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Polarity men hair collection stands out thanks to its contrasts that reflect an overall man concept. It incorporates the possibility of our contemporary times to merge actual trends with historical characters and styles of past centuries. Thus the newest cut trends are complemented by a styling depicting previous decades. Beautiful materials, highly dim colours and unusual details relate to the luxury of ancient times which intertwine mysterious approaches of artists such as Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec and fragile darkness of Edgar Alan Poe or Charles Baudelaire poetry. The hair styles excel with timeless variability that opens the door to creativity and thus inspires men to bigger playfulness and yet a style that is easy to achieve. A touch-and-go styling transforms a businessman styling into a loose haircut reflecting the actual man’s mood. Whether you choose the modern look of the hairstyle or keep to the classical cuts complement them with accentuated items. Contemporarily, you can afford to have shaved hair combined with longer hair or even contrasting hairstyles that do not fit any rules, quite the contrary. Wake up the playfulness in you and express your actual mood. Say it with hair!

Collection: Polarity Men
Ph: Anka Mrazek Kovacic
Make-up: Hristina Georgievski
Styling: Miroslava Danielová

Radian Red inspires new hair trends with a modern twist. Fiery Reds inspired by disco spot lights, combined with round voluptuous textures and opposing depths and tones. The looks were created by combining creative hair cutting with fresh inspirational colour choices.

Collection: Radian Red
Ph: Antony Price
Make-up: Ciara McCarthy
Hair Cut/Styling: Andrea Martinelli
Images: Five Point Alliance

Worcestershire-based salon, Love Hair Broadway, has launched its latest collection: Silhouette. Taking inspiration from architectural silhouettes, the collection of 8 striking images showcase a variety of colour, texture and shape, each one harmonizing with its environment.

Collection: Silhouette
Ph: Paul Gill
Make-up: Elisha Bartley
Clothes Styling: Marie Learmont

Collection: Bohemian
Ph: Richard Miles
Make-up: Kamanza Amihyia
Clothes Stylist: Jared Green

Collection: Blue Dahlia
Ph: Keith Bryce
Make-up: Hannah Haley
Hair: Corrine Kimbro – bob. Cheri Banda – purple braided texture. Steven Cantu – colored top knot. Vanessa Whitmarsh – green rope braid crop. Diana Skrabanek – multi colored locks
Creative Director: Allen Ruiz
Wardrobe: Christian Ramirez

A literal and figurative representation of the graphic and repetitive pattern known as stripes. This collection illustrates the power of repeating textures in hair and fashion. The contrast between the use of light and dark colours exemplifies the strength of repetition.

Collection: Minimalism
Ph: John Rawson @ www.therawsonpartnership.net
Make-up: Lan Grealis
Clothes Styling: Jared Green

Collection: Flow
Ph: Vlado Golub

The International Hairdressing Awards® were presented with an unexpected announcement in the trade event Salón Look Madrid 2017, just before Effervescene, the educational avant-garde show. MIKEL LUZEA, director of the INTERNATIONAL HAIRDRESSING AWARDS® , was in charge of launching this powerful venture, a contest that is promising to become the most important hairdressing event in the world since its beggining.

An unexpected announcement took place in the notorious Salón Look Madrid 2017 trade show which left the industry shaking with excitement! The first edition of the International Hairdressing Awards® will start in 2018 with the collections entry and pre-nominees’ announcement. In November 2018, the finalists will be announced and the awards ceremony will take place in Ifema, Madrid, in January 2019, prior to Mercedes Benz Fashion Week Madrid.

The International Hairdressing Awards are an independent beauty organization that has been supported since its inception by sponsors of international relevance who believe in the message and mission of these awards including Revlon, Revlon Professional® and Salon Look Madrid-Ifema. The three highly regarded firms have bet high and combined forces to make this contest an international success as well as, Estetica Magazine as global media partner, with 24 editions worldwide, which will cover and aid in the efforts of this amazing event!

This collection is about battling our internal conflict. There may be moments we lose to our inner demons but the strength it takes to fight to find the beauty and presence of our true self again, should always be celebrated.

Collection: Beneath the Surface
Ph: John Rawson @ www.therawsonpartnership.net
Make-up: Melissa Musseau

Flare is the latest collection from Blue Tit co-director, Andi Hinteregger, where Davines colour has been used to create a soft, playful collection showcasing the beauty of simplicity.

Collection: Flare
Ph: Doris Himmelbauer @dhimmelbauer
Make-up: Christoph Haider

Collection: Nu
Ph: Michaela Barca
Make-up: Rachel Molino

Ultra Texture’ is the result of a collaboration with clothing designer Emma Beach and her label at Trouble At Mill. The inspiration came from textile designer and painter Sonia Delaunay. Famous from her involvement in the ‘Orphism’ movement, a type of Cubism, her textiles were mainly patchwork. This and paneling mixed with glossy and metallic fabrics was the perfect accompaniment for this collection of matte, coarse and textured looks created by backcombing and compressing the hair. Though very modern, these images evoke 20’s bohemian Paris.

Collection: Ultra Texture
Make-up: Racquella Cass
Styling: Ailsa McLaggan
Art Direction & Production: Adam M Bryant
Styling: Trouble At Mill, Manchester

The representation of minimalism displayed through this collection strips hair culture to its basic ingredients. Taking everything away highlights the depth of hair itself; displaying different textures, shapes, and movements. It’s a bare image of hair defining itself.

Collection: Stripes
Ph: John Rawson @ www.therawsonpartnership.net
Make-up: Lan Grealis Clothes
Styling: Jared Green
Colour: Dorothy Tsang @ Blushes

WHITE NOISE presents a futuristic vibe, highlighted by a gritty fashion edge with tones of Jean-Paul Gaultier, and bound together with an over-arching theme of metallic and highlighted by definitive dimension and strength. Drawing inspiration from the desire to work with different fibres and metallic materials, WHITE NOISE delivers a tough, yet mildly ethereal subtext, with white and metallic presenting a perfect juxtaposition of softness and toughness. Structure and form inspire the hair with braids, cuts and metal threading incorporated throughout. The use of metallic materials such as nails and metal rings highlight futuristic elements and strength in each image. The use of metals emphasizes texture and shine, delivering another dimension to the hair, while the metallic theme is weaved throughout the makeup.

Collection: White Noise
Ph: Robert Lobetta
Make-up: Cathy Geeves
Stylist: Emma Cotterill
Post production: Kay Lobetta

Ph: John Rawson @ www.therawsonpartnership.net
Make-up: Paco Puerta
Styling: Tinache Musara

Ph: John Rawson @ www.therawsonpartnership.net
Make-up: Paco Puerta
Styling: Tinache Musara

Ph: David Arnal @ Raffel Pages
Make-up: Raffel Pages

El ser humano ha sentido siempre una irrefrenable curiosidad para la vida en el futuro. Las innovaciones tecnológicas son parte natural de nuestro día a día y la realidad virtual se ha vuelto parte de nuestra vida cotidiana y disuelve la línea entre la realidad y la ficción. NO.ON se inspira en la relación del hombre con la tecnología, esta delgada línea entre lo real y lo virtual, donde la belleza explora el pasado para reinventar el futuro, lo tradicional con la experimentación… Dos direcciones opuestas hasta encontrar el equilibrio perfecto y sentirnos integrados en esta realidad del Siglo XXI, donde cualquier cosa es posible. NO.ON nos trae para el cabello, cortes y texturas más compactos y simétricos, líneas rectas y estructuradas, mezcladas con texturas de acabados más imprecisos que nos dan el movimiento y la ligereza, sin perder la feminidad y la estética urbana. En cuanto al color, los tonos de la ciencia y el cosmos nos ofrecen una oportunidad para la experimentación y la creación de una nueva imagen de poesía futurista, con los colores de la paleta de tonos fríos y mates, revitalizados por tonos más vibrantes y energéticos.

Ph: ©Bruno Estatoff
Make-up: Morgane Guillet
Stylist: Bruno Guiot

Ph: John Rawson
Make-up: Melissa Musseau

“SURFACING, a collection with a difference – Haunting, heartbreaking, moving, and empowering. Inspired by complete strangers I have met and their incredible stories that they were brave and kind enough to share with me…. all their stories were heartbreaking, yet the storytellers were so powerful, inspiring and just so beautiful showing strength & hope. I wanted to create something to show my deepest gratitude, something that anybody who saw my collection for the first time, would get a similar feeling I felt when I met these storytellers along the way. Haunting, heartbreaking, moving, and empowering. The body paint reflects the hardships we experience, sometimes feeling like those days will never end. But there will come a day, where we can open our eyes and breath, and see no darkness, only beauty, even if it’s for a glimpse of a moment”.

The international beauty giant has announced it has becoming a strategic partner to a major tech centre in the global startup scene, Station F. With this agreement, L’Oréal becomes Station F’s partner for development of early stage digital beauty startups worldwide. As part of the partnership, L’Oréal will run its own beauty accelerator inside Station F.

What is Station F?​

Station F is based in Paris, backed by its creator Xavier Niel (Free Telecom, Kima Ventures, 42 coding school), a leading entrepreneur in the France tech scene. It was opened in June this year, with the 34,000m2 campus set to be home to over 1,000 startups, with a planned 600-person housing extension opening in 2018.

How is L’Oréal going to be involved?​

Through its beauty accelerator based on the campus, L’Oréal is set to finance 62 workstations there. The company says it intends to support selected startups providing expertise in beauty and marketing, as well as networking and mentorship with group’s key stakeholders and a dedicated digital team. Jean-Paul Agon, Chairman and CEO of L’Oréal, notes that its nature as a French-headquartered company makes partnership with Station F particularly appropriate.

L’Oréal in digital​

L’Oreal has made considerable strides in the recent period, taking on various strategic partnerships and making multiple significant investments in the specific field of startup development in the beauty tech scene. Our partnership with STATION F is strategic to help us connect, collaborate and support the rising generation of digital beauty entrepreneurs. This partnership adds to L’Oréal’s large-scale digital open innovation strategy, which includes investments in Partech Ventures, an international venture capitalist firm, and Founders Factory, a London based digital accelerator and incubator.