Derby Salon, an Annual Breast Cancer Benefit Event Fashion Show.

20 Oct Derby Salon, an Annual Breast Cancer Benefit Event Fashion Show.

Grace Lee and Chloe Fasoldt

Derby salon: 6315 Roosevelt Way NE  Seattle, WA 98115

We spent a lot of this past Saturday evening at aUniversity area Beauty salon.  Normally I have little interface with Haute Couture in the course of conduct of  my daily life.  Im a landscape construction contractor.  My idea of  cleaned-up involves wearing new, out-of -the-package work clothes, a shower where I slather myself head to toe in Dr. Bronner’s Magic All-One Pure Castile Peppermint Soap, and if Im feeling the vibe I’ll splash on some Auqa Velva Musk collogne.  I know you feel me.  Im that kind of dirtball that fails at actually cleaning up.

Chloe, Dean and Grace

So, it’s my personal joy to have beautiful children.  One day I’ll go to extreme measures to highlight my son’s beauty, that will be thoroughly satisfying, but for this blog entry I’m going to brag about how magnificently lovely our daughter is.  Highlighting her natural beauty is the specialty of our good friend Dean Lee, who is a professional aesthetician.  Regular readers of this blog will recognize his surname.  Dean happens to be the dad of our most senior crew member, the rock star Aidan Lee.

The hair salon hosts a fundraiser each year that benefits an orphaned child of a former hair stylist who died of a horribly victimising type of breast cancer.  Maybe half of the funds go to the kid’s education and the other goes to research?  It was loud there so I’m sketchy on the details.  I met the proprietors who are sincerely genuine people.  I “sang” some karaoke.  I marveled at the creativity of the fashion show where the hair professionals outfitted their beautiful friends as fable characters.  Our daughter Chloe became Little Red Ridinghood and Dean’s daughter Grace personified the Big Bad (but beautiful) Wolf.  There were Sleeping Beauties, Etherial Beauties, Storybook Beauties and Mutant-Witchery Beauties.

It had been a busy day for us so we ended the day at a vietnamese restaurant around the corner at 918 NE 64th St; Pho Bol.  Even though we rolled in at near closing with a crew the likes of a cast of a Stanley Kubrick film the food was superlative.  Nancy and I made a meal based around the interesting appetizers.  She had rice noodle pancakes and fresh rolls, I had garlic chicken wings and garlic semolina noodles.  Boom.

Das Wolf und eine Mädchen

It was a fun night.  Thanks for reading.