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How-To: Red Carpet Rose Updo
Recently, I have been receiving more and more hair photos through our Stylist Contributions tab on Modernsalon.com. This tab allows you to submit your best hair styles, color, makeovers, nail designs, make-up designs and more to MODERN SALON for editorial coverage. Recently, I received photos of a unique rose updo from MODERN SALON fan, Alex Cooper, who shared with us the steps on how to re-create this one-of-a-kind style.
HOW-TO: Fancy Fishtail Updo
Stylist Nycole Jones created multiple fishtail braids and pinned them up onto the head for this beautiful fishtail updo look. Want to learn the steps? We have them!
How To: Sidewinder Fishtail Braid
Learn how to create the Sidewinder Fishtail French Braid by following these steps.
Travel Lightly: Purse-Sized Product Companions
The professional beauty industry is an international business that never stops—requiring frequent travel for editors as we cover events that happen around the country and, sometimes, the globe. While this is an enormous privilege and we have a blast zipping around, it can also be challenging given the carry-on restrictions. But, thanks to travel-sized products, the challenge is a little easier to manage.
Obsessed with Summer Hair
This Tuesday, May 22, 7 to 8 p.m. EST, KMS California Artistic Director Brian Bode and Simone Miller National Technical Trainer will share with you their latest style obsession: Obsessed with Summer Hair, which is the fourth episode in KMS California's larger series, A Year of Style.
Foxy to Faux Fishtail Braids
Herringbone, fishbone, fishtail—whichever name you prefer to call this sea-inspired braid, this fun and flirty style is easy-to-do on your clients. Try mixing this braid with other braiding techniques like a French Braid or Waterfall Braid. In this how-to, Rusk Creative Team Member Naz Kupelian shows MODERN how to create this modern, yet foxy fishtail braid for summer.
Create the Herringbone Side Bun Updo
Dress up your clients' buns by adding interest! Learn how to create the Herringbone Bun updo: an alternative to a plain side bun.
That's a Wrap: French Braid Swirl Technique
Learn how to create a french braid swirl that wraps up the head in this step-by-step tutorial from MODERN Facebook fan Erica Stoy.
Big Screen Style, Celebrity Style for May Blockbusters
Hollywood head-turning looks. Celebrities Alexander Skarsgard, Chris Evans and Bella Heathcote.
Depasquale The Spa Hosts Event for Camp Nejeda and Clients
Depasquale The Spa hosted and premiere shopping soiree to raise funds for Camp Nejeda and to entertain and inspire clients.
Theresa Guidice Asks Industry to Help Name Product
Theresa Guidice, NJ Housewives/Celebrity Apprentice, uses her celebrity calls on industry to help her name her new salon product line.
How-to: Rockin' Red Makeover!
Equipped with Goldwell products and a client who was willing to make a dramatic change, Celebrity Stylist Marie Ferro transformed this client's original dull, over-processed hair color into a bright, lively red. Are your clients looking to go red this summer? Read this how-to where you can learn the exact steps you need to take in order to achieve this kind of look. Your clients will be thanking you!
Jorge Sierra Inspires From a Wheelchair
Jorge Sierra, a wheelchair dependent barber, is successful and uses his situation to inspire others.
Summer Sellers
You can’t do it all, and for June in particular, promotional planning means understanding your market and your staff’s strengths.
Color Bursting Technique
ColorDesignUSA Artistic Director Alex De Rango and his team—Kaycee Childs, ColorDesignUSA educator, and Steffanie Conley, ColorDesignUSA National Director of Training—recommended adding gold and red bursts of color in a free-form pattern to create dimension and pizazz in this model’s level 4 virgin hair. They call the technique "Color Bursting." Check out the steps inside.
Lady Gaga's Purple "Hairy" Dress
Lady Gaga is always thinking of new ways of making an entrance, and in Hong Kong this past weekend for her "Born This Way" Ball tour, she didn't disappoint! Wearing long white gloves, blonde locks, and most notably—a head-turning purple hair dress with platinum and violet bows—next to Gaga's legendary "meat dress," this hairy ensemble is one to remember!
How-to: Create a Jack Sparrow Hair Hat!
I just recently heard from Master stylist/JPMS Educator Darlene Burnham at Andreas Hogue Salon in Northbrook, Illinois, and she filled me in on how she created the Jack Sparrow hat, (which was part of a larger Pirates' Presentation which won 2nd place) in the Hair Wars Supreme Salon Tour in Chicago.