Career
Indie Hair Launches: View the Collection and Products!
With the launch of seven new products, the Indie Hair launch is hitting salons! Check out the imagery and products that make up the new line.
Turn Back the Hands of Time With BioBliss
Founded on the principle of providing a simplified, yet effective anti-aging product to use in conjunction with a current skin care regimen, BIOBLISS has found a new way to improve the effects of anti-aging.
Instagram's New Terms of Service – What You Need To Know
Are you using Instagram for you salon or personal brand? Social media expert, Kelly Ehlers, breaks down what you need to know about the recent controversy surrounding their new Terms of Service (TOS) and Privacy Policy. It’s true, not many people actually bother reading the lengthy legal statements – but this particular update to the apps terms was one that garnered much attention.
by Kelly Ehlers
STATION BREAK: Joseph Cartegena's Genacelli Gem
From musician to award-winning stylist and platform artist, Joseph Cartegena’s transition was meant to be. "I had the calling to be a hairdresser," says Cartegena. "I created and cut the hair of all my band members. In that I found my calling." Now, after 26 years in the beauty industry, Cartegena oversees everything on the salon floor as Director Stylist and President of Genacelli Salon and Day Spa. As the newly elected President of Cosmetologists Chicago Board of Directors, Cartegena takes a hands-on roll in Chicago's America's Beauty Show.
ONES TO WATCH: Stevee Lynn from Freddie B Salon
Even at a young age, Stevee Lynn from Freddie B Salon in Ventura, California, knew she wanted to be an artist. Growing up in Southern California, she finds inspiration for beauty everywhere, from city streets to sunsets over the ocean. She believes that make-up should always enhance natural beauty, never mask it. Read her full story...
Mila Kunis, Nikki Reed & Amanda Seyfried's Valentine's Day Looks
Keep your clients looking and feeling beautiful this Valentine’s Day. These looks featuring Mila Kunis, Nikki Reed and Amanda Seyfried are some romantic ideas you can try on your clients this Valentine's Day.
COLLECTION: Simply Beauty
Carl and Belinda Keeley of Australia’s Chumba Concept Salon conceived their Barely There collection as a minimalist expression of hair beauty. "My goal was to present a clean, simple and elegant collection expressing understated beauty," says Carl. Belinda, the colorist for this collection said the colors were designed to appear minimal in line with the collection's intent.
Light Rays: Wella's New Illumina Color
Wella Professionals' newest color launch, Illumina, and the beautiful results achievable. See the images!
Postcards and Inspiration from Yosh Toya
From modest beginnings in Japan, to his first job after beauty school serving as Sassoon’s assistant Yosh Toya established himself as a multi-salon owner in San Francisco and has more than 50 years of salon work experience.
Volume Principles: Color
For this session, Diane Cole Stevens chose model Alyssa specifically because she needed fresh hair color and would be the perfect candidate to demonstrate how the how cut and color can work to enhance the texture, density and volume of hair.
Woven Romance
Right on trend with texture and braids, Sam Villa, educator and manufacturer, who has developed a professional line of tools and shears, created two whimsical looks for MODERN SALON’s Artist Session using the Texture iron microcrimper, braided adornments and imagination.
Artistry Unbound
Unbound Artist Session, MODERN’s exclusive photoshoot workshop, is designed to guide professional stylists in their quest to become freelance hairdressers, discover techniques to create beautiful photographs and learn from experts in the field.
Taking Stock
I love this time of the year, I tend to be one of those lets just keep everything until the end of the year, just in case we need it, people. And at the end of the year I love look back so I can plan for growth and success in the new year. I want to know what works, what doesn’t, what I want more of, and what i can do with less of, things I need to work on, things I need to stop and what can I do to be better and happy. This year for me it extra big because we closed our studio and are looking to move, so let me share what I learned.
Your 2013 Astrology Forecast
Latinos love fortune tellers, bruja stories, cards, Ouija boards. Who wouldn’t want to know their futuro?
Choose Beauty: Fabio Sementilli
Humor, gratitude and paying-it-forward guide Fabio Sementilli’s approach to life and work.
by Anne Moratto
Natural Elements by The Aveda Artistic Team
Beauty, like nature, transitions from season to season—winter melts into spring, summer mellows into autumn—a cycle that forces nature to constantly reinvent itself.
Miss USA, Olivia Culpo, Crowned Miss Universe 2012
A worldwide audience of approximately 1 billion viewers watched as Miss USA, Olivia Culpo was crowned Miss Universe 2012. The last time Miss USA won the title of Miss Universe was in 1997.
by Anne Moratto