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Box Hair Color Fail to Beautiful Balayaged Babylights
Arsova Salon Founder and Creative Director Anita Arsova gave her model a salon professional makeover, complete with a haircut, style and new hair color. "After using box color repeatedly at home, my model's hair became very dry," ...
HOW TO: Blonde Mohawk
Kait Marie (@kaitmariehair), a hair and makeup artist from Kenya, now based in LA and NY, created this blonde mohawk that really caught our eye. Here she offers the HOW TO: Step 1 : Apply Redken Flash lift ...
HOW TO: Icy Silver
Terry Savas (@terrysavas) of The Edge Hair Design, Roseburg, Oregon, really nailed this icy silver finish. "Clients like Sophie are far and few between," she says. "Creating change and fun colors is something I love to do. I ...
FHI Heat Introduces Stylus Thermal Styling Brush
FHI Heat Stylus Thermal Styling Brush helps add volume to fine, limp hair by creating lift at the root. If you have highly textured hair, the Stylus glides through to smooth, tame and control flyaways. On long hair, the ridged back helps guide ...
by Lauren Quick
Reviving Color with Malibu C
Emily Savage(@emilyhairdesign) shared this ‘after’ photo of her client who came in with colored hair that was dingy and dull. “You’ll notice in the first picture an orange cast caused by hard water build ...
by Anne Moratto
Beautifully Blended Tropical Shades by Kelli Zehnder
They are the colors of tropical flowers and exotic birds--red, pink, yellow, orange and orchid--and they are beautifully integrated in this finish by Kelli Zehnder. She used JOICO Intensity Shades and shared the result on Instagram. ...
by Anne Moratto
How-To: Braided Updo by Jenny Strebe with fave4
If you haven't yet noticed, the age of the braid is still very much upon us. From beach days to red carpet, braids in all forms and fashions have been popping up and inspiring creative, weaved looks. Jenny Strebe of Confessions of ...
by Lauren Quick
Arctic Blonde
Alissa Frum, a colorist at Eva Scrivo and a member of the Eva Scrivo Academy, is getting a lot of buzz for this "arctic blonde" she recently posted on instagram. "For this client I applied L'Oreal Platinium with ...
HOW-TO: Twilight Highlights Inspired by Colors of the Morning Sky
Colorist Shonda Broadus (@ShondaBroadus) sent us how-to steps to this beautiful pastel silver, pink and purple hair color. Inspired by the twilight sky, Broadus used Schwarzkopf Professional hair color to achieve this look.THE COLOR STEPS:STEP ...
Base to Cover Gray to Glossy Finish
Check out this before-during-and-after by Jess Dunaway (@colorbyjess) who works out of Ian McCabe Studio in Washington, D.C. Her client was booked as a single and a full head of highlights. She was with her for approximately 3 ½ ...
by Anne Moratto
Balayage Ombre Highlights and Color Melt
Pam Edwards (@hairbypam), a Sacramento-based hairdresser and hair extension artist, colormelted her client's hair a few days before starting on round two. Here's how she described the second phase on Instagram:“Balayage ombre ...
by Anne Moratto
THE JOURNEY: Champagne to True Blonde to Silver
Kymmie Friedman (@devil.doll) admits this was a long and tedious process, but SOOOOO worth it! The color specialist and freelance hairstylist based at Blackbyrd in Pasadena, California, is thrilled with the results (so is the client!) Here ...
Radical Transformation
Riechard Alexandre (@reichardexclusives) , a Paul Mitchell educator and stylist at Salon Sessions Studio, Pasadena, California, has found that blonding, color and styling are his true passions. Danielle, ...
Corrective Color: All Over the Place to Even Tone and Shade
Roxy (@beauty_byroxy), a hairdresser at a Regis Salon in Albuquerque, NM, does a great job of sharing her work on social platforms."I did a corrective color on my guest, taking her from a natural level 3 dark brown at her root ...
by Anne Moratto
Complete Makeup, Hair Transformation by Renk and McGowan
When a client comes in for a total transformation it can often be scary and daunting, not only for them, but for the stylist too! Completely changing a look can sometimes result in an unhappy customer, even if the result was exactly what they ...
5 Tips for Going Pink
We're tickled pink with Kate Hudson's new pretty pink hair created by Pravana Guest Artist Danny Moon of Andy LeCompte Salon, Los Angeles. So much that we caught up with the celebrity color guru to get the formula.GET THE LOOK: Formula ...
COLOR CORRECTION: From Skunk To Sombre
Miriam Ortega has been challenged with some dramatic color corrections, but she says "This color correction was the most invasive, yet precise color correction I have done."Client Pamela came in with a ...