POMP Salon’s Valentine Education Event
Come Valentine's Day, 2016, Stockton's POMP Salon will be hosting their third major hair art Education Event. But that's ignoring the regular classes they host almost every Monday, which are free and open to any stylists able and willing to attend. We featured POMP Salon over a year ago, and while they've always been a place of non-stop activity, owner Dino Ballin has pushed that activity more and more onto the national map in the last half year.
It's all part of a movement toward enriching Stockton and the surrounding Sacramento area with genuine, high quality hair art. Ballin has made POMP Salon a huge part, if not the center, of that movement by carefully choosing new stylists and providing constant and current education for them. And by extending that education to all other hair artists he is building a stronger community of salons and individual stylists all working together to prove to America that there's something worth checking out north of San Francisco.
Estetica Magazine recently featured an interview with Ballin in which he explained some of the story behind the salon's success and how they manage to always stay on top of trends. But there's an especially poignant section in which he mentions his hope for changing the view of Northern California, saying “our goal is to lift the entire industry, not just the stylists in our own salon.” He explained that after trying to get a traveling touring group to come to Stockton and getting a discouragingly ambiguous response he decided to make his own high profile event. He started big with names like Rickey Zito, Lihn Phan, and James Miju, and didn't slow down. Now he's bringing in Canadian artist Eva Lam to teach a class for the very first time.
He's well on his way to achieving his goal of a turning Stockton into a place known for upscale styling. POMP Salon houses a long line of highly skilled hair artists such as Vicki Kirk, Fawn Anne, and Brittney Perez. Their work alone is a clear sign of the effectiveness of the POMP Salon philosophy. The proof of POMP's far-reaching effect is in the work of many other stylists who have attended past events like Sadie Gray and Nugget Le.
This upcoming Event will feature separate classes from Larisa Doll and Philip Ring, Eva Lam and Michael Klomsue, and Rickey Zito and Linh Phan. At the end, all artists, including Don Godfrey, will sit a Q&A session on business building and social media. And if you'd like to go the extra mile for a VIP ticket, there will be an after party catered by Chef Michael Midgley.
You can purchase tickets here.