Merry New Hair

This season color is all over the place. From Punk colors, to dipped ends, to Rooty effects to classic color; we have it all.
As chaotic and unpredictable as our world, haircolor is whatever your mood wants it to be at any given time.
We are in such a creative pot of whim these days that clients can experience all varieties of looks.
So how can you achieve all this excitement without breaking the bank and without completely changing everything about your color and cut?
Simple: add a few highlights to frame your look and go for an exciting tone, or if you already have an existing base color with highlights just try glossing those dimensional strands with a new shade. This will completely shift and change your appearance with no extra cost or time.
The famed Ombre is getting a new twist. The once extreme look has shifted into a beautiful oozing, glowing feel on the mid shaft and ends of the hair. Think of a cascade effect from your darker root area growing into a lighter sun-kissed version of your own color. Ombre can be seen as hair dipping.
Brunettes are rising to new heights of sexiness. It is a mature responsible color that never goes out of style, its classic and can be so fun and sensual. Just add new tones of golden brown and chocolate to you current brown by infusing light browns with dark browns to create the shadow effect. It is no longer about specific highlights and lines or contrasts of lightness but about creating the illusion of reflection and space. Imagine accenting your brown with veils and valances of similar hues of brown ever so slightly twinkling in 2 part counterpoint.
Blondes are rich and tonal, not washed out, faded or over processed. The modern blonde is hot and smoking with gold, butterscotch, caramel, sand, bamboo, maple, and almond with touches of cinnamon, curry, or cayenne. These are multi tonal, thicker in richness blondes like never before. Blondes are not supposed to just go lighter and lighter without reason but rather to show how empty or negative space can create the perfect interior shadow to background your haircut lines with those brighter tones.
Cuts are ranging from long and tossy to short and asymmetrical depending on who you are. Don’t be afraid to lose some length, it could be the exact mood enhancement you need. More waves and curls are expected so it’s time to grab some curling irons and give the flat iron a vacation this holiday season. Texture creates interest, this could be the interest needed to be noticed in 2012.

Conditioning Treatments – Don’t Get Fooled Again

Salons advertise conditioning treatments. How do you know what you are getting and what you are paying for?
As a consumer you must ask questions about their so-called “conditioning treatments”
A great tip off to see if you are being ripped off is when salons advertise “deep conditioning treatment”
What does that exactly mean?
What is the point and purpose of a conditioning treatment?
Many salons take advantage of this by buying the largest, cheapest, horrible quality, junk they can find and dispense it in a cup of some type and an assistant applies it and places you under a dryer.
These “deep conditioning treatments” are nothing more than water (aqua), cetyl alcohol, cetrimonium chloride, fragrance (parfum), potassium chloride, distearyldimonium chloride, disodium edta, dmdm hydantoin, silk powder, tocopheryl acetate (vitmain e acetate), methylchloroisothiazolinone, methylisothiazolinone,

In other words just a bunch of heavy laden products filled with junk that fools you into a false sense of hair manageability.

Consumers typically over use hair conditioners for the purpose of being able to comb through their hair on a daily basis.

In fact many of these products immediately promote hair color fading and weigh the hair down. That slick quick fix you get coats the outside of the hair allowing you to comb it but beyond that causes more harm than good and yes you can over use and abuse conditioners.

For this purpose people need a good quality detangler which closes the outer layer of the hair making combing the way it should be. These are weightless and color safe.

As far as haircolor goes, the typical conditioner out there is a larger molecule than haircolor and cause what I refer to as the Pac Man effect. The conditioning molecule eats up that beautiful color you just spent all that money on. Therefore you must be using color safe, color retaining product that is balanced with the color you are paying for. Similar ingredients vs. some other brand not formulated for your haircolor.

So when a salon offers a conditioning treatment ask what is in it, what will it do for me, will it fade color, is it designed for my hair type and texture.

Be careful what you end up paying for these bogus salon rip off services.

A reputable salon will have an array of “Treatment” options on their menu and will be called so. These honest salons will have products designed for different and specific needs to improve the health and quality of your hair and can back up their claims with fact and proof in the performance and the ingredients.

A Hair Studio Artists we are proud of our many quality treatment options that are performance and ingredient driven.

We work with Malibu C, Inspired by a long held commitment to health-based beauty, Malibu Wellness is a leader in the salon natural treatment category and home to Malibu C®, a groundbreaking brand of patented formulas blended with freshly activated vitamin crystals. Malibu C powerfully and effectively draws and removes damaging hard water deposits and environmental impurities that can diminish the health and appearance of both hair and skin - leaving each with renewed clarity and vitality. This first of its kind revolutionary technology uses a potent L-Ascorbic Acid form of Vitamins C.

We are proud to inform you of your options. Currently we carry treatments for swimmers, blondes, hard water, repair and special in-salon treatments that can correct or adjust color, as well as our most potent hair detox that removes impurities, product buildup, toxins and helps restore hair to a place of color clarity and condition.
Each one is specifically designed for that specific purpose and we also use Patrice products for our shampoo and styling line. Patrice is all natural, simply one ingredient away from organic while our Malibu line is 100% vegan.
In addition we carry power dose treatments designed for color treated clients who want long lasting luscious shine, contrast clarity and repair for damaged blondes and over bleach hair.
Because we care so much about the canvas of hair being the most important venue for creating our highly skilled work we have chosen to keep our price points affordable with little to no mark up.
Once you pass the $30 mark on a treatment you have to start questioning integrity. We base treatment pricing on the time and knowledge we need in order to make the properly informed decisions about your hair as well as on the quality of the company and their ingredients.
We will drop any line that veers from this or that takes their business to the supermarket or drug store level.
It is important to us to offer this knowledge to you so that you understand the mutual commitment we share to you, your hair, and to having you remain loyal and raving fans of our salon.
So next time you see QVC, or are in the supermarket, or happen to talk to someone from another salon or friend who goes to another salon think really hard about what we have shared.