Hair Stylist Mallory Cook of MMC Style Hair Salon in Madison, WI. Hair Care and Hair Color Specialist. Mallory Cook will be your best hair stylist for your lifestyle. #mmcstyle
Welcome Abigail Ross, Hairstylist at #MMCstyle Salon
#MMCstyle is happy to announce hiring our new hair stylist Abigail Ross
Abigail Ross has the ability to amplify each client’s profound and unique beauty. She believes in thorough and thoughtful consultation with each and every client. When booking your appointment online with Abigail, please note she’s going to ensure there is a shared vision between you and her before she starts any haircut, style or color. Laying a great foundation for any style is what allows Abigail to execute some of the best hair styles in Madison. Being drawn to classically beautiful and handsome hair that’s healthy above all else has also lead her to become very popular for our Misters in Madison. Enjoying new, amazing relationships with each of her clients, Abigail has become truly attentive to your every need, enjoying those curly hair and fun fashion hair color challenges.
Never complacent and always striving to be better, hair stylist Abigail Ross can’t wait to meet you and share a truly one-of-a-kind experience in her new beautiful surroundings at #MMCstyle Salon in Madison!
VISIT ABIGAIL’S STYLIST PAGEAlready know Abigail Ross? Share your thoughts or give a testimonial for our great new hairstylist!
For every shared thought from excited clients, a stylist entering any new salon gains an opportunity to serve new clients that they’ve never met, because of your feedback! No matter the experience level, being excited to come to a place you’re appreciated or that has buzz surrounding it can help build the character of any great salon. Home to great stylists ready to provide “the right style for your lifestyle.”
Please take a look at what people are saying about our new hair stylist Abigail.
ABIGAIL / #MMCstyle REVIEWS
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Welcome Tanya Hawkins, Hairstylist at #MMCstyle Salon
#MMCstyle is happy to announce hiring our new hair stylist Tanya Hawkins
Tanya Hawkins (Rene) comes to #MMCstyle Salon with 14 years of color and styling experience. She may be to humble to say it, but she’s a true master at hair color. Her specialties include short cuts of all types on men and women (razor, fading etc.) Creative/bright/funky colors (color melting, hair painting), bleach and tones balayage, ombre and shadowing. Tanya is well educated and certified in multiple color systems and enjoys using her knowledge to create exactly what her clients are envisioning when they sit down in her chair. To put it simply, if she says it’s been photoshoped, it’s been photoshopped.
VISIT TANYA’S STYLIST PAGEAlready know Tanya Hawkins? Share your thoughts or give a testimonial for our great new hairstylist!
For every shared thought from excited clients, a stylist entering any new salon gains an opportunity to serve new clients that they’ve never met, because of your feedback! No matter the experience level, being excited to come to a place you’re appreciated or that has buzz surrounding it can help build the character of any great salon. Home to great stylists ready to provide “the right style for your lifestyle.”
Please take a look at what people are saying about our new hair stylist Tanya.
Tanya Hawkins Hair Color Specialist at #MMCstyle Salon in Madison WI.
Our New Salon in Downtown Madison is OPEN!
Madison, WI, Release: July 6, 2020. For Immediate Release
#MMCstyle Misters – Madams – Misters – Salon announce that we are officially open for haircut and hair style services at our new location. The Madison based hair salon provides a range of professional hair and beauty services including specializing in hair color inside a large, welcoming, trendy and just simply fun to be at location on “East Wash”. #MMCstyle Salon opened it’s doors and started servicing clients for the first time on May 26th, 2020 as it also coincided with the first day of business return for salons in Madison.
For more information and to book services online, please visit the website here: https://mmcstyle.com/salon/
#MMCstyle Salon is a professional hair salon located on 1016 E Washington Ave, Madison, WI 53703. It is a local downtown hair salon that offers quality services including haircuts, hair styles, hair color, and skin services for anyone and everyone. The hair stylists at the salon vary in experience which helps our salon cover almost any territory. We strive for our salon and stylists to direct your custom requests or needs to a stylist / barber overly capable to provide an outstanding service. The team at #MMCstyle Salon also welcome groups such as date night / girls night hairstyle or hair blowout and bridal parties with space that can be arranged to accommodate. All #MMCstyle Salon’s stations easily move on wheels and you can enjoy a cold or hot beverage at the bar.
The salon specializes in creating custom hair styles and colors. The highly skilled team at #MMCstyle Salon can create any design and color scheme that their customers desire, hand painting color techniques including balayage, ombré, foilyage, highlights, babylights, combined with the perfect haircut is the target for our hair stylists. (client must have a consultation and understand the time and cost of proper hair color)
Our stylists use a range of skills they’ve learned through experience. The hair stylists at #MMCstyle Salon attend continual education, such as the popular Pulp Riot Faction8 Hair Color Line Classes. Each of our stylists work can be seen on their own pages here: https://mmcstyle.com or on their Instagram page here: https://www.instagram.com/mmcstyle/
Alongside #MMCstyle Salon’s haircut and style service, they also offer a range of skincare and grooming services, as well as a range of additional style products for everyone. Their product lines include Pulp Riot, Pureology, Redken, Fatboy, Baxter and Tecni-Art. Our top-flight service most often requested is custom hair color. Another service that is popular and our salon is fully-equipped for is Brazilan Blowouts, a service that has nothing to do with waxing and is everything an anti-frizz smoothing system for your hair.
#MMCstyle Salon’s additional hair services and treatments include: Haircut Consultation, Mister’s Haircut, Madam’s Haircut, Brazilian Blowout Consultation, Neutral/Mid-Length Haircut, Shampoo & Blow Dry Style, Bang Trim, Bang Trim, Eye Brow Wax, Lip Wax, Eye Brow & Lip Wax combo, Formal/Bridal Style Consultation, Formal/Bridal Style Consultation, Children’s Haircut (Under 9). They also offer color hair and treatment services that include: Hair Color Consultation, Mister’s (Short Hair) Color & Blow Dry, Mister’s (Short Hair) Color & Haircut, Single Process Color & Blow Dry, Single Process Color & Haircut, Partial Foil & Blow Dry, Partial Foil & Haircut, Full Foil & Blow Dry, Full Foil & Haircut, Balayage/Foilyage/Ombre & Blowdry, Balayage/Foilyage/Ombre & Haircut, Bleach Retouch, Tone & Blow Dry, Bleach Retouch, Tone & Haircut, Double Process Color & Blow Dry, Double Process Color & Blow Dry, Olaplex Treatment. Customers can also choose to book online with a service with the first available hair stylist or travel to each stylist’s services on their own custom page where some services may vary.
Those wishing to find out more about #MMCstyle Salon can visit the website on the link HERE or you can travel to our “What’s Trending” page HERE to see more articles written by myself and/or our stylists. We can also be contacted by phone at 608-630-2792.
Name: Mallory Cook
Organization: #MMCstyle Misters – Madams – Color – Salon
Address: 1016 E Washington Ave, Madison, WI 53703
Phone: 608-630-2792
Welcome Jada Bliss, Hairstylist at #MMCstyle Salon
#MMCstyle is happy to announce hiring our new hair stylist Jada Bliss
Jada Bliss’s favorite thing about the hair industry is that it is constantly evolving. Jada loves to learn about the latest techniques to make sure she is constantly becoming a better stylist. Jada encourages her clients to try new services and to utilize everything the salon offers. Jada’s honesty and reliability allow her to build trusting relationships with her clients.
VISIT JADA’S STYLIST PAGEAlready know Jada Bliss? Share your thoughts or give a testimonial for our great new hairstylist!
For every shared thought from excited clients, a stylist entering any new salon gains an opportunity to serve new clients that they’ve never met, because of your feedback! No matter the experience level, being excited to come to a place you’re appreciated or that has buzz surrounding it can help build the character of any great salon. Home to great stylists ready to provide “the right style for your lifestyle.”
Please take a look at what people are saying about our new hair stylist Jada.
Jada Bliss Hairstylist at #MMCstyle Salon in Downtown Madison WI
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Welcome Jaed Colvin, Hairstylist at #MMCstyle Salon
#MMCstyle is happy to announce hiring a new hair stylist Jaed Colvin
Jaed Colvin’s attention to detail will ensure that you are taken care of from the moment you call or book your appointment online until you walk out the door looking and feeling fabulous! Jaed places a high value on listening, consulting and respecting her clients. Focusing on the client’s needs is the key to her success.
VISIT JAED’S STYLIST PAGEAlready know Jaed Colvin? Share your thoughts or give a testimonial to this great new hairstylist!
For every shared thought from excited clients, a stylist entering any new salon gains an opportunity to serve new clients that they’ve never met, because of your feedback! No matter the experience level, being excited to come to a place you’re appreciated or that has buzz surrounding it can help build the character of any great salon. Home to great stylists ready to provide “the right style for your lifestyle.”
Please take a look at what people are saying about #MMCstyle Salon or Leave some feedback and say hi to our new hair stylist Jaed.
Jaed Colvin Hairstylist at #MMCstyle Salon in Downtown Madison WI
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#MMCstyle – Misters – Madams – Color – Salon is Opening on 5/26
Today’s the day, WE’RE OPEN! Here’s a little glimpse of what you’ll be seeing when you come in for your appointment at the new salon! More appointment availability will become available this week as our new stylists settle in! We’re excited to help everyone! #mmcstyle
1016 E Washington Ave Madison, WI 53703
Schedule a haircut, color, product or bridal consultation with me today by contacting us by any of the methods below. We look forward to helping you find “The Right Style For Your Lifestyle!”
#MMCstyle – Misters – Madams – Color – Salon | Online Booking
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More reasons to love Pureology hair products
Pureology Hair Care and Style Products at #MMCSTYLE Salon
At #MMCSTYLE we really focus on the right style for your lifestyle, included in this is the correct product regime, which includes Pureology. We don’t just pick up our favorite looking, pretty, new product off the shelf. We choose our products based on experience, science, and brand trust to always give our clients the best.
Pureology is a favorite salon product line, because it deserves to be
Pureology is indeed a favorite hair care product line of mine and has been for over a decade now. Every single one of their products pack a punch with “multi-benefits” and their highly concentrated formulas. All Pureology products also use bottles that are 95% post-consumer recycled materials, AND they are 100% recyclable! Pureology NEVER tests on animals, EVERY product is color-safe and protecting, even the purifying shampoo which is rare in any cleansing shampoo. Another great feature is Pureology’s Anti-Fade Complex, which contains antioxidants and full spectrum UVA/UVB sunscreen to protect hair and help maintain color between your visits.
A couple more key points to love Pureology:
- Pureology products are SULFATE-FREE! Their concentrated ZeroSulfate® shampoos use a mixture of corn, coconut and sugar for a gentle cleanse, without comprising your hair color.
- Pureology’s dual benefits formulas completely protect your hair and add a variety of custom care benefits dependent on the particular line you choose, for example, their smoothing, strengthening, moisturizing and volumizing.
- Each Pureology line has specific custom benefits with a unique aromatherapy fragrance to really elevate your experience in the salon, and you’ll love it at home when you’re showering either at the end or beginning of your day to help calm the senses!
Sustainability:
Pureology cares about everything surrounding each product, their ingredients, the materials they use in packaging and possible environmental impact pre/post product use. Pureology plans out each of their product lines with their carbon footprint in mind to help sustain our environment for our planet.
- Pureology has managed to reduce the amount of water used in their manufacturing processes.
- Pureology’s bottles are made of 50% post-consumer recycled materials which are 100% recyclable.
- Pureology uses 50% post-consumer recycled materials for their printed / brand materials.
- Pureology uses a minimal amount of secondary packaging materials while using cartons made of 100% recycled fibers.
- Pureology now reduces the amount of energy they use to make each bottle.
- Pureology reduces waste during the filling / packaging process of their bottles.
- Pureology only uses FDA-Approved plastics for environmental safety and sustainability.
In summary, Pureology’s products are simply amazing, with super-concentrated quality, and is crazy GREEN with their production and materials they use in their company. Pureology continues to hold onto their values, delivering a very high value for their clients and themselves. It is more of enough reason for me to love Pureology Hair Style Products!
If you’re in the market for hair care or hair styling products, give Pureology Hair Care Products a try! During your next appointment, while we’re exploring what products fit your lifestyle, I may just pick out something from the Pureology line. If you hold similar values close to your heart, visit my Pureology product page to learn more or contact me, I’m always happy to talk about this amazing product line.
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Retaining your salon clients through the years
A life of a career hairstylist can be a rewarding, and beautiful one! The one thing that makes this possible, and is not a painful feat, is retaining clients through the years. This allows a stylist to be consistently busy, while building meaningful relationships, and receive plenty of referrals from their clients who know them. Top notch customer service, listening, booking ahead or having an easy solution for guests to book, self image, and staying up to date on skills and trends are all things that keep a client wanting to come back.
Customer service should be any salon’s first priority
It’s obvious as a hairstylist customer service skills should not be lacking, we are in the industry of guest handling, and it is something we should all take seriously! From the second that customer walks through the door they are a guest in your salon, and should be treated like VIP every time. Make sure they are comfortable along the way, having a beverage, a comfortable seat, something to read, and having a swift easy checkout are all things that add to a great service. Make them feel beautiful and important (they are paying for our TIME, we need to give that whole-heartily to them). Not rushing a service, and being present for your guest the whole time they are in your chair are crucial. Your cell phone should not be in sight where it will distract you, and the conversation should be kept between you and your guest, unless of course your guest strikes up a conversation with someone nearby. Overall, guests feeling fully attended to from the second they walk in the door makes them feel very special, and like they are cared for, this will keep them coming back for more!
Don’t take calls and make clients wait
Clients aren’t coming to listen to a hairstylist talk the entire time
The skill of listening can be a tough one, practice listening until your guest is completely done with a thought before beginning to think of a response, especially during your consultation before starting a service. Trying to answer before someone is finished with a thought can make a conversation not only take longer than necessary, but can also lead to missing some very important information your guest may be saying. Make sure to ask questions when you are reading someones body language that is not representing what they are saying. This really shows your guest you are paying attention and can make them very comfortable with you. Once a guest is comfortable talking with you, knowing you are hearing what they like and want, so you can execute exactly what they’d like. Do this and they’re going to be coming back to you for certain!
Scheduling their next appointment is completely appropriate
Make sure you are always setting as many clients up for their next service as possible. I believe a lot of stylists feel like they are being ‘pushy’ recommending a date, and setting it up for their guests next visit. I disagree, and I would go as far to say 95% of your guests disagree as well. This is a closing out part of the service our guests are looking for us guidance on. This is the moment we share with them when that new pixie may need a trim, or that fresh red color will possibly fade and be ready for a touch up; therefore, it’s an integral part of your service! In fact, I believe we are doing a disservice for not at the very least suggesting a time frame, before asking them to pre-book. And for those guests who prefer to wait to book, having an online system, or an easy way to contact us personally helps assure more than half of those people get scheduled properly with ease and at their own convenience, which leads them back into our chair! Don’t miss the mark by not supporting your clients, they come to your salon for you, not to have round about conversations about booking with your front desk staff, or end up booked for the wrong service, or even worse, with another stylist who was easier to book with.
Pre-Booking = Customer Service Too!
Hairstylists are part of the decor and overall impression also
A nice reminder for our clients to why they come to us is having a great self image, this is especially important with first time clients, after all shouldn’t we focus on making the best first impression. We’re hairstylists, that equals having our hair done always, makeup on, and dressing to the 9’s to not only give us confidence, but it screams “you can trust me, I know what I’m doing, I care enough about myself so that I can take care of you!” Schedule days in the salon with staff to do service trades to keep color & cuts trendy and fresh, we are our own walking billboards, we should be taking care of each other! Being aware of how you’re carrying yourself in front of guests, and conversations being held is something I always work hard to remember. People are always watching when we’re out on the floor, it’s great to not be hiding in the break room so clients can see us, but we should be doing everything in our power to improve the image of ourselves and the salon while on the salon floor.
Evolve or die
Staying up to date on trends and skills in our industry for hair color, cuts, and styles will help keep ourselves and our clients on trend, and be another thing that makes our clients trust us in-order to keep coming back. Freshening up on skills will help us to be certain we are always using best practices in everything that we do, participating or hosting in salon classes is a fantastic way to stay fresh. Your salon team should learn from each other, grow together and help keep your fellow stylists accountable for their skills. Practice makes perfect, supporting stylists, and being supported by stylists will help us always give the best service to our client, and get them the exact hair style they are looking for. At the end of the day, I believe is one of the most important ways to keep our clients coming back, along with everything else you keep in your experience bag.
Take notes, learn and grow with your clients
It’s about providing value without any “quid pro quo”
You may think this is about skill, it’s not, skill may be involved, but it’s truly about providing value to your clients new and old without asking for anything in return. Try placing your mindset into revolving around customer experience and services that we provide, it’s given me the opportunity over the last 12+ years to grow and maintain a steady business. I’ve been able to move from 4 salons during this time, each time moving up in position and responsibility, ultimately affording me the opportunity to go into business for myself. These values along with improving my skill gives me the confidence and excitement in-order to help grow and cultivate a high value culture for other stylists an build my own salon in 2020. Now, I will be able to grow a team, in an atmosphere where guests are happy, well cared for – in turn our team can enjoy themselves, be busy with new clients, and continually strive to bring value to our salon’s clients in every aspect of our services.
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Pulp Riot Faction8 permanent hair color benefits
Faction8 Permanent Hair Color by Pulp Riot at #MMCSTYLE
Up until about a year ago I was always a Redken hair color girl, it’s what I trained on and knew very well, which always gave me confidence. In November of 2018, I switched the salon I was working with. I left for a new opportunity to help setup and start a brand new hair salon and spa on Madison’s west side. Setting up a salon meant I had the opportunity to look into an entirely new hair care and hair color product set, different from what I was using. However, I also had the choice to stick to what I was comfortable with. This question I thought, was going to be a no brainer…(duh, Redken was my thing). Then, my Salon Centric Sales Representative suggested I try the new Pulp Riot permanent hair color line, Faction8 and told me about all the benefits. My Rep could tell my interest was peaked immediately.
#MMCSTYLE Pulp Riot Client Photo
I had been using Pulp Riots semi-permanent color lines and loving them, so it made sense to give their permanent hair color line, Faction 8 a shot. So, I did some research. From everything I learned about Pulp Riot, I was sold from the start. The owners story, how they came to be, the education they offer, the fact that the line is created by artists. Everything important to me was well thought out in this line. The research on Faction8 had me wanting to know more and lead me to make the switch.
#MMCSTYLE Pulp Riot Client Photo
Some benefits of Faction8 hair color
Faction8 is a permanent hair color line created by Pulp Riot with 80 total shades, inter-mixable for complete color customization control, and the ability to turn from permanent to demi-permanent with the right mixing ratio with the developers. The Faction8 line is super easy to keep track of what I have on hand and I love the many ways to mix and create any color my clients or I dream up.
With Faction8 hair color, there’s boosters to really add some punch to your reds and coppers or help to ash out even more of some of your colors you choose. Another nice feature of Faction8 permanent hair color, you can use these boosters alone as a straight pigment for strategies such as making a high lift red or red/violet or straight up putting some purple or blue over pre-lightened hair for a dramatic fashion color. Using color theory you may also get more tone added to a formula when trying to keep excess warm or cool unwanted tones out of your hair canvas.
#MMCSTYLE Pulp Riot Client Photo
The Faction8 permanent hair color line has five high-lift blonde colors that work on medium-dark brown hair to lighter hair (I’ve also had success with these on very dark hair) to lighten and tone natural hair color all at the same time, which is flipping amazing! Faction8 high lift colors can also be used to tone blondes beautifully when mixed with a lower developer in the ratio of 1:2 or even more developer to further dilute the formula. Consider the background tone while using the Pulp Riot Toners, these can make beautiful pastel colors of every hue and add a dab of a booster to even make it more that color.
Every color in the the Faction8 permanent hair color line does consist of quinoa to strengthen and moisturize the hair while we are coloring. Another nice treat is it doesn’t stink, AT ALL. You may think it far-fetched, but I dare you to try to say it stinks, because you may be lying if you say it does! Even more pleasing to me is Pulp Riot’s semi-permanents, actually smell good.
Pulp Riot High Speed Toners are made to work in a matter of minutes on damp hair that you are blonding, guaranteeing quick results using a product in the way it was meant to work! You can mix these toners in with your lighter formulas to add a custom hue to your color, example: adding rose gold for a bit more of a pinky tone to a lighter copper is a super fun option! (keep in mind mixing rations with developers since you are adding a “high speed” color to your formula, you may want to dilute with a little extra developer if this will sit for a while).
#MMCSTYLE Pulp Riot Client Photo
The reviews are in, Pulp Riot’s Faction8 hair color is absolutely amazing!
“I had always thought my platinum/silver dreams were unattainable until I switched to Mallory. She keeps my color looking great and I actually enjoy my appointments! When any of my friends ask where they should get their hair done, Mallory is my answer every single time.” – Jordyn Schara
“LOVE my new hair! Finally got up the courage to try some purple and its awesome! Thanks Mallory!” – Ally Becker
“I’m a natural brunette and Mallory has built such a beautiful blonde into my hair over time. Her approach is so confident, current, and dependable. I trust and love her so much.” – Sophia
“Her color is absolutely beyond what anyone else has ever been able to do for my hair. She is creative, thoughtful of your preferences and is gonna have you walking out with exactly what you wanted or better!” – Kathy Gajda
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Formal hair trends: Lower hairstyles, classic looks
Lower Classic Hairstyles – Mallory Cook at #MMCSTYLE
For the year of 2019, carrying into the fall/winter time I’ve noticed a ton of different kinds of formal styles, even translated into everyday hair styles being a lower hairstyle. Whether that be a low ponytail, bun, or easy twisted style, a low style seems to automatically imply a more soft, romantic, timeless kind of vibe to your look.
Low pony:
A low pony tail can be a quick, sleek style for the office, or a curled, softly pulled back look for a more formal occasion. A low pony tail is an amazing way to get out of an extra day of hair washing as well, yet still look put together. Use some dry shampoo, like Pulp Riots Berlin Dry Shampoo around your hairline to absorb any extra oils & give you a fresh, clean scent, and sometimes it is necessary to use a hair powder such as Redken Powder Grip 03 in the crown to keep your hair from sticking to your head and looking too flat.
Low Pony Tail Hairstyle #MMCSTYLE
Low bun:
A low bun can be a simple, cleanly done look for a day at the office for a professional look, or this can be appropriate for a formal occasion you are attending. A more intricate low bun with twists and sections pinned over each other can add a more formal look for a bride, or other black tie style occasion. Low buns are nice because they feel and are secure, no one will worry about any pieces popping out of place during an event. The low bun is the base for a lot of styles, because it is such a classic look. Feel free to add a braid to this style, whether their be a braid as more of a part around the hairline, or braid a piece to twist around the bun. There are endless options to this style. A great strong hair spray, I like Pulp Riot Toronto because of it’s ability to hold, but not look sticky, will help to keep your bun looking polished once styled!
Low Bun Hairstyle #MMCSTYLE
Low Bun Hairstyle #MMCSTYLE
Low twisted style:
These can be the most fun styles, and are so customizable. Add in a loose braid, pin organically, have fun with it! These types of hair styles are amazing to accessorize with hair jewelry or flowers randomly pinned in. They can be so elegant and timeless, or simple and casual. Leave out face framing pieces for an even softer, romantic, undone feel. You can achieve a more simple twisted style by pulling hair back loosely, letting some pieces fall our around your face, and randomly take pieces from the pony tail and pin up, or be as intricate as you want by taking smaller sections and twisting them, pull apart the twists and pin as you like how it is looking. I like to use a working hair spray while executing these styles, Pulp Riots new Zurich hair spray has become a favorite of mine for this.
Low Twisted Hairstyle #MMCSTYLE
Hairstyles To Wear For Any Occasion
These low styles are my favorite to wear, and to execute as a hair stylist. The wearer of them I always get the vibe of feels comfortable because they still do feel like themselves, sometimes people if they’re wearing something too different can make them feel off and uncomfortable. The purpose of any hair style is to improve on how one feels they look, so these help me to achieve the ultimate goal!
Mallory Cook | Hair Stylist | Pulp Riot & Redken Color Specialist | Madison, WI #MMCSTYLE Salon| Online Booking
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Try Something New With Your Hair This Fall
Fall Hairstyles with Mallory Cook at #MMCSTYLE
Looking to try something new with your hair do to change with the season, but not looking to do any drastic haircut or hair color change? You’re in luck! This falls hottest hairstyle trends are easy to accomplish with a simple addition of a hair accessory, slightly different method of drying, or simple placement of some pony-tail holders.
Hair pins on barrettes, on hair pins:
Stacking two identical barrettes next to each other is a way to elevate your pony, down style, whatever it is you’ve decided to rock that day in a matter of two snaps of a clip! You can also try mixing and matching some sparkly bobby pins around and next to your barrettes for an edgy, playful style.
Wanting something classier, cleaner looking? Just use one barrette! Simple, classic, beauty. Try a pearly, chunky barrette to pin back the front of your hair, especially in a bob styled haircut this is so chic.
Slicked back top:
Try an oil based product such as Fatboy Tacky Oil to execute this hairstyle. Whether you have curly hair or blow dry your hair smooth, put two – three pumps of the Tacky Oil in your hand, rub your hands together until you get a slightly tacky texture with the product and work through with your fingers from roots to ends, being sure to apply at the top of your hair just as generous as the ends. Position your hair all back and away from your face, you can secure with some clips/pins as you blow dry or air dry. Once your hair dries in position, remove pins, then you’ll want to use a strong hold hairspray. I like Fatboy Moldable Lacquer Strong Hairspray for this. It adds a nice amount of shine and hold. Then you may want to reapply some bobby pins but more hidden (or use some funky pins that you don’t mind showing) to hold your hair back in place.
Chunky headbands:
Hair accessories this season are all about making an impact, the bigger the piece the better it seems! This is such an easy, fun way to keep your hair out of your face, especially when styling your second day hair. Positioning the band right at your front hairline and slightly over the tops of your eyes give you a right off the runway, athletic cool girl look. This trend is really sweet for falls cooler, brisk weathered days. A headband would work great on your second day slicked back top hairstyle since your hair is already in the right position for the placement of the band! Or try it with some of your hair in front still out and forward for a very casual, lazy fall day kind of vibe.
Low side pony-tail and ballerina bun:
Back to my blog about the low styles. These are so simple to achieve, and create such a stylish, effortless look easily. You’ll even see Kim Kardashian rocking a low pony in a glamorous look! Tie your pony to the side just above your shoulders for a soft, sophisticated fall style! Pull off the same type of look with a low ballerina bun for a strong, boss lady look, pair it with some statement earrings and you’ve got yourself a polished look in no time at all.
Loose braids:
As seen on celebrities such as Margot Robbie, a few small loose braids channel back to the hippie 60’s and grungy 90’s styles and are a super easy DIY hair do. Just separate a couple of small sections in the front of your hair. Loosely braid and secure with a clear elastic. Voila!
Partly pinned back:
A center part has made such a strong comeback on and off in the past years. For those who have struggled with not liking the look here’s a fun way to put a fresh spin on it. Get your center part in place and ready, then brush and pin back the front on both sides behind your ears. You can use a couple of bobby pins behind your ears in an “X” formation to hold. Then feel free to have fun with any statement pins or pretty barrettes to accessorize if you’re feeling fancy!
These fall hairstyles have me even more excited for fall then any pumpkin spice latte could make me! I’ll be trying them all, let me know if you have questions or want to try one out with your next appointment at MMC Style!
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Customize your blonde: lowlights, toners, shadow roots
Your blonde hair has options with color and style
Contrary to what most people think, the biggest thing that differentiates one blonde from the next is not always the amount of highlights put into the hair, but the amount of blank space left in between, lowlights added in, toners, and shadow roots. Blondes have become a lot more fun for me to do after understanding and using more of these techniques.
Hair Color – Lowlights
Lowlights are typically a color that will be foiled or painted in to add some depth into hair. A color picked for lowlights depends on the overall desired end result. Some people will pick a color that is just slightly darker than the all over color they have going on, some like it drastically darker, or even more fun, we can add in some pops of blue, or green, or whatever fun color a guest may fancy! Strategically placed lowlights can be very soft and subtle, or more dramatic for a noticeable amount of contrast.
Blonde Hair Color & Style – Mallory Cook #mmcstyle 💇
Hair Color – Toners
If you’re someone who gets highlights, or bleaches your hair, you have probably heard your stylist mention they need to tone your hair, sometimes this can be done at the shampoo bowl in damp hair, some stylists will bring you back to their chair and dry you really well with a towel, or even blow dry before applying. Tone refers to the color you want to see in your hair, and how much depth you want that color to have. You may want a “cool” blonde, which refers to something with a violet, blue, or even silvery tone to it, but just a touch of that “tone” so it isn’t visibly blue per say to the eye. So essentially what we’re doing with toners is neutralizing, which would be correcting unwanted tones in the hair color, or using a toner to add a desired certain amount of color to the hair.
Hair Color – Why Toners?
Blonde Hair Toners – Mallory Cook #mmcstyle 💇
When we use lightener on hair it doesn’t lift right to a natural looking, pretty color right away. It leaves the hair with raw tones that look yellowy to orange, and lack shine. Using a color to tone those raw highlights either right after a lightening service, or in between lightening service appointments to correct any off colors caused by hard mineral deposits in our water, or from heat styling too much, gives you a prettier, desired color. It has shine, the proper color, and overall looks so much healthier and dare I say natural looking as well, even those fun rose gold tones, or silvery/violety tones people are wearing a bit bolder lately!
Blonde Hair Toners – Mallory Cook #mmcstyle 💇
A toner will not brighten your hair, so if your hair needs to be lighter your stylist will first have to apply a lightener in some kind of form if your hair is not light enough to pull of the tone you are looking to do. This may have to be done in more than one step, or even appointment if you’re looking for a nice bright, icy platinum blonde end result. If there is too much depth left in the hair you can only tone to that same level of lightness or darker. So you may be OK with being more of a medium blonde, and in that case a toner usually to neutralize some orangey-yellow is necessary.
Hair Color – Shadow Root
Blonde Hair Shadow Roots – Mallory Cook #mmcstyle 💇
A shadow root is another way to add depth to any hair color for many different reasons. I like a very soft shadow root on my blondes to blend the line of highlights at the top, whether they be highlights right up to the scalp, or highlights that my guest likes a bit more “worn in.” So as you can imagine some shadow roots will be very minimal, so these I don’t like to have much darker than my final color. Some shadow roots can be more extended or dramatic, for this I may pick a color that is a couple of shades darker than our end color for a noticeable result.
A lot of pictures of bright blondes that have been circulating Pinterest and Instagram lately believe it or not feature a shadow root. That bit of subtle darkness really helps the platinum blonde pop and look dimensional.
Blonde Hair Shadow Roots – Mallory Cook #mmcstyle 💇
You can schedule a consultation, or chat with your hair stylist before your next highlight or color appointment to see how any of these methods can be used to elevate your overall hair color! Or you can book online right here with Mallory Cook – MMC Sytle.
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