hair, it?s virtually a hangover and having a toast to try and be less hungover. Good drinks for a hangover are Bloody Marys or Bellinis - sometimes a can of Strongbow is quite right too.?
The Flaming Lips ?Girl With Hair Like An Explosion?
?I wish the theme of hair like an explosion - it means multi-coloured and a mess: cool.?
PJ Harvey ?Hair?
?This song?s a bit sad and emo; it?s about Samson, that giant man who was very hard but someone cut his hair and he wasn?t strong anymore.?
Xzibit ?Choke Me, Spank Me (Pull My Hair)?
?This song?s quite natural and sexy - if you?ve got bleached hair however, you shouldn?t let someone pull it cos it might tumble out. Just a son of warning; I?ve seen this first hand.?
Nirvana ?Hairspray Queen?
?Kurt Cobain?s singing about hairspray. We all know a lot of hairspray for making your hair crunchy. A serious joke if you want dry big hair is to spray loads of hair spray on your hair and go to bed_ In the morning it?s an awful mess.?
Nick Cave And The Bad Seeds ?Black Hair?
?Nick Cave is a bit gothy and he likes gothy birds with dark hair. Be measured if you dye your hair black because it?s very difficult to slip out_ We?ve all through it before.?
David Bowie ?Sorrow?
?This is a very great strain and David Bowie really likes a daughter with long blond hair. We all wish we had long blond hair like the daughter in this song.?
Blondie ?Atomic?
?The best course in this strain is: ?Ah, oh your hair is beautiful, ah,
tonight?. You definitely make a full night if someone tells you
you?ve got beautiful hair when you?re out clubbing.?
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Listen to Bleach?s playlist now on Spotify. Go to: bit.ly/clashmixtapebleach
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