Davines Sustainable Beauty Day 2012
Davines and The Fruit Tree Planting Foundation are teaming up for the second annual Sustainable Beauty Day, a proud partnership that raised over $25,000 due to the participation of 54 salons in the US and Canada last year. This year the effort aims to raise $50,000 to fund a fruit tree planting project in Brazil.
Quick Tip For Cutting Around the Ears
Stylists who want to speed up cutting around the ears can view this quick video tip from Sam Villa. The trick is to use the wide teeth of a comb to capture hair and fold the ear back while carving around the ear.
OPI Launches Diamond Dust Hues
OPI has released two new high-shine hues—DS Indulgence and DS Luxurious—to join the Designer Series by OPI collection this fall. Fusing fashion and technology, the Designer Series lacquer formula is enhanced with real diamond dust, offering light reflecting, multidimensional color.
Make Up Show Chicago
The Make-up Show Chicago featured more than 60 top professionally-focused brands and over 3,000 beauty professionals, buyers, industry educators, press, and retailers all together in this large beauty event.
City of Hope Honors George Schaeffer with Spirit of Life Award
George Schaeffer is honored with the Spirit of Life Award at City of Hope.
Building on Success
Mario Argenti is a veteran salon industry leader who has been instrumental in the building of numerous brands.
Gotu Kola, Herb of Youth?
There is a new product line out called GotuKola USA Youth Spring, which includes a shampoo, styling cream, two oil treatments (Natural oil and Silver oil), and hair mask. Containing the signature Gotu Kola plant, the products claim to help aid in hair growth, improve circulation and aid in skin irritations.
Wedding Day Business Tips
A client’s wedding day should be perfect all around, from the dress to the hair to the make-up. As a stylist, you need to be prepared to create the ideal hair style your client wants—remember a hair style can make or break their confidence on their big day, so you want to make sure you take all elements into consideration. Vivienne Mackinder gave us her top tips for creating a successful bridal experience for your client.
How-to: Modern Vintage Finger Waves
Modern Editors just recently visited Genacelli Salon in Chicago to preview a new product called the InStyler IQ, the salon professional version of the original InStyler, Amazing Rotating Iron. Celebrity Stylist Dean Banowetz taught us about the product and showed us how to create modern looking vintage finger waves...in minutes!
How To Use Tinted Conditioner to Create Temporary Ombre
While at Art + Science Salon in Chicago's Wicker Park neighborhood, Color Director Susan Hurley demo'd for MODERN SALON TV how to use tinted conditioner to create a temporary color effect on the ends of the hair.
Be Open to New Ideas
Back in the 80’s, Madonna and others made dramatic fashion statements that others copied, but today style makers like Nicki Minaj, Lady Gaga, Kelly Osborne and even Lauren Conrad with her dip dyed ends, change looks so often, they don’t want us to necessarily copy their look, they want to inspire us to think beyond the mainstream of fashion and beauty.
Shades of Siren
Fashion and beauty photographer Jim Malucci and Creative Director Tim Ravenna came together under a united vision to create an underworld masterpiece that encapsulates mystery and beauty. This how-to will teach you the steps on how to give your clients a showstopper “mystical mermaid” look. Working with Hypnotik Hair, taking inspiration and classic glamor from the series Magic City and intertwining with fantasy, stylist Jean Marc Choffel shows us how to get the looks.
Goldwell's Color Zoom USA Winners Announced
The winners of Goldwell's Color Zoom USA have been announced. Here, Beauty and Fashion Director Maggie Mulhern's blogs about this breaking news. These winners will represent the US at the international competition to be held in London in October.
HOW-TO: Rainbow Ombré
This multi-colored dip-dyed look called Rainbow Ombré gradually blends up the hair. Learn how to try it on your clients.
Olympic Dreams
Every Sassoon collection begins with an idea or theme, and for Summer 2012, it was the Olympics and the relationship between women, sport and hair.
Using Silver as a Color Canvas
Celebrity Stylist and Shear Genius winner Brig Van Osten created these colorful pastel wigs at Premiere Orlando. Find out what color Brig used for the "perfect color canvas" to brighten the pastels.
It's a Force Field: Magnetic Nail Swirls
Check out how to create magnetic nail swirls using this nail polish and a special magnetic design tool!