New from Bleu: Essential Air Dry/Blow Dry Creme

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Experience dual drying action in one innovator styler: Bleu’s Essential Air Dry/Blow Dry Creme.

Its ultra light and quick absorbing formula features a unique blend of reactive polymers that activate with either heat or cold. This allows for beautifully controlled air-drying or smooth, heat-protected blowouts. It has heat protection up to 450 degrees (F).

Users reported 79% reduction in breakage after a single application, according to Bleu.

“This creme is great for color-treated hair and highlights!” said Nick, HIP Senior Colourist. “It’s a perfect solution whether you’re on the go or have time for an intense blowout.”

Welcome R+Co BLEU new product line at HIP

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HIP Salon is excited to introduce a new luxury hair care product line gracing our shelves and back bar. Welcome R+Co BLEU!

The couture-caliber capsule collection from R+Co combines modernity and style with breakthrough innovations in formulation, sustainability and iconic packaging design. This new range brings glamour, sophistication, and unparalleled quality to daily hair care.

The Collection
Our BLEU haircare line offers a comprehensive range of products designed to enrich your hair care routine. From nourishing shampoos and conditioners to innovative styling products, R+Co BLEU provides everything you need for healthy, beautiful hair.

  • Essentials: An everyday all-star created for all hair types.
  • De Luxe Reparative: A power dose of hydration, strength, and repair for coarse, unruly, fragile, or damaged hair.
  • Soft Bounce: Superior hydration, manageability, and shine to achieve curls with supreme softness, body, and bounce.
  • Ingenious Thickening: Strengthens, hydrates and visibly plumps strands from roots to tips.
  • Primary Color: Keeps all shades brilliant, bright and bold. Locks in color, hydration, and luxurious shine.
  • Blonded: Neutralizes unwanted yellow tones with a highly buildable, antioxidant-rich, pigmented toning formula.

The Ingredients

The R+Co BLEU collection is formulated with the highest-performance non-toxic ingredients to produce superior results, leaving hair healed, restored, and luxuriously transformed. Each product contains the proprietary Blue Molecule Complex designed to build strength and shine, the qualities that are most important for healthy, luxurious hair. Micro-encapsulated sugar molecules gradually deliver active ingredients, treating the surface of the follicle and restoring the cuticle to its virgin state.

Vegan, Cruelty-Free

R+Co BLEU’s cruelty-free, Leaping Bunny certified formulas are vegan, gluten-free, and provide UV protection. They are made without sulfates, phthalates, parabens, petrolatum or synthetic dyes.

Try BLEU at your next appointment

Make your hair appointments today. Call 847-882-4474. Or request an appointment here.

Remember: when you request an appointment, watch for a confirmation text or email to ensure that your appointment was accepted and scheduled. If you don’t receive a confirmation, please call us.

HIP Senior Colourist Gets New Schwarzkopf Certification

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Tyler Frazier is now a Schwarzkopf Professional ASK Expert.

What does that mean? He completed 18 months of training and Schwarzkopf’s Academy of Skills and Knowledge. His ASK certification represents his proficiency and knowledge of color products and the best techniques for color processes.

Tyler joined HIP in 2010 and has grown to become a HIP Senior Colourist and color educator. He is always available for consulting with clients and the HIP team. He knows color!

We’re so proud of you, Tyler!

Schedule your appointment with Tyler by calling us at 847.882.4474

QiQi Hair Straightening Treatment at HIP

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HIP is proud to offer a new permanent hair straightening service – QiQi Hair Treatment.

QiQi is a vegan, permanent hair transformation that is formaldehyde-free. The unique system with straightening capabilities safely reacts with disulfide bonds without harsh chemicals. The exclusive formula penetrates the cortex and reshapes its structure safely without any concern of hair breakage or drying.

There are 3 different services:

  1. Define existing curl and eliminate frizz
  2. Smooth and defrizz hair without losing all the body, but not completely straight
  3. Makes the hair straight and frizz-free

It takes about 3-5 hours to complete the service. Pricing varies based on length and thickness of hair. The first time receiving this treatment, you must book the package with the masque treatment, which is essential to the QiQi treatment.

Schedule a free consultation appointment so we can discuss how the treatment would work for your hair.

Models Wanted!

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HIP is calling all models – male and female – to participate as models in our continuing education classes.

The best part: you’ll receive hair services for free or at deep discounts, depending on the program.

Every Monday our HIP team comes together while the salon is closed to try out new trends and keep our skills fresh.

We “play” with new precision cutting and styling techniques as well as colour processes and specialty treatments. 

Classes vary weekly. 

Call our front desk at 847.882.4474 for more information or to reserve a seat.

 

 

The Secrets to Coloring Gray Hair

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Grey’s Anatomy 

Diagnosing those grey/gray matters

BY TYLER FRAZIER
HIP COLOURIST

At some point in our lives we start getting the dreaded grey hair. 

Society has taught us that women who let their hair go grey have given up or stopped trying. Many do not realize the constant struggle of coming to the salon twice a month for a root touch-up.

Colouring hair to blend or hide greys can get trickier the more grey you have. Say you’re a natural brunette and see 25%-40% of your head is grey. Adding fi ne cooler-toned highlights (or baby lights) throughout will blend those bad boys and allow you to let them grow in gracefully.

Coloured brunettes with the same percentage might need more than one appointment to achieve their goal due to colour build-up (refreshing the ends) on the hair.

Going Platinum

What if your hair grows in white?! Usually women who colour their hair dark and have natural white hair will see their colourist about every 3 weeks (4-8 weeks is more common).
Depending on the level of natural or coloured hair, transitioning from a brunette/dark blonde to a grey/platinum blonde to ease the harsh demarcation line takes a lot of time, love, money and patience!

Hair goes through stages of decolonization. Let’s say you are lifting from red (which is really starting at black or level 1) and want to go all the way to the palest yellow (platinum blonde or level 10), you’ll need to remove color all over to achieve an even blended natural grey or platinum.

Bottom line: It’s a process and you’ll have to commit to spending time in the chair.

Honestly, the possibilities are endless!
From adding platinum blonde highlights to blend out some pep-per or adding more pepper tones to add dimension to solid silver hair, or a combo of both.
And if you really want to make a statement, add some funky colors there, such as pink or blue or purple!

The Greys Have It

Hair colour is fun, and there are so many options. I know grey seems scary or harsh, but it’s all in the way you present yourself. Don’t fear your grey, embrace it! (Just don’t stop coming to see me!)

P.S.: When you’re planning on changing your look, book a consultation before your appointment so you and your colourist/stylist can be on the same page.

 

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