Color
Get the Formula: Chrissy Teigen's Lightened Ends
Redken Celebrity Colorist Tracey Cunningham wants you to help your clients switch up their haircolor for spring and summer—just as they do with their wardrobes and makeup. For 2016, Cunningham predicts brunettes will take the leap to ...
by Lauren Quick
BALAYAGE! How to Choose the Perfect Board
Is the board you use for balayage important? It's VITAL, according to Eva Scrivo, owner of the Eva Scrivo Salons (NYC), founder of the Eva Scrivo Academy, and Balayage Princess! It's all about size, texture, length, width, and the ...
THE JOURNEY: Classic Blonde to Pink Root Shadow to Metallic
Megan Rafidi (@meganrafidi), owner of The Megan Rafidi Studio, Cornelius, NC, says: "This client is actually a long time friend and coworker. She started out as my assistant and grew enough to become her own suite owner where I own my ...
THE JOURNEY: Fashion Fade To Home "Repair" To Pro Aqua
"My client came to me wanting to be a new fun color," says Meri Kate O'Connor (@merikateoconnor), Senior Colorist at Eva Scrivo Salons (@evascrivosalons) & Educator at the Eva Scrivo Advanced Academy, NYC. "She is a ...
FORMULA: Trix Aren't Just For Kids
"Brittany has been my muse for almost 6 years now," says Alicia McLaughlin, AKA Lish Mac (@thehairstylish). "She is game for anything! Last April we took her to purple from black. It took 13 hours but it was worth ...
FORMULA: Metallic Pink Satin
This Metallic Pink Satin by Franco Hernandez (@hairbyfranco) of Franco Hernandez Hair in Seal Beach, CA appeals to us on so many levels--the shine, the vintage quality to the dusty rose shade and the dimension, throughout.Hernandez used Kenra ...
by Anne Moratto
TRANSFORMATION: Modernizing To Smokey Violet
Jessica Mendieta (@JESSdomyHAIR), a colorist at Butterfly Loft in Encino, California, is one of our favorite makeover artists. "I love the ability we all have at embracing change," she says. "My approach to pastels, or grey ...
VIDEO EXCLUSIVE: Celebrity Hairdresser Alen M's Secret to #PerfectHair
Bi-coastal colorist and salon owner Alen M has built a career around creating naturally-beautiful hair, sun-kissed highlights and born-this-way blondes. In this video, premiering today, Alen M reveals a trade secret. Whether using fashion ...
by Anne Moratto
Grown Out Fashion To Soft Dimensional Pink
Amelia "Violet" Camp (@violetthestylist), Expert Colorist and Director of Education, Bouffant Beauty Bar, La Mesa, California, says that "Tara is one of my regular color chameleons and we've taken her around the color wheel a ...
Reinvigorating Washed-Out Color
Artemis Koullias (@Hairby_Sia), an artist at New Dawn Salon in Hubbard, OH, worked on her cousin recently, who had thick hair down to her hip bones. "Her hair was faded and her previous balayage was grown-out. We definitely needed to ...
TRANSFORMATION: Grown-Out-Faded-Blonde-To-Modern-Metallic
Geysha Tomassone (@geyshaloveshair) of the Joseph Kenneth salon (@salonjosephkenneth) Marlton, NJ, says this client is a regular. "She wanted something fun so we opted for silver/grey. By looking at her style, I felt that she ...
HOW-TO: Sunset Orange
"This was my first time with this particular client," says Kristi Waldrop (@Kristi_Mac_of_Hair) a stylist/makeup artist at Head Rush Salon in Gonzales, Louisiana. "She had been following my IG for awhile and ...
FORMULA: She's Got The Blues
Oh my goodness...THANK YOU AmandaRose Kingsley (@amandarosepaintsheads) of Septembers Hair, brick, NJ, for tagging MODERN with this GORGEOUS dimensional blue finish.Here she shares the Formula:Step 1: Prep the hair by toning existing blonde with ...
Going Bright Blonde: Consultation and Formula
Gary Yeung (@eclipsesalonsf), master colorist and founder of Eclipse Salon in San Francisco, says he loves helping clients with haircolor transformations."When I begin doing a color consultation, I base any change on five factors," ...
Color Contouring! Cool! See How It's Done
Famed color educator Wendy Bond, using Lakme, shares how to contour the hair using ...
Balayage vs. Hair Painting: How They Differ
Isn't balayage the same as hair painting?"No," says Eva Scrivo, balayage expert, salon owner and founder of the Eva Scrivo Academy (NYC). "There is a lot of misinformation out there. They are different, and the more you learn ...
AVEDA FORMULA: A Tie-Dye to Die For
Priscila Martinez (@babyhandsp) of The @establishmentLA Salon in the Silver Lake neighborhood of Los Angeles, shared this "tie-dyed" effect working with all Aveda color and products.FORMULA:Pre-lighten the hair with Aveda Enlightener ...
by Anne Moratto