Color

When Is a Color Service Considered a Color Correction?

It’s sometimes tough for colorists to agree on what would be considered a “color correcting” service.  What does it entail, exactly? These two master colorists share their definition and their expertise based on consultation, price, products and more.

Not Your Mama’s Henna: Biolage to Launch Plant-Based Biolage Color with No-Lift Technology

See why more than 7 million people are freaking out about this upcoming plant-based hair color launch that’ll have you saying YES to henna (yes, really!)

Experienced and Emerging Stylists Compete in the Global Image Awards

Months of planning, practicing on mannequin heads, taking the perfect photos, and working with vision has paid off for select entrants of America’s Beauty Show’s (ABS) renowned international competition.

Lift Without Lightener: The Secret for Natural Blondes Who Want to Be Baby Blondes

An Aveda product and formula that is very customizable and easy-to-use.

MAKEOVER: Box Color Transformation and New Haircut

Start following @vanessayvonnehair for some gorgeous makeovers including this one. Here's the formula and how-to for this cool-girl finish.

Getting Even: 8 Hour Color Correction to Eliminate Banding

“The key to this was evening out the canvas by pre-lightening all the warm areas.” See what else this blonding specialist did to create the final, beautiful result.

Makeover: Grown-Out to Gorgeous Lavender to Silver Melt

Get the details for this makeover by Joie Wallace.

Best Red Formula!

Get the details for this gorgeous red by Goldwell's Steven Picciano.

Explaining Foilyage, Teasylights, Shadow Root and Other Hair Color Techniques to a Salon Client

Here's a short cheat sheet from a master blonder with descriptions of these different techniques.

Makeover: Going For Wow!

Get the details for this makeover for the client looking for a WOW finish.

3 Muted Metallics to Try Right Now

Paul Mitchell the Color is on-trend with the launch of three new luminous muted metallic shades in its Demi collection—Lavender, Silver and Rose Gold. Pastel hair color is the way to go this spring!

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Hair Color: Lavender Steel

This muted metallic hair color lets guests play with fun color. Add muted metallics into their current color to give them diffused, peeks of color. It’s also a great add-on to a color service and it keeps them coming back, because they feel heard.

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5 Tips for Seamless Blending

From an application artist, we offer up these simple-yet-effective suggestions for lightening and blending.

Detangle Backcombed Hair with Ease

Creating beautiful, teasy highlights takes mad skill. From sectioning and formulating to application and processing, being a colorist means creating works of art. See what Artist Connective member Caroline Guiney used to detangle backcombed highlights with ease for this look

How-To: Magical Melt

Get the details for this makeover, going from uneven and faded to a clean and tasteful melt.

Joico Uses Virtual Reality to Enter the World of Healthy Hair

Joico is among the first in the pro-hair space to do this because they believe VR is the new way to bring a “gotta-see-it-to-believe-it” product experience to life.

MAKEOVER: Balayage, Babylights and Teasy-Lights for the Win

Katelynd Curtis combined balayage, babylights, teasy-lights, a base shade and proper toning to turn this brassy golden blonde to a bright and exciting ashy platinum.