Color Trends for the Remaing Year of 2015

So lets talk about all the newest trends in haircolor for autumn 2015 . . .  the names the trends are almost funny to me there are so many....

MAKE SURE YOU GET THEM STRAIGHT OR YOU WILL BE WALKING OUT WITH THE COLORING STYLE YOU DID NOT WANT.

First of all in order to get some of these crazy colors and unique trends....FIRST your hair needs to be whats called :
DOUBLE PROCESSED

Which is what our OIL BLEACH KIT is for..............

NOTHING I MEAN NOTHING bleaches hair as blonde as our oil bleach kit.............and as healthy as our Oil Bleach Kit.
I would put our little old OIL BLEACH KIT up against any product made on planet earth....to achieve platinum hair. 

WHY..................?????????????????

Because our Oil Bleach Kits Base is a Cream Base with a unique oil added to it, to be sure that oil and moisture is added to every single step in order to protect your hair strands from the strength of hair bleach. But the best part is the bleach still lightens enough so you can achieve platinum light hair....with moisture-moisture-moisture added to your strands along the entire path.Cream lightener is used a unique Oil combination is then added to each stage so the moisture content of this lightener is beyond any product on market !

                         1 Oil Bleach Kit has 2 APPLICATIONS

Killerstrands Oil Bleach Kit

So be sure to use our Oil bleach Kit first. Get the lightest hair possible and the healthiest lightest hair on planet earth.....so you can use every color we have in BOOST & BURST....if I was healthy and younger I would set on a mission of trying every single color.....

Just sounds like so much fun to me.......


try some of these new styles

                                                                      

Sombre

Gallagher describes sombre as "soft ombre and more diffused and sun-kissed." It's more of a grown-up, more discreet alternative to dramatic ombre. The color blends in with your natural hair color and is way easier to maintain.

Bronde

And joining the summer of quirky hair color trend names: Bronde. Bronde is "a great step for brunettes who want to add a little 'oomph' to their color." It's the perfect marriage of blonde and brown and will give you a gorgeous "beachy, sun-kissed blonde." See more celebs like Jennifer Lopez that are rocking the blonde trend...

                                                                                 

Babylights

Gone are the days of thick, striped highlights. Babylights are all the rage and are "tiny highlights meant to replicate the sun," says Gallagher. They require "a very skilled colorist to meticulously apply the lightener without bleeding onto other areas." Jessica Alba's babylights add delicate accents to her natural color, creating healthier-looking locks. They call them baby lights, I've called these Ribbons of Light, because Sassoon has a "exclusive" technique called Slices and Ribbons, techniques no one else had.... that give the look as if the sun lightened the hair.

 SILVER LIME I SCREAM

This is 
CORAL SUNRISE  BOOST & BURST 
a Beauty

 Dark Metal
can be achieved by using Silver Bullet
BOOST & BURST





  pastel Lime....you can see it in BOOST & BURST called 
LIME I SCREAM





So lets take Colombre

Colombre (hello, Rainbow Brite!) is the latest hair trend to go viral for summer. Think "rainbow-colored end lights à la mermaid hair trend," says Gallagher. It's just like regular ombre, only you add color in place of going lighter at the ends. 

Whether you go pastel or go all out with every color imaginable, it's a gorgeous statement look for summer.

Semi-Permanent Hair Color Has A New Name & I Am Not Happy About It

Semi Permanent Hair Color is the color that was called Glosses and Cellophane's in the

 70's - 80's & part of the 90's then that same color that was used for many different color correction processes, slowly began to disappear. It almost completely disappeared except for a couple of us LOAD-MOUTH Colorists, that won't let it disappear....keep shouting and pouting about the fact that we need it BADLY There are just some Colorists including me who realize how very important the category is !



Slowly the public is going to begin to use semi-permanents and see how to use them to play with and see how they can be used............
 like using different colors of eyeshadow................................to go with an outfit
...................................................or a season.
 They go in and come out without any damage  to the hair because of the way they are put into the hair strands, the color rests on the outside of the hair strands. Remember to always keep your eye out for HEALTHY ways to have fun with your hair.. . . . . there are ways,  you just have to hunt for what is right FOR YOU ! ! ! ! 
if you use pastels....our pastels are made in INTENSIVE as a base (beginning today), which is a pH Balancer.
Others may be to, do your label reading just like you do for your food. . 


For Example............ its Summer now and how wonderful it is to begin the season with a yummy Apricot Rose color . . .  one of my favorites 

 What define's a Semi-permanent Color from a Demi? Absolutely NO developer is used, you pour the color out of the bottle into the bowl and grab your tint brush and a wide tooth comb and apply in the exact same method........no 3 Volume no 5 Volume.....no ANY Volume...........and the name they have coined for this category of Colors, now is "Direct Dyes".  

Just today when I saw some new SEMI-Permanent colors.
 I was talking to the warehouse's manager and was corrected when I asked about semi-permanent Hair Color . . . ."Oh, you mean 'DIRECT DYES' as I commented on L'Oreal's new Color Chalks ." 

I wanted to slap her silly face......"Direct Dye".........who thought that lame name up ??? The public is not going to like that and as a Colorist it scares me that what I am hoping will add shine.............spark an unusual color........... and will shampoo out in a short amount of time.....isn't going to do any of those things by the sounds of that name. As usual I have suggestions for the hair color companies, The nice thing is ....if I have patience, in about a year all my dreams.... will COME TRUE.

"NAMES OF PRODUCTS  MUST REFLECT A PRODUCTS' JOB/GOAL/MISSION....."

Lets continue to call them Semi-Permanent & see if we can squash the bad name before it permanently invades!
Semi-Permanents are
wonderful for adding shine, smoothing the cuticle ( so hair looks shiny) giving the hair a gloss that lasts from 10 - 24 days depending on how much you shampoo............. BE SURE to use a Sulfate-Free Shampoo. 
Gives shine, gloss and covers gray for a short time . . . about 2-3 weeks depending on the brand and your porosity and amount of gray and what you are trying to accomplish.


KC 
killer chemist 

You know something I forgot to add there are semi's in plain colors, such as brown, light brown, dark blond, light blond, beige blond..........so don't think you have to follow the photos above to get the benefits of a wonderful group of hair color that is not very well known. I bet I could find a good use for every single one of you....Leave your Level and Tone in the comments section and ask me if there is a Semi for you somewhere iun the ever expanding world of hair color ...the category: Semi-permanent colors ;)
KC 

Wild Side Hair Color Predictions - Summer 2014

Predictions for some beautiful shades of Crazy Color Pastels.

Killerstrands sends the Directions of how to make pastels to achieve a whole head of color or even if you just want the 'tips' of your hair colored with a pastel, it would be fun for a week or 2 , don't let all these photos from creating your own look.  Please check out the lines of crazy color we carry, and just know when you buy any brand you can request the professional secret as to how to pull off the "PASTEL" look you seen in these photos of hair - summer 2014

                       Rose Raspberry                                              

                                Blu Bob

Shrunken UP Violet 

Roots Alive

 Metallica Blue Wave

 Sky - Hawk

Tangerine Dream

 with Illumina Hair Color

and here is the formula:

 

12% =  40Volume

Remember, she has VIRGIN hair tho . . . .  

 

 

 Follow these directions and if you need any help at all join our GROUP

 in which you get to talk to KC about your hair formula or dilemma's or 

whatever your case may be !

Visit Our Store for New, Interesting and always HEALTHY Hair Products, I take the job of reading labels out of your hands, I know ingredients well and I know what they do.

KC

Pink Hair By Use of Pink Toners

 All you ever wanted to know about Toners . . .

Pink hair is only achieved by using a Pink Toner. Pink Toners are made in 2 different manners...the first being as you see here....bleach the hair soft yellow.... That is why you never choose the color you want by the color in the tube. If you were to use Soft Pink you will never EVER achieve this color. Always start darker!

There is a unique class of hair color called 'Toners' and... since beginning Killerstrands, I have always had a difficult time explaining them to both the public & hairstylists. Not much about Hair color formulation is just easy to understand, but if you promise me you will just keep reading concepts you don't understand...I promise it will come to you. Why is it not just a snap, to understand?
Because. . . It involves many different fields:

• Art knowledge (Color Wheel)
• Chemistry Knowledge ( How developers & hair color work)
• Cosmetology Knowledge ( understanding the art of changing hair color)  
• Experience, So much of what I know comes from 10,000 heads of hair in my chair

The Level System means how Light or dark your hair is. The number that is first on the box of color is the level the color is that is inside that tube.

Lets start with the tube of color on the right ( X.Factor !) --->



The tube on the bottom is 5.18






That means the color is a Level '5'  which is what level this young lady with the headband has:

 All the numbers AFTER the dot . or after the slash / in any hair color line is the demonstration of the "tones" in that particular tube of color.
The next number on our lower box of color is a "1"  ...  which means "Ash" . Because the "1" is first, it means the Ash tone in this particular color is the strongest tone.
The second number is "8" which in this line stands for
chestnut brown.

So all together this color is a Level 5
                                                Ash
                             Chestnut Brown

Now you do the color on top ......Level_______
                                  Tone 6 : Red
                                  Tone 2 : Violet

Just to make things confusing not every single line has the EXACT same tones, but every year I watch more and more lines start to go with what everyone considers "Universal".

There are no real books that teach these concepts in 'layman's terms'... and you cannot teach complicated concepts to NEW students without using simple explanations.  I keep hearing that Cosmetology Schools across this country give the Killerstrands Blog as required reading before they start working on people's hair.  Scary, huh?
See, those of you that read and begin understanding the concepts I teach you are miles ahead of NEW
Hairstylists. Take control of your hair by coloring it yourself. It truly is not that hard.
 I always insist you learn the Level System, there is no way around that, so if you give up, you will not understand how haircolor works. I feel since I started this I just have not come up with the perfect explanation as to how it works... I keep trying though ! I have tried many different examples.. including exactly what they teach in HAIR ACADEMY...
 But, I'm not quitting now, so I will keep trying.

What is a Toner?
A toner is defined as an "Opaque" haircolor, that is used with a very low volume of developer - that merely adds a translucent color -- laid on top of the current color.  It began with the 2-Step Process called a Bleach & Tone - way back in the Marilyn Monroe days. She would get her hair bleached white - then need a "toner" to get rid of the yellow ( ... I can guarantee you everyone has a certain amount of yellow when doing this process) . Yep, even Gwen Stefani needs a toner after her bleach touch up.

I would say ... one of the top 10 questions asked a Colorist year in and year out, is, 'what is a Toner'?? I have always explained them as similar to a nylon on the leg....you know when a person has a white leg....and then instantly it is 'tan'...I'm a redhead I've HAD to wear nylons since the age of about 12 my legs are so damn scary!But regardless of that, that change is what a Toner does... it "coats'' the hair and adds a tad of gloss. I love them and they are used in the TV and Movie industry all the time. Did you watch the Emmy's ?? Most of them would have a toner that morning....but again they spend an entire day getting ready for a couple hours.

Yes, I would say 8 out of 10 people wanting Toners are Blondes. The look above is huge right now.... she has platinum hair underneath then uses a custom color ( which I am happy to give the formula's for with order- - purchase 2 colors, write in "notes" box : ''I need the formula to create "rose-gold" or whichever color you desire''.

 But that is not to say they are exclusive to them. For anyone darker than a Level 8, you would use a toner to mainly help you get a couple weeks more life out of your gray coverage. I see all these goofy mascara's & sprays & the goofiest of all is that one you put little fibers all over your head. I will never for the life of me understand why you wouldn't just apply a toner to the roots only. So if you want to get longer life out of your color - - lets say it is our beauty from above.... she is a level 5 . . . lets pretend she has 40% gray and wants to make it last another week. All you have to do is use your regular color : The formula for this color is: LANZA 5N + 6A +20V, which is your every 6-8 week formula. But you want to get another 7-10 days out of the color ...just mix the color plus 10 Volume or DEMI - developer and and apply the color to the roots around the face and parting and a little bit deeper in all areas. It will take you the same amount of time as all those other tricks that are for sale, but this will last more than 1 night till your next shower. ! Yes, it is a toner.... then you can see how a toner helps your hair along with covering up your gray....shampoo out and treat with INTENSIVE if you have time, but is not at all necessary.


 I wish hair color manufacturers would concentrate on this category. Instead they come up with these mickey mouse "foam" hair colors. . . .in which the entire concept is nothin but a gimmick - NEVER USE THOSE + they are  horrible for the health of your hair.

Remember, when you re-color your hair every 4-8 weeks, only color the new growth, hair color is not made to apply on top of itself over and over ....which is what foam is designed for  and all the other silly gimmicks you see on stores shelves. Use your head, check in here, join our group and if you are making a purchase... just click that FEEDBACK button on the stores pages for a response for help.

As Many Shades Of Hair Color That You Can Think Of. . .

 They are just beautiful works of art, no its not some thing I would ever wear even in my youth...but I appreciate beauty and as a Colorist it is beautiful. Completely.

 Here is the end photo (I;m guessing), but that is what this video is for and it also teaches you to do the fishtail braid, which was one of my specialties all those years ago. Now you get the advantages of see how they prepare for a photo shoot ( they 'tape' different color extensions in ) oh and notice how UN-glamorous the whole situation is ! But do enjoy
KC

I love the Free People world and buy clothes there as much as I can... how I was lucky to happen on this I don't know . . . but here you go

Hair Color Is Becoming An Art Form & Is Completely & Utterly BEAUTIFUL (see below)

 I was going to write you this cold Post about the statistics in the hair industry because I feel it is all relevant....It started like this......... The Total U.S. Salon Hair Care market rose 3.5% to 61.3 BILLION dollars in 2011 - - EVEN in a recession the hair biz rose -- which I think is hilarious. The Congress and the country better wake the Fuck up . .  because Hair color is becoming an art form and no one will be able to stop it. I AM JUST SO HAPPY ABOUT that thought.... Check the following Photos out. . . and be sure to tune in tomorrow. . . . I have some of the youth's idea on hair color.....its all just 'the bomb' ...if you ask me..

This photo wins the KILLERSTRANDS AWARD 

for just the BEST EVERYTHING :

hair- photo- make-up- model- haircolor - just everything. 

.....maybe she did it herself ? 

KC

Killer Chemist