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The creative juices were flowing at Artist Session 8, MODERN SALON Media’s two-day workshop designed to offer direction, inspiration, enlightenment and a top-notch photoshoot opportunity for professional hairdressers.







Photography: Roberto Ligresti
Make-up: David Maderich, mistermakeup.com
Fashion styling: David Widjaja
The creative juices were flowing at Artist Session 8, MODERN SALON Media’s two-day workshop designed to offer direction, inspiration, enlightenment and a top-notch photoshoot opportunity for professional hairdressers. The event focuses primarily on creativity and giving motivated and talented salon professionals license to create any style imagined on professional models.
The artists, some experiencing their very first photo shoot, twist, turn, tease, place, curl and pin to turn these models into cover-worthy finishes. The process is fun and the finishes are uniformly dazzling. “At this point I’ve shot more than 70 Artist Session finishes,” says photographer Roberto Ligresti. “The stylists always surprise me by coming up with looks that are outside of the norm and unpredictable. This session represents a perfect collaboration of hair, make-up, fashion and photography.” For information on how you participate in an upcoming Artist Session workshop, visit modernsalon.com/artistsession.

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