Color

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.

COLOR HOW-TO: From Blonde to Beyond by @chadkenyon

Redken (with Olaplex incorporated, always) formulas plus some bang action changed-up this look in a bright and beautiful way.

Having A Bronde Moment

Redken Ambassadors Jamie Sea, @prettylittleombre and Daniel Mora, @danielmbeauty, brilliantly combine brown and blonde shades to create a bronde combination for nearly everyone. Here are three of their top bronde looks, plus tips for achieving the best brondes in the business! 

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Cool-Tone Balayage Color Correction Breaks Through Banding for Beautiful Blend

Reema Jaber is a color correction artist and this transformation was performed on hair that was fragile and very banded.

Level Up: New Pravana Pure Light Ultra Lightener for 9 Levels of Lift

Pravana introduces a new power lightener to their hair color assortment, this with the proprietary Reunite Mending Technology.

Blonding, Balayage and Babylights: Why We're Obsessed with @Mane_Ivy

If you're longing for effortlessly perfect sunkissed hair inspiration, look no further than Michelle Zeller Porumb, @mane_ivy.

MAKEOVER: Uh-Oh to Icy Blonde

Get the details for this dramatic makeover.

The Wet Balayage Technique Will Boost and Brighten Dull Ends

Colorist Jessica Vanderwouden uses the wet balayage service to boost everyday color services with minimal time investment. This service allows her to balayage her clients’ hair while wet when the client wants to be slightly brightened, but needs a gentle approach.

The Reality of Transitioning from Dark to Blonde

Pittsburgh colorist Marissa Pusateri @marissapusateri posted color correction showing the realities of going blonde.

One Session, 12-Hour Color Correction with Pravana

And she charged by the hour.  Get the details here!

Bronde Ambitions: Babylights and Teasylights with a Shadow Root

Southington, Connecticut stylist Nicole O'Hare, @nicoleoharehair, created this total #hairgoals bronde color using three different techniques.

AirTouch Technique: What it is, How it’s Done, and Why Your Clients Will be Saying Bye-Bye to Traditional Balayage

Learn all about the Russian highlighting and coloring technique created by Vladimir Sarbashev, it's a technique that's booming down salon doors in Eastern Europe and is moments away from being the biggest trend in American lightening and coloring since ombre and balayage.

The Key to a Seamless Gloss Application

Often when we think of hair color magic we think of creations brought to life with foils or painting techniques. But sometimes the most beautiful, jaw-dropping color results come from perfect blending at the shampoo bowls.

Color How-To: Blonding with Foilayage

Learn how Kellie Ferraro performs this highlighting service at the Salon by InStyle inside JCPenny.