Fallen Angels by Clipso
The Clipso Artistic Team's 2005-2006 entry into the British Hairdressing Awards combines bold use of hair color with a keen edge of design, combining cleanly defined curls, with asymmetrical cuts to create a look that is on the edge, and not for the faint of heart.
From a group of styles featuring creatively structured curls, to a group of funky hairstyles with bold splashes of unconventional color, Clipso sets the current trend in hair design on its ear.
Short Curly Hair with Layers
The Cut: Here we have a short layered haircut featuring stacked layers in naturally curly hair.
The Color: The color is a natural-looking sable, soft, glossy, and complementing her pale pink skin tone beautifully.
The Style: To achieve this hairstyle, start with naturally curly or wavy hair and apply volumizing mousse, then dry with a diffuser attachment to enhance volume and texture in the stacked layers. Use your fingers while drying to maximize fullness and lift.
Enhance the curls using a curling iron or Velcro rollers, then lightly spray the hair with hairspray and scrunch to add definition. Use your fingers to adjust and place the curls as desired, then finish with a mist of hairspray for added hold.
Platinum Blonde & Layers
The Cut: Here we have a layered haircut featuring deep razor texturing and blunt-cut bangs.
The Color: The color here is a near-white platinum blonde achieved through the subtle color variation inherent in the color processing instead of highlighting and lowlighting for depth of color.
The Style: This hairstyle is created by first drying the naturally wavy hair with mousse to maximize volume, followed by backcombing to add additional lift to the sides and back. The bangs are then blown straight using a round brush. The entire style is misted with hairspray and gently scrunched to enhance the definition of the natural wave. Random curls are delicately drawn out to create tendrils, imparting a haloed effect to the hairstyle.
Chunky Hair
The Cut: This is the first of our asymmetrical haircuts, showcasing razor work to create varying lengths and a chunky, spiky appearance.
The Color: The model's natural warm brown hair has been adorned with bold streaks of blue-violet, jade green, and pale canary yellow, injecting a sense of funk and excitement to accentuate the diverse lengths of individual locks.
The Style: To achieve this hairstyle, begin by blow-drying the hair straight using a flat vented brush infused with smoothing balm and styling gel. Follow by further smoothing the hair with a flat iron for impeccable straightness, while spiking the upper layers along the parting.
Next, apply a smoothing serum evenly over the fingers and rake through the hair to provide definition and weight to the individual locks, ensuring optimal movement and style retention.
Curls and Volume Hairstyle
The Cut: This features a shoulder-length blunt haircut with box layering at the upper portion of the head.
The Color: The hair color is blonde, this time in a soft honeyed shade, with red-orange highlighting to add depth and interest.
The Style: We begin with naturally wavy hair and blow-dry it with a diffuser and styling mousse for maximum lift. The natural curl is enhanced with a curling iron or Velcro rollers, with minimal backcombing added for extra volume.
Choppy Look hairstyle
The Cut: Returning to asymmetrical styles, this short, box-layered, and razored bob introduces softness and razor texture to the straight hair, creating a choppy look.
The Color: Beginning with a pale golden blonde base, stylists infused bold, dark pink streaks into the hair, adding intrigue while evoking a floral and feminine aura.
The Style: Achieving this hairstyle involves blow-dry straightening with a round brush, followed by smoothing and pressing with a flat iron. The addition of styling gel, balms, and pomades contributes to a chic, silky appearance. Styling pomade is then applied to separate small locks and maintain the spiky feel of the hair.
Haircut with Stacked Layering
The Cut: Here we have another short layered haircut with stacked layering and horizontal bangs.
The Color: The hair color is a natural-looking golden blonde with subtle paler highights.
The Style: By blow-drying the naturally wavy hair with a diffuser and enhancing the curls with a curling iron, the stylist has created a mass of controlled and clearly defined curls. Mousse is used for lift in the drying process, while a light mist of hairspray ensures that we can scrunch the hair to provide sharp curls.
Freestyle Bangs Haircut
The Cut: This haircut features a blunt cut with razor-textured ends and freestyle bangs cut bluntly to a point between the eyes.
The Color: The base color of the hair is jet black, sleek and glossy, accented by nearly snow-white streaks throughout.
The Style: The hair is blown out straight and flat ironed for smoothness. It is then styled into a topknot on the scalp, with the streaks emerging fountain-like to cascade down the head and neck.
A thin coat of smoothing serum is applied evenly across the fingers and then raked through the hair for added shine, particularly over the bangs.
Hair Color Streaks
The Cut: This features a modified asymmetrically-lined bob with a raised back length and heavily razored ends. The face is framed by the two differing lengths and a sharp, blunt-cut angled fringe.
The Color: Starting from a base of ethnic black hair, the stylists have infused streaks and strips of rich, vibrant color in shades of turquoise and aubergine purple, with touches of white.
The Style: The styling is straightforward and simple. The hair is blown out straight and flat ironed to ensure smoothness. A light misting of hairspray prior to flat ironing will add texture and weight to the straight style. Additionally, a few drops of smoothing serum spread over the fingers and then smoothed over the finished hair will add extra shine and a sleek finish.
Hair: Clipso Artistic Team