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Wella Master Color Expert Stevie Smith Showcases Creative Styling

“Mermaid Hair” has taken the internet by storm, with the brightest combinations of pinks, blues, and purples paired with electric greens and yellows. Stevie Smith gave this hair color phenomenon new life with her Wella Master Color expertise in our Master Class. Muting the rose and denim hues to blend with natural blonde and brunette gives the model a fun dimensional look while maintaining the integrity of her hair. The colorful panels can be hidden for a professional day-time style or accentuated with a side part and a few curls.

As highly regarded colorist and stylist, Stevie Smith’s work has been featured in magazines such as Allure, Chicago Social and Chicago Bride, and she has styled television and movie actors, theater dancers and fashion models.

Follow Stevie on Instagram to see her inspiring work! @stevieannsmith.

Stevie’s innovative take on fundamental techniques created an inspiring cut and color combination – I loved learning from her!” – Stylist Cara Harrison

Editorial Stylist Kelly Peach Shares Beauty + Upstyle in Master Class

Master Stylist Cara Harrison‘s Model

Kelly Peach is a hairdresser’s hairdresser and an incredibly talented editorial stylist whose work has appeared in New York and Paris Fashion Weeks. She’s a popular social media beauty maven and insta-celebrity (@kellypeachbeauty), whose 16.1k Instagram followers give her a platform to share her vast knowledge of all things beauty – including self-styling tips!

Kelly Peach’s editorial styling class covered versatile skills that can be used for a variety of formal hairstyles – classic finger waves and a low rolled bun. Her modern iteration of finger waves is an ode to “Old Hollywood” and is a style that has been seen on the red carpet among Amy Adams, Blake Lively and Miranda Lambert. The low rolled bun has become a go-to formal look – donned by Jennifer Lawrence, Emma Watson and Emma Stone. Kelly Peach innovated these classic looks by combining them into one powerful modern editorial style.

To see more pictures from Kelly Peach’s class, click here.

Kelly Peach is phenomenal! She is so down to earth and shared the best techniques and tips with us. She mixes Oribe Beauty’s Gold Lust Face Drops with her foundation for a natural glow, and I’m obsessed. Her Facebook Live tutorials are a must-watch! – Katie Pursche, Senior Designer and Director of Salon Education + Recruitment

Alley’s Modern Take on Whimsical Formal Styling

Stylists were treated by the much-anticipated annual Formal Styling class with our Master Stylist Alley Biehl. Her experience with event styling reaches back into her middle school years, styling hair for her family and friends for school proms and formals. Alley’s class energizes stylists for the upcoming formal season by demonstrating skills behind red-carpet looks seen at awards shows such as the Oscars and Grammys. Alley demonstrated a reinvention of the “whimsical bride,” instead of a textured look she created a smooth modern bun, accented with a beautiful beaded head piece.

Alley’s class featured two newly released Oribe styling products, Swept Up Volume Powder Spray and Free Styler Working Hair Spray. Swept Up is a volumizing powder that provides lift with an easy pump-spray application, and Free Styler was its perfect pair, providing equal parts flexibility and hold.

Every year Alley’s [Formal Styling] class ignites my inspiration for formal hair and gives me the confidence and hones my skills to create a variety of looks for proms and weddings.” – Stylist Isabella Vazquez

Bb.U Hosts Samuel Cole Manager and Master Stylist in “Fierce Conversations” Class

General Manager of Samuel Cole Salon, Mary Bledsole, and Master Stylist Cara Harrison recently took part in the world renowned 2-day workshop, “Fierce Conversations” in New York City at the acclaimed Bb.U in Manhattan. The workshop pushed attendees to expand their communication techniques to become more effective. The class focused on being authentic, speaking the truth and interrogating everyone’s reality in order to increase the likelihood of expanding and growing professional relationships in positive ways.

As a manager, the Fierce Conversations class helped me get in the right mindset for how to have a constructive conversation with anyone on my team. The biggest takeaway was focusing conversations on solutions rather than issues at hand.” – General Manager Mary Bledsole

Samuel Cole Stylists Master ‘All About Blondes’ at 901 Academy

Nine Zero One Salon is home to the stylists of a celebrity clientele that includes Blake Lively, Heidi Klum, and Julianne Hough. Images of these celebrities’ blonde hair are plastered all over magazines, Pinterest and beauty blogs, and are often the “hair goals” of Samuel Cole clients. Stylists Nikki Kepley and Kelsey Easley attended the Nine Zero One Academy class “All About Blondes” to enhance their expertise in brightening, toning, and protecting their blonde clients’ hair.

from left: Kelsey, Nikki working on their model, and the final look!

Wella Professional and Nine Zero One Educator Nicole Leal demonstrated lightening techniques and provided individual feedback as stylists practiced her methods. Nikki and Kelsey are eager to use what they learned to further maintain the integrity and the brightness of their blondes.

This class helped me value the versatility and power of using foils to lighten hair. To get a really bright blonde you have to use a foil, versus balayage, and you can also create a natural ‘hand-painted look’ in a foil, too.” – Nikki Kepley