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Show Park Record Thursday, February 20, 1986 Page B5 Hair and now: Stylist brings 30 years7 experience to new salon bvJA.MCEPERRV Record editor in the hair- n.knnwn name tle world is one of the newest 11 sin Park City. Th man Kendall, former owner nhe House of Sherman salon chain JS and 30-year veteran of the ly industry, has decided to ke Park City his home base and J opened a salon here. Ruta visit to Sherman Kendall in nr Valley won't necessarily find nuat the business end of Sherman's Lvn shears. Although he works in he salon two days a week (an enter-rising enter-rising group of five other stylists a e up the slack), Sherman has Lny other endeavors and travels nearly each week to a convention to demonstrate new styling techniques and tout his line of hair care pro-duds pro-duds and inventions for beauty professionals. pro-fessionals. To Sherman and his business partner-wife, Nancy, coming home to Park City is an escape. The most exciting thing for me is to drive down the canyon and sometimes I see deer along the side of the road," said Nancy, her slow drawl revealing her Tennessee roots. CT wanted to move to Tennessee Ten-nessee but this is as far east as he'd come," she said.) The drive home, Sherman said, is a process of unwinding. "We feel like it's almost going on vacation coming home, leaving the hectic hubbub of Salt Lake City," The two last September left Salt Lake City and bought a home in Highland Estates, a serene, green-carpeted green-carpeted hideaway perched on a hillside with magnificent views of all three ski resorts. It's a love affair with Park City for the Kendalls. "The sky is just dif- 1 1, m tir; WW Neighbors ferent 1 would've never believed the sky is bluer in one place than another," Sherman said. Park City's atmosphere also was a surprise for the two. "I thought coming into a small town, we'd come into a small-town atmosphere," he said. But he found that two of the local hairdressers he has hired Bob Benson and Diane Carlson were doing very-fashionable, very-fashionable, avant-garde styles in a town that prides itself on its casual atmosphere. "Park City is casual but chic you have the best of both worlds," Nancy said. A Nephi native, Sherman said hair wasn't his first love it was teeth. "I wanted very badly to be a dentist," den-tist," he confessed, saying that lack of money kept him from pursuing that goal. So, while Sherman was driving a Culligan soft-water truck, he learned learn-ed that beauty schools were giving away scholarships. The idea of being a hair stylist might not have occurred occur-red to him. except that his mother was and still is a beautician. "She's 74 years old and still has a salon in her home." he said. But three decades ago, the decision deci-sion for a man to become a hairdresser hair-dresser was not widely accepted. "When I told my boss I was leaving leav-ing my truck-driving job to become a hairdresser, he just laughed," Sherman recalled. "Even my mother told me I was crazv. She said it would be terrible. "But it's been wonderful," he said. "The beauty business has been good to me." But Nancy interjected that Sherman's Sher-man's own drive has made him a success in the beauty business. "Many hairdressers don't do it as a business they don't consider all the possibilities," she said. At 50, Sherman is an award-winning award-winning stylist, the author of six books on haircutting and salon management and has developed a personal line of products. Nancy said her husband has managed to anticipate the trends and create products to meet the needs. His first invention was the Curl-n-Light, which combined infrared in-frared light with a gentle blower in a hand-held form. That was the precurser to the diffusers widely used us-ed in hair salons today. His latest invention is called a Splor, which is a blow-dryer that contains hair spray that can be applied ap-plied during the styling. At one time, Sherman was best-known best-known for the 11 House of Sherman hair-styling salons he owned for 21 years. But when he started to develop hair care products, that side of the business overtook the salons, so he sold the House of Sherman chain in 1979 and went full-time into development and promotion of his line, called STS (Sherman Tricology Systems), which is made and marketed for professional use. "Every time even a slight change in hair styling comes about, there is a need for different products and different dif-ferent implements," he said. Having a team of chemists available through the Sorenco laboratories in Salt Lake City, "We can make changes quickly and get it onto the market. "That's how we've kept the edge," he said. Sherman markets his products directly to beauty professionals and that's where his partnership with Nancy his wife of five years comes in. While Sherman's background is in hairdressing, Nancy Nan-cy specializes in product advertising and marketing. "I've been working in the beauty business for 10 years this month, but more in the area of sales," she said. "Nancy is instrumental in the sales of the product line," Sherman said, noting she accompanies him to many of the conventions he attends weekly to teach and demonstrate his products. "We complement each other in that he is very creative and service-oriented. service-oriented. I think I'm more a behind-the-scenes, detail person," Nancy said. "What she's saying is I get all the glory and she does all the work," Sherman quipped. "He flies high. I'm more down to earth," she said. "I figure out steps one, two and three to get those ideas to work." Sherman offered certain observations observa-tions about hair styles today and tomorrow: CoLOR: "Color has never had a stronger surge than now. The punk movement has brought back blonde and white hair and the primary col- 'ft : x- r.--.-i.-";5 ' -"' 1 Cf r A 1 ) Janice Perry Sherman Kendall and his wife, Xancy, moved to Park City last September. They find the town's style casual, but chic. ors. purple, orange and green. There isn't anyone who can't wear or shouldn't wear color. Color now is just alive. It's brighter, wilder, more effervescent. Before, women would use color to cover gray. Now we add blonde and suddenly the gray becomes the highlight. We'll blend two, three or four colors" rather than just apply an even coat of color. STYLE: "The 'natural' look is oxer. Glamor is back. We're 'forcing' 'forc-ing' hair again . . . moving hair in directions it doesn't want to go; we're changing hairlines and not giving hair its own way." The punk movement despite most people's disdain for the spiky-headed rebels is making a dramatic impact im-pact on the hair-styling world. "It just sort of caught on," he said, and is bringing much younger people back into the salons to have profes-sionals profes-sionals create the complex hairstyles. LENGTHS: "Everybody is talking talk-ing about hair getting longer. In the 30 years since I've been a hairdresser, hair-dresser, short hair has never had such a strong run as it has now," Sherman said, linking its resurgence to the punk movement. "The next logical move is to longer lengths. You can see it now' in the bob lengths. That's the beginning and there will be a change in the weight line and outer perimeter designs. 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