lift color

PROBLEM: You tried to lighten your own hair and it turned an undesirable color.

WHAT PROBABLY HAPPENED: You tried to color your hair beyond its natural lifting ability. For example, you tried to become a blonde, but you are a brunette. Hair can only lift so many shades with one process.

SOLUTION: If you have any artificial color in your hair, use a color remover to remove the artificial color first. Do not use bleach, bleach is for natural color, not artificial color. If you do not remove as much artificial color as you can first, the artificial color will penetrate deeper into the hair shaft and make matters worse.

Basic rules of hair color

Color is a very complex issue and very few stylists do it well, much less doing it yourself. For this reason alone we do not recommend that you color or try to remedy color problems yourself. The results can be traumatic, expensive, and take years to correct.

Listed below are some of the basic rules of color. Print the list out so that you can refer back to it. In this section we could only address a limited number of color disasters, but the information should be useful to you in the future.

BASIC RULES:

1. Consult a color wheel. Hair is science and color science is based on the color wheel. For example the opposite of orange is blue, etc.

Late summer hair and skin survival tips

In the Nick of Time for Color-Treated or Damaged Hair:

Minimize sun and salt water damage to color treated hair by slathering on a deep-conditioner like Aesop's Rose Hair Masque and leaving on during the day. Normally used as a rinse out treatment, a high-protein product will act as a barrier between hair and the elements when applied after a morning shower and rinsed out at night. Ideal in resort situations when you wear your hair in a pony anyway.

Our solution to reducing the damage caused to hair by daily blow-drying is to replace your regular dryer with a diffuser. A diffuser creates gentle heat rather than bursts of hot air. After shampooing, comb hair gently into shape and wrap with a clean, dry towel. Let towel soak up moisture for at least ten minutes.

Hair today, woebegone tomorrow

If anyone has mistaken your hair for a straw hat lately, we understand. "Even the most attentive, expensive hair care regimen can get blown out of the water by summer's abuses," says Christopher Mackin, Teratology Director of the famed Elizabeth Arden Red Door Salon in New York City.

"Sun, heat, chlorine, hair color, over drying, and product buildup all conspire to mess up your tresses," Mackin says. His advice "Take all the time you save with easy, breezy summer hairstyles and put it into extra hair care."

Creating your prefect cut

Receding Chin:

Keep the hair about 1 1/2 to 2 inches below the jaw line or pulled back on the nape of the neck." (We'd like to add that earrings would be more flattering here and the neckline should not come up too high - a scooped neckline or open collar would help create the needed balance.)

Double Chin:

Same guidelines apply as for the receding chin, (but if you like wearing your hair pulled up or back, try allowing some tendrils (hair strands) to fall from the sides of the face down to the neck. They can be curly or wavy, if the hair is straight, have it trimmed at an angle for a tapered effect."

Press on the Icon that matches your face shape!

Carmine Minardi of the Minardi Salon addresses each client individually. "All the newest trends to one degree or another can fit into anyone's lifestyle or anyone's features if they take this into consideration . . . I have a rule of thumb about face shapes that helps people, it's very simple: I ask people to look at their face and tell me if they think it's more horizontal or more vertical. If it's wider we want to give the illusion of length . . . to make the face appear narrower." This, of course can be easily achieved with the right cut and style.

HairStyles and colors fall and winter

Carmine Minardi of the Minardi Salon gave us a whole banquet of styles, starting with . . . The Ponytail. Not new, you say? (Well, this ponytail will be gathered up at the crown of the head with light backcombing for substance, height and glamour!)

Textures hair will be very hot . . . texturizing will be achieved with special shears or razors that will make hair look "sliced." More hot styles: very short cuts . . . hair tucked behind the ears are the new "signature of chic" - it really enhances the cheekbones, making them look higher and more pronounced.

The old "Bob" will make its comeback but a bit transformed . . . it will be much shorter, cut above the jaw line with lots of textures layers on top of the bob.

SPRING AND SUMMER HAIR—WHAT'S HOT/ WHAT'S NOT

Everyone has an image . . . it can range from fabulous to frumpy . . . but everyone has an image, nevertheless! We know that total-beauty-philosophy.blogspot.com are in the fabulous category . . . how do we know? Well, for one thing, you visit Beauty Link quite regularly . . . which means you not only care about your image but know how to create just the one you want to present to the world! We at total-beauty-philosophy.blogspot.com salute you!

Actually, we not only salute you, we interviewed Brad Johns, Kim Lepine, Carmine Minardi and Lisa Chiccine, they are among New York's top hair designers/stylists/colorists/trendsetters . . . they are the magician-beauticians of the beautiful people . . . they enhance, glamorize and maximize the looks of top supermodels, stars and celebrities.

Spring Runway Hair

Here's a sneak peek backstage at the New York and European spring collections.

Super-long locks scored big for spring, complemented by soft, touchable texture. Unlike past product-heavy seasons, hair is simply finished with mousse and a shine-enhancing serum, to promote hair's natural movement and sheen.

Sleek Simplicity

Hair is free-flowing with lots of natural swing and body at the ends, not the roots. At Geoffrey Lee, hairstylist Alan Whyte, ARTec Global Design Team member/stylist at Nubest & Co., exaggerated hair's swing with tiny weights at the bottom, to create a "beautiful dead-straight line that swung like a pendulum."

Must Have Micro Fringes

Super-short, C-curved fringes are the frame for faces this season.

If you’re looking for a cool alternative to this season's mega-manes, bangs are the best bet. The freshest fringes are cut on a new geometric angle, arching up from the temple to the center of the forehead, to create a dramatic elliptical silhouette.

Before you let your stylist snip, make sure they think your hairline can handle this short, dramatic look. If hair is thin through the front, don't go too short-add a bit of length to the fringe. Your stylist will also start the cut further back on the crown, to ensure a thick, solid bang.

Good nutrition for beautiful hair

Everyone knows that fall is a difficult time for our hair who knows some seasonal falls more or less important. Add to that the fatigue, stress and in some cases, a lifestyle not very clean and you have the main factors responsible for the gray hair mine. Hair dry, brittle, dull and falls important so we can undermine morale.

So to reboost our hair health and return to a "hair" polished well, it goes to basics and it spoils our hair from within, through our diet. Yeah, what feeds us, nourishes our hair too, think of them!

Masks, hair oils, shampoos-care, food supplements are fine, but they will have beneficial effects in addition to a balanced diet that will give health and strength alone in our hair . So which foods to favor a makeover hair?

Kerastase protects our hair from the sun

It's no secret that the sun is enjoyable, it's even good for the health and morale when abused but not provided to protect flawlessly and efficiently. Then protection, it passes through the skin but we all know our hair also suffer from our prolonged exposure.

Hair fiber dry, discolored hair is more fragile, brittle and dull after a hot summer and you are not even talking about the state of colored hair! And faced with this fact, many brands are made of sun care for our mane, including Kerastase, brand hair pro indeed!

To keep her pretty mane, nothing better than to protect hair from sun but also from sea water or the pool, the three major factors of dry hair.
Whether your hair is colored or natural range Kerastase offers care tailored for the summer, enough to pamper her hair and save its length. Place, therefore, the solar program for our hair:

Hairdressing, the braid in the spotlight!

If evidence is needed that fashion is cyclical, there is still little braids were reserved for our little niece and sealed with a rubber band fluorescent pink dominated the plastic head of Dora the Explorer, yeah get the idea ! Well let it be said, the braid back in force, marches to the pages of our magazines through the manes of our friends worked the people, it is everywhere, sometimes thin and unobtrusive, sometimes worn in a ring, woven out of the skull, neat hair or mess around ... Yes, the braid is the big star hairstyle trends autumn / winter and is doing all the sauces!

Miss Aniston never gives up her brushing her blond glossy and California and features when the braid is finesse, mapped onto the scalp in a minimalist version mane "wavy".

A Natural Extension

Instantly lengthen your locks with hair extensions.

"Extensions are ideal for adding volume or length to existing hair," explains Wendy O'Connor from HSC International in Oakville, Ontario-the Canadian distributor of Great Lengths human hair extensions. "They are gentle, safe and will not damage hair."

Celebs, including Lisa Kudrow, Celine Dion and Brendan Fraiser, have reportedly turned to Great Lengths to enhance their natural assets. According to O'Connor, you must have at least three inches of natural hair for extensions to work.

Boost & Bodify Limp Locks

New salon chemical volumizing services build body, not curl.

"The number one complaint I hear from clients is that they want more volume, especially at the roots and through the crown," says Rocco Picheca, owner of Toronto's Salon Rococo on the 1999 Permanent Wave Hair stylist of the Year.

"Texturizing hair with invisible layers throughout the interior and using proper products can help, but sometimes it's not enough."
Welcome a new breed of in the salon volumizing treatments.

Growing Out Gracefully

With super long Cher hair headlining this season relies on your stylist to help get you through the dreaded grow-out phase!

"If hair is growing out from a very short style, the first challenge is getting it over the ears," says Geoffrey Williams, a stylist and trainer at Toronto's Elizabeth Arden Red Door Salon. "The next hurdle is getting the back and the sides the same length. The last is growing out the top of the hair, especially if there are a lot of short layers."

According to Williams, a successful grows out requires patience and regular salon visits: in fact, the biggest mistake people make when they're growing their hair is not cutting it. This can lead to split ends, which can travel up the hair shaft and seriously damage hair. Also hair looks shaggy and unkempt.

Day cream for dry, brittle hair

Many of us now do the common things: care shampoo and conditioner to protect and repair our hair abuse that we inflict on them.

Factors difficult to control (UV, pollution, fatigue, stress, ...) to our whims feel guilty (stains, discoloration, smoothing & Co.), see our hair in all colors and we do feel, well, dry points, texture rough, brittle, hard coif fable make us pay for our deeds. In terms of care to repair all this pampering and day cream for hair is a beautiful invention!


The modus operandi is simple; it is applied like a face cream in the morning before her hair, on the lengths and ends only.

Smoothing Brazilian keratin

Hair, how headlock! Too smooth,Too curly, too flat, too thin, nothing will! Just look at the number of hair products that colonize the bathroom girls to understand. For all those still struggling with their wavy hair, curly, curly hair who dreams of a smooth and silky the good news comes from Brazil: Brazilian Keratin Smoothing promises "capping" easier and less grief morning at we smooth the hair for 4 months! It is not life grand?

After the famous Yuko made in Japan, the expertise capillary Brazilian who arrives in France to save the girls in distress that we are! It was time because between all the products in smoothing not really miracles, was not the winter blues away...

Blow Drying

Make frustrating, at-home blow-outs a breeze by learning at home blow-dry basics.

"I can't blowdry my hair at home!" This is the number one complaint most of you have after a day at the salon. Even though you're educated about styling products, tools and techniques required for a flawless finish some claim you still don't get the hang of it.

Michael Raccanelli, owner of Centre Stage Hair Design in Thornhill, Ontario, says don't get frustrated. Ask your stylist to walk you through it. "When it comes to blowdrying, patience is the number one thing you need," he explains. "Practice makes perfect."

Hair shampoos are all the same?

Almost every woman manicures by her hair, more often than chasing the latest trends and innovations in the field of beauty products and shampoo miracle. But is it really all that glitters gold? Could it be that the foundation of all we are the same ingredients?

To embark on a comparison of hair products is the establishment of the website Daily Mail, citing some of the most advertised and expensive brands showed that, in the United Kingdom, the average annual expenditure for the shampoo is around 295mila pounds. In essence, it appears that the foundation of all there is shampoo made of the same base.