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While preparing for our autumn rush, we’ve been tracking all the dazzling hair tones walking out of NYC’s apex toning points; and what we found are mixes of diverse and cool hues outing in the city’s most trendsetting hangouts.

Normally, autumn color trends hinge on migration techniques — going from sun kissed to a one-color blonde or moving from highlights to balayage.

However, this fall is all about unearthing a modern, well-mixed color. Think of a cool-girl, yellow-red blond with golden highlights and blends of warm cafe barbs lined with plush caramel ends, and you’ll be on the right track.

Inspiring? Well, here’s another perk, your stylist can easy create your tonal makeover for the fall without having to do a complete color overhaul.

So, ya’ wanna know what’s new in East Coast haircolor trends — it’s all about mixed tones…..

Copper-Dawn

What To Ask For: A spacious copper-crimson tone along with intense cherry and orange undertones.

This is an intense, bold red color that needs some careful blending and correct tonal disparity to make it look calm, light, and contemporary.

Likewise, the roots are kept slightly darker for a more innate and reasonable grow-out. This means your colorist will place a color on your roots that closely matches your natural shade.

Sundry Metals

What To Ask For: Some unruffled highlights over your natural color.

This color trend is more the the younger crowd. A metal sundry owns high-contrast and mostly resembles surfer hair.

Your colorist will piece together highlights of light-cool, silvery tones, after adding a hair perfector product to the mane. This process will help match your natural color with the metallic highlights for an ideal ombré grow out.

Bright Bronze

What To Ask For: A tepid, russet base with tanned-caramel ends.

This hue is a rich brown color with a tad of bronze dazzle in the mix. Here, think of a light-bronze base tone with balayage on the ends.

Bright bronze is also low maintenance; one can go without needing a highlight touch-up for at least six weeks after their initial appointment. Even after two months, changes in an untouched mane’s color are hardly noticeable.

Platinum Ice

What To Ask For: A sub-zero, pallid blond without ash.

Today’s strong platinum is a simple icy color, and the secret to going mainstream on this hue is to know that no ashy undertones are allowed.

After leaving the chair, remember that chlorine products or pool water on the hair is a big “no-no,” which means that you might have to invest in a water filter for washing and conditioning at home.

Upkeep will depend on grow out; one should plan for monthly “root” touch-ups when sporting platinum ice, since letting the mane grow without maintenance may result the in locks acquiring a yellowish hue.

For hair color in Oklahoma City with low ammonia and low fade, call me (Anastasia) for an appointment.

Our last post summarized NYC’s fab-color schemes for the fall; so, let’s keep going on this idea, and dig into NYC’s most modish cuts for autumn.

Fall hair trends have arrived early this season, and while you may find a lot of rounded cuts, uneven bobs, and undersized pixies out there, the majority of what we’re seeing leaving the City’s most posh salons has been heavily influenced by the shag.

Remember, a shag cut is a hairstyle that’s layered and feathered at the top and sides at random lengths. It forms a full crown and thins-out around the edges.

Today, there are tons of shag options to choose from that work just as well on people as they do on pop stars, and the good news is, the new shag also nurtures to hair texture of any kind.

Sound good? Let’s check out some rad NYC-shags, and discover if one of them could work for you…

Wispy-Bang Shag

This style is called the coolest cut in NYC by the trendsetters.  It’s very sexy and rock-and-roll at the same time.

The theme is simple–a layered shag with flyaway bangs that are conical and bulky on the sides.

Loose curls or straight or wavy hair texture will energize this style’s allure, that begins by adding some salt spray product to the locks to bring out the mane’s “natural texture” before the haircut.

Mid-Length Shag: Uneven Layers

Women love this versatile mid-length cut just because it’s cool, this shag will work for any hair texture, as long as your stylist cuts the layers longer on the side and keeps the locks at chest level.

Doing so will flaunt your hair’s natural texture, giving it a loosely-fallen, air-dry look with some soft choppy layers.

Textured Shag: Petite-Dull Bangs

Do you want some drama in your look without some serious chopping? — well then, seriously consider this trendy mod.

The cut creates more of an edge by going with layers, but disrupting the look with some petite-blunt baby bangs, which MUST be cut absolutely straight (not tapered) to keep the style clean and contemporary.

Here, your stylist will air-dry the locks and wrap-dry the fringe to guarantee some voluptuous bangs that fall straight down.

Short Shag: Smoothed layers

Women with curly hair are not left out, here. This shag cut will add some bounce to your swirls style simply by performing a soft chop to form a bob with rounded layers.

A face-framing fringe will usually accompany the short shag, as well, which will structure the outside curls into perfect no-frizz form.

Square Shag: Layered Bob

Let’s stay in the wavy lane, and talk about the square shag, which works for every type of curl.

This cut forms a completely-balanced shape by adding a layered bob to the quadrangle mix and leaving a few random stands to create a light fringe.

Your stylist should cut up into the bangs, and NOT straight across, so that the fringe run unpretentiously with the rest of the hair.

Seberg-Pixie Shag

This is a “contemporary-woman” chop for the daring person who avoids the long hair look. A Seberg pixie broadcasts both your face and skin tone, and brings some feminine-masculinity into your overall look.

After leaving the chair, you’ll also want to grab some salon-style, light wax or pomade to upkeep the hair’s separation and lock slicing at home.

For a hairstyle in Oklahoma City that fits you, call me (Anastasia) for an appointment.

Why do we always desire the things we can’t have?

Think about for a sec … those with thin hair yearn for thicker locks, though folks who own thick manes crave thinner strands when styling.

Out of the two mentioned above, it seems that people with fine strands own the foremost hair troubles, only because their locks are either super smooth, very thin or mega comatose.

Well, if you’re in the latter category, you can breathe a little easier because while a pro-stylist can’t alter your hair’s natural texture, he or she can make your tresses look thicker than they really are.

This week, let’s talk about the four “DOs” for folks with fine locks: dupe-cutting, dupe-coloring, pre-styling, and dupe-styling; all fixes that provide people with thin hair something that they actually CAN HAVE.

Dupe-Cutting

Stylists create illusions all time on thin hair, and it all begins with a simple trim. Here, your professional will attempt to maintain as much weight as possible on the existing locks to give them a fuller voluminous impression.

Your cut should own a sturdy base line and possess some flawless, sharp edges. Just remember that there is no layering on cuts for thin hair, since it’s hard to obtain styling volume when the mane is layered too short.

Nevertheless, you can still go petite; adding some product to super-short, fine hair creates superfluous texture and height illusions as well.

Dupe-Coloring

Hair tone selection also swindles people into believing that the locks are naturally thick. However, this doesn’t mean that you should perform an all-in-one coloring job, which will actually remove texture on fine hair and flatten the mane’s appearance.

Here, what we’re talking about is including a few dim plates or low lights to the hue to assist in creating extra depth and dimension.

For example, darker flaxen hues throughout a blonde mane will make those one-color tresses appear multi-dimensional and especially thick.

Pre-Styling

Believe it or not, vintage Velcro rollers work wonders on thin hair texture. What these pre-styling tools do is they lift up the mane’s roots before any styling action takes place.

And so, your stylist will most likely enfold your top locks with rollers while the hair is damp. Once the mane is semi-dry, the rollers come off, and the tresses will be set in an elevated position for adding more volume later.

The pros also use pre-styling conditioning products and reverse shampoo procedures to get the hair ready for some extra volume; hence, volumizing occurs long before you even leave the washing table.

Dupe-Styling

Pre-styling fine hair makes hot tool application much easier for the professional. It gives those large round brushes, styling wands and blow dryers some extra power in creating even more volume then if the locks were just cut and colored.

Styling fine hair is all about creating volume with hot air at the roots and lifting the strands before applying other hot tools. Bear in mind that styling wands and irons offer those with thin hair some subtle curls and delicate waves for most-desired movement.

Finally, a blast of cool air sets in place the other previously mentioned “DOs” for an absolute facade of thicker hair.

For a great haircut or hairstyle in Oklahoma City, call me (Anastasia) for an appointment.

There’s something about the end of summer that makes us want to call our stylist and set an appointment before the fall festivities begin.

Let’s see now, we got the Halloween bash, Thanksgiving, Christmas and New Year all lumped into one season.

Last year, we talked about autumn’s lazy-girl texture fad; well, this fall is a whole new ball game, and we stylist are totally psyched.

Geo-Shaped Hair

Big bold shapes and eccentric lines will engulf super-clean, blunt cuts across the board this autumn.

We expect women with natural-textured hair next season to seek some awe-inspiring, triangular shapes or blunt fringes with eye-catching contours.

HINT: Geo-shapes work best on curly and wavy hair because the stylist can easily mold the loose texture into different geometric shapes and sizes with distinct sharp edges.

The Smooth Lob

The pros have revamped the lob into a more shiny, smooth and sexy look for the fall season.

This cut comes off an intentional trend, labeled by most as “the new long.” It’s contemporary and nonchalant while still holding the sexiness that extended layers offer.

Smooth lob owners will need to keep a high shine on the mane and to control any flyways. So, low-maintenance folks may want to look elsewhere if post-appointment hair care is not their thing.

The Gatsby-Bob

Short hair is poised to make a comeback. A 2016 Gatsby is a cheekbone-length crop for the “It Girl,” which can be sported on many textures.

With inspiration from the classic ’20s woman, today’s Gatsby is worn in natural, wavy texture with a mischievous tousle to entice the onlookers.

One thing to note here, this bob may take a while to grow out — so, be sure it’ll work for you before your stylist starts the cut.

Enhanced, Textured Layers

Longer locks 2.0 include adding some texture-enhancing layers. Stylists this fall will be offering framed layers all around the front of the mane, which produces a lot of movement.

Owning versatile layers allow folks to wear them as they like, whether its girl-next-door, night-on-the-town or OMG-I-slept-in look, the sky’s the limit.

Another perk textured layers can offer is that they will assist in delivering fullness to the top of the mane — which is great for the fine-textured person who is looking for some extra liveliness in her hair.

Higher-Hair

No, this is not the 1984 Grace Jones high fade; what we’re saying, here, is that a lot of brave and vogue women this fall will be making a really big statement by adding height to their hair.

However, healthy hair is a “must” for risqué folk wanting to step into high-hair terrain. This means no chemically treated locks allowed because creating height will require some precision cutting into the sides and edges.

Hence, hair must be in super-healthy good condition, as broken ends will most-likely yield a messy and undefined stature.

For a hairstyle in Oklahoma City that fits you, call me (Anastasia) for an appointment.