Hi everyone who came to read this blog written by Koji Kuninaga. I am a hair stylist / Beauty Salon Owner of BB Meme Salon・Photographer  in San Diego US. In this blog, I will explain my idea of hair designing  [Less distorted hairdesigning] using [Bone Structure and Hair Flow Corrective Method]

こんにちは皆さん、ブログにたどり着いた皆さん。私は2005年に渡米して、アメリカはサンディエゴの美容室BB Meme Salonを開業、現在二店舗のオーナであり、ヘアスタイリスト、そしてプロフォトグラファー日々活躍中です。このブログでは、私のヘアーデザインのアイデア「Less Distorted Hair Designing」を、「骨格構造と毛流れ補正法」を使って説明していきます。

Mogul

For five years, I struggled as an assistant stylist due to a severe skin allergy. I relied on steroids, but eventually, they stopped working. At one point, my skin was so damaged it was almost fluid, and I couldn’t stop the liquids and  pus from seeping out. I decided to stop using medication and began exploring natural treatments like garlic baths, Chinese herbs, carbon electric spark therapy, and Pi water. After trying so many things, I realized I couldn’t fully trust dermatologists. This made me reflect on how miracles it is that our bodies hold together at all.

5年間、ひどい皮膚アレルギーに苦しみながらアシスタントスタイリストとして働いていました。ステロイドに頼っていましたが、最終的には効かなくなったので、皮膚の表面が液化してしまい、水と膿が漏れ続けるのを止めることができませんでした。薬の使用をやめ、ニンニク風呂や漢方薬、戦後に普及したカーボン電気スパーク療法、パイウォーターなどの自然療法を試し始めました。多くのことを試してみた結果、皮膚科医を完全には信頼できないと気づきました。この経験を通じて、私たちの体があるのは当たり前ではなく、奇跡的に存在していられるのだと感じるようになりました。

Our skin’s neutral balance, created by the positive and negative charges. Stability of state plays a critical role in its health. Acidic substances can burn our skin, while alkaline substances can cause it to deteriorate. I learned that chemical burns differ depending on whether they are caused by acid or alkaline substances. After this long battle, my skin finally began to heal, and I could even bend my fingers again.

One crucial lesson I learned from this experience is the importance of our skin’s barrier system and scalp follicles. The barrier zone on our skin exists due to differences in the electric field, making it essential to wash your hands after touching any chemicals. This experience reminded me that preventing problems can be simple, like washing your hands, even though our skin operates in such a complex and systematic way. It taught me to study things more deeply and find the simple fixes, and now, that has become a habit of mine.

私たちの皮膚の弱酸性バランスは、正と負の電荷によって保たれており、その安定性が皮膚の健康において重要な役割を果たしています。酸性の物質は皮膚を焼く可能性があり、アルカリ性の物質は皮膚を膨潤させます。酸性物質とアルカリ性物質によって引き起こされる化学的な火傷はそれぞれ異なることを学びました。この長い戦いの末、ようやく皮膚が回復し、指を曲げることができるようになりました。

この経験から学んだ重要な教訓の一つは、皮膚のバリアシステムと頭皮の毛穴の重要性です。皮膚のバリアゾーンは電場の違いによって存在し、化学物質に触れた後は手を洗うことが重要です。この経験は、皮膚が非常に複雑で体系的に機能しているにもかかわらず、問題を防ぐことは手を洗うといった簡単なことであることを思い出させてくれました。その事実によって、もっと深く物事を学び、シンプルな解決策を見つけることの重要性を学びました。そして今では、それが私の習慣となっています。

I love going to the mountains for snowboarding. Once, I visited a snow resort for sightseeing in the heat of summer. The smell of the woods, the cold breeze coming through the trees, and inhaling the fresh air while imagining the snow-covered summit were unforgettable. Riding the lift wasn’t bad either—it offered a different experience compared to winter. I was particularly intrigued by how the courses differ between seasons. The winding course was actually a paved road, and I could see bulldozer claw marks on the steep, sliding surfaces.

The most interesting thing I encountered was the mogul course. I was surprised to learn how it was made! Looking down at the exposed ground, I noticed that large, round stones, with all their corners completely shaved off, were laid out at equal distances from each other in a diagonal pattern.

Then something clicked in my mind. Wait a minute—could this be the reason why hair shapes turn out differently when I apply the same haircut pattern to each client? If these rocks design the mogul course after the snow covers them, then the same principle might apply to the head shape beneath the hair. Bumps will result in raised areas, and dents will result in compression.

This realization made me think about how the underlying shape of our heads can distort the design and affect the volume in different parts. Just as I understand how my snowboard behaves when pulled by gravity, I began to grasp how hair flow is influenced by what lies beneath the hair. But my question was, how do you explain the length of the hair shaft? It’s also a crucial factor in our hair shape.

Anyway, it seems that the distortion, volume differences, and density variations caused by hair flow and head shape are more complex than I initially thought. I had been trying to address these issues only with thinning scissors or a razor in my hair design. But there must be simple way to take care of these mutters.

Written by Koji Kuninaga