Winter Rose

So the lovely Julia Anderson, winner of reality tv competition True Beauty, stopped by my chair recently, as she does every six to eight weeks. Only this time, she was in the mid-winter doldrums.  She told me she was bored with her seasonably brunette hair, but knew her hair needed to rest up  from the summery mauvey light pieces we ribbon through, and the drying effect lightener can have.  She looked at me with a twinkle in her eye, and we knew excactly what to do.  Julia went red.  But she isn’t the only one!

Freshly off the creative wave that washed through Redken Symposium in Las Vegas last week, the trend is glowingly RED! In fact, the whole western world seems to have caught the cold weather blues and is craving some WARMTH! Just as the saying goes, “everyone can be a blonde,” the same stands for redheads.  The most loathed and coveted shade in the color world is now in highest demand.
Dreary blondes and dull brunettes have come to my chair of late crying for some summer sunshine to warm and liven their limp locks. Lucky for them, the fashion world is seeing red!

Do you see it?

For those ready to REALLY rock it red,  GO FOR IT!  Semi-Psychadelic colors have never been more commonplace in the workplace. My  dear friend Korie Su has never met a red she didn’t like, and over the years, she and I have really run the red spectrum… in laps!  She nearly got me kicked out of beauty school years ago for using contraband product to achieve barely imaginable vibrancy.  And she’s still pushing the envelope, but Ms. Korie Su is one of those girls that just WORKS IT. Kinda like one of my Fave redheads, Christina Hendricks. Which is why when Korie takes on this new red trend, her shade will be near-neon bliss.  The inspiration for  her next style is fresh off the Creative Color Surge  stage at Redken Symposium this year. We’ll down play the poofy bit on top, a little, to suit her real life sex-atary office gig.

Some girls (myself among them!) may opt for a more natural look, a la Julianne Moore and Lauren Ambrose.  See the new fashion forward take on the same lovely shade?

So color lively ladies!  This is your big chance to tune into your own Lucille Ball dream! Go Bold!  Go Gold! Be Bronzer with your lowlights than ever before. Say YES to the golden/coppery hues we’ve banished under cold toners!  Your haircolor deserves illumination!  Let your high-lights shine!!