Dirty and Thirty

6 Tips to Having Sexy, Beautiful Hair Color.

by dirtyandthirty

Everything we learned from Sherry Ratay at Gavert Atelier Salon In Los Angeles.
1. Don’t pluck grey hair. Instead get “hair mascara”. It is a Temporary Touchups for color treated Hair.  The mascara-like wand puts temporary color exactly where you want it.  It covers up roots or can create highlights.
2. Choose your shampoo and conditioner wisely.  Use shampoo and conditioner that supports color treated hair to maintain your color and keep your hair in the best condition for that everyday, beautiful look. You want to clean and conditions your hair, but the key is to protect it. Try Minardi Luxury Color Care System Products- http://minardicolor.com/products.
3. Don’t wash your hair everyday.  Shampoo dries out your hair and fades your color. If you need to freshen up try some dry shampoo.
4. Know what you want. Learn the different coloring styles so you can get the color style that pleases you.
Ombre – A dark to light fade of color is used in this technique. Instead of color that starts at the root, darker roots blend into a lightened color toward the end.
Balayage-  A hair coloring technique designed to create very natural-looking highlights that grow out without developing noticable roots.
American Balayage – Same theory as Balayage except uses foils. This technique was designed by Beth Minardi.  This processs speeds up the processing time because the foil is metal and it conducts heat.
All over one step process – The color is all one tone. It can be permanent or semi-permanent with out any highlights.  Your entire color is the same.
Traditional highlights and lowlights –  Sections of your hair are coloured darker or lighter, leaving your base color alone.
Double process color – combining an all over color to change the base of your hair with highlights and/or lowlights.
5. Know what color tones compliment you.  Your skin tone and eye color should determine your hair tone. Think about what colors look better on you. Do you look better in ashy colors (cool tones)  or warm colors.
6. Use styling products. Chosing the right styling products for your hair is key to maintaining beautiful, sexy hair.  It helps control frizz and protect your hair from heat. Try Glisten Color Reflecting Drops.
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The Hair Files: Sherry Ratay at Gavert Atelier Salon

 http://www.queenofthequarterlifecrisis.com/Hair-Files-Sherry-Ratay-Gavert-Atelier-Salon-26111683

 So lately I've been really missing my hair extensions and fact of the matter is, when I'm not feeling good about my HAIR, I'm not feeling good about myself. It's sad but true.  So when my a PR friend reached out and let me know that the famed Sherry Ratay was in town from Florida (on behalf of Minardi) and, gasp, doing highlights at Gavert Atelier, I literally jumped up and an instant smile was on my face.  For anyone who doesn't know, Sherry is an award-winning color expert, known for her gorgeous reds and balayage (my fave!) highlights.
It's really embarassing that good hair- such a little (and somewhat shallow) thing- can make me happy but it DOES, so sorry for partying. And actually, this was the best timing ever because I had JUST booked an amazing video opportunity with PopSugar (more on that December 5th when it goes live!) and hi, I definitely can't go on-camera with BROWN ROOTS.  So then there's that.  If you're in Florida or LA (when she's in town), I highly suggest you book an appointment since I'm pretty much obsessed with my "baby blonde," as Sherry called it, highlights.

Colorist Sherry Ratay's Winter Hair Care Tips to Keep Your Color from Fading

 

  I'm a natural blonde, but I'm not quite as blonde as I would like to be, especially during the winter months. Ideally, I'd like to be "Gwyneth Paltrow at the Oscars" blonde, but I have to have a little help from the salon in order to get my hair Gwyneth-level blonde. So I visited celebrity hairstylist and renowned colorist Sherry Ratay at Salon Gavert Atelier in Beverly Hills for a much-needed color boost.

Ratay freshened my highlights, taking me from honey blonde to baby blonde. The slight change in color made a huge difference, leaving my hair looking healthier, shinier, and of course, blonder. Ratay also gave me her top three tips for keeping my color from fading fast during the winter:

1. Visit the salon for a glaze to brighten your highlights.
2. On very windy and freezing days during the winter, wrap your hair in a cute headscarf before stepping outside.
3. Saturate your hair from mid-length to tips with Minardi Pre-Wash, $35, and wrap your hair with a warm towel. Wait 10 minutes, and then cleanse with Minardi Wash, $19.

Thanks for the great words Kelsi.

Ombre' Tutorial

Check out this Fash Video’s from my interview with Vanessa Mujica from Starpulse – the video touches on the Ombre’ and the Ratay way of doing an ombre’ that does not look as if it is clashing together but instead ‘marrying’ one another.

 


Celebrity colorist Sherry Ratay gives me an ombré touch-up for the red-carpet and tells you what trends are hot this season for brunettes, blondes and red-heads! Watch!


http://fashvideos.com/2012/11/20/ombre-tutorial-from-celebrity-colorist-sherry-ratay/

 Thanks for taking a look.......
Sherry

New Hair Color: Ratay's Red

I had the pleasure of working on Lizzy's beautiful hair....she is gorgeous as a redhead!  Below are words from Lizzy after our time together.

After seeing the stunning blonde and brunette color from celebrity stylist Sherry Ratay's Hues of Natural Perfection, I was looking forward to seeing her color on a redhead. Last week, I was in luck. I got to be that redhead!

The Florida based Minardi Elite Colorist and salon owner frequently travels bicoastal for her LA clientele. She also trains beauty professionals nationwide in the art of hair color. When I heard Sherry was in LA, I jumped at the chance to book an appointment with her at Gavert Atelier Salon in Beverly Hills. Ratay is known for her beautiful reds, so I was excited to see her in action.

Sherry created a gorgeous rich red that was natural, yet sassy. A fabulous blowout by Mika Fowler really showed off my new color. Check out the photo!


 http://www.beautylaunchpad.com/blog/new-hair-color-ratays-red


 Sherry offered some great advice to protect red color between salon visits.  Here are a few of her tips:

• Always use a salon professional sunscreen for the hair.....Kerastase Soleil is wonderful!
• Alternate every 3-4 shampoos with a color enhancing shampoo, L'Oréal Professionnel has warm reds and cool reds to choose from.
• In between your color touch ups, visit the salon for a glaze to refresh the vibrancy of the tone.

Columbus, Ohio Premiere Beauty Classics.

I just got back from a busy weekend in Columbus Ohio to share my thoughts and ideas on  how to create beautiful hair color using tools from many of my mentors in the past 20+ years, yes 20+ years....Time fly's when your having fun!  I had the pleasure of created on 2 totally different canvases.  Both of my models had level 4, the difference was one was cool brown and one was warm brown.    

 

 

American Baliage technique creating soft caramel shades running through.  I started in the bottom nape working up and forward on diagnal and ALL slices, leaving only 15% of her natural in between foil....yes its alot of work but beautiful believable results!  Focusing the 8Gc+ as her focus hair color.

Formula 1- Joico K-Pak 8Gc+ with 40 volume
Formula 2- Joico K-Pak 6Cg+ with 20 volume
Formula 3- Joico K-Pak &FOR with 20 volume

Soft Ombre technique....I started with in the nape coloring ALL ends in foils, applying haircolor only on mid-lenghts and ends and slices on a soft diagonal to create an endless beginning.

Formula 1-Joico HLG with double 40 volume, process for 60 minutes.
Cleansed and dried and started part 2 of this creation.

Created dept on her regrowth out to 4-6 inches and carmel on the ends.

Formula 1-Wella Color Touch 1 oz 6-45, 1 oz 44/45, and 2 oz of 1.9%
Formula 2-Redken SEQ 1oz 9AA, 1oz 6WG,m and 2oz processing solution.

Processed for 30 minutes....Beautiful, Beautiful, Beautiful!