Vivid colors for high lights, I want some new tones, placed side-by-side… L-U-V my haircut! I know that you will want it!
Fla$h, Fla$h, Fla$h, Fla$h… Let me see that color $pla$h! I have this dress that’s tangerine, can we match it? Oh, and do you have feather lashes? Wait… What?
It is a true pleasure to share my three main intrigues that keep me inspired every single day! The love of Fashion, Finish and of course The Fabulous! Let’s take a trip in the “Now” of these three big F”s and find out the what, why and how? Ready… Set… “Illumination”Anyone?
The Fashion
Yellow and copper in a wing… With them both, I’ll have everything!
So the fab new spin in the world of color, from conservative to fashion forward to the ever-loving “ombre,” is simplifying the working zone and utilizing intentional curved sections that allow color to move and live in the appropriate rounds of the head. Don’t smother your work with 400 foils, work in elongated curves and points. You may wittle, slice and weave, though even better, take thin 1/2” block color sections that melt into one another and allow your colorations to illuminate!
Place them within a wing-like section on the round of the head and within the parietal zone or further on the contours of the crown. What you do inside them is up to you! This will accentuate your shape perfectly and allow it to take on a new look with every twist, turn and spin! A favorite twist to red is placing it against a cool deep violet base, reflective amber sandwiched between a rich reflective red copper. My favorite formulas live in GOLDWELLS Elumen and Topchic… Intrigued? Go to goldwellnorthamerica.com to view more techniques and tones! You will love it… I just can’t deny!
The Finish
Gimme a new haircut, gimme it quick… gimme a new cut today!
The new shapes becoming the crave are pixies, bobs and lobs! They each have their own versatility and identity. The “new client” wants extreme versatility and their own unique style. Lets take a look!
Pixie – The Pixie takes a new spin this year with a fascinating new identity. The underneath is shorter and disconnected from the top, while the length of the interior is longer and more precise with soft textured layers. This multi-level effect provides endless options of style and a carefree look.
Bobs – The new Bob has an unexpected twist this year. Undercut short interior with a long drop from ear to jaw, then the back with an ear-to-nape drop exterior. Interior inversion creates flexability and movement with a blunt edge and soft texture. No fringe needed with this versatile style! No matter if its smoothe curly or textured, this new bob will provide all of the joy in life with every swing!
Lobs – With this fab shape don’t think connected, think intentional disconnection! The new approach to the Lob is a tailored blunt edge “sq-round” layer back, keeping a soft-meets-collapsed round effect with longer, disconnected drops around the sides. Take a blunt fringe to the brow with soft interior texture and this new shape will always be in elegant movement!
What makes the finish special is the blow dry! Use a classic styling and finishing brush to blow dry into shape and do not use the flat iron to make it flat! Just control the ends a bit. The perfect amount of control blow dry lotion (my favorite is GOLDWELL Style Sign Flat Marvel) and then let the style come to life! L-U-V My Haircut!
The Fabulous
OK, the Fabulous is everything that all we do, so… the Fabulous is YOU! Hammer Time – ooh ooh ooh ooh!
The color palette of hair, fashion and face have become wildly vivid for the winter into spring of 2012! This exciting electricity is allowing us to bring excitement and purpose into everything which is design. In the hair, it’s strategic color placement that is a perfect accent to the darker base. In fashion, the brights against the darks create the sexy movement of a dress that melts into a deeper shade at the base to tip (kinda like ombre… hmmmm?). The perfect asymmetric cutouts or chest fabric overlap, or even the high pleat side or gathering of the skirt is the perfect match to the shape and the tone of the hair! Start living in color and embracing everything you see around you! I think you may be surprised once you let your eye wander deeper into design and color! Also if you visit the fashion stylings of Dior, Nicole Miller and even American Apparel, you will see it has come to life! DIOR… WERK! Let me see that color $pla$h!
The Face
On the face we’re finding lip and shadow colors reminiscent of the late 80′s and early 90′s with loads of liner against vivid solid shadow shades over the lower lid, and it’s even translated into the nail polish shades!
The pallets are made up of yellows, olive greens, blue orchid turquoise, marmalade orange, soft rose, and electric violet. Sounds intriguing, yes? Have fun and paint every canvas: make it special, make it fun, but more than anything, make it you! You got to get your paint today! Thinking of that D-D-D-D Dancing in the Dark girl! Oh no worries… with all that bright color, I’ll see ya girl! Lol. Oh and PS, they are not done with feathers, except on the lashes! Lol!
Who’s taking us into the winter/spring with their new vibrant beats and rhythmic chants? It’s Miss Madonna, of course! Taking it back a bit but keeping it sexy with a new twist to the “Mickey” song (I don’t get the videos meaning but it’s kinda hot! Maybe I’m old? Oh, I hope not!) Miss Nicki Minaj is belting it out as always and mixing it up with more artists giving us a hybrid GaGa/Lil Kim feel (the club mixes… so sickening!) I would like to see this “Clap” their talking about! And this man that sings the spin on Paula Abdul’s “Straight Up” song! Love it but I don’t really know what he’s saying after the chorus (Oh my… I may be getting old! Oh, I’ll just Google it!)
I hope that you enjoyed, and I can’t wait for you to visit again next month for another dip & a trip! I am fortunate to be able to view the world, as I am sure most of you are, a bit differently! Finding beauty in everything I see and everything I do! I crave the inspiration from the 3 F’s and this gives me my interpretation of what I want to put into hair! I tell myself every day that… “Life is not a dress rehearsal… live it , love it, create it!”
About John Simpson
John Simpson is a GOLDWELL International Artist & GOLDWELL Art Director, and a salon partner at Lewis Hair Salon in Pittsburgh, PA. John’s passion is to educate stylists in all salon concepts and full beauty imagery, conveying the message of inspiration and discipline through technique. His motivational and creative teaching style encourages stylists to reclaim their passion and conquer new design fundamentals of hair color, cutting and finishing techniques. For more of John’s inspirations, visit www.johncsimpson.com. For Goldwell Academy programs and events near you, visit www.goldwellnorthamerica.com. Also, find John on Facebook, MySpace, Twitter, and Linkedin.
