It’s a new year, spring is inching closer and people are starting to get an itch for change. And that means new hair styles. We’ve been seeing a lot of hair color transformations while we spend too much time scrolling through Instagram lately. There are a lot of bright colors coming back into the world, and even though we enjoyed the ice queen winter changes a few months back (and even though spring is still a ways away), it’s refreshing to see hair bloom again. Here are a few of our favorites so far.
Green or Red Color Melt
Seattle hair artist Kylie Rose does a lot of work that’s fun to look at. She paints lots of bright colors and often combines complementary colors so every shade comes out strong. We don’t know what all went into this mermaid makeover, but seeing this change from sea green to sunset orange with a smoky complement is an immersive experience. It’s like looking at an impressionist painting of a landscape.
Blond to Sunset Hair
The determined artist behind this creation, Haley Edwards, actually hails from Melbourne, Australia, so the whole spring change thing doesn’t quite hold up here. But it’s still one of the most vivid color transformations we’ve seen so far this year. Take a look at the rest of her work and you’ll find that colors like this are a motif for her, but this transformation definitely wins out as the most vibrant.
Muted Split Vivid Transformation
Dear Miju, where did you get your magic powers?
This lift-and-color job is a work of genius. Lifting dark hair is a delicate process, especially when you’re going to add colors as soft and light as this afterward. James Miju has been working magic with Fanola for a while now, so you’d think we would stop being surprised when he weaves together a soft purple and blue color spell. We suspect that he’s still got quite a few surprises mixed up in is color bowls, though.
Black to Brunette Balayage
Okay, so this doesn’t have quite the same kind of color spectrum as the others, but we like it anyway because this transformation is a sign of hope. Vena Love took this first-time client with aggressively darkened hair, dry to the bone, and breathed enough life back into it to lighten the color slightly and paint subtle highlights. It’s not an extreme change in color, but in terms of hair health and color dimension, this transformation as like night and day.
Rooty Ombre to Platinum Blonde
Leave it to Sammi Wang to take a grown out dark brunette ombre all the way up to platinum blonde and still make it look natural. This transformation made liberal use of the Fanola fiber fix treatment, and probably took months before it crossed the light-haired finish line, but this hard-earned result looks about as close to a perfect platinum as anyone could get. This hair is breathing a whisper of summer, so it looks like a light at the end of a rainy tunnel right now.