Come in and get your color done throughout the month of January, and get 20% off! That’s our way of saying thanks to all of you who come to us for your hair needs. We LOVE you! So get your butts in our chairs! ASAP!
See you soooon!
Hey all! Just to let you know in case you haven’t heard, Harley has joined us! He is a great new addition to our staff– 2 years in a salon as well as a new job as an educator at the Paul Mitchell Vision Academy! He’s great, has a lovely personality and an amazing attitude centered around education and being awesome!! Come in and check him out- evening appointments available Tuesdays, Thursdays and Fridays, with Saturdays available upon request. Call in! 610 625 9100 Tell everyone!
Had an amazing time!! THANK YOU to everyone who came out, everyone who supports our shop and the southside and local businesses everywhere. Onto year THREE!! Stay tuned for the slew of candid pics taken throughout the night!
Come to ESKANDALO’s 2 YEAR ANNIVERSARY PARTY! To celebrate, we are throwing two
parties at the same time! Across the street from Eskandalo, and next door to
Eskandalo. These are those parties:
At Sotto Santi we have the first ever southside ZOMBIE PROM! It is at a BAR so there
will be booze there. You may be able to hang as an underager because it’s a
restaurant as well, but the rules are you have to be at a booth with one person who
is over 25. Can you dig that? Then come on down! And the earlier you get there the
better 
DJ Brown Nick will be spinning punk rock of all kinds for prom dancing, and
all will be fun and wonderful!! Get your face peeled off by TILE at around 10-ish!
Yes! Find out who will be crowned the KING and QUEEN of the PROM! Will it be you??
Winners get some major gift certificates to Eskandalo and perhaps some other local
businesses that are awesome. So get your date and some corsages together and show up!
This maybe the coolest thing you will ever do.
At The Secret Art Space will be a “Day of the Dead” or Dia De Los Muertos Art Show
featuring a photo interpretation of it by Alison Leigh. If you are familiar with the
ritual and want to be a part of it, bring a framed picture of a deceased loved one
and add it to our ‘altar’ made of food for the dead, candles, flowers, and art, as
well as music. It’s a celebration of the lives and after-lives of those who have
moved on. It’s a NON -Drinking environment so all ages are welcome! Will be super fun
I promise! There will be videos of GREAT bands playing some of my favorite songs on
the wall so even just seeing that is going to be awesome– for ME at least!!
The BEST PART~
At the S.A.S. there will be a photo booth. A cheesy-ass prom picture photo booth. It
is going to be epic OK? I am trying to also set up a Day of the Dead photo booth next
to it so you can get your pictures taken in both if you want! The pics will then be
posted to our facebook page so you can have them to do with as you please. Should be
totally amazing!!
Got it? Any questions? $5 at EACH venue. You get- an art show, a rad band, a great
fun DJ, cheap-ass drink and pizza specials, prizes, and an outdoor patio to smoke and
drink on. You get prom pictures taken and a chance to witness FAN-FREAKING-TASTIC
music vids hand picked by YOURS TRULY so you cannot go wrong! Get an outfit and get
yourself down to this event! Buy art! Have fun! GO BAT S*#T CRAZY!! WE LUV YOU!!
love, ESKANDALO!
It’s a zombie prom/ Dia de los Muertos party! 
We will have the band TILE playing at Sotto Santi, along with special surprise guests, as well as as costume prizes and the crowning of the King and Queen of the prom! Across the street at the Secret Art Space will be the art showing of the Day of the Dead photoshoots Alison Leigh has been doing. We will be setting up an altar to remember the dead and honor them- bring a framed picture of a deceased loved one or even a fallen celebrity! This is a very beautiful holiday filled which much meaning and love. Please be a part of it! There will also be a photo booth set up for prom pictures!! The entry fee is $5 and the pictures will be posted on our website for you to download! This will be the most epic party you’ve ever been toooo!!! Stay tuned for further details!
At the original Eskandalo, Weezer came in and did an impromptu photo shoot in the salon for Blender magazine. In the frame were 2 Brian Wilson posters, which my friend Mark London had designed and given to the salon as gifts. This website http://mattbrundage.com/music/weezer-beach-boys-similarities/ made a connection to Weezer and Brian Wilson, using the image from Eskandalo as the thumbnail for the article. Cool huh?? Note the Joe Rich poster in the background which now resides in our bathroom here in B-town
We are so famous
Hi all! The time has come… I have put in over 15 years behind the chair, worked at salons in 4 different states, and couldn’t be happier! I own a fantastic salon now, staffed with highly competent hairstylists, all of whom work extremely hard to make you look as good as possible! I will now be freed up for more education to get the new people on board and keep everyone updated- this field is all about learning and growing. I am MORE than happy to place all of my clients with the appropriate stylist that I feel best suits your needs. Please email me so I can help you with that! I will still be at the shop all the time too, so if anyone has any questions, I am there to help! We at Eskandalo all appreciate your business more than you know and everyone is really looking forward to seeing our 2 year anniversary coming up! I hope you all understand that this move is for the benefit of everyone so I can be able to open a second and possibly third shop in the semi-near future. We are moving fast and I gotta be able to keep up! Thank you so much for your support!
Sincerely, Alison Leigh
p.s. If you have an existing appointment, it still stands of course I also didn’t mention my wrist pain because you all know about that. It is a factor in this decision, but not the only one- just to clarify. Thank you for taking the time to read this!
Bee has gotten her cosmetology license and is doing her thing– this is what it looks like!
Our newest assistant/ receptionist Gavin, before and after Bee’s services:
What a difference– but not too crazy!
Call in and ask for Bee! Totally affordable, fun extensions! Come in for a consultation!
The building that houses Eskandalo and Homebase is incredibly impressive. Built in the 1850s, it sat and wasn’t much of anything, at least not in our generation. For a little perspective, that was before Lincoln was president, Los Angeles had just become a city, and the average automobile was about 50 years away– that’s long time ago people…. Well, finding this space was quite the experience. I found it and it looked like this:
Before~
What a beaut! It was seriously love at first sight. I knew once it was finished being worked on it would be amazing and right I was! Here are some more photos of the evolution:
Natural exposed brick– I wanted it so badly and I got it. Yay me!
The back room– hard to believe huh? There was no roof for awhile so it rained and snowed indoors all winter….
-Still months from completion, but what a difference!!
Now! How beautiful…
The back room now!~
Come see the rest!
