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How to Create Dua Lipa's Cherry Cola Hair Color
It's a beautiful cinnamon-red that will spice up your brunette client's hair and offer them a way to explore a whole new look.
by Staff
December 16, 2024
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With a new year comes the opportunity to hit the reset button and start fresh. For clients looking to create a new aesthetic when it comes to personal style, hair color not only offers a quick fix for the same-old, same-old but is also a surefire way to beat the winter doldrums.
Warmer shades are definitely trending for 2025, from cinnamon spice (a dimensional reddish-brown) to cappuccino brunette (a combination of deep coffee tones with milky highlights).
Celebrities continue to drive trends. During awards season, Dua Lipa unveiled a shade of dark brown with a burgundy tint that quickly became known as Cherry Cola. The shade adds warmth and depth to fair and medium skin tones, but it also adds dramatic flair to darker skin tones.
With these formulas and Satin Hair Color’spermanent range of expertly crafted hair color, you can duplicate both looks.
DUA LIPA’S CHERRY COLA
“This color is best achieved on natural levels 5 to 7, which allows the ‘cherry’ in the cherry cola to really stand out, but you can also add a pop of color to ‘faded out’ brunettes with a simple gloss applied from scalp to ends,” says Lisa Finucane, Satin Hair's Director of Education and Sales.
FORMULA FOR NATURAL LEVEL 6
Satin Hair Color 5MR mixed 1:2 with Satin Hair Color 10-Volume Developer
Apply to the roots for 35 minutes
Gloss the ends for the last 20 minutes: ½ 5MR mixed 1:2 with Satin Hair Color Demi Developer
FORMULA FOR FADED-OUT BRUNETTES
½ 5MR and ½ 7R mixed 1:2 with Satin Hair Color’s Demi Developer
Apply from scalp to ends
Process for 20 minutes
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