Three steps for beautiful hair.
Between the blustering wind and the drying effecting of artificial heat, winter weather can wreak havoc on your hair. But, thankfully, by following a few simple steps in your haircare routine, you can ensure your locks stay luscious and hydrated all season long. Before this winter arrives with a vengeance, read this!
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Step 1: Swap
Your lightweight shampoo and conditioner were great for summer-and even during the early transition to fall-but as the colder weather approaches, you're going to want to swap them out for more hydrating options. L'Oréal Professionnel Nutrifier Shampoo is a great silicone-free option for the season ahead. This nourishing shampoo is ideal for hair that feels dry and undernourished. Formulated with glycerol-a humectant that helps to maintain the hair's moisture barrier-and coconut oil-a perennial cult favorite-the shampoo cleanses hair without weighing it down, leaving it feeling softer and looking shinier. After shampooing reach for silicone-free L'Oréal Professionnel Nutrifier Conditioner to help hair feel softer, more supple, and easier to detangle.
Step 2: Style
Since hair can feel and look more dehydrated during the colder seasons, its imperative to protect your strands before subjecting them to a drying activity. Case in point? Heat styling. The fact is, air drying your hair when it's cold outside isn't always the best option, but neither is reaching for the blow-dryer day in and day out. Whether you plan to diffuse your curls or straighten your hair, reach for a heat protectant and then once dry, use a hydrating leave-in product like L'Oréal Professionnel's Nutrifier DD Balm. This dryness-defense balm-like the other products in the Nutrifier range-is formulated with hydrating glycerol and coconut oil. Used on your hair's mid-lengths and ends, it helps to leave you hair feeling nourished and looking seriously shiny.
Step 3: Sleep
Make that trip to dream land even better by caring for your hair while you sleep! A hair masque is a great weekly addition to your haircare routine. Use one like Série Expert Nutrifier Overnight Masque. This silicone-free, fast-drying overnight treatment helps to transform the appearance of dry, undernourished hair. Distribute a golf ball-sized amount of the foam treatment through dry hair before bed and upon waking your hair will look and feel softer, shinier, and more supple.
Don’t forget, we are offering Winter Care Bundles to help enhance your hair during the colder months. Check out our promotions page to learn more!
After a long summer of sand, sultry sun and soaring heat, we’re excited that fall is just around the corner. Not only because it means that the temperatures will be a little cooler, but also because of the trends that we’re seeing on the Fall 2015 fashion runways this year. The catwalks are full of inspiring ideas guaranteed to give your hair that little extra something it needs to be simply swoon-worthy.
FAVORITE HAIR COLOR TRENDS FOR FALL 2015
BRONDE
There’s a reason why everyone is SO in love with this hair color trend. It’s the perfect melding of blonde and brunette in a way that looks effortlessly natural and breathtaking. To get the effect, you simply add highlights (or lowlights) in two or more color nuances that are very close to your starting hair color. Brunettes can become brondes by adding slightly lighter ribbons of buttery blonde or caramel color around the hair line and ends. Blondes can get the look by adding strands of cappuccino brown and slightly darker blonde tones. The key is to have a lot of your natural color showing through and to have your highlights applied in a way that looks sun-drenched and realistic….as if the sun had naturally lightened the strands over time.
If you’re a little color shy or if you want a low-maintenance color option that fades beautifully and doesn’t require you to be at the hair salon all the time, this is it. With bronde highlights, you won’t end up with roots that need to be retouched as your hair grows.
COPPER & METALLIC
This London-born color technique started earlier in the year, and it’s another favorite hair color trend for Fall 2015. The metallic effect is created by having two complementary colors placed along your hair strands with a very gradual transition between the two, as one color subtly melts into the other. For warm skin tones, the combination of muted auburns and bright coppers is the perfect pairing, especially when you add a gloss treatment on top of the color for a radiant glow. The result is absolutely stunning color that has the luster and shine of polished metal. Think Bella Thorne, Emma Stone, and Julianne Moore.
Based on your skin tone, different hues can be used to brighten up your hair ranging from bronze, gold, strawberry or russet red, copper, and titanium brown.
CHOCOLATE, LATTE AND CARAMEL
Latte, caramel, and rich chocolate—they’re not only sinfully delicious, they’re also some of this season’s most popular highlight colors for brunettes. If you’ve got darker hair, you can add warmth, depth and dimension to your style with subtle, facing framing highlights in colors such as caramel, café au lait, or light cocoa. Your hair will look positively decadent.
FAVORITE HAIR STYLE TRENDS FOR FALL 2015
THE LOB
The ultra-flattering long bob or “lob” is set to be the most popular haircut of 2015, and a number of high profile stars have already adopted this style. If you’ve got long hair, the lob is a great way to keep some of the length that you love while adding some texture and movement. It’s also a fairly low-maintenance look. For styling, you just apply a L’Oreal Tecni.ART styling product on towel-dried hair and blow-dry using a vent brush to create soft texture and movement. Then apply an additional texture product to the mid-lengths and ends and blow-dry with fingers, or diffuse for soft texture. Easy as pie.
LOW PONYTAILS
Worn sleek or messy, to the side or wrapped in metal, you just can’t beat the ponytail. It is super versatile and a favorite look of models flaunting the fall runway collections of designers like Michael Kors and Dior. The common thread of almost all ponytail styles this year is that they are typically worn low (either at the neck or past) rather than high.
Styling by: Georges El Mendelek Salon Simon El Mendelek, Photographer: CÉDRIC VIOLLET
THE PIXIE
If you have small or fine features, the pixie cut is the perfect complement to the delicate features of your face. With a few styling products from the salon and a flat iron, you can take a pixie from angelic to edgy in just a matter of minutes. You can also get completely different looks by varying the style of bangs….from side-swept to choppy.
Styling by L’Oréal Professionnel Artist Amit Abraham
THE TWIST
Bid farewell to the bun, and say hello to the twist. This year, messy twists are in. Gather your hair into a loose knot or twist at the nape of your neck for an unfussy look that works beautifully with relaxed Boho styles. You can secure it with a statement piece pin, thick ribbon, or just leave it simple and half undone. Think Vera Wang.
Styling by MAISON MARTIN MARGIELA, PARIS FASHION WEEK, Stylist: Paul Hanlon
BEST ACCESSORIES
Fall’s favorite accessories all nod their head toward leather. There’s a great mix of leather headbands and wrappings for ponytails in the fall collections of Honor, Derek Lam, Fendi and Tanya Taylor. And if you’re not a lover of leather, then bobby pins and gold clips are also hot this season and a great way to perk up your ‘do with a little glam.
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If you are in the Vero Beach FL area, stop by the salon and we’ll help you select the perfect on-trend haircut and color combination to complement your style. There’s no better way to welcome a new season than with hair that looks drop dead gorgeous.
