Color
TRANSFORMATION: Grown-Out to Silvery Lavender
Linh Phan (@bescene), owner of the Be Scene Studios in Washington DC, Maryland and Virginia, continues to wow us with his amazing color designs and transformations. We love this one in particular. Here he shares the how-to on this returning ...
How to Keep It Light, Darken the Root and Minimize Regrowth Line
She's one of our faves to follow for formulas and she is a colorist who keeps upping her game. Lindsey Benitez shares her process on Instagram and whenever she learns something new, she puts it into practice."Tried something new ...
by Anne Moratto
COLOR CORRECTION: Giving Her Hair A "Rest"
Anthony Nunez-Ibarra (@tonywonderhandsss), a freelance artist based Moreno Valley, California, says his client was done with chunk highlights. "She came to me wanting a new look and to give her hair a rest."Here he shares HOW he ...
TRANSFORMATION: Lavender to Bright Red
"My client Megan had been blonde for years," says Christina Rotundo (@christinas.hair) of Natural Solutions, St. Catharines, Ontario Canada. "Over the past month or so we have been putting lavender on her hair until she recently ...
TRANSFORMATION: The Brass-Free Blonde
Gary Yeung (@eclipsesalonsf), a color specialist and owner of Eclipse Salon in San Francisco, CA, prefers to create hair color that looks very natural and dimensional, but realizes that "sometimes a total transformation is necessary." ...
TRANSFORMATION: Dark Virgin To Bright GORGEOUS Blonde
Stephanie Yniguez (@ste_fun_y) of Refuge Salon, Los Angeles, Cal., points out that her Asian client has virgin, below waist-length hair. Here she shares the details on this full-day service to lift her to this breathtaking blonde:STEP 1: ...
How-To: Red Ombriage
Jillian LeDonne (@jillianledonne), colorist at Eva Scrivo in New York, created high contrast look by taking a level 2 client and balayaging in vivid red highlights that are most vibrant at the ends. It's a bold style, to be sure, but the ...
Haircolor has Gone Holographic with the Newest Trend - Hand-Pressed Color!
Redken colorist Chiala Marvici has transformed the idea of haircolor into a new art form. Inspired by a painting in her apartment, Marvici has created a new haircolor technique, Hand-Pressed Coloring, that brings the idea of screen printing to ...
FORMULA: Smokey Purple, Starting Level 5.5
Nicole DeStefano (@nicole_does_beauty) has only been doing hair for a year. She used products from TIGI, Wella, JOICO Intensities and Olaplex, then finished with Moroccanoil, to achieve this very on-trend "vintage" shade of ...
by Anne Moratto
TRANSFORMATION: Pink Shadows
Alexis Thurston (@alexisbutterflyloft), owner/stylist at Butterfly Loft Salon and Spa and the Ubungalows, Encino, Calfornia, (@butterflyloftsalon) impresses us with SO MANY transformations, but this one, we believe, is particularly beautiful. ...
TRANSFORMATION: Fashion Color To Light Granite And Silver Balayage
Melanie Bell (@smelaniebell) of Bell Studio, Atlanta, says "I have been cutting my client Hannah's hair since she was four, now she's fifteen and she is becoming quite a trendsetter! We had done a previous ombré with Pravana custom ...
TRANSFORMATION: Color and Extensions To The Rescue
Yami Tovilla (@HairBy_Yami) of the LA area and San Jacinto, California, is a color and extension specialist. For this transformation she got to put both areas of expertise to work. "This client came to me with over processed hair. I ...
Bye Bye Brass, Hello Ash
Alisha Jared (@alishajaredhairartistry) from Siren Salon in Vancouver, WA was thrilled her client found her on Facebook. "She drove from a different county to see me. She explained that she had had a few previous attempts at balayage, ...
TRANSFORMATION: Time To Change
Alisha Jared (@alishajaredhairartistry) from Siren Salon in Vancouver, WA. says "Years of the same blonde on top, red underneath, called for a big change for my client. She's a busy mom who doesn't want to be a slave to the ...
Get the Color: Padma Lakshmi by Denis de Souza for Joico
Joico Celebrity Hair Colorist and Spokesperson Denis de Souza of the Andy Lecompte Salon, in West Hollywood, CA, colored Top Chef's Padma Lakshmi a few days prior to the 67th Primetime Emmy Awards using Joico LumiShine Color. ...
by Anne Moratto
TRANSFORMATION: Rocking Shorter Hair
Jessica Mendieta (@jessdomyhair) of the Butterfly Loft (@butterflyloftsalon) in Los Angeles, CA., had a classic salon challenge. "After two years of growing her hair out from a bob, my client realized she had way more fun rocking short ...
Fixing an At-Home Job Gone Wrong
Nicole DeStefano (@nicole_does_beauty) helped this young male client remove the effects of an at-home job that went, well, bad."Another corrective color today," DeStefano says on her Instagram post. "This is why I strongly suggest ...
by Anne Moratto