Highlight from the VMAs: Jared Leto’s Macho Ombre

 

 

Three things needed to be a bad boy rock star: Leather jacket, white T-shirt, highlights. One may mock, but it was the Punks that started the trend, and nobody messes with them. At the VMAs, Jared Leto agreed. The style is a men’s long layer shape, with a masculine short to long feel. By eliminating bulk and creating a strong perimeter, it feels both soft and textured. But it’s the macho ombre that will be remembered. Jared’s dark brown roots blend to dirty blonde ends, lightening the face for a tough macho take on modern beauty trends. To learn how to get this I-just-trashed-the-hotel-room look, click style notes.

Step: After growing hair out, ask your stylist for a masculine long layer razor-cut with center-part. Make sure of weight removal as this makes the space to create soft texture without the bulk. For the color, ask for hand-painted dark blonde ombre on the ends. By hand-painting on the color, it will look more natural.
Step: Towel-dry hair and make a center-part. Cocktail KEVIN MURPHY UNDRESSED and NIGHT RIDER in palms and work through hair. Scrunch, ruffle, shake and twist to create natural texture and movement.
Step: For the gritty lived-in finish, pulse layers of KERASTASE POWDER PUFF into roots and shake out.

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Highlight From the VMAs: Taylor Swift’s Flapper Fantastic Ringlets

 

 

In the 1920s, Flappers were a new breed of women intent on flouting the rules of acceptable society. Known for being brash, treating sex casually, and dressing provocatively –– they had the temerity to bob their hair –– these fashionable young women set the scene for women’s liberation. Now, with The Great Gatsby remake bringing the Jazz Age back into style, many of springs trends are modern interpretations of the fashions of that time. Always on the pulse, Taylor Swift cut right to it at the VMAs. Her romantic pin-curls give her a faux-bob shape, creating a vintage, retro vibe that swings like a Charleston. With modern hot-tools, anyone with mid-length locks can recreate pin-curls in a few minutes, giving you a memorable style that will be the envy of your friends. Learn how in the style notes below.

Step: Prep hair with KEVIN.MURPHY FULL AGAIN Make a deep side-part. Section hair from the crown to the ears.

Step: Starting from the crown, make half-inch horizontal sections, and sub-divide into three or four vertical sections. If it helps, use pins or clips to clip sections (that you are not working on) out of the way.

Step: Now use a curing iron to create curl in these vertical sections, working inward towards the face. The barrel size of the iron determines the kinds of curls you make. For tight, flapper curls, use a 3/4 inch or one inch curling iron. (Use a bigger iron for softer, less curly, more wavy looks.)

Step: Once a curl is made, use pin-curl clips to pin to head. repeat all around. Once all curls are clipped, mist with KEVIN.MURPHY SESSION.SPRAY and allow to cool (to speed this up, use the cool air button on your blow-dryer).

Step: Once cool, brush out gently with a flat-brush until the curly shape is as you like it (use Taylor’s image as inspiration). Now use pins all around to secure in place. Mist again with SESSION.SPRAY to add extra hold to the finish.

 

Or if your not talented with a curling wand then book into a your closest Lattouf Hair & Day Spa location for a set and style this will give you the same look but with a longer lasting hold.

 

 

The Punk Movement Continues...

Spring Trends To Wear Now: Punk

The popularity of DIY owes a lot to the early punk movement. While nowadays the term punk is applied to teens with mohawks and safety-pin embellished ensembles, the original movement created a new aesthetic that moved against mainstream ideas about fashion, spawning a look that defied style norms. Androgynous haircuts, chalking, tousled styling, and disconnection are great ways to integrate punk into your style.

Step: Asymmetric cuts have an imperfect, DIY quality that adds edge to any style. For the most dramatic version, play around with extreme length contrasts, like pairing long hair with micro bangs or super short sides with a long, mohawk-inspired top. Keep edges piecey for a lived-in feeling. The new hybrid pixie bob is a perfect example of a modern take on this look. 

Step: High contrast blocks of color create a bold, gritty feeling. Ask your Lattouf colorist to create a placement that enhances your overall shape or embrace DIY and use hair chalk to create temporary color effects at home. Our fav is KEVIN.MURPHY COLOUR.BUG NEON 

Step: Use low sheen, texture enhancing products to get a grungy finish. KERASTASE POWDER BLUFF dry shampoo is great for holding high volume styles and creating a matte finish. KERASTASE SHORT MANIA will give detailed separation and mussed up appeal to short styles and the NEW KERASTASE LAQUE DENTELLE will give flexible hold and grit to gravity defying shape.

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The perfect bob-pixie hybrid in 3 steps

The perfect bob-pixie hybrid in 3 steps 

It’s almost spring; and summer is just around the corner. Of course, we still have a few weeks of winter left to enjoy, but if you want a new shape for spring & summer, it’s a great time to start collecting inspiration. Whether you went short for the summer or are contemplating a chic crop this bob-pixie hybrid is the perfect choice. Length up top with short sides and back is a great transition shape whether you’re going longer or shorter. A rich caramel base with lighter lengths around the face gives  a softer summer blonde.

Step 1: The sides of the cut should be kept under three inches to prevent bulkiness. A square layering technique will give leanness to the shape for a face-slimming effect. The top length can look great anywhere from cheekbone to chin, but keeping it below the corner of the mouth will allow you to cover the sides when desired for an instant bob shape that conceals the undercut.

Step 2: Kerastase Short Mania will give the shape malleable control, apply liberally when hair is damp and either air dry or gently tousle with fingers. Part deeply as shown to highlight the disconnection or part in the center for a more blended effect.

Step 3: Polish the ends and add separation with a spritz of  Kerastase spray a porter pulled through the tips and smoothed over the sides.

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Coco Rocha Chops Off Her Long Locks

Coco Rocha Chops Off Her Long Locks

There must be something in the air over in celebrity-ville. During the last few years, we've seen everyone from Miley Cyrus to Emma Watson to Michelle Williams to Anne Hathaway snipping off luscious and long, feminine locks in favor of stronger and tougher, shorter shapes. Perhaps somebody told them a new hairdo is still the best way to get yourself noticed? Whatever the reason, the spate continued last week with the bootylicious one. Now celebrity fashion models are getting in on the act. Taking her flowing auburn tresses into a punk-inspired pixie cut, Coco Rocha’s new look is a striking beauty makeover. With lots of length in the top section to create a wispy and light short to long feel, the shape features piece-y-ness and movement with soft edges; the side-parting sweeps elegantly over the face, drawing attention to the eyes. A fun, flirty, and easy way to wear the hair –– learn how to create it in the style notes…

Step: Ask one of our stylists for a feminine crop with graduation, a side-part, and playful length maintained through the top.

Step: For soft and sexy slept-in looks, cocktail a nickel-size of hair creme try the new Kerastase Short Mania  and tousle hair into a not so perfect shape.

Step: To create sleekness and shine use LAQUE DENTELLE A micro-fine fusion hairspray that sets all styles in place with a flexible       long-lasting hold. Works perfectly with heat tools. Push through hair from front to back to keep hair off the face for a dramatic, sleeked look.

Step: To make a gritty, lived-in, urban-inspired texture, pulse layers of Powder Bluff An aerosol spray powder that infuses texture and body with exceptional softness and no white residue. Can also be used as dry shampoo this will give texture and shape to the hair. 

Style tips: Peta Bunney Lattouf Hair & Day Spa