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Diaphanous
Educator, mentor, business owner, stylist and trend columnist Tracey Hughes values balance in all of her collections. In Diaphanous, it’s all about the delicate placement of intense hues within explicit forms. "The exquisite, ...
National Healthy Skin Month: Your 40s and Beyond
Sunscreen is the price of admission for beautiful skin in your 40s and 50s. What else can you do? Dr. Bethanee J. Schlosser, assistant professor of dermatology and director of Women’s Skin Health at Northwestern University, Feinberg ...
Mary Jane Niven: Why I Had to Stop Doing Hair
“I used to love the last cut of the day,” muses Mary Jane Niven, co-owner with Lora Batiste of Vine Street Salon in Berkeley, California. “I could take a breath and enjoy it without seeing the next client waiting on the bench. ...
Tips on the Trend: Casual Cool Braids
What do the Hunger Games, Coachella, and Frozen all have in common? Fantastic braids! And based on trends on the Spring/Summer 2015 runways, braids are here to stay. This season, braids are all about adding a cool-girl twist that can be worn day ...
Master ANY Haircut by Following this Sectioning System
Josef & Shaun Settle first developed their innovative new Shaoé Haircare Secret 7 Haircutting System while working with beginning hairstyling students. The Settles own Avant Gard The School in Avon, Indiana in addition to their 17,000 square ...
How-To: Braided Updo by Jenny Strebe with fave4
If you haven't yet noticed, the age of the braid is still very much upon us. From beach days to red carpet, braids in all forms and fashions have been popping up and inspiring creative, weaved looks. Jenny Strebe of Confessions of ...
by Lauren Quick
Why Do I Need A License?
I went to beauty school in 1986 and this coming year will be my 29th year as a salon professional. I started my career by attending a vocational school as an adult in NJ where 1200 hours of classroom and practical hand-on experience was ...
Get the Fix: 6 Skincare Issues Solved
In the pursuit of the perfect complexion, clients often approach salon professionals with the same common issues, such as breakouts and redness. Here skincare experts share tips on solving six common complexion concerns. The Issue: Tired ...
How-To: Elvis' Pompadour & James Dean's Rockabilly
Style icons are iconic for a reason—their images, hair, clothes and very existence seem to transcend the logic of time and the finality of their lifespans. And so they resurface, again and again, inspiring and re-inspiring, the looks ...
by Lauren Quick
Kathy Cresci: Lessons From Morocco
When Healthy Hairdresser profiled Casey London Keeter, the manager at Intrigue Salon in Atlanta, Keeter told us we should speak with one of her stylists as well. Kathy Cresci has been with Intrigue for 11 years and, like Keeter, makes ...
Tips on the Trend: Touchable, Smooth Texture
Fresh and flirty, yet perfectly precise was the prominent trend found on Spring/Summer 2015 runways. This coming spring’s clean and simple look calls for center and side-swept parts, perfectly smooth strands and weightless, airy ...
No Filter: An Interview with Photographer Michael Pool
The photographer Michael Pool shot a collection for Sebastian that was submitted to MODERN SALON. The images were so polished and finished that they passed approval and into print before Pool let MODERN know this was raw film—not edited or ...
by Anne Moratto
MODERN Celebrates Cosmetology Schools, Names 2014 Excellence in Education Honorees
MODERN SALON Media has named the 2014 class of Excellence in Education honorees in its fifth annual program recognizing leadership and best practices among cosmetology schools. MODERN SALON Publisher Steve Reiss announced the recipients ...
COLOR CORRECTION: From Skunk To Sombre
Miriam Ortega has been challenged with some dramatic color corrections, but she says "This color correction was the most invasive, yet precise color correction I have done."Client Pamela came in with a ...
How-To: Midnight Storm "Bombre"
You know it's real when there's an Urban Dictionary page for it. Bombre: Taking ombre hair color to the next level. A termed coined by internationally recognized Salon KAVI color director, Victoria Pelaez, for the ombrés she ...
by Lauren Quick
Own Your Body
Your career as a hairdresser makes you hyper aware of beauty and appearance. Do you feel that team members treat you a certain way based on your appearance? Do clients judge you for the way you look? Even if you do not feel that your ...
Alternative Medicine
(This is a version of an excerpt from an article published in the Healthy Hairdresser section of the October 2014 issue of MODERN SALON.) Perhaps you relieve your sore back with acupuncture, or maybe your grandmother’s secret brew ...