
The Beach Wave Cut
The new Artistic Director for Rusk, Gerard Caruso, demos a quick and easy cutting technique to create beachy waves.
Travel Lightly: Purse-Sized Product Companions
The professional beauty industry is an international business that never stops—requiring frequent travel for editors as we cover events that happen around the country and, sometimes, the globe. While this is an enormous privilege and we have a blast zipping around, it can also be challenging given the carry-on restrictions. But, thanks to travel-sized products, the challenge is a little easier to manage.
Process: New Wave
Arrojo has launched the American Wave System, a professional wave and texture-enhancing service that creates a range of customized styles from beachy waves to expanded textures and curls.
Volumized, Loose Waves at Eli Tahari
At the Eli Tahari 2012 New York Fashion Week show, hair stylist Esther Langham from Alterna Professional, created large, loose waves with lots of extra volume and lift at the roots while still maintaining a feather light feel.
Curls on the Catwalk
The spotlight is on texture in the fashion industry, and we don’t mean tweeds, wools and ruching. Curls, kinks and waves are front and center on the runway this season.
Holiday Hair Styles
Are your clients’ in a bind and need a quick hair style idea for the holidays or a last minute party? Here are some quick and easy how-to’s that will have everyone taking notice of his or her holiday glamor.

Botticelli Waves
Natasha Sunshine-Antonioni uses her styling skills to transform models Tessa and Kristina from graceful Botticelli waves to braided Bohemians.
Bridal Fashion Week Fall/Winter 2011
The Fall/Winter 2011 Bridal Fashion Week hair styles took a fresh approach to embrace a modern, youthful bride. Redken Session Stylist Giovanni Giuntoli created the hair styles in the Christos, Kenneth Pool, and Amsale collections, taking each in its own direction.
The Long Tale: Lengthy Styles from Artist Session
Long hair continues its reign this year, but gone are the shiny, bone-straight manes of past popularity. Stylists are adding curls, waves, volume and even a little frizz to lengthy tresses for results with movement and life. Here, four stylists from MODERN SALON’s recent Artist Session demonstrate how long doesn’t have to be boring.
5 Things to Evaluate in Curly Clients
Waves, Curls, Frizz and Volume. Where to begin? In a recent hair webinar, a viewer asked the guest artist how the featured technique could be used on curly hair. The silence was deafening. Then the babbling, stammering and creative fill-in was comical. The stylist had no answer. Even worse? The shared concept was not adaptable to the curly client.Waves, Curls, Frizz and Volume. Where to begin.

Multi-purpose Iron
This ceramic iron can curl, wave, straighten, condition....all in one!
Fresh Scent for ISO's Option Waves
ISO is adding a fresh spin to Option Waves, its damage-free permanent wave line. ISO has eliminated “perm odor” and replaced it with a fresh scent resulting from an infusion of chlorophyll. The green plant pigment penetrates the cuticle and absorbs odors.
How To: The Beach Wave
Pravana’s Beach Wave service has been generating quite the buzz—since I was in beauty school, and had just wrapped up (pun intended) my chemical theory, I figured I HAD to try it out!




