Paragon
Tracey Hughes @ Mieka Hairdressing
As the name suggests, multi-award-winning stylist Tracey Hughes' latest collection, Paragon, is precisely that—a paragon of the ultimate in hairdressing. Featuring Tracey's unique and distinctive style, Paragon illustrates her technical craftsmanship and outstanding precision through its complex structural shapes, resulting in an impeccably sharp finish.
This illustration of graphic perfection is superbly complemented by touches of color that electrify the palette. Distinctive emulsions of amethyst, sapphire, emerald, tourmaline pink, canary yellow, velvet brown, vanilla blonde, and acidic oranges and reds contrast with powdery pastel tones. These bursts of color highlight the sharp shapes of the glamorously artistic haircuts.
Quintessential Bob
The first of the Paragon hairstyles showcases the quintessential bob cut with precision, styled to best display the clean, smooth lines and sharp edges of the cut. The hair color is a deeply dimensional, rich, cool ash brown, enhanced with a hint of emerald green to create an iridescent effect.
The cut features a gently curved silhouette, echoed by the rounded cutting lines along the fringe. The ultra-smooth styling creates a fine-grained finish that allows the color work to truly shine. The completed style gleams like polished wood.
Glowing Red Curls
If the first hairstyle in this collection is cool and controlled, this short hairstyle embodies the spirit of flame. The cut is heavily layered and styled with lots of curls for added volume, resulting in a glowing silhouette with plenty of energy and movement—a true blaze of color.
That color, a fiery, glowing red, turns light reflected off it into a smoldering ember-glow. The overall look is wild, free, and seductively dangerous.
Asymmetrical Haircut
Nothing defines a true artist's talent like the skill to combine opposing elements of style into a cohesive whole. This short asymmetrical cut features an extended forelock and sharp, clean angles along the perimeter.
The hair color combines a pale, golden cream base with a vibrant red that seems to seep into the ends of the hair at the fringe. The styling, though sleek and straight, is lightly textured with a grainy feel, creating and emphasizing strands to contrast the lines of the style.
Supershort Haircut
Still emphasizing straight styling, this hairstyle explores contrasting elements. The styling is mostly straight, but the texture of the supershort forelock is soft, giving the impression of a baby duckling, with hints of a swan in the graceful curves and added gleam of color in the fringe.
The base color is canary yellow-blonde, and the color effect is a diffused accent coloring that allows the color to blend and glow, making the combined color greater than its component parts.
Volume and Curl
We've seen the wild and voluminous fiery look, but this hairstyle offers another take on volume and curl. The soft sable color is accentuated with spicy orange highlights throughout the style. This lets the hair catch and refract light in myriad ways, adding depth to the color and style.
The styling, though voluminous, is carefully crafted with softly sculpted curls that fall tightly around the face. This look is likely achieved with a wet-set and then gently combed out to preserve the curl's integrity and avoid a fuzzy appearance.
Color Accents
The final look in the Paragon collection is another uber-short, super-straight, asymmetrical cut with a razor-sharp fringe. The sleek, skull-hugging styling gives the style a clean silhouette, while the color blends creamy blonde with cool amethyst accents in gradient patterns along the opposing corners of the fringe area.
The striations of the color accents reinforce the look of the straight styling and make the overall appearance very dramatic.
Hair: Tracey Hughes @ Mieka Hairdressing, Melbourne
Colour: Tracey Hughes
Photography: Andrew Maccoll
Makeup: Ellinda Corbisiero
Stylist: Vass Arvanitis
Products: Redken
See also: Short hairstyles | Medium hairstyles