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Balayage For A Dimensional Ash Blonde
"My Color Correction model Holly had previously hightlighted hair that was box dyed over with a level 5," says Ashlee Norman (@ashleenormanhair), a traveling balayage educator based in Valencia, California. "When she came to me it was a muddy faded level 6 brown. First I razor cut her hair from a short layered haircut into a shattered square one-length." Get the details for this color makeover here.
COLOR CORRECTION: Spotty Blonde To Lovely Violet Ash
Edith Mesa of Rizos Spa, Queens, NY, says her client went to another salon when she wasn't available. The client was looking for something different, was unhappy with the "other results" and came running back to Mesa. This post shares the details for the makeover.
Fighting Frizz: Altering Texture In 5 Minutes
Courtney Costello of the Cortello Salon, Jacksonville Beach, Florida, demos how-to adjust texture on dry hair in just five minutes.
Announcing the 2016 Excellence in Education Finalists
For six years running, MODERN SALON Media has worked with the American Association of Cosmetology Schools (AACS) to develop MODERN SALON’s Excellence in Education program to help the professional beauty school community gather, share and celebrate examples of great salon education experiences and beauty career development happening across the country.. Here are the 2016 finalists.
11 Scary Requests from Color Clients
Sometimes client expectations don't align with reality. MODERN's Instagram followers (more than 700,000 of you!) share their most intimidating and bizarre requests from color clients.
by Lauren Quick
Research and Development Drive GKhair
GKhair invests heavily in research and development to continually advance the science of hair to deliver new and innovative products.
by Jamie Newman
How to Upsell Hair Color Services to 4 Generations of Clients that Normally "Don't do Haircolor"
Upselling hair color to clients in their early 20s, women approaching middle age, men turning gray, and those who are tired of coloring in general all require different marketing techniques. Here's how you do it.
Try These 4 Steps for Holiday Retail Success
Tracy Liguori, Scruples co-president mar-keting/advertising, off ers advice for salons to build retail sales this season.
HOW-TO: Lovely Sombre To Pale Silvery Amethyst
Get the details for this lovely transformation: pretty, classic sombre to pretty, silvery amethyst.
HOW-TO: Pearly Pixie Perfection
We are loving this pearly pixie. Get the how-to (both cut and color) from the Z.One artists who created it.
Enter Your Best James Dean Look! Win a Class With Matty Conrad
Sexy Hair wants to send you to an exclusive class with Master Barber and men’s grooming expert, Matty Conrad. All you have to do is submit your best James Dean look and the rest is a waiting game!
HOW-TO: Vivenne Mackinder UPDO Tips
Vivienne Mackinder shares details on how-to create an updo using just one or two pins.
Makeover: Going For BOMBSHELL
This is a lovely makeover on a client going from faded, grown out highlights to bombshell.
Beauty Changes Lives and CND Announce Nail Scholarship Winners for Fall 2016
The Beauty Changes Lives Foundation, through generous funding from CND, has awarded five BCL¦CND¦Tippi Hedren Nail Scholarships to students pursuing careers in the professional nail industry. Each scholarship winner receives tuition ...
by Anne Moratto
Makeover: Hot Pink To Ocean Storm
Jon Alexander Frawley (@jonnystylez), a color and balayage specialist at Bangz Salon and Wellness Spa, Montclair, New Jersey, says, "This client, a young women who runs her own landscaping company, can have ANY hair color she ...
Makeover: Pastel Rainbow Shadow Roots
Kenna Dupuis (@kennaleeann_hairstylist) put together a look meant to "turn heads" on co-worker Hannah McKay (@dolledupbyhannah). Hannah came to Kenna with an idea of doing pastel rainbow roots. They bounced ideas off one ...
Makeover: DIY Uh-Oh To Royal Magnificence
Kayli Alesi (@kaylidoeshair) of W Salon Studio, San Juan Capistrano (@wsalonstudio) says this new client to the salon has had, for years, "had her friends bleach and color her hair for her. Considering her hair was in bad ...