Color
Formula How-To: Cool Pearl by Rusk
Soft texture, 3D color and a throwback finish influenced the Rusk Flashback Collection. FORMULAS & APPLICATION: Natural level 7 with heavy highlights and lowlights. Formula 1: One part Rusk Deepshine Blue Conditioning Powder ...
Formula How-To: Glossy Espresso by Eufora
A Color Gloss treatment brings out the healthy shine in fading tones and seals the cuticle transparently so rich, vibrant color and natural-looking tones shine through. FORMULAS & APPLICATION: Natural level 4 with regrowth, ...
New Vivids Black from Pravana
Back in BlackPravana’s ChromaSilk Vivids line is expanding with the addition of Vivids Black. The dark addition to Vivids allows stylists to deepen, darken or dim Vivids shades—vibrant shades become rich jewel tones, and pastels ...
by Lauren Quick
TRANSFORMATION: Damaged To Classic Brunette LOB
Alyssa Springer (@lyssa_loop), a hairstylist at Fierro Hair (@fierrohair), San Luis Obispo, California, says "The salon where I work is great. Everything that I do in the hair world would not be possible without the people that I work with. ...
Material Girl: The Many Looks of Madonna
Matthew Tyldesley, Redken brand ambassador from Louisville, Kentucky, designed a collection inspired by the many iconic looks of Madonna. He captured the glitz and glam of the ultimate “Material Girl,” from her early days to the ...
HOW-TO: Fiery Sunset Color Melt
Robin Del Toro (@ms_robinita) had a client come in who granted every colorist's wish-- her client gave her full creative control. "I had been wanting to replicate a beautiful summer sunset, and I knew when I saw the red in my ...
by Jamie Newman
Color Correction: Botched Ombre to Platinum Perfection
While scrolling through our Instagram feed, we paused at the "before" image and gasped in terror (only slightly exaggerating). Reposted on Olaplex's Instagram page, this black-and-blonde mess stared at us through the ...
by Jamie Newman
Kenra Color Collaborates with Guy Tang for Metallics Line
Metal GuyKenra Color has announced a collaboration with social media industry icon Guy Tang (Instagram @guy_tang) to promote its new Silver and Violet Metallics line. The blue- or violet-reflecting colors are designed for pre-lightened hair ...
by Lauren Quick
TRANSFORMATION: Creative Fall
When makeup artist and body painter @dehsonae reached out to Toni Rose Larson (@colordollzbytoni), Artist/Owner @Hairitage Salon, Carlsbad, California, for a new look, Larson was thrilled. "We change her color often. She's an ...
TRANSFORMATION: More Than A Touch Up
Constance Robbins (@constancerobbins) of Constance Robbins Studio Salon in Upland, CA, has been an artistic educator at Matrix for 11 years and is a certified Matrix CRAFT Color Master. Her passion is hair painting and color correction and ...
What is your color IQ?
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FIRST SKILLS COLOR: How to Help a Client Transition to Naturally Gray or White Hair
Gray, silver and platinum-white haircolor has been on-trend for younger clients, but occasionally a mature client will decide she is ready to stop coloring her hairand work back to a more natural look. Wella Design Team Member Justine Hornick ...
by Anne Moratto
Sea Glass Mermaid
"Alli wanted to do something fun with her hair for some time, but waited until after she got married," says Alexis Thurston (@alexisbutterflyloft) from Butterfly Loft salon (@butterflyloftsalon), Encino, California. Here she shares the ...
COLOR CORRECTION: Blurring To The Perfect Blonde
Contance Robbins (@constancerobbins), an independent salon owner at Constance Robbins Studio Salon, Upland, CA, has been an artistic educator at Matrix for 11 years and is a certified Matrix CRAFT Color Master. Her passion is hair painting and ...
TRANSFORMATION: Going Back To Her Roots
Natalie Hunter (@Hairismycraft) of Regis Salon, Leesburg, FL, says her client, a natural level 8CG, has been mainaing "a nice platinum blonde. But at a previous salon she didn't quite receive the color she was looking for. We've ...
TRANSFORMATION: Rooty Rose To Ice
Kristen Kologie (@bobandpage) owner of Bob and Page, Winnipeg Manitoba, shares the details for this amazing transformation. Kologie is the person in the photo sporting a color design by lead stylist Kristen Coy who formulated this shade on a ...
FORMULA: Fiery Sombre
Scarlet Strange (@venomus_maximus) from Tease, Knoxville, Tennessee, posted this wow fiery sombre and we asked for the formula. Here she shares the details on her client who she says "has a CRAZY amount of hair! She loooooves red ...