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COLOR CORRECTION: Classic Ombre To Classic Sombre
Susan Aw (@susan.aw), is one of MODERN's favorite colorists, The artist, based at Embellish Salon, in Arcadia, California, has done it again. Here she offers the details for this color correction on a first time client."She came ...
HOW-TO: Ice Princess - Featuring Shades of Blue and Silver Highlights
Colorist Shonda Broadus (@ShondaBroadus) has done it again and created a masterpiece before and after. Take a close look at the after shot and how she meshes together various hues of dark and light blues, icy white, and level 10 platinum ...
HOW-TO: A Sophisticated Swirl of Brown Hues on a Level 1-2 Base
Look at this sophisticated swirl of light brown and caramel shades on level 1-2 base. We fell in love at first sight with this look by colorist Shonda Broadus (@shondabroadus) and had to share the formula!This look is perfect for your ...
Pro To The Rescue: Black Box Color Disaster
Gina Atkinson (@ginaatkinson), based in Las Vegas at Sola Salon, is known for her beautiful transformations and color corrections. When we saw how she corrected this "box color situation", we had to know how she was able to create such ...
FORMULA: Poppin' Red Sombre
Amanda "Eve" Galmiche (@TheHairColorExpert), a level 2 colorist at Arrojo Studio NYC, was thrilled when client Julienne came in looking to do something "a little different" since her summer balayage had faded."I ...
Beautiful Dimension and Highlights by Dessiree
iStyleXG Salon (@istylexg) in Lutz, Florida shared this beautiful color by #DessireeXG on Instagram. The color line used is Paul Mitchell The Color. Dessiree's client had never colored her hair before so virgin hair.FORMULA:High Lift ...
by Anne Moratto
HOW TO: Chunky Balayage Highlights On A Chocolate Base
Michael Haase (@mmhaase), owner of Salon Platinum Black in Los Angeles and a Wella Top Artist, is also one of MODERN's favorite hairdressers. He sent us the info for this amazing transformation. Here, he offers how to get the look on model ...
A Dip Disaster Overhaul
Steven Kahn from SalonSk (@salonsk) in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania did a major overhaul on this unfortunate ombre."The client came in with a bleached copper tone dip ombré. For the first step, I balayaged the hair from the nape to the top of ...
by Anne Moratto
L'Oreal Professionnel Majirel Blonde Tutorial
Launching in January 2015, L'Oreal Professionnel's Majirel Blush Blonde permanent creme hair color feature five shades designed to provide 100 percent coverage of white hair with a multi-dimensional rose gold effect. The formula ...
Creating a Balayage Believer: Hair by Marilyn Cole Using Aloxxi
Aloxxi created a new way to talk about haircolor with clients when it introduced the concept of Color Personalities. Their consultation book features swatches and visuals of haircolor finishes that are assigned a name (Blonde Bambino, ...
by Anne Moratto
Affinage New bRED Color Highlighting Starter Kit
Affinage’s bRED Color Highlighting Starter Kit can be used with other permanent red shades as a lifting booster that adds intensity as well as a refresher for in between services without additional lift. “bRed is the ultimate ...
by Anne Moratto
Blonde, Beautiful 2014 CMA Awards
Country music’s biggest night, the 2014 CMA Awards, was full of mesmerizing red-carpet looks. Old Hollywood Glamour- Miranda Lambert Celebrity stylist Johnny Lavoy created the finished look for Miranda ...
HOW-TO: Golden, Sunkissed Babylights on Level 6-7 Hair
MODERN recently interviewed Rona O’Connor, Goldwell’s Celebrity Colorist about babylights application, maintenance and more. Here, O'Connor provides us with her formulas and process for achieving these beautiful babylights on ...
Purple Haze Color Melt by Susie Pham
Susie Pham (@susiepham1087) shares her Purple Haze Color Melt process and formula:First, balayaged and lift her to level 7-9. Then blow dried and toned with K-Pak Joico Intense Colors. Formula #1 i used shade Light Purple and formula #2 i ...
by Anne Moratto
Box Hair Color Fail to Beautiful Balayaged Babylights
Arsova Salon Founder and Creative Director Anita Arsova gave her model a salon professional makeover, complete with a haircut, style and new hair color. "After using box color repeatedly at home, my model's hair became very dry," ...
HOW TO: Blonde Mohawk
Kait Marie (@kaitmariehair), a hair and makeup artist from Kenya, now based in LA and NY, created this blonde mohawk that really caught our eye. Here she offers the HOW TO: Step 1 : Apply Redken Flash lift ...
FHI Heat Introduces Stylus Thermal Styling Brush
FHI Heat Stylus Thermal Styling Brush helps add volume to fine, limp hair by creating lift at the root. If you have highly textured hair, the Stylus glides through to smooth, tame and control flyaways. On long hair, the ridged back helps guide ...
by Lauren Quick