Each year the readers of Natural Awakenings cast their votes for their favorite eco-friendly businesses and service providers in the community. The votes were counted for the 2011 entries and Fusion Cut and Color won the “Natural Choice Award (Nattie)” for “Favorite eco-Friendly Salon or Spa”. Fusion also won this same category in the 2010 “Nattie” Awards.

“We are absolutely delighted to feel this kind of appreciation from our community.” Say Fusion’s owner and Certified Organic Hair Colorist, Tamara Marshall, “We strive to bring our clients the most natural, cruelty free, salon services like Organic Color Systems.”

Fusion Cut and Color was founded on this natural ethos in 2003 and has been providing Portland with the healthiest salon products and services ever since.

“Doing what you love and believe in is so important in life. But to be be recognized at this level by your community is an exceptional honor.” Troy Raszka, Marketing Director for Organic Salon Systems, remarks, “We are very proud of Tamara, and the success of Fusion Cut and Color.”

Natural Awakenings is a free healthy lifestyle magazine and blog that serves various metro areas across the United States and Canada. Fusion Cut and Color won their 2010 and 2011 “Nattie” awards for the Portland/Vancouver edition.

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By DEBORAH MOON

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After a decade of classic hair-styling education and experience, Tamara Marshall wanted to create a gathering spot with an artistic, upbeat, super-friendly environment. So she and her mother Adrienne Lesman founded Fusion Cut and Color Salon in Multnomah Village six years ago.

The salon, which offers free beer and wine to adults during their appointment and hosts art shows on Multnomah Village First Fridays (when shops in the village stay open late), became all she dreamed of—that is until she got sick.

Marshall’s doctor told her that her compromised immune system, coughing fits, migraines and allergy symptoms were due to the chemicals she used on her client’s hair.

Marshall made the choice to make a dramatic change for her own health and the health and comfort of her clients. Fusion is now completely organic and vegan.

The salon uses no ammonia, parabens or sulfates in any of its products. Fusion uses the all-nutrient hair color system Organic Color System, which contains certified organic ingredients that are pH balanced.

Marshall said she believes Fusion is the only organic/chemical-free salon in the Portland area. The salon offers organic hair color, but no permanents or nail services.

She said that making the transformation helped her clients avoid the burning, itching and harsh chemical fumes of traditional hair color. And she said as an added bonus, the salon actually smells good.

She said men especially appreciate the odor-free salon.

“We have a large male clientele,” she said. “They love coming in and not having to smell the chemicals. Women get used to it.”

Since making the change, Marshall said the salon has received many referrals from naturopaths and others dealing with people with compromised immune systems and allergies. Additionally, she said the salon is safe for pregnant and nursing mothers.

Lesman, who grew up in Hollywood, said her life was inspired by that culture, with little awareness of her Jewish heritage.

“My father worked in the ’50s for the motion pictures and I was surrounded by the fashion and glamour of the stars: a time of fabulous makeup, costumes and hairstyles. Hollywood has changed through the years and so have our styles.”

Marshall said she and her mother, whose Jewish heritage was marked only by Hanukah and Passover greeting cards, have begun to explore their roots thanks to the encouragement of other Jewish merchants in the village and clients. This fall, Marshall began her studies at the two-year Melton Mini-School.

“It has been great being part of a community of Jewish female business owners (at Switch),” said Marshall. She added having the Elovitz family as clients has also given them a push “learning about our culture by sharing and being part of the Melton School. We had our first ever Passover.”

For more information, visit www.fusioncutandcolor.com or call 503-246-7940.

Thanks Seth it was a great Birthday surprise!!!

Kisses to Anne for her thoughtfulness.

Seth Aaron Henderson saying hi to Fusion Salon

We love him and his great style.

A great Day at Fusion Salon

We forgot to turn our open sign on.

winner Seth Aaron Henderson comes by our salon to say hi.

Yeah Seth and yeah Anne.

king of Fashion and Design

Tina and Seth come to Multnomah Village

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Family Field Trip: Multnomah Village

By Jennifer de Thomas

Close-in SW Portland is a swirl of neighborhoods. They closely resemble each other with acres of housing developments and wooded roads. If you don’t know your way around, you end up driving endlessly in circles looking for the entrance to I-5 or the rest of Capitol Highway or Barbur Boulevard, which, to the novice, seem to appear and disappear around each bend.

But just five minutes south of downtown, if you take the Multnomah Blvd. exit to Capitol Highway, you will land in the center of what looks like something out of Portland’s younger days: Multnomah Village. For your field trip, you can keep this simple – lunch and an ice cream – but you can also easily make this neighborhood center a frequent destination for your family to visit and enjoy.

Multnomah Village dates to the 1910s, when a community sprang up around an Oregon Electric Railroad station. Portland annexed it starting in the 1950s, but they still celebrate “Multnomah Days” with a parade and a street festival in August. They have all the regular suspects – a bank, a Starbucks, a bead shop and antique store – but what makes the Village unique are a the handful of extraordinary shops and restaurants: the historic Fat City Café, an authentic sweets shop, a restaurant serving Dill Pickle soup, a toy store that outshines its peers in hands-on entertainment for your under eight set. When you couple these offerings with one of the gems of the Portland Parks system, the Multnomah Arts Center, you have a reason to come back again and again.

The best field trips center around an activity. The MAC offers classes for all ages in woodworking, textiles, ceramics, painting, photography, dance and theater. This MAC, unlike the athletic club of the same acronym downtown, doesn’t require you to pony up big bucks and dress appropriately for the elevator. Instead, you can simply walk in, sign yourself and your kids up for some light or intensive arts training, then go out to lunch in the Village.

Of course, you may prefer a more unstructured, spontaneous day. If so, start at Fat City Cafe, right in the epicenter of the Village. This is not a place for delicacies or diets. With a road-themed décor and a limited breakfast and lunch menu that features the same ten ingredients mixed in different ways, Fat City holds no pretension. You can truly relax among the regulars, let the kids be themselves, and maybe even sit in the booth where the infamous, art-exposed Portland mayor Bud Clark fired the police chief.

For dessert, walk right out and into another old fashioned shop, Sweets Etc. Sometimes it’s just fun to watch a kid’s eyes bug out when faced with the high art of candy. Candy in bins, jars of jellies, sweets in the shape of ribbons, toys and ladybugs, chocolate of all types, plus taffy, sours and sticks of horehound – this place is a fantasy of sugar. You can also get a scoop of Umpqua ice cream to eat at one of their little tables while you watch your children memorize every stick and dollop of confection in the joint.

Now it’s time to take a stroll along the main drag to take in the quirky and cozy shops. You can outfit the tots at Baby! Oh Baby!, have an impromptu storytime at the old-fashioned Annie Bloom’s Books, and shimmy those hips at Portland’s only dedicated hula hoop shop, Hooperville. Your children will probably be itching to get down to Thinker Toys, though. Inside they have built a tiki-style playhouse full of pint-sized furniture and toys for your kids to enjoy while you browse for their cousin’s next birthday present. You can also buy a kite and head off of the village’s main drag to Gabriel Park.

The beautiful park, full of rolling hills, will be home to a new skate park this summer. Bring a novel and relax while your budding skate rats roll endlessly up and down the new concrete wonderland. The park is adjacent to the Southwest Community Center, where you can opt to spend your field trip activity shooting down their water slide.The pool here is fantastic, and you’ll work up an appetite for that Dill Pickle Soup.

You can enjoy this rarity at Otto and Anita’s Bavarian Restaurant. Otto and Anita have given a lot of thought to their menu, including what best to feed your children. Their kid’s menu features real food like linguini with carrots in cream sauce for $3.50 and chicken strips (not deep fried!) with carrots, rice and fruit for $5.50. They know what you want (schnitzel!), but they also know you want something besides fries as a vegetable for your hungry and sometimes cranky charges.

If you are expecting a quaint strip of quirky shops and restaurants, Multnomah Village will not disappoint. What will surprise you is the depth of activity in this tiny Southwest enclave. Take a class, go swimming, enjoy the outdoors and have a great meal – this little burg will give you many reasons to add one more neighborhood to your cache of places to go with things to do with the kids.

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