THE HAIR COLOR MIX BOOK
begins with the most crucial step for a successful result: identifying your natural hair color. To help every woman select a target hair color that closely matches her natural shade and complements her eyes and skin tone, Lorri presents an eleven-color chart, a streamlined version of the tab system professional colorists have trusted for decades. With clear and true color photographs, step-by-step instructions, and lots of insider advice to guide them, at-home colorists everywhere will learn how to:
• Pick the right boxes of hair color – two, three, or more – from the drugstore shelf
• Mix box tints and other key ingredients for a “beyond the box” color that’s cost effective, effect effective, and completely unique
• Use common household items like cotton balls, Q-Tips, and olive oil to ensure that hair color mixes glide on smoothly and precisely – and stay put
• Whip up a special triple-barrier cream for use around the face to prevent hair dye stains – and to remove them, safely and gently, when drips inevitably happen
• Make a personal best color even better with the help of a toothbrush, aluminum foil, plastic wrap, and a standard blow-dryer with a homemade diffuser
• Confidently cover grays, retouch “roots,” and correct mistakes…and master the arts of fine color: highlighting, lowlighting, ribboning, and more
Ranging from Espresso with Raspberry Lights to Gingered Toffee to Amber Honey Dream with Lemon Blossom Ribbons, the inspired hair color recipes include irresistible selections for brunettes, redheads, and blondes of all shades, styles, and ages.
Lorri also provides special sections for teens and for men only, the distinguished and the daring. Wrapping up with a round-up of FAQ’s on preventative measures, little fixes, and divine details, THE HAIR COLOR MIX BOOK offers everyone equal access to beautiful, luxurious hair.
Celebrity colorist Lorri Goddard-Clark knows why even top quality drugstore hair-color products tend to disappoint. What’s more, she knows how to turn off-the-rack color into a distinctively gorgeous creation.
She demonstrates the application techniques using home hair products and divulges the coveted formulas to enjoy results similar to those achieved with salon products on clients she has worked with – Drew Barrymore, Michelle Pfeiffer, Madonna, and Brad Pitt, for starters – in THE HAIR COLOR MIX BOOK: More Than 150 Recipes for Salon-Perfect Hair at Home.
Many women dream of making a fresh, fabulous impression by changing the color of their hair. In reality, however, few can afford the high price of a “couture color,” even if they live near New York, Miami, L.A., or another city offering the crème of colorists. So, most wind up using off-the-shelf dye and wondering why the result on their head fails to live up to the dazzling promise of the model’s mane pictured on the box.
You’ll also learn professional techniques such as threading, ribboning, and balayage that add a whole new level to your home coloring effort, funky special effects like dip tipping and peekaboo punk, and insider secrets-from which new shades would be most successful with your existing hair color, to how to make your gorgeous color last, to how best to cover those stubborn grays. With eleven color tabs to help you find your current color and color photographs of celebrities featuring all the luscious new possibilities, The Hair Color Mix Book is certain to revolutionize home hair color, providing star-quality hair to intrepid-and creative-home colorists everywhere!
Dear at-home hair colorists,
Even though I have worked on the hair of many film and television personalities, my greatest pleasure comes from helping "the rest of us" become cameraready—because we all know that when you look good, you feel even better! The spirit of invention and optimism that all home colorists have fuels my imagination and inspires my work.
I love to experiment, try new things and, most of all, have fun. I wrote this book to show you how to create salon-quality results right in your own kitchen or bathroom. So grab your sister, daughter, mom, or a girlfriend or two, start playing and mixing, and find your dream colors! Like mastering cooking,it takes practice-so, step by step,
let's do it together!
Happy coloring!
KAREN KELLY is a lifestyle writer who lives in Brooklyn, New
York, with her family. Visit her at www.karenkellywriter.com
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"Lorri and I have been working together for years now, and I feel that in her I have found an artistic soulmate...She is one of the first colorists I met who has the perfect combination of expertise on the chemicals, color wheel, and rules.
Her knowledge is impeccable. That said, she is also playful, and willing to bend the rules to get the right color…What Lorri has done with THE HAIR COLOR MIX BOOK is to share her incredible secrets—secrets only someone of her caliber could know."
| — Drew Barrymore, from her foreword |
"Lorri is a genius! When I heard she was writing a
book of hair color recipes, I was blown away. Combining
her knowledge and wisdom with LA attitude,
she invented the intelligent blonde!"
| — Gela Taylor, cofounder of Juicy Couture |
"Lorri's talent is harnessed by skill and fueled by
principles, and as a mother, wife, and friend, she is
flawless."
| — Guy Romeo, hair stylist |
"Finally—a practical, step-by-step way to 'work out'
hair issues at home."
| — Nicole Stuart, celebrity Pilates trainer and actress |
"When it comes to hair color, Lorri knows every trick in
the book. She is a real artist with a fantastic eye for
color. Watching her work, it's obvious that she loves to
delve into the fine points and details of the process.
Coloring hair is a tricky business, but I swear by her!"
"Lorri's technique is extraordinary. She has an amazing
ability to create hair color that looks natural and
beautiful and still remains shiny and healthy!"
"Lorri is the best hair colorist in the business! Her
incredible technique allows me to have long, healthy
blond hair-and I love her for that! Every time I leave
her chair, my hair looks amazing."
| — Carol Shaw, creator of LORAC Cosmetics |
"Lorri is an artist, a painter, whose canvas is hair. She
sees hair color through a visual veil of light, depth,
texture, mood, hue-she's an impressionist of hair!
No wonder everyone in Hollywood loves her."
| — Merle Ginsberg, author and fashion and beauty journalist |
"Lorri has gathered all of the secrets we use to make
the stars look glamorous and explained them in simple
steps that anyone can follow. Now every woman
can look red-carpet ready!"
| — Tracey Cunningham, colorist |
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