

Redken Introduces New Shades EQ Pastel Shades
Redken is introducing four new makeup-inspired Shades EQ Pastels.

MAKEOVER: Baby Blonde To Pastel Lavender
Get the details for this lovely makeover by Goldwell Regional Artistic Team Member, Steven Picciano.

HOW-TO: Rose Gold Color Melt
Cajsa Sundström (@cajsaasundstrom), an independent hairdresser working at Hårstället near Stockholm, Sweden, shares the details for this lovely transformation from faded to a dimensional color melt.

Trending: LaCroix Hair Color
Pastel and vibrant hues still have a tight grip on hair-color trends—so it should come as no surprise, really, that LaCroix-inspired hair color is the latest trend. Scruples challenged colorists to take inspiration from their favorite LaCroix can designs and interpret it into a color creation.

Bubblegum Pink Metallic from Prorituals
Doug created the look with PRORITUALS new Metallics hair color that features “chromaprism technology” to deliver longer lasting more vibrant hair color.

How to get Pastel Pink Perfection
Larissa was thrilled with the plan, but after the root application, expressed concern—a lot of concern. “She could not see through to the end result,” Stenson says. “She thought we were taking her dark brown. It’s hard for a non-professional to understand what goes on during the color process.

Candy Hair: Pastel Hair Color Formula from L'Oreal
For a sweet effect, seamlessly blended panels of L’Oréal Professionnel pastels melt into the natural color.

Starburst Orange: Pastel Hair Color Formula from Lakme USA
This Lakme USA technique also uses a placement pattern that imagines and mimics how the light from stars is softly diffused.

Ajisai: Pink and Blue Color Formula from Hoyu
Ajisai, Japanese for hydrangea, combines a delicate pink and piercing blue to create a fiercely feminine look.

Icy Blush: Pastel Color Formula from Milk_Shake
This Icy Blush look features pastel colors that are distant from natural tones to add a touch of class and concentrate on the fringe area.

Pastel Pink: Soft Pink Formula from Redken
Redken pastels give clients glossy shine with sheer shades. Use them to add a pastel hue or a soft wash of color—or to tone and correct for a flawless filter effect.

Candy-Blush Color Formula from Rusk
When Rusk bold colors are softened for a dose of transparency, you achieve a pastel version of vibrant shades with brilliant shine.

Sea Foam: Rainbow Pastel Formula from Pravana
The illusion of frothy waves in pastel Pravana shades that move forward from an ocean blue was created with a split-color technique, in which the hair is separated from back to front.

Raspberry Ripple: Pastel Pink Color Formula from Manic Panic
Manic Panic’s solution for when your client wants something that will fade back to blonde by the holidays.

Bold Rose: Rose Gold Color Formula from Kenra
The rose-gold obsession leads to a hypnotizing version of the shade thathas unique dimension and a shimmery finish using Kenra Color.

Pastel Lavender: Light Purple Color Formula from Goldwell
A sophisticated fusion of subtly varying depths of pastel lavender adds dimension anddepth to the regrowth of this look. Goldwell color seamlessly blends outward into acooler, glimmering pastel shade.

Blush Rosé Hair Color from Scruples
The placement of the lightener, the type of lightener used and the level of lift achieved all come together to create this dimensional Blush Rosé shade, which uses a Scruples smudge root formula and one toner.




