Raleigh Hair Salon Archives - Page 4 of 10 - Samuel Cole Salon

Highly Anticipated Formal Styling Class Features Hair Accessories

Every spring our advanced stylists look forward to our Elite Designer Alley Biehl’s Formal Styling class. Her experience and expertise combined with her eye for hair design is invaluable. As the lead stylist of our bridal team, White Dress Collective, Alley is always at the forefront of styling the latest formal trends.

Her class featured accessories in formal hair styling to elevate a look from formal to bridal. A beautiful way to accessorize your hair, just like you accessorize with jewelry, is to adorn your hair with decorative broaches, clips, barrettes, and lately floral wreaths and crowns have been very popular.

I love placing a headpiece beneath a bride’s veil so that when the veil is removed, it’s like a surprise! Plus it’s a fun “re-style” for the bride to wear during her reception.
Elite Designer + Mentor and White Dress Collective Lead Stylist Alley Biehl.

Baxter of California Master Barber Katie Lopez Features Skin Fade in Advanced Class

Katie Lopez shared her passion for men’s grooming in our Advanced Class featuring the barbering classic cut -the skin fade. A critical takeaway from the class was, any man can have a skin fade haircut, but not every man can have the same skin fade haircut.

Katie demonstrated using every tool for the haircut – clippers, edgers, razor and shears. No one tool is right for a haircut start to finish, it’s about how to use each tool for its purpose to get the best results!

I loved Katie Lopez’ passion for barbering and hearing her experience working with Baxter of California and competing (and winning!) in the North American Hairstyling Awards!
Fallyn Mireault

Mark Debolt Introduces Wella’s Revolutionary New Color Featuring ME+

Celebrity Stylist and Wella Master Artist Mark Debolt debuted Wella’s innovative ME+ Technology in their hair color. Allergies are on the rise, everywhere, and hair color is not immune to that. Wella’s state of the art technology reduces the risk of developing a new allergy to hair color by up to 60 times.

Mark Debolt featured the new color technology in his formulations to create a rich red-brunette, a lived-in blonde, and a gray-coverage blonde. Right now hair color trends are all about enhancing natural color with strategic techniques like foil placement and all-over formulations that won’t show a harsh line of demarcation as it grows. As always, Mark’s presence in the salon sparked a surge in our stylists’ creativity and passion for our craft.

Mark Debolt blended his model’s gray and blonde hair so seamlessly! His technique kept her hair from becoming too blonde, keeping her look very natural and beautiful!”
Stylist Katie Pursche

International Wella Top Artist Aubrey Loots Showcases Fall 2018 Color Trends

Aubrey Loots on the runway pre-show in South Africa.

The only thing Aubrey Loots is more passionate about than the fashion of hair styling is educating and inspiring hairstylists around the world. As an educator Aubrey draws on his 23 years of experience styling and working on runway shows, fashion shows, and Red Carpet Events in New York, Paris, London, Korea and more. Just in the past few months, Aubrey has worked on Behind the Chair’s hair show in Texas, led Wella’s styling team for African Fashion International’s Cape Town Fashion Week in South Africa, and presented at Wella’s TrendVision in Tokyo. While in Tokyo, he also hosted his own week-long Creative Retreat where he taught and set up a photo shoot for stylists, led tours of top Tokyo salons and explored the culture through food, art and shopping.

At Samuel Cole Salon, Aubrey’s Master Color Workshop emphasized the art of color placement, strategically lightening pieces of hair that frame the face and therefore creating a major impact. Aubrey’s “express brightening” technique achieved a brand new look in a shorter amount of time and would benefit anyone who desires a little extra drama between their routine maintenance appointments.

I loved everything about Aubrey’s class – his technique and formulations and his energy. The artistic color placement refreshes your whole look without putting color all over your hair every single time.” – Stylist Denise Ficker

Wella Master Colorist Stevie Smith Shares Her Creative Color Workshop

Stevie Smith brought fresh inspiration from Wella’s coveted TrendVision Awards competition, which celebrates exceptional hairdressing talent and creativity across North America. Each year, TrendVision provides stylists the opportunity to engage with the latest trends in styling to take hair artistry to the next level and showcase their skills in live competitions to advance their careers.

In her Creative Color Workshop, Stevie Smith shared advanced color formulations and custom patterns that pushed stylists to expand beyond the natural shades of everyday hair color. Stylists got creative with artistic concepts such as placing cool and warm tones of brunettes and reds together. She demonstrated how carefully chosen monochromatic nuances can soften a statement of color and create a beautifully harmonized look.

I really love how Stevie Smith’s workshops remind us that our industry is an art in the way that she explores combinations of color formulations and placement. – Stylist Kait Powers