Sweetheart Salon Portland

Did you know that the big yellow ball in the sky can cause as much damage as hot tools or hair dye? Or that salt crystals in water amplify that effect? Even just swimming a lot can affect it. When your hair is saturated with water it swells, which lifts the cuticle and makes it vulnerable to damage. Here’s how to protect your hair as we head into the dog days of summer.
Hairstory Primer: spray it on for heat protection before going out in the sun, blow drying or using hot tools. Keep one in your bag!
REVERIE Haircare Milk: if Nicola could only have one product for the rest of her life, it would be Milk: heat protection, anti-frizz and light styling definition on the ends of dry hair. You can even use it as a mask. Mix it with Ever oil to make it extra nourishing.
CULT+KING Superwater: Moisturize, Balance, Protect, Prep, Refresh. Moisture, antioxidants and prebiotics that you can use on your hair AND face. No really! Spray your face with this before serums and creams to use less and pull them deeper into your skin.

Hi all, this is my fifth attempt at posting this so I’m giving up on tagging folks for now and adding in the comments later.
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We’re gonna be open today (Friday) during the general strike but we’re only taking ca$h money, ye olde OG currency. If that doesn’t work for you, we’ll send you a payment link on Monday. Our credit card processor and your credit card company will still get the point. This is about showing that we have power. When you pay by card, about $5 of every hour of billed time in our day goes to Square, who spent $2 million on lobbying in 2024. Your credit card is charging you to pay us who is then charged to receive payment so that they can use political pressure to increase their own profits. Pay for product in cash tomorrow and we’ll donate double the usual processing fees to the Immigrant Law Center of Minnesota. (Lauren and I are also asking that you pay for hair in cash or cheque, or we’ll send you a link on Monday) We have whistles and zines and info on your rights if anyone wants.
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Show us a donation receipt or tell us which giant corporations you unsubscribed from for extra credit. 💕

Thank you to all of our clients and friends for another year of good hair, good talks, good tea and good hearts. Looking forward to seeing you in 2026. 💕💕💕

Thank you to all our clients and friends for another year of good hair, good talks, good tea and good hearts. Looking forward to seeing you all in 2026. 💕💕💕

About 18% of Oregonians rely on SNAP and they lose access to benefits November 1st.
U.S. Census data shows Q***r households need food assistance at double the rate of other groups. More research suggests people of color who identify as LGBTQ2SIA+ have nearly three times the risk of poverty. At every $10 donation provides 30 meals. They are a partner agency to helping your donation go further. The majority of food programs are operated by religious groups who have judged and ostracized the Q***r Community for decades. Hand Up Project tears down barriers to create a safe, welcoming space for everyone to access healthy food staples. Hand Up Project is open to anyone who is hungry; however, they prioritize serving BIPOC and LGBTQ2SIA+ communities who experience disproportionately high rates of food insecurity. Oregon is a high cost state with an economy that relies heavily on service, retail, and tourism jobs, positions that often pay near minimum wage. That means thousands of families are technically employed but still below the federal poverty line. We have federal workers going unpaid.

Donate $20 to Screenshot your receipt and get a travel size product on us.
Donate $30 and you’ll get two.
Donate more than $50 and we’ll give you three.
…until we run out and then we’ll think of another way to help…

Text “HUP” to 44-321 to donate. Can it get easier?

If you bring us dry goods, we’ll get them to the Hand Up Project Food Pantry for you. They have a list of best choices on their website if you’re not sure.
www.handupproject.org/give-us-a-hand

It’s hot as hell out there. Be safe Portland. Don’t be a noodle head and drink your water. Multnomah county doesn’t have its cooling centers ready but remember the public library and big box stores if you need AC and don’t want to spend money.
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We haven’t been on here so much this year but we thought today was an appropriate day to give you our Green Circle stats for 2024. In case you don’t know, we pay for a service that recycles all of our chemically contaminated foils, hair, gloves, left over color and single item & plastic waste that the regular recycling won’t take. That (and the associated chemicals) end up in the landfill. All we can do is our part and small things every day do count. We’d like to thank our clients for helping us make this happen. If you’re not a client, ask your stylist if their salon does this. It takes a bit of work to have 6 or 7 recycling bins, but if we can do it in 416sq’, chances are they can too. Our commitment to clean hair care hasn’t wavered. We only use small companies with the same ethos as us. Ask us about it. Most of us don’t have the luxury of getting into a rocket 🚀 to escape so let’s make the most of what we have right here. Earth is special and we are lucky.
Love you, Sweetheart💕

Nuff said 💕

Rest in Peace LT James Earl Carter Jr, the only U.S. President to graduate from the U.S. Naval Academy leaves a legacy of service to the end. As the 39th President of the United States, he emphasized human rights in foreign policy, environmentalism at a time it was barely mentioned and appointed record numbers of women and people of color during his administration.

For more than 35 years after the presidency, with Habitat for Humanity, the Jimmy & Rosalynn Carter Work Project helped 4,390 families move into safe, affordable shelter in 14 countries. He worked on houses himself well into his 90s.

In 2002, Carter won the Nobel Peace Prize. He ended his acceptance speech with a plea for peace.

“War may sometimes be a necessary evil, but no matter how necessary, it is always evil, never a good. We will not learn how to live together in peace by killing each other’s children,” Carter said.