Lindsay Lohan gone brunette (again?). Just in case you are wondering how to get Lindsay Lohan’s brown hair color Talking Makeup has the scoop.

Tracey Cunningham, Redken Creative Consultant for Color and Hollywood colorist, gave Lindsay Lohan aka LiLo a fresh spring look with Redken Color. If you’re looking for Lindsay locks, ask your colorist to use Shades EQ 03G Cinnamon and 03N Espresso to lock in color and shine.

Shades EQ is a demi-permanent color which provides healthy, shiny results, incredible conditioning with an amazing number of mixing possibilities. Shades EQ is used as a glaze, color refresher, and also color correction. Ingredients include acidic pH; no lift, non-ammonia formula; long-lasting colorants; wheat amino acids, and silicon.

Get to know Tracey and ask her your hair color questions by logging on to Redken.com, Ask The Experts page.

Spring/Summer 2010 Haircolor Trends by Redken Creative Consultant for Color and Hollywood colorist, Tracey Cunningham.

Fashion Week runways came alive with vibrant, bold color as seen at DKNY and Marc Jacobs’ Spring/Summer 2010 shows. As the bold colors and bright accessories make way to the streets, where urban fashionistas update their little black dresses with flashes of color, they need haircolor to match, and that’s where Redken comes in.

Spring/Summer 2010 Trend #1: Brunettes

”Brunette clients want to brighten their locks for a vibrant shade, with babyfine to medium butterscotch highlights like Jessica Biel. With summer sun-kissed skintones on the way, this haircolor gives a luminous glow for a knockout look.” – Tracey Cunningham

Spring/Summer 2010 Trend #3: Blondes

“My blonde clients love summer, and this season they’ll look for a warmer base with lowlights underneath to tone down the blonde and give off that bold, beachy surfer undone sun-kissed look. Think Nicole Richie – her warm blonde shade is right on!” – Tracey Cunningham

Spring/Summer 2010 Trend #2: Redheads

“Redheads will be fierce, playful, and eye-catching with a deep strawberry shade with lots of umph! I colored Ali Larter from a blonde to redhead, and her shade is perfect for the coming season – very glamourous, high-shine red shade.” – Tracey Cunningham

Clients looking for these shades should ask their colorist about the following Electric Avenue shades:

Brunette:
Soft golden highlights with NEW 8Gg Color Fusion against a deep, woodsy base of 5Br Color Fusion for a spring/summer look.

Redhead:
Shades EQ 05C Chili and 08C Cayenne for a naturally subtle dark-to-light look.

Blonde:
Create stunning blondes by using varying tones.  Ask your colorist to alternate highlights using Blonde Icing Power Lift and NEW 8Go Color Fusion, then Shades EQ Glaze using 09GB Butter Cream.

Redken’s new Electric Avenue Haircolor Collection Color Fusion Shades feature Colorbond Technology:

High Tenacity Dyes that lock together inside the hair
Ceramide that repairs the surface and seals the hair to protect the beauty of the color
Cationic Conditioners that nourish and smooth the hair
Coconut Oil that helps form a protective barrier against water

“My blonde, brunette, and redhead clients want haircolor to compliment their fashion this season, and are looking for rich, vibrant haircolor” explains Tracey Cunningham, Redken Creative Consultant for Color. “This season’s bold colors give my clients the opportunity to accessorize their style with the latest fashion, makeup, styling and vibrant haircolor!”

“Inspired by the Spring/Summer fashion, Redken launches its annual haircolor collection with Electric Avenue featuring highly fashionable, rich and vibrant shades for blondes, brunettes, and redheads,” states David Stanko, Haircolor Consultant for Redken. “The Electric Avenue Haircolor Trends feature 3 NEW shades and 2 reformulated shades from Color Fusion advanced performance color cream, plus a special selection of existing shades from Color Fusion and Shades EQ equalizing conditioning color gloss for all-over color or strategically placed highlights to create bold or subtle looks to complement the vibrant fashion of the season.”

As stars walked the red carpet for Hollywood ’s biggest night, they showed off their stunning couture gowns, sparkling jewels and of course, glamorous haircolor. Tracey Cunningham, Redken Creative Consultant for Color and Hollywood colorist, helped Cameron Diaz prepare for Oscars 2010 with Redken color.

If you loved Cameron Diaz Oscars 2010 hair color and if you’re looking for Cameron color, ask your colorist to highlight with Redken Blonde Icing Conditioning Crème Lightener to silken and luminize your hair and place the highlights on the crown and around your face.

Blonde Icing Conditioning Crème Lightener is ammonia free and lifts hair up to 7 levels while exclusive Lumisilk Technology smoothes and preserves hair’s structure to keep it healthy, shiny and strong.

To wrap up Fashion Week Fall/Winter 2010, Guido, Redken Creative Consultant ended with a bang of ponytails at the Louis Vuitton and Miu Miu shows in Paris. Find out the must-have products and inspiration!

LOUIS VUITTON

Guido created the perfect classic ponytail with curls at the ends and a piece of hair wrapped around the elastic. “We wanted to create a retro ponytail to complement the 1950s feel of the clothes.” -Guido, Redken Creative Consultant

Products:

Redken Style Connection velvet gelatine 07 cushioning blow dry gel

Redken glass 01 smoothing serum

Hair Tutorial:

1. Apply velvet gelatine 07 cushioning blow dry gel to damp hair with a round brush

2. Pin hair into rolls and let cool.

3. Pull hair into a smooth ponytail right (no part) below the occipital bone and secure with an elastic

4. Wrap a piece of hair around the elastic and secure underneath the ponytail with bobby pins to conceal the elastic.

5. Around the hairline, apply glass 01 smoothing serum and make sure all baby hairs are down for a smooth, sleek look.

MIU MIU

The look at Miu Miu was a sleek, straight mid-back length ponytail. Each model had either black, platinum or red extension wrapped around the ponytail to off-set the natural hair color. “The colorful extensions added a futuristic feel, a very ‘Manga Doll’ look.” –Guido, Redken Creative Consultant

Products:

Redken hardwear 16 super strong gel

Redken iron silk 07 ultra straightening spray

Redken forceful 23 super strength finishing spray

Hair Tutorial:

1. Comb all hair back and pull into a ponytail right above the occipital bone, secure with an elastic.

2. Apply hardwear 16 super strong gel to ensure the sides of the head are slick with no fly-aways

3. Wrap a hair extension around the ponytail (either a red, black or platinum extension)

4. Apply iron silk 07 ultra straightening spray to the ponytail and flat iron so it’s completely straight

5. Wrap a small piece of a hair around the elastic to cover

6. Finish with forceful 23 super strength finishing spray for hold

At yesterday’s Chloe show in Paris, Redken Creative Consultant Guido created the hairstyle to complement the design house’s Fall/Winter 2010 collection. Find out the must-have products and inspiration!

Guido fashioned an ‘envy-inducing’ voluminous blow-dry for the designs of the Chloe line. “The Chloe collection featured very bold pieces, so in order to feminize the look, the hair was blow-dryed and set for a gorgeous, bouncy style down the runway.” -Guido, Redken Creative Consultant

Products:

Redken Style Connection velvet gelatine 07 cushioning blow dry gel

Hair Tutorial:

1. Apply velvet gelatine 07 cushioning blow dry gel to damp hair

2. Blow-dry with a round brush to keep hair smooth

3. Curl hair and set with pins until hair is cooled

4. Pull curls out and run brush through hair to break up the curls

5. Let hair part where it falls naturally

At yesterday’s Yves Saint Laurent show in Paris, Redken Creative Consultant Guido was backstage working his magic to put the finishing touches to the overall look of the designers’ Fall/Winter 2010 collection.

Find out the must-have products and inspiration for the Yves Saint Laurent show hairstyle in Paris!

The hairstyle and inspiration: Inspired by the refined, modern, elegant and bourgeois French woman, Guido created a stylized, sophisticated chignon with lacquered look around the front hair line. “At Yves Saint Laurent, we took a classic chignon and modernized it for this house; the key was using Redken hardwear 16 super strong gel along the hairline to give it that lacquered effect.” -Guido, Redken Creative Consultant

The Products:

Redken hardwear 16 super strong gel

Redken forceful 23 super strength finishing spray

Hair Tutorial: How To Get The Hairdo

1. Pull hair into low ponytail, keeping the sides smooth

2. Wrap the hair in upon itself to create a flat chignon

3. Secure with pins and forceful 23 super strength finishing spray to hold

4. Along the front portion of the hairline, apply hardwear 16 super strong gel from the hairline to about 3 inches back

5. Finish with forceful 23 to create a very sophisticated, lacquered style

This weekend at the Loewe, Jean Paul Gaultier, Sonia Rykiel and Akris shows in Paris, Redken Creative Consultant Guido was backstage creating the hairstyles to compliment the designers’ Fall/Winter 2010 collections. Find out the must-have products and inspiration from each show!

LOEWE

For a 1940s, sculpted shape of the hair at Loewe, Guido’s key product was Redken forceful 23 hairspray that kept the look in place and gave it that ‘plastic’ feel: “The clothes at Loewe are very feminine, with a few suits, so we wanted to nod to the 1940s and create a sophisticated, sculpted shape with the hair.” -Guido, Redken Creative Consultant

Products:

Redken forceful 23 super strength finishing spray

Redken fabricate 03 heat active texturizer

Hair Tutorial:

1. Begin with damp hair and blow-dry fabricate 03 heat active texturizer into hair.

2. Create a very straight center part in the hair.

3. On both sides of the head, from the part to the ear, create a few waves with the hair and secure with hair clips to help set.

4. Spray forceful 23 super strength finishing spray over waves and apply heat from dryer to set the wave with forceful so hair doesn’t move.

5. Using a donut pad, roll the remaining portion of the hair up into the donut until reaching the nape of the neck. Secure with pins.

6. Spray forceful 23 super strength finishing spray all over hair to create a “plastic, cartoon-like” effect.

JEAN PAUL GAULTIER

The choice accessories for the designer this season were hats and turbans to give a ‘world traveler’ emphasis to the line. For the four looks that didn’t have these accessories, Guido created an undone side ponytail. “Jean Paul Gaultier’s collection was influenced by the world traveler. The collection featured many hats and turbans as signature pieces, so the hair took a step back.” -Guido, Redken Creative Consultant

Products:

Redken thickening lotion 06 body builder

Hair Tutorial:

1. Blow-dry thickening lotion 06 body builder into hair.

2. Create a messy side part.

3. Pull hair into a right-side ponytail and secure with elastic.

SONIA RYKIEL

For the romantic Sonia Rykiel line, hair was pulled into a low ponytail with a left side part with the front section sweeping over the right eye. The pieces softly fell out around the face and complemented the pom pom headbands worn by all the models. “Sonia Rykiel really lets models have fun on the runway, a certain ‘joie de vivre.’ The hairstyle is modern yet playful and complements the artistic, femme-fatal clothing and the Parisian designer who takes inspiration from the ultra artsy Left Bank. “ -Guido, Redken Creative Consultant

Products:

- Redken fabricate 03 heat active texturizer

- Redken quick dry 18 instant finishing spray

Hair Tutorial:

1. On damp hair, rough dry fabricate 03 heat active texturizer into hair.

2. Using a curling iron, twist hair into soft curls.

3. Brush out curls, to look more like a wave.

4. Create a side part on the left side of the head.

5. Pull hair into low ponytail and secure with elastic.

6. Loosen hair on the left side by the hair line so hair covers the right eye.

7. Lightly spray quick dry 18 instant finishing spray for finish and hold.

AKRIS

For this minimalistic Swiss design house, Guido complemented the looks with a low ponytail with a left side part for a style that was tailored, modern and feminine. “The hairstyle was inspired by the collection – simple, modern, and wearable.” -Guido, Redken Creative Consultant

Products:

Redken fabricate 03 heat active texturizer

Hair Tutorial:

1. Rough dry fabricate 03 heat active texturizer into damp hair to bring out natural texture.

2. Create a natural left side part.

3. Pull into a low ponytail and secure with elastic.

Paris Fashion Week: Rounding out Fashion Week Fall/Winter 2010, Guido, Redken Creative Consultant is backstage in Paris creating hairstyles that are both eye catching and inspirational. Find out about the inspiration and products used today in Paris at the Balenciaga and Nina Ricci shows to complement the designers’ Fall/Winter 2010 collections!

BALENCIAGA

Wanting to the look to appear slightly futuristic, Guido created a sophisticated look at Balenciaga to compliment, not compete with the clothes. “Balenciaga design house is very forward thinking and great to work with, which allows me to create a vision for the hair that compliments the clothing.” – Guido, Redken Creative Consultant

Products:

Redken hardwear 16 super strong gel

Redken forceful 23 super strength finishing spray

Create the Look Hair Tutorial:
1. Create a deep side part of the left side of head.
2. Layer in hardwear 16 super strong gel so each strand is saturated. Comb product in so hair is smooth without bumps.
3. Secure in a low pony tail at nape of neck.
4. Make sure hair is along the hair line and pulled tight without any dips.
5. Wrap hair into a knot and secure with pins.
6. Finish with forceful 23 super strength finishing spray for hold.

NINA RICCI

Inspired by 1950s and 60s French actresses, Guido fashioned a chic hairstyle to pair with the designs coming down the runway. “Nina Ricci is a very feminine, sophisticated design house and the hair adds a dimension of “the present” making the overall look of the collection very modern for today’s woman.” 

Products:

Redken aerate 08 bodifying cream mousse

Redken forceful 23 super strength finishing spray

Create the look hair tutorial:
1. Start with clean dry hair and apply aerate 08 bodifying cream mousse to the crown of the head and rough dry to add volume at the crown
2. Backcomb hair at the crown to create additional body
3. Comb hair away from face and over the bump created at the crown
4. Let hair fall naturally at the ends and secure with forceful 23 super strength finishing spray

At the Prada Fall/Winter 2010 runway show in Milan, Redken Creative Consultant Guido created a 60s inspired lacquered voluminous egg-shaped chignon.

“The look at Prada was all about classic French hairdressing done with a very chic uptown look with a nod to the 60s – a modern take on a classic, sophisticated look.” – Guido, Redken Creative Consultant

Miranda Kerr at the Prada AW 2010 Fashion Show in Milan

Products all by Redken:
thickening lotion 06 body builder
hardwear 16 super strong gel
forceful 23 super strength finishing spray

Create the Look:
1- Section hair into two sections by a horizontal part at ear height.

2- Clip top portion aside and blow dry in thickening lotion 06 body builder into bottom half of hair for volume and secure into a ponytail. Slide a donut over this ponytail and secure pieces around to cover entire donut.

3- Take top portion that was clipped off and blow dry in thickening lotion 06 body builder through top section and then backcomb to create textured volume.

4- Smooth hardwear 16 super strong gel into hair to pull top section smoothly and perfectly over donut portion and secure at nape of neck.

5- Create that lacquer look by applying heavy layers of forceful 23 super strength finishing spray directly to chignon and sides to secure with ultimate hold.

Redken’s Runway Report from Milan: At today’s Versace and Alberta Ferretti shows in Milan, Redken Creative Consultant Guido created the hair styles to compliment the designers’ Fall/Winter collection.

Versace Fall 2010 Milan: hair with Redken

Versace
Guido created a sexy, natural blow – an easy style for the modern looking Versace woman. “The style is ultra sexy but natural, like you can run your hands through it. Kind of a relaxed, style that doesn’t look too done, that gives an extra sense of lax sexiness to the Versace woman.” – Guido, Redken Creative Consultant

Products all by Redken:
thickening lotion 06 body builder
forceful 23 super strength finishing spray

Create the Look:

1. Blow dry thickening lotion 06 body builder into wet hair for natural volume
2. Starting at the nape of the neck and moving upward to the top of the head, take two inch sections and roll into large 2 inch rollers and pin to set.
3. Move up in horizontal sections, creating 4-5 rolls in total.
4. Leave in for 20-30 minutes while makeup is being done
5. Take out rollers and create center part
6. Finish with a light mist of forceful 23 super strength finishing spray

Alberta Ferretti
Guido created a textured deep side parted bun inspired by dark romanticism to give an edge to the ultra feminine clothes of the line. “I wanted to create a slight veil over the face and eyes with the front section for a haunted look, more Tim Burton, that still looks romantic but dark in a sinister way.” – Guido, Redken Creative Consultant 

Products all by Redken:
thickening lotion 06 body builder
forceful 23 super strength finishing spray

Create the Look:
1. Blow dry in thickening lotion 06 body builder into damp hair
2. Create deep natural side part with fingers
3. Secure hair into low ponytail and backcomb to create texture
4. Pin in a loose low bun and pull pieces out for an undone look
5. Sweep front section over eyes and spray forceful 23 super strength finishing spray to stick hair to the forehead.
6. Secure entire look with forceful 23 super strength finishing spray