Beth Minardi Signature Shades

If you want great results in hair color you need a great colorist like Cal Martini of Beverly Hills, using a great hair color product like Beth Minardi Signature Shades.  So often we 
think it is all about having someone apply the color, or choosing the most flattering shade of color for your hair, or getting highlights or Ombre hair color technique.  Indeed these are all important elements.  But just like cooking something delicious requires both an excellent cook and high quality ingredients, so does coloring your hair.  If your hair colorist does not use the new hair technologies, the highest quality hair color line then your hair and your hair color is missing out!

The legendary Beth Minardi created her cutting edge Beth Minardi Signature Shades line “…out of a desire to make hair color better, more beautiful, more easily controlled, and more easily created by the professional colorist for any client”. As a colorist herself, she created her line, knowing the challenges she faced over the years trying to not only create gorgeous hair color, but help her clients maintain that vibrant color in between visits.  She wanted more flexibility in how to lighten and deepen existing color.  She wanted hair to be at it’s healthiest every time color is applied, not just the first time.  The result was a line of products that “allows us to lighten or deepen the hair, turning out everything from very rich, cool color to softer neutrals to the brightest shades around.  “ And these rich, dimensional hues are over-the-top shiny and silky.  Best of all there is scientific proof that hair color clients who use the complete Beth Minardi Signature Shades color line – AND the Minardi Luxury Hair Color Care, hair gets stronger and healthier after each use.  It seems impossible, but it’s true.

When it comes to hair, nothing is more aging and unsexy than frizzy, dull, over-processed hair.  No new application of hair color will help it, and no hairstyle will conceal it – unless you simply cut your hair off.

If you are lucky enough to live near Beverly Hills, then you can get this incredible technology, expertly applied by master colorist Cal Martini.  Because Cal Martini was at one time a protege of Beth Minardi’s, Cal was one of the first colorists to debut this line of extraordinary hair color line.  When you wed a great hair colorist, using the latest techniques of application, with the most cutting edge hair color technologies, the results are ….SO MUCH better than natural!

 

Best brunette hair color Los Angeles – new trends!

The best brunette hair color is coming to Los Angeles!

Cal Martini Color Group

Many women have brown hair. Brown. As in boring. I should know, since I have brown hair. Many of us want to add a little excitement to our hair color without completely changing it. I know that’s my story. I can’t change my hair color – if I go blonde I look like a negative, if I go darker, it ages me. And <sigh> I am just not in the mood to be a redhead today.

The problem with single-process color is the mistaken idea that you can get exciting, rich dimensional color out of a box. Even your average hair colorist will think – “ok, brown, let’s just change the tone, or shade of brown we are applying here and mission accomplished!” But the problem is that any single process job, no matter how pretty the shade you or your colorist chooses, still leaves you with a head of hair on which every single strand is exactly the same color. It may be a prettier color, but it is still one color. No single process color can be as dimensional as hair color that has several different shades woven together.

The best hair color products for brunettes  are where a great colorist will begin. But any hair color product is much enhanced by how it is applied. No one box or tube of hair color can give you the same kind of dimension and excitement you get by incorporating several shades, or tones, of a color. So what is a girl to do?

Ask your colorist for Shade-on-Shade Multi Dimensional hair color! Also known as Tone-on-Tone Multi Dimensional hair color, this is one of the hottest new hair color techniques trends on the red carpet. This is what we are seeing on famous and fashionable heads from Beverly Hills to New York. The best colorists, up on the most cutting edge trends in color, are creating subtle shifts in color, giving their clients hair that is layered with shades in soft sexy ranges of color like maple sugar, chocolate, cognac and caramel, so that your hair looks fuller, richer and more touchable than any bleaching could ever do. Unlike some trends in hair color, which will come and go, this method of application is so subtle, so elegant, so flexible and easy to tailor to perfection to enhance a woman’s skin tone, that it is here to stay.

How is it done? I watched as master colorist Cal Martini of Beverly Hills mixed up no less than five pots of hair color in a range of pretty shades of brown – warm tones or cool tones – which he then applied to my hair, using foil to keep each tiny section from bleeding on to the others. I looked like an extra in Apocalypto by the time he finished adding foils to my hair.

And an hour later, I looked like a million dollars. Seriously. Gone was boring brown, what I had now was shiny brunette hair with subtle highlights. No streaks, just subtle variations in tone that made my hair look thicker and my skin look translucent. Since this process is so subtle I look like one of those incredibly lucky people born with great hair.

So that’s how they do it!

 

GET THE BEST RESULTS FROM YOUR SALON VISIT

When you go to the hair salon, get the best results  from your stylist – whether in Beverly Hills or Beacon Hill, by following a few simple rules.  First, and foremost, choose a great stylist.  Yes, pretty obvious, but since we are all impulse buyers at one time or another, it is worth mentioning that you don’t want to just go to just anyone.  Even in Beverly Hills – the Mecca for great hair and style – your hair can be ruined by someone with bad taste. You certainly don’t want to choose a stylist because they are cheap – that is the road to sure disaster.  Always choose someone because you love his or her work!

Once you choose a great stylist it is best for you to go in to your salon armed with a particular hair cut or style in mind.  If at all possible, have pictures of the style you are considering with you.  Pictures you have found in current magazines are best.  If you can only find the style in magazines from a couple of years ago please re-think your choice – you don’t want last year’s look on this years head!

You will always get the best results if you can show your hair stylist what you want, rather than just describe it, so that he or she has a very clear understanding of what you are looking for.  Because the second rule for success when you get your hair cut, colored or styled, is great communication with your stylist.

As all heads are NOT created equal, rule number three for the best results from your salon hairstylist is to make sure he or she already knows the particular foibles of your head of hair.  This is particularly important with a new stylist, but even if you have worked together for a while, don’t be shy – mention anything you think is going to be an issue.  Do you have cowlicks, are you prone to frizz, does your hair go flat within an hour, do you feel the need to hide your ears?  We all have something we are working around when it comes to fashion and our own personal look.  The best hairdressers simply know how to work with quirks, and the best salon clients are excellent communicators!

If your hair stylist is good, and has worked on your hair more than a couple of times, these are things they probably will take into account each time they work with your hair. This is just one reason I believe so strongly in forging a relationship with a great stylist and sticking to it – like the song says, “nobody does it better!” I’ve noticed that the longer my own Beverly Hills hair stylist and I work together, the better he makes my hair look.

Communicating the right color to your colorist is often particularly difficult because you need to choose a shade or tone based on both the effect you want to create and on your own particular coloring. And just like your haircut, you may not want to always stick to the same old look, the same old color formula. But again, particularly if you are getting several shades of hair color blended together for a rich, dimensional color, the process of finding the perfect shade can be a lot of fun and if you have an experienced and talented colorist, one who is up on the most current trends and hair color technologies, then you still look fabulous along the way. Your stylist can even try temporary color glazes out on you as you collaborate on your look.

Finding your best look; experimenting with your hair color or cut should not be traumatic. It should be fun! The absolutely worst thing you can do is be polite and not say anything if you don’t like a result. Your stylist truly cares that you are happy with your look. And the better you stylist gets to know you, your taste, your lifestyle – the better the chance you will be really happy with the outcome. So be bold and always speak your mind.

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