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Hair Color Inspiration & Formulation: Auburn Dusk
This rich silver-red glazed with copper is a gorgeous and unusual hue that’s both earthy and fashion-forward. Mixing warm and cool reds produces a vibrant, yet muted effect. A scatter of highlights,...
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Hair Color Inspiration and Formulation: Bronzed Brunette
Dark strands aglow with deep golden light have a lovely beachy quality. This look is best achieved by hand painting with color instead of lightening and toning. This technique will control the amount...
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Hair Colors To Try: Smokey Pastels
Smokey tones tinged with pastel provide a new, dusky spectrum of shades. These colors are rich, soft, and mysterious. They’re a lovely contrast to light and bright summer ensembles and will pair...
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Hair Color Inspiration and Formulation: Creme Fraiche
This blonde takes after its namesake ingredient: decadent, creamy, and sophisticated. It’s bright, but not not quite platinum, with a flattering neutral hue that works on almost any skin tone. Subtly...
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Hair Color Inspiration and Formulation: The Marvel of Marigold
One of the last flowers of the summer, marigolds take us out of the warm season with a bang. Their brightly colored, many petalled flowers in rich shades of red, orange, and gold, bring to mind fall...
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Hair Color Inspiration and Formulation: Distressed Leather
Supple and soft, distressed leather has a uniquely rugged luxuriousness that translates perfectly to hair. To achieve subtle variations within strands, a blend of khaki and caramel tones are combined...
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Hair Color Inspiration and Formulation: Deconstructed Rose Gold
Layering dusty pink and flaxen shades provides a fresh take on the rose gold trend. This combination of colors works on any length and adds depth and dimension while maintaining brightness. They key...
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Hair Cut and Color Inspiration: Shy Violet Undercut Bob
This pretty look, created by stylist Elysia Purnell, features bold details, shyly placed, creating a coy and surprisingly delicate look. A classic bob outline and clever color placement minimize the...
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Professional How-To: Selecting Highlight Colors
We all know beautiful color we when see it, whether it’s vivid streaks or subtle sombre, some colors just work. But choosing your own pallet can be tough, and the wrong choices can lead to...
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Color Inspiration and Formulation: Berry and Cream
Bright red with creamy peach highlights creates a decadent and surprisingly soft blend of hues. This color combination works best on short cuts where it’s easy to place the lighter pieces along the...
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Hair Color Inspiration & Formulation: Light & Buttery Macadamia Blonde
The macadamia is often used in sweet confections for its light yet buttery taste and soft warm color. Applying its hue to strands lends an understated, earthy decadence. Though the shade appears...
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Color Inspiration and Formulation: Smoky Almond Brown
Nutty hues carry a delicate richness that exudes healthful beauty, like this light cool brown. The primary tone here is a cool brown, but the ashy base is balanced with a topaz reflection. The rich...
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How Southern Girls Wear Pastels: Brown With Brights
After many years of living in New York, where the palette tends toward cool neutrals, I’m very appreciative of the way southerners wear color. Southern women love bright printed dresses, jewel-toned...
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Hair Color Inspiration & Formulation: The Royal Palette, Violet and Gold
Purple and Gold are rich hues associated with royalty and they’re stunning together. Violet and yellow sit directly opposite each other on the painter’s color wheel, making them complimentary hues....
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Hair Color Inspiration & Formulation: Sweet Watermelon
Watermelon is a lovely hue that feels both pink and red, warm and cool. It looks as good as a watermelon tastes, one of the brightest, punchiest colors in nature. Replicating the shade in hair...
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Pre-Fall Hair Color Inspiration & Formulation: Roasted Sweet Potato
Raw sweet potatoes are an unimpressive coral shade, but roasting the tubers and adding a dash of spice transforms their pale flesh into a lovely, earthy orange that’s perfect for the upcoming season....
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Hair Color Inspiration & Formulation: Gritty Cement Blonde
Concrete gray tinged with bits of taupe, cream, and gold takes on the silver hair trend in an understated way. This blonde shade is fashionable, but wearable, with more pigment than many platinum...
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Hair Color Inspiration and Formulation: Gilded Strawberry Blonde
This color is adapted from the rose-gold hues that were popular this summer. By deepening and brightening the shade slightly, it can be easily transitioned into fall. This color has a much stronger...
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Hair Color Inspiration and Formulation: Blood Orange
Some like it bright and this rich scarlet hue is sure to satisfy. Bold and lush like it’s namesake fruit, this saturated shade has just enough copper undertone to keep the shade from looking pinkish....
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Hair Color Inspiration & Formulation: Barely Brunette, The Perfect Shade For...
Transitioning back to a more a natural hue from a bright platinum can be a shocking experience. Compared to sunny blonde, brunette shades can feel harsh and severe. But this soft barely-brown hue,...
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