If you get your hair colored at the salon, you know there are two commonly used techniques that pros use to apply color: balayage (where the color is painted on with a brush) and foils (when the hair is covered with color and then wrapped in foil), but now there’s a new technique to hit the scene called hand-pressed coloring. Redken colorist[…]
Adela’s loves Instagram (@adelashair), so we find it extremely fascinating that Instagram filters are now informing the way people color their hair. Instamatic coloring has been inspired by the filtered images everyone puts on Instagram these days. When you add a filter on Instagram to give your photos that ‘washed out look’ your photos look great.[…]
Ombre may have been a massive recent hair trend, but in the fast-changing world of high fashion, things are moving on to…pixels? The latest quirky color trend to be trialling is pixelated hair and, as the name suggests, it involves having pixel style graphics colored onto your locks. Pioneered in Spain by hair colorists Jose Luis Almendral,[…]
You’ve probably heard about it, but what is it? Simply put, Olaplex is the chemistry that multiplies bonds and cross-links broken bonds. The product was started by two of the world’s leading PHD’s in Materials and Chemistry that had never worked on hair products before, Dr. Eric Pressly and Dr. Craig Hawker. With this fresh outlook, this[…]
Balayage has been around for a while but this timeless technique is creeping its way back into being one of the most popular hair color requests in salons today. What is balayage? Balayage is a French word meaning to sweep or to paint. It allows for a sun-kissed natural looking hair color – similar to[…]
Why do you color your hair? Are you looking to stand-out? Looking to blend in? Are you going through life changes and need your look to visually represent this experience? Sometimes changing hair color actually helps bring out what you are feeling inside—or how you want to feel. Kyle White over at Marie Claire has done quite a bit of observation[…]