“To achieve the vibrant hues we are looking for, we need to make sure we are lifting to the correct level,” Rojas advises. “For example, don’t lift past a level 7-8 (orange, orange yellow) for bright red. You need the undertone to help support the red. If you put red on level 9-10, you risk the hair turning pink or a salmon color. Yellow + red= orange/pink!”
Color has burst forth in a big, beautiful way, in fashion, footwear, interior design and, of course, haircolor. Maybe it’s a reaction to the times, and a way to instill a positive burst of energy into the every day, but creative hair color is more popular than it’s ever been before-- and we’re predicting that we’ll only see more of it in the future.
“Rainbow hair,” with its endless combinations of bright colors, is a color finish that is always satisfying to look at and turns heads everywhere your clients go.
While these bold hues are beautiful walking out of the salon, they can also be challenging to get right and to keep bright. Hair Cuttery Color Specialist and Educator José Rojas offers a few tips for getting just the right lift before you apply those rainbow tones.
The Colorproof product line ensures your color work so your vivids stay vibrant long after your clients leave the salon. Colorproof is exclusively designed for color-treated hair to repair, preserve and protect so you can keep on shining longer and more brilliantly. Collaborating with ingredient manufacturers, industry-leading stylists and chemists, ColorProof is a brand of luxurious, award-winning, clean formulas that have won the hearts of hairdressers and their clients worldwide in their pursuit to keep color vibrant and true.
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Artists Who Are Living Bright and Their Fave Color Lines
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FRAMCOLOR Pure Pigment Plus is must-have hair color for overstressed or damaged lightened hair that will no longer hold oxidative color or toners that require peroxide. Low pH acidic formula with no activator required ensures a closed cuticle and compact hair shaft, trapping color molecules in the most porous parts that easily lose color.
Framesi
Good Dye Young, the vegan & cruelty-free hair care brand co-founded by Hayley Williams, lead singer of the Grammy award winning band Paramore, just launched its newest product DYEposit. The collection is the brand's first product to reach everyone with colored hair: a pigmented maintenance treatment to be used weekly or as needed to condition and refresh colored hairs' vibrancy!
Packed with salon quality ingredients including coconut oil, shea butter, avocado oil, and broccoli seed oil, DYEposit is also formulated with Fiberhance™ bonding technology to repair damaged hair from the inside out.
Good Dye Young
Indulge in the softness of milk_shake color whipped cream, colorful foams with delicious fragrances that give delicate, temporary color tones to hair, guaranteeing condition and hydration. Technology and nature combine to give new vitality to hair color with the simplicity and taste of fruit without stains or residue.
milk_shake color whipped cream is formulated to help maintain brightly colored hair by conditioning and depositing an immediate and even color tone. It contains milk proteins that condition and restructure hair, special emollients that provide long-lasting hydration, and the exclusive ingredient Integrity 41® that improves color stability. Color whipped cream comes in 12 fresh and fun shades that help maintain intense, radiant color.
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PRAVANA's award-winning Chromasilk VIVIDS impart long-lasting, rich color and brilliant shine. PRAVANA’s ChromaSilk VIVIDS collection is semi-permanent, non-oxidative hair color that is designed to be used without developer. This direct-dye features Keratin Amino Acids and pure Silk Amino Acids provide strength and durable shine when applied. Use VIVIDS Clear to lighten or pastel and VIVIDS Black to darken any VIVIDS shade.
PRAVANA
Pulp Riot is semi-permanent, direct-dye color that allows artists to create color masterpieces. Easy to apply, vibrant, long-lasting, and fades nicely. For the brightest and truest color tone results, apply on pre-lightened hair. Any shade can be mixed with another to create custom colors. Clear can be used to dilute colors to make them lighter or pastel and Noir (black) can be added to other colors to make them darker. Neon shades glow in black/UV lighting.
Pulp Riot
OK-based Sadé Huckabee (@sadeofcourse) using PRAVANA.
CA-based Jessica Warburton (@hairhunter) using Pulp Riot.
CA-based Hannah Menor (@hannahdisconnected) using PRAVANA.
CA-based Caroline Guiney (@caroline.anythingbutbasic) using Pulp Riot.
CO-based Amanda Harsche (@mandharsche) using Pulp Riot.
Alyssa Wiener (@alyssawiener) using Manic Panic, PRAVANA, Iroiro, Pulp Riot, and Oligo.
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Here at MODERN SALON, we love to showcase the work of the members of our Artist Connective, our exclusive community of beauty professionals and content creators. We asked our members to send us their best rainbows, unicorns and pastel perfection hair pictures for your inspiration and viewing pleasure. And here are some of their favorite products to create and preserve that rainbow connection!
XMondo
Founded by hairstylist and YouTube star Brad Mondo, XMONDO is designed to inspire a new age of hair care and color. XMONDO Color is an easy-to-use, semi-permanent formula that delivers high-impact color and vegan bond-building technology for healthier, head-turning hair. Why can’t color actually benefit your hair instead of damaging it? XMONDO aims to provide vibrant color that makes your hair healthier post coloring.
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MONDO Riot
Founded by hairstylist and YouTube star Brad Mondo, XMONDO is designed to inspire a new age of hair care and color. XMONDO Color is an easy-to-use, semi-permanent formula that delivers high-impact color and vegan bond-building technology for healthier, head-turning hair. Why can’t color actually benefit your hair instead of damaging it? XMONDO aims to provide vibrant color that makes your hair healthier post coloring.
Pulp Riot
Pulp Riot is semi-permanent, direct-dye color that allows artists to create color masterpieces. Easy to apply, vibrant, long-lasting, and fades nicely. For the brightest and truest color tone results, apply on pre-lightened hair. Any shade can be mixed with another to create custom colors. Clear can be used to dilute colors to make them lighter or pastel and Noir (black) can be added to other colors to make them darker. Neon shades glow in black/UV lighting.
PRAVANA
PRAVANA's award-winning Chromasilk VIVIDS impart long-lasting, rich color and brilliant shine. PRAVANA’s ChromaSilk VIVIDS collection is semi-permanent, non-oxidative hair color that is designed to be used without developer. This direct-dye features Keratin Amino Acids and pure Silk Amino Acids provide strength and durable shine when applied. Use VIVIDS Clear to lighten or pastel and VIVIDS Black to darken any VIVIDS shade.
milk_shake
Indulge in the softness of milk_shake color whipped cream, colorful foams with delicious fragrances that give delicate, temporary color tones to hair, guaranteeing condition and hydration. Technology and nature combine to give new vitality to hair color with the simplicity and taste of fruit without stains or residue.
milk_shake color whipped cream is formulated to help maintain brightly colored hair by conditioning and depositing an immediate and even color tone. It contains milk proteins that condition and restructure hair, special emollients that provide long-lasting hydration, and the exclusive ingredient Integrity 41® that improves color stability. Color whipped cream comes in 12 fresh and fun shades that help maintain intense, radiant color.
Good Dye Young, the vegan & cruelty-free hair care brand co-founded by Hayley Williams, lead singer of the Grammy award winning band Paramore, just launched its newest product DYEposit. The collection is the brand's first product to reach everyone with colored hair: a pigmented maintenance treatment to be used weekly or as needed to condition and refresh colored hairs' vibrancy!
Packed with salon quality ingredients including coconut oil, shea butter, avocado oil, and broccoli seed oil, DYEposit is also formulated with Fiberhance™ bonding technology to repair damaged hair from the inside out.
Learn More
Framesi
FRAMCOLOR Pure Pigment Plus is must-have hair color for overstressed or damaged lightened hair that will no longer hold oxidative color or toners that require peroxide. Low pH acidic formula with no activator required ensures a closed cuticle and compact hair shaft, trapping color molecules in the most porous parts that easily lose color.
Good Dye Young
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