Stylist Spotlight

Wedding Hair Inspo: See the Top Five Braids and Brides Styling Entries

After narrowing countless entries to the Braids and Brides contest down to 10 semifinalists, we asked the 10 talented stylists to create a braid-based special-occasion look. Our panel of judges and editors picked their five favorites!

This Is a Real Super Bowl: The QuadBowl, a Stylist’s Secret to Beautiful Organization

The QuadBowl is a turnkey system and solution for stylists.

#IBELONG In Beauty: How Christine Butcher Found the Best of All Worlds

Christine Butcher was looking for the benefits of employment and the freedom of being a solo artist. At the Salon by InStyle, she found both!

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No More Broomstick Ends: Flat Iron Tips

Watch this demo on how to avoid those lifeless, flat-ironed ends that have lost all movement and learn how to bevel with the best.

L’ANZA Announces Their Newest Artistic Design Team 

With auditions that took place in the beginning of January 2019 in Los Angeles, L’ANZA added five Advanced Healing Artists to the Artistic Design Team.

11 Hour Platinum Transformation

Colorists are chemists and artists, but not magicians. Here, one colorist shares the truth about the process of taking a dark-haired client to white blonde.

Wahl Select Barber Program Now Accepting Applications

The program that promotes influencers to W.E.A.T. members is about to launch.

HOW-TO: Blotchy and Broken to Blended Blonde

Instagram can lead plenty of new clients into your chair, many of whom probably should have sat down there a long time ago! Aoife Carr's (@blendedblondes) new client found her on Instagram, and Carr knew what the she needed was going to take a lot of time--there was a lot of hair and a lot to fix.

Announcing the Braids and Brides Top 10 SemiFinalists

After receiving countless entries since the launch of our Braids and Brides contest, it was extremely difficult to narrow entries down to 10! From updos, chignons, braids, beautiful buns and finger waves, we certainly saw some beautiful work.

Remembering Oribe

Oribe Canales died December 16, 2018 at the age of 62. Known simply as Oribe, Canales took the beauty and fashion industries by storm for decades—his name synonymous with glamorous, gorgeous hair.

How to Set Perfectly Even Shear Tension for Best Performance

In order to ensure that your shears are performing at their best, you really should do two things everyday – clean them and adjust the tension.  Here's how.

SAG Awards Beauty: Emily Blunt by Laini Reeves for Joico

At Sunday night's Screen Actor's Guild (SAG) Awards 2019, Emily Blunt was styled by Laini Reeves using products from Joico to keep her looking award-winning all night long.

11 Examples of Foil Placement Perfection by Ian Michael Black

Precision makes perfect: In this gallery, we take a look at some of colorist and educator Ian Michael Black's famed foil artistry perfection.

Capturing Your Content: iPhone and Android vs Canon Rebel T6i

Same hair, two different ways of capturing. For years, Hannah Menor, a San Diego-based colorist and stylist, exclusively used her iPhone to capture images of clients for posting on her @hannahdisconnected Instagram page. Then she got a Canon camera--see the difference between the two!

Ford, Interrupted: How a Top Stylist Recovered After Losing a Finger

Caitlin Ford says 2018 was her most successful year professionally. But the artist faced a life-changing event on October 3.

Teal + Purple Color Combo: Hair Color Conditioning Masque That Develops in Minutes

In this short video, Jennifer Lopiccolo @jenniferlopiccolo_hair applies Aloxxi InstaBoost Color Conditioning Masques and we watch that color "take" in minutes, with a beautifully-blended final result.

Video Tutorial: Infinity French Braid Updos

Learn how to recreate these two stunning updos from stylist and Artist Connective member Diana Giannini @lzhouseofhair.