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10 Hair Color Challenges Every Stylist Faces and How Experts Solve Them
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TRANSFORMATION: Level 8 Gold To Level 10 Platinum
Geysha Tomassone (@hair.by.geysha) of the Mora Salon, Cherry Hill, NJ (@morasalon) gladly met the challenge of taking her 50% gray, level 8 gold client to her desired level 10 platinum."My client of about 5 years came in for her appointment ...
CORRECTION: Dealing With Damage
Bekah Fritze (@deucedeuce) from DeMaj Salon (@demajsalon), Lafayette, Colorado, was presented with a project. "This client had come in after a long time family friend had been doing her hair for years," says Fritze. "She said that ...
COLOR CORRECTION: Asked and Received
"My client came to me with all over box dye she had been doing on herself for years," says Kovia Free (@Hairbykovia) an artist at Habit Salon, Gilbert, Arizona. "She asked for dimension and a brighter blonde with cool ...
COLOR CORRECTION: Fixing Faded Fashion Green
Spencer Henry (@spencerhenryhair), a Pureology Brand Educator based in LA, says he is “dedicated to glamorous, healthy hair. Most of my styling is influenced by 1950’s/1960’s Hollywood.”But Henry had to pull out all his ...
My Favorite Redhead
Jane Zimet (@hair_byjane) a Las Vegas hairstylist working out of Salon Shag, says "this red is never going out of style.""My favorite redhead. She's naturally a dark brown but we bumped her to red, using Davines 7CCG + 6G + ...
by Anne Moratto
THE RESULTS: Red by Choice
Did you guess the right one?MODERN posted the first photo asking YOU to guess which one was NOT natural. Oddly many of you guessed #4! As mentioned in the originally story, these are all members of the same "family." Here are the ...
Red By Choice
These 5 redheads are all members of the same family (nieces, cousins, that kind of thing). All but one has been blessed with this natural shade. Can you guess which one?The NOT natural red head (what we call "Red By Choice") went ...
CREATIVE COLOR IDEA: How to Use Shampoo Water from a Color Client as a Demi Tint!
Colorist Amanda Stone (Instagram’s @yourfavoritehairstylist) created this “Bleeding Ombre” look. It’s a one shot process for creative colors!“By allowing the blonde ends to soak momentarily in the shampooed red ...
Layers of Red Box to Regal Dimension
Sadie Gray (@sadiejcre8s), based at Deja Vu Salon, Santa Rosa, California, posted this gorgeous transformation on Instagram and we had to know more."This is Marisol," Gray says. "She is a natural level 4 with ...
Going Gray-ish with Aveda
Steph at The Establishment WI, an Aveda Salon in Milwaukee, WI (@establishmentwi), gave her client a 'grayish tone.'"We pre-bleached and then I toned with 60g ASH + 60g liquid + 3g It BGR in DEEP ...
by Anne Moratto
Platinum to Copper
Ashlyn Kirkpatrick ( @amkb_9 ) said "this beauty decided to go from platinum to copper red. As always, pictures never do any justice but it’s stunning, healthy and shiny."HAIRCOLOR: All Nutrient4RC, 5T and a little ...
by Anne Moratto
Brightening up to Pearl Blonde
Carly Gillam (@hairbycarlygillam), an artist at Strawberry Blonde Salon in Charleston, SC, specializes in color - specifically balayage. "I love balayage because I feel like an artist," she says, "and every client is a new ...
The Four-Week Evolution of Pink Hair
When Shannon Keel @shannonkeel, (aka The Hair Doo Chick) created her The Hair Parlor in the small town of Lee, Florida, she knew it could be tough to build a clientele from scratch."I knew I needed to prove myself and began posting pictures ...
TRANSFORMATION: High Contrast Blonde
Marie Negron (@glamhairbymarie), owner of Flawless Beauty Salon, Cleveland, Ohio, loves "being a colorist and making my clients beautiful and happy."She had that opportunity with client Ashley who "came back after 6 months ...
2 Tips for Perfect Color Results
Color Master John Simpson has generated a lot of buzz with MODERN's May 2015 cover, a beautiful, shiny, vibrant and saturated red that has all the luster and coverage every colorist wants to offer to his or her client. In these two very ...
TRANSFORMATION: Box to a Bright, Dimensional Red
Nikki A. Straw of Glam Hair Studio (@GlamHairStudioAk), Anchorage, Alaska, posted "Ready, Set, Glam" that caught our eye."This is one of my most recent pieces of work," Straw says. "My client had about 2 inches of level ...
BLONDING: Slow And Steady Wins The Race
"This process was your classic slow and steady wins the race," says hairstylist, makeup artist and model Ashley Paige (@spanishdreamgirl) of ETCH Salon, Scottsdale, AZ. "This took a long time to get where I wanted, but the ...