Had an amazing day down in London at the L’Oreal Academy. This was my prize for winning L’Oreal Colour Trophy Future Talent Award⭐️
A day full of inspiration, education and celebration🎉
It was great to meet @sallybrookshair and @fredletailleur to speak about their experiences within the industry. We also looked at trends and content creation.
Massive thank you to @lorealpro_education_uki for the experience and opportunity🖤
Amy
We had a fun creative afternoon putting together a salon mood board which includes all the latest and next seasons upcoming hair trends which we’re hoping to create on our clients in the salon.
Over the last few weeks we’ve been researching various different trends like tribal braids, messy texture, smooth sleek and airy natural hair, all of which we’re hoping to incorporate into our day to day styling for our clients. If you ever fancy something different, don’t be afraid to ask your stylist as we can all do something creative with a head of hair!
It’s always fun to go down to London and to see what’s going, as it’s the melting pot for hair and fashion trends. When I go down there I always see a lot of inspirational hair trends and different things, from a really strong catwalk look to people wearing their hair like they’ve just rolled out of bed… (Me for example, and as a hairdresser you can feel and make it look like it’s perfectly acceptable).
As everyone knows, Kim Kardashian has brought the platinum blonde hair back. Going from such a dark natural colour to the platinum blonde is an extreme change and a very technical process, and after doing some research I’ve found out that her personal hairdresser did it in around a week!! So if you are thinking of having a big change and want it done yesterday… even Kim K can’t make that happen.
Through the summer months and the festival season, the pastel tones ranged from lilac, pink and peach to grey, green and blue. Not only are these hard to achieve and difficult to maintain, but they’re also very summer orientated and I personally think as we’re heading into winter and 2018, the pastel hair trend is coming to an end… Which also means something else will take over! The colourful tones have been swapped for white blondes, and heavy makeup has also been toned down to quite natural, bare faces.
There is a very fine line between a beautiful blonde and a cheap blonde, when you have it done professionally and your stylist spends hours perfecting it then it’s amazing, but just sticking a box colour bleach on your hair in your bathroom at home doesn’t really give the same effect. With winter approaching it’s always nice to tone down bleach blondes to something a little warmer, more natural and easy to maintain. I’ve seen so many people changing their tone of blonde and I personally have changed my clients colours (with their permission, obviously) to something a little more suitable for Autumn/Winter.
But who knows with these trends, it all moves and changes so quickly, pastels MIGHT be on their way back for 2018…
Straight from the Autumn/Winter 2016 Fashion shows, Alexander McQueen introduced perfectly classic hair pins incorporated with natural free textured hair. We have seen this trend on a few of the autumn/winter collections so expect to see influences of this for spring/summer
Simple but Stylish – Here’s the down low from NY and LFW… on a need to know basis
Here at Hays, we love what we’ve seen from New York and London Fashion Week, from loose pony tails to textured buns and effortless styles. Here is a selection of our favourites!
Pony tails on the catwalk are now being accessorised with silk ribbon and tie wraps to create an effortlessly chic style.
We also love this twisted pony as it’s so wearable yet so easy to recreate. Try pulling a few pieces of hair free to add more fun to this simple yet elegant look!
Our latest in-salon mission was to research autumn/winter 15’-16’ trends to create an inspirational mood board for ourselves and clients. We believe that to have the best knowledge on hair we need to be aware of the forthcoming fashion trends, so we can be inspired by the seasonal textures, patterns, colours and shape, this then helps us to mould catwalk trends and bring the most wearable looks to the salon. This is what we call ‘catwalk to client’.
This A/W we’re seeing designers heavily influenced by the 80’s era, so we’re heading towards a very dazzling Christmas.
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