Stylists can enter to win a spot with Sam Villa, stylist choice award winner and education artistic director for Redken, for “Cutting Over the Top” held at the Redken Exchange in New York City on August 20-22. Four winners will be selected and announced by Villa from his exhibit stage on the final day of [...]
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How to Score Academy Awards-Worthy Styles
Whether they went home with awards noting their on-screen performances or not, these leading ladies were style standouts for their red carpet ‘dos at last night’s 84th Annual Academy Awards. With shiny, long, rich hair like Sandra Bullock
Sam Villa Demonstrates the Twist Cutting Technique
Watch Sam Villa demonstrate how his Signature Series Dry Cutting Shears can release an enormous amount of hair in a short amount of time with the twist cutting technique. To purchase the shears or for more information, visit samvilla.com. —Kristen
Sam Villa Catches Up With Asian Hair Professionals
I was really excited to be back in Asia recently, educating there for Redken for the first time in seven years. I was in Taiwan, presenting to 400 hairdressers in a theater just outside of Taipei. The local crew put in a lot of effort to get the stag
Sam Villa Says: Teach Your Clients How to Achieve Great Blowouts at Home
When clients would tell me that they couldn’t get their hair to look at home the way I got it to look in the salon, I would say, “It’s easier for me, because I’m standing behind you and have both my hands. You’re working in front of a mirro
Sam Villa Forecasts a Spring with Swing
We’re getting into a very exciting season in hair. In fashion, spring 2010 is three-dimensional—marked by ruffles, gathering, tilted collars, diagonal lines and opposing fabrics colliding in the same garment. To capture that three-dimensional fee
Sam Villa Wipes Out the Blocks to Creativity
Each of us possesses inborn creative abilities that can be strengthened just like physical abilities. If you love this industry and want to pursue a career in it, you don’t even have to be artistic. If you’re not great at cutting or coloring hair
Sam Villa Shares 6 Tips for Cutting Tricky Curly Hair
Naturally curly hair scares a lot of hairdressers—and you can’t blame them! Highly textured hair likes to be left alone. When it’s touched, it expands and gets frizzy. But it’s just hair, and you can learn to outsmart it! 1. Read the curl. A
Sam Villa Leaves the Stage to Sit in the Audience
As I mentioned in my last blog entry, I came back from Salon International in London so inspired! I always know when it’s time to sit in the audience before returning to face the audience. British eyes are often more fashionably trained tha
