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Wella Master Colorist Coco Kootsillas Launches 2018 Spring + Summer Color Trends

Carla “Coco” Kootsillas is known for her master color formulations and combining her color expertise with modern cutting and styling techniques. She is always ahead of the trends and will be competing in the mega-brand’s yearly styling and coloring North American Competition, TrendVision 2018!

Coco’s philosophy is to treat hair as another one of your accessories and that it should match your lifestyle. Spring and Summer 2018 styles feature warm and soft colors, like peaches and roses, and everything is bright and light. These trends are showing up in today’s popular makeup palettes, using peachy tones and highlighters to create a radiant glow. Styles are not gender-specific, men are growing long hair and women are wearing short cuts that do not require precise styling and are sporting “boy brows” – embracing and grooming full eyebrows instead of wearing them pencil thin like we saw in the 1990’s.

We see these trends mirrored in hair color and styling; brighter highlights frame the face while keeping a natural root color at the crown and in the back. Monotone color with very slight variations in highlights and low lights rather than a drastic contrast between highlights and lowlights. Blondes will see tones of champagne, honey, vanilla, and coconut milk, making their blonde really pop and feel blonder. Brunettes’ face frame with tones of soft copper, toffee, dark caramel, and amber.

Coco has a unique blend of technical and creative artistry. She has the extraordinary ability to incorporate runway trends into everyday wear – her classes always give me extra focus and inspiration in creating a color that reflects my client’s individual style.” – Stylist Carmella Williamson

Top Wella Colorist Mark Debolt Energizes Stylists in Master Class

Mark Debolt brings a contagious energetic passion for hair coloring in his Master Classes at Samuel Cole Salon. As a Wella Master Colorist, he is consistently innovating hair color techniques and formulations. This Master Class focused on brightening around the face – getting the perfect “money piece” – and subtle foil placements that can compliment balayage techniques. Mark’s commitment to his craft and his color expertise is always inspirational.

Mark Debolt is the best! I always love his classes because he always brings more and more techniques to share with us! – Stylist Lauren Pittman

Coby Alcantar + Gardner Edmunds Reveal Inner Layer Haircut

Oribe Educators Coby Alcantar + Gardner Edmunds, highly sought after stylists in the current world of hairdressing. Coby owns Little Axe Salon in Brooklyn, NY where she creates fun and effortless styles for her clients, and Gardner’s salon home is Ramirez Tran Salon in Beverly Hills, CA. His notable clients include Lea Michele, Olivia Palermo, Rebecca Minkoff and Kim Cattrall.

Their combined expertise brought incredible energy to this class, which focused cutting inner layers that don’t sacrifice overall length of the hair. This technique can be used on all lengths of hair. The final look was a light and airy style that allowed the hair to move freely. To style the haircut, they used a combination of Oribe Foundation Mist, Maximista and Featherbalm on damp hair, and twisted the hair damp and let it air dry.

Creating inner layers removed weight and made the haircut look softer. I love learning from Coby and Gardner together because they showed variations of the same techniques to get an amazing fresh haircut” – Stylist Michelle Larry

Wella Color Top Artist + Trend Forecaster Alexandra Matiz Visits Samuel Cole Salon

Alexandra Matiz is a Wella Color Superstar with over 20 years of experience in hair coloring at the highest levels. She has gained her experience and education in Europe as well as the United States. Her expertise is behind the hair color of Cindy Crawford and Penelope Cruz, among other A-List celebrities. We were excited to host Matiz because of her experience in touring with Oribe Ateliers and being a Top Artist for Wella Color. Her involvement in Wella TrendVision competitions as a contestant, judge, and presenter inspires stylists to apply editorial techniques and styles to their daily hair coloring routines.

Alexandra Matiz’ expertise in Wella Color is incredible. As an artist, it was such a joy to learn color theory from a fellow artist – my mind was blown!” – Designer Alexis Lyons

Wella Color Genius Coco Kootsillas Reveals Color Trends in Master Class

Carla “Coco” Kootsillas, 2016 Wella Trendvision Runner Up, introduced the color mega-brand’s Spring – Summer 2017 Trend Inspiration: Ultra Contouring by Optical Illusions. The trend expands the scope of the selfie culture, toward ultra personalization. This Spring we will see people embracing brave and bold individuality, pushing to intensify their personal character, and going daringly and deliberately beyond a standardized beauty.

Cara’s rich, deep brunette was created with layers of color blocking, a modern interpretation of the 90’s fad

After introducing Wella’s trend forecast, Kootsillas facilitated a hands-on session in which Samuel Cole stylists consulted with and created custom formulations and application techniques for their models. Kootsillas personalized her feedback and coaching based on each group’s model and stylists’ levels of experience. Samuel Cole’s culture is deeply rooted in education, and features monthly advanced learning opportunities for its team.

Coco encouraged us to tap into our inner artist and critically formulate complex hues. No question went unanswered or cast aside; the interactive nature of the class created an authentic relationship between us.” – Jenny Smith, Stylist and Education Team Member

See more photos from this class here.