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Salon Buzz_Leo Passage Pivot Point

Remembering Leo Passage

Leo Passage serves as a huge influence for hairdressing professionals all over the world. Best known for creating the education system Pivot Point, Passage’s love of learning and passion for teaching led him to develop a hairdressing education for salon owners, leaders and educators worldwide. […]

Going Mod for an Icon: Twiggy

Twiggy is a fashion and hair icon that is known for her long lashes, doe eyes, thin frame, and above all, that short hair. After the hair fashion of the early sixties—characterized by the long hair and deep bangs of the music chicks like Marianne […]

Highlighting the Hair Color Trends

Typically trends last for about 3 seasons. If a new trend emerges by the third season, that doesn’t mean the previous trend is out. Here are the four color trends we’re seeing in hair color right now. 1. Red Red is the absolute must-have color, […]

Hair Stories No. 7

Last Sunday night, stylists from select salons across Chicago were invited to the Museum of Contemporary Art for an exclusive showing of Bumble and bumble’s Hair Stories No. 7. Bumble and bumble’s Hair Stories No. 7 is difficult to encapsulate in a few words. Is […]

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Vidal Sassoon: More than a Hairdresser

We all know Vidal Sassoon as an international hair stylist, known for his signature cuts including the classic bob of the 60s. But he is much more than a hairdresser. From a childhood in an orphanage and a life-long fight against anti-Semitism to a multimillion […]

Salon Buzz_Audrey Hepburn French Pleat Breakfast at Tiffany's

Audrey Hepburn’s French Pleat

Audrey Hepburn’s French pleat – also known as the French twist – has been named the most influential hairstyle and is one of the most popular updos asked for in salons. Breakfast at Tiffany’s put French pleat on the map, and nearly 50 years later, […]

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Giving Back: Mother’s Day Makeover

Salon Buzz has been doing Mother’s Day Makeovers with NBC5 for over 10 years now, and it’s just our way of giving back. At the end of the day, when we go through the whole process of taking care of the mothers – hair color, hair […]