Salon: Fall Color Trends

Styling: Kevin Murphy Session Masters  Color: Kate Reid          Photographer: Luis Murphy

I caught up with Kate Reid of Kevin Murphy to find out where the fall color trends were taking us this year. It is so important as a stylist to keep up to date on the latest and greatest. We do not necessarily need to be making our clients runway ready, but if you can apply what is trendy to every day life for them you are set! Might I suggest always giving your clients little inside tips of the latest trends in hair.  The more you know, the more appeal you will have. 

Fall is the perfect time to enhance that warm summer glow through your hair color. Push the refresh button and get ahead of the fall fashion curve, COLOR.ME Director of Education and Color Expert Kate Reid suggests embracing root shadows for an 80’s European couture with a hint of biker edge. 

Color: Kate Reid  Photographer: Luis Murphy

For seasonally correct seamless lightening throughout the hair, Reid suggests utilising a seamless freehand technique which delivers a warm beautiful, sun-kissed look with soft variation in tones. Reid’s go-to product for this technique is COLOR.ME FREESTYLE.LIGHTENER, a clay based lightener that eliminates the need for foils allowing for the ultimate creative control over colour placement. To ramp up the edginess factor, rock a deeper new growth at the root or follow with a pastel toner after lightening for a more playful, fashion-forward finish. Shades of apricots, golden blonde, ice and pastels are the hottest shades for fall.

The Freestyle.Lightener and new pastel toners are going to be available soon at your Kevin Murphy distributors. They are going to be a hit and a great business tool to ramp up your coloring reputation.