SomeHAIR over the Rainbow!

It's everywhere...Katy Perry, Nicki Minaj, Glamour magazine, Urban Outfitters and Free People catalogs, the spring fashion runways...

the RAINBOW HAIR trend! 

Colorful twin hair!

And I LOVE IT! I consider "rainbow" hair to be one of my areas of expertise. Check out my portfolio on www.kelseysmart.com and you'll see what I mean. I've been rocking rainbow hair myself pretty consistently since St. Patty's day 2010...I started with a little green and added some purple (so I wouldn't look like a freak after the holiday was over), pretty soon I was asking my fellow stylists to bleach out entire sections of my hair so we could add more blue, copper, yellow, hot pink...and maybe some raspberry pink, purple, blue-violet or lime green while we're at it...You name it, I've probably had it on my hair at some point. There was a point when I got more comments from little girls than anyone else, so I decided to dial it back a bit. Haha. This winter, I returned to a solid dark brown color to give my kaleidoscope hair a break from the bleach and schizophrenia. (For the record, it was always nicely mixed in with a natural base color, so I didn't look like a Hot Topic employee.)

SoCap's keratin bond

Now that spring has rolled around again, and especially since I've been seeing tons of colorful hair trend alerts, I was starting to miss my rainbow hair! Gemini14 doesn't carry my favorite products for rainbow hair (I'm going to have to see what I can do about that!), but they do have quite the selection of hair extensions! Which is also great option for those of you who want to avoid bleaching your hair to smithereens trying to get the perfect light pink. Lucky for me, one of my favorite coworkers, Naomi Porto, offered to put the extensions in for me after I ordered the hair from SoCap (quality hair, great selection). They're surprisingly comfortable and easy to style, unlike other extensions I've had. They'll stay in my hair until they grow out enough where I want them removed. 

The key to this trend is not to over-do it, but not to under-do it either. Too much looks cheap and inappropriate on a full-grown woman...we don't want to evoke memories of your punk phase in high school. Too little looks like you can't commit...a statement color is meant to be just that! Let it stand out! Go big or go home, as they say. Another thing to keep in mind is the placement. It's not a natural color, so it shouldn't be placed as you'd normally put, say, blonde highlights...it's going to look "off" if you do that. It needs to be a "pop" of color...on the ends (that ombre look that's so of-the-moment), peeking out of your bangs or underneath your hair. I like to use more than one color, and preferably three for a good mix of contrast and coordination. I have purple, raspberry and dark brown in my hair. I just fell in love with a lilac swatch at the salon, so I’ll be saving my tip money to add those!

Yay, spring!

This is how my hair is now with the extensions.
I love how it melts into my natural hair.
It's great to have some color in there again! Thanks, Naomi!

Some of my fun hair with feathers, colored extensions and "rainbowed" natural hair.
This was for a review I wrote for BehindTheChair.com about the Marilyn Teasing Brush!

St. Patty's Day 2011
Photoshoot for Skimpily Clawd's fabulous green dress!



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 More rainbow hair! This is all Kelsey's work of course:)

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