Color

How to Create Perfectly Blurred Balayage

Having the right tools to blend balayage seamlessly is vital to a successful service.

Toning Technique for Outside Foils, Removing Warmth and More

We love following Cassandra @cassandraplatinum for her superstar color smarts. Here's how she tones for the best, most beautiful results.

Off-Scalp Highlights: 6 Tips for the Best Results

Tackle the pitfalls faced when clients want dimension in their haircolor, but don't want highlights coming out directly from the scalp.

Liquid Pantyhose: Huda Beauty’s New Body Highlighter

Next level highlighter just in time for summer.

5 Blonding Tips for Beautiful Results

It's the time of year when just about every client who sits in your chair wants to go lighter and brighter in some way. Whitney Parr, Wella Design Team artist and Master Color Expert-certified, shares her hit list of tips to get you through blonding seasons.

Purple, Pink, Yellow, Blue: 9 Times Celeb Luxury Makeovers Blew Us Away

Stunning, on-trend looks created with Celeb Luxury's Colorwash and Colorditioner + Bondfix. See the transformations and get the formulas in this gallery of inspo.

How To Charge For Corrective Color

Your menu covers the basics—single process, double process, highlights, balayage. But what happens when that inky-haired box color client shows up in shock, begging you to restore her to her natural shade? How much should that cost? There are many ways to charge for corrective color, but a recent poll of ModernSalon.com pros reveals four key approaches.

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Balayage and Instagram - Important Takeaways

The SalonCentric "Balayage and Social Media Bootcamp" graduates share their favorite takeaways from the workshop.

MAKEOVER: Damaged and Banded To Beautiful Blonde

Get the details for this gorgeous makeover, from damaged and banded to gorgeous blonde, by Sue Tyrrell.

Hair Transformation: From Long Brunette to Bubbly Blonde

This beautiful hair overhaul resulted in a champagne blonde.

Back From the Red: Copper to Cool Blonde Breakdown

This was accomplished in one four-hour-long session, but the colorist was incredibly attentive and alert. “I checked her hair under the dryer every 10 minutes to make sure her porosity was good."

Marshmallow Latte Melt and More from @PaintedHair

The beauty of @paintedhair is that she is now sharing her technique through Painted Hair classes. See a few of her formulas and learn more about how you can tap into her technique.

12 Blondes for Hair Inspiration All Year Long

This gallery of jaw-dropping blondes is sure to help inspire you as summer nears—think babylights, balayage, face-framing lightness and platinum effects in all their sun-kissed glory. Each one is created using Truss Professional.

Color Correction: Removing Years of Black Box Color

The formula, steps and results of removing 4 years of a client's at-home box hair color and transforming her look with professional hair color.

Color Outside the Lines: Win an LA Trip, a Photo Shoot and Haircolor Cred

It's an annual competition to show off your coloring creativity and it's completely conducted via social media.

Met Gala Beauty: Emma Stone by Mara Roszak

With celebs encouraged to bring their most outrageous selves, the Met Gala red carpet saw some stunning looks.

When Mistakes Happen: I Melted Off a Client's Hair

In a recent post on her Instagram, Philadelphia hair colorist Jess Dworniczak bravely shared a story about every colorist's worst nightmare: she melted off her client's hair. "No, that’s not a euphemism. It’s a short version of the worst moment of my career, and it happened just the other day," she says.