The Coolest New Way To Color Your Hair Has Arrived

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Glass-pressed hair is becoming all the new fad in hair color and artistic styling.

Using plexiglass and a paintbrush, hair artists literally paint a design onto a piece of glass, lay the flat hair over top if it and press down with a putty knife to make the hair absorb the color.

If you think about the simple process, it’s almost like screen printing onto your hair.

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The inspiration behind it all? Redkin hair colorist, Chiala Marvici. In her story with Cosmopolitan,

“I have a painting in my apartment that a friend did for me a while ago that has a lot of colors on it, and I fell asleep one night and dreamt of all these layers of paint living together on one surface. When I woke up, I thought about how beautiful that would be on the hair and how I would translate that vision onto the hair.”

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So how long will this process take? Supposedly, it should take less time than a balayage, as less blending is required and hair colorists have more control manipulating shades on a piece of glass than on strands of hair.

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Unfortunately, this hasn’t hit the United States yet (nooooooo) but I hope it’ll arrive soon!

Marvici told Good Housekeeping, “I’ve been working on this technique for a long time and trying to make it simple to be able to teach it to other colorists.”

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Below is gold and blue hand pressed on platinum hair.


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I most certainly would give it a shot. While I’m not brave enough to get wacky colors, I’d be willing to spend less time processing in the chair with the help of a new technique.

So what are your thoughts? Would you give it a try?

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