Fiona Guidice, who hails from Lakeland, Florida, has been a hairdresser for two years, first coming into the industry at sixteen. As a teenager, she started out doing hair and makeup for theater and participated in a two-12 months-long hairdressing program at a vocational faculty. She passed the Florida Cosmetology board assessments and will be entirely certified by the time she turns running as a head hairstylist and salon manager in the course of Florida and on cruise ships inside the Caribbean. She moved to New York in 2007; she moved to Brooklyn a year later.
Once her country hair license was transferred, Giudice began running at Donne Salon on Union St. And different community institutions. She moved on to own a one-chair salon after constructing up clientele and ultimately multiplied to a 4-chair salon two and 1/2 years in the past. Though her salon’s call these days changed from “Maven By Fiona” to “Fiona Hair NYC,” Guidice’s nonetheless a one-female show with scissors in one hand and a hair dryer within the different.
Guidice says the most popular services are highlights and overlaying up grey roots, the “bread and butter of most salons.” Due to the character of this provider, plenty of her spotlight clients will come in once or twice a year because “it’s the greater weathered, grown-out appearance that’s in,” according to Guidice. But the alternative present-day trend is certainly getting-located highlights that mimic nature, even though the coloration selection can be unnatural.
“[It can be] natural-looking blonde and caramel highlights or something greater like the mermaid/unicorn form of colors like fuchsia or rainbow,” Guidice similarly explains.
The ombré comes to be more mixed in phrases of coloration gradation from dark to mild and has transitioned more right into a sombré (the nickname for a smooth or diffused ombré) – which means the color’s transition is extra slow and much less To believe this kind of favor, Guidice defined it as seeing your hair come to be lighter in the shade when you go to the beach at some point of the summer – the ends of your hair have been to the seaside more often than the hair 3 inches up from that, and consequently are indeed lighter from the solar’s rays. Balayage is a technique used to reap an ombré by freehand ‘painting’ bleach or lightener onto the hair (versus using foil for a similar impact).
“You use this approach to create unique seems, like the above, or to do greater traditional highlight or acquire the look of ‘surfer’ or ‘little girl on the seashore’ hair. Like portray sunlight at the hair, creating ribbons of light on the nose,” Guidice explains. “It gives a smooth, natural-looking blended root that grows fantastically and makes preservation extra manageable.”
Another trend Guidice has noticed inside the industry is returning to old styling strategies, much like what’s vintage is new again.
There are rollers out now that you may sleep in [and] come up with a gentle, tousled effect,” she says. “It’s nevertheless a very current appearance, but the manner is greater like what our grandparents did than what our parents did, as a long way as styling goes.”
Green Salon-Certified
Giudice’s salon became an authorized Green Circle Salon some years ago while it was still below the old business call. Green Circle Salons is a special recycling/repurposing program that ensures that hair, foils, coloration tubes, plastics, irons/dryers, and chemical compounds are diverted from landfills and water systems. Since those substances, merchandise, and gear are salon-particular and cannot be recycled by the town, they’re sent to Green Circle Salons as an alternative. Additionally, Guidice collects and sends iair clippings (shorter than 10 inches) so they may be repurposed and used for oil spill cleanups. Boons fabricated from hair are used a couple of times to evaluate plastic onesposed after one use because they haven’t determined the end of their existence cycle yet.
“That’s what hair is meant to do – to absorb all that oil and grease, get washed, and do all of it once more,” Guidice says.
