George Garcia

George Garcia, renowned Redken color expert. With his wife in the top picture (who also happens to be a hairstylist), and below doing his stuff.

Recently I had the opportunity to attend a color class for work. A Redken platform artist came down from California to teach us the "newest" techniques. I pretty much didn't want to go, especially because it was on Sunday. What made it worse, the following week I had to give a talk on keeping the Sabbath day holy, ouch, but it was mandatory so I pretty much didn't have a choice. Although I didn't wish to be there the only thing that made it better was to see some old friends that work out in Snellville. It was kind of like a reunion.

Anyhow, the thing that he was teaching us was asymmetrical color. Basically, what that means is blocks of color that are put on the head in different shapes that are somewhat off balance. He also taught us a new highlighting technique where you basically alternate from highlighting midway through the hair to the ends and then soft from the roots to midway through the hair. It gives the hair a softer highlight, and I think that it isn't supposed to be as noticeable when the highlights grow out.

Now for what I think about this. In my opinion most people probably would not be interested in doing this. Although it is a cool technique I don't see a 40 something year old lady wanting something that was not symmetrical. I think that stylists, and people who are a bit more contemporary would appreciate something like this, but for the general population, most people would not be interested. Let me know what you think; do you think my observation is wrong? Would you ever do something like this on your hair?

Here is the front view of my completed mannequin head (whom Dylan is extremely scared of).

Here is the side profile. I should have probably taken pictures each direction, but my card was full on the camera I was using :). But to give you a better idea of what I'm talking about, the black you see around her face is hardly there at all beyond her fringe on the other side, and a thin piece of the black follows underneath to her hairline. In the back middle, there are two different shades of red, one on each side of the head, with one continuing around her face on the other side by her face. On top are the highlights I was mentioning. Whew, I hope that is not too confusing!