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Wella Colorist Drew Calloway Brings The Latest Tortoiseshell Color Craze

Samuel Cole Salon Owner, Jack Ray and Wella Colorist, Drew Calloway

Wella educator and stylist Drew Calloway was at Samuel Cole Salon to share the newest coloring trend, tortoiseshell (ecaille). “To be clear, this isn’t so much a dye technique as it is a color,” Howard says. “Think of tortoiseshell and all the colors that come in it: golden blondes, chestnuts, mahogany, chocolate, honey, and all those lovely, warm tones.” It sounds delicious, sure, but the key here is that it’s multidimensional, which means many tones are being painted — not foiled, Howard notes — into the hair.

Drew was born and raised here in the Tar Heel State where he started his hair career fresh out of high school, practicing and perfecting his craft behind the chair while teaching advanced education as a National Educator for Paul Mitchell. Drew moved to fashion forward and fast paced NYC to really hone in on his skills, with a strong focus on hair color, while taking on a role as an Educator for Wella.

Drew currently works as a stylist at Laicale in the heart of SoHo, surrounded by “downtown inspiration” and is constantly striving for perfecting the next trend in hair color! He has worked in various settings from fashion photo shoots, coordinating hair for wedding parties, and backstage coloring hair for large scale hair shows, but being behind the chair and bringing smiles to clients faces while sharing the gift of knowledge is what he is most passionate about.

Drew taught me to look at color tones in a different way. Combining warm and cool tones to give clients the ultimate dimension. Encouraging us as colorist to expand our creativity results in more options for our clients.” Stylist, Ashley Eaves

Miami: Wella Creative Retreat

Co-owner of Samuel Cole Salon, Jack Ray, traveled to South Beach, Miami to attend Wella’s pre-release event for their newest innovations, Freelights and Instamatic couture color.

The event, exclusive to members of the Wella Creative Retreat Team, was held to show off their newest color technology before it is released to salons. Jack and other members of the team participated in an intimate, hands-on workshop with Wella’s top colorists and stylists.

Members of the Wella Creative Retreat Team with top Wella executives

Jack had the honor of working with numerous hair industry stylists, colorists, and business leaders over the 2 day event, including: Fabio Sementelli (VP of Education for Wella North America), Carol Protat(North American Creative Director), Stephen Moody (P&G Salon Professional Global Education Academy Dean), Sonya Dove (long time Wella master stylist, world class colorist, and co-owner of The Doves Studio), Eric Lindsey (Master Colorist and co-owner of Salon Myo & Kharisma Hair Studio and lead product ambassador for Wella Freelights), and celebrity stylists, Oscar Blandi (stylist and owner of The Oscar Blandi Salon), and Anthony Morrison ( stylist and owner of The Londoner). Also attending the event, was celebrity hairstylist and owner of Oribe Salon, Oribe Canales, who Jack has worked with on many occasions.

Jack and Oribe Canales (celebrity hairstylist and Co-Founder of Oribe hair care)

Spring Trend Vision 2015 with Wella Design Team Educator Anna Vaul

Owner of Studio 520 Salon and Spa and Stylist Anna Vaul was on site to demonstrate Wella’s newest line of color Freelights Instamat!c by Color Touch. Anna has been in the beauty industry for over fifteen years. Her career spans stage, television, and print. Anna’s extensive education and talents led to her position on The Wella Design Team. Color Touch Instamat!c technology is formulated with a fine blend of color molecules that is diffused gradually into the hair cuticles. The result is a demi-permanent, delicate matte gloss, muted shine, on-trend finish. The five hour advanced color workshop focused on the art of hair painting and matte, pastel tones. After Anna’s live model demonstration, Samuel Cole Salon stylist had the opportunity to create futuristic looks by using the Instamt!ic tones and glosses to create filtered effects and were able to demonstrate this new color technique on their own models.

Master stylist, Michael Knight with his model

Anna was so inspiring. The class helped me to think even further outside of the box. I feel like these workshops enable me to continue to feel my creativity as a colorist.”, said Senior Stylist, Cara Dempsey.

Wella Trend Vision Award Winner Mark Debolt Shares His Color Genius

Mark Debolt and senior stylist Nikki Gallonni-Kepley (bottom left) after an afternoon of Wella color education and demonstration

Two time winner of Wella Professional’s International Trend Vision Award, Mark DeBolt was on-hand at Samuel Cole Salon to share this years Fall and Winter color trends. Mark’s passion for styling is met only by his love for inspiring and furthering the careers of other stylists. Mark is constantly aspiring to craft and create beauty through the art of professional coloring and we were thrilled to be learning from the master himself.

This year’s trend class focused on the shape of the hair. Mark demonstrated different coloring techniques that incorporated the use of hair painting to shadow and lighten shapes in the hair in order to create contrast, ultimately challenging the texture and changing the appearance of the actual shape. After spending the afternoon with Mark, stylist were inspired to look at color in a whole new way.

Creating shadow and light challenges the anatomy of the shape by manipulating and diffusing the lines, creating new textures within the shape. Mark’s visit to our salon left stylist eager to experiment with new shapes, challenge the norm in textures, and show color through shadow and light.

Learning from Mark is so invaluable because he gives you tangible skills to perfect results time after time,” said master stylist, Carolyn Nord.

“On The Road” with Oribe in Nashville, TN

Samuel Cole Salon Team in Nashville

Samuel Cole Salon takes over Nashville for Oribe’s exclusive “On the Road” event. Stylists, salon managers and owners from around the country made their way to Tennessee to learn editorial and salon-friendly techniques from the Oribe Education Creative Team. The class focused on current trends of the industry including: cutting, styling, sculpting, braiding and extensions.

Seasoned stylists Louis Orozco, Coby Alcantar, Kien Hoang, Ronnie Stam, and Wella’s color expert, Mark Debolt were on hand for a morning of demos and an afternoon of hands-on training . Stylist were given the knowledge, tools, and techniques to create different looks and learn how to adapt these trends into everyday styles behind the chair.

Samuel Cole Salons senior stylists, Nikki Galloni- Kepley and Cara Harrison, were honored to be asked by Oribe’s team to assist them back stage and on stage during the demo’s.

Being backstage at the Oribe “On The Road” event was an exciting new privedge for me. It was cool getting to network with educators I had already met in the salon. I felt challenged but at-home with the hairdressing that was being created backstage and I am grateful to have been a part of such an exciting, exclusive event”, said Nikki.

Nashville was an amazing experience all around but working with Kien backstage was absolutely inspiring. Not to mention all the other amazing stylists that were there as well. I just love absorbing as much as possible and truly falling love with the medium we use to create art”. said Cara.