Tried and tested: Eclipting hair technique by Aveda, Galleria Mall

The lowdown: Aveda’s new colouring technique focuses on an individual’s face frame. The colourist plays with light and dark tones to personalise the client’s hair to accentuate their best facial assets. The Eclipting technique keeps hair darker around the face, which creates the frame, while a dusting of fine weave foils creates a seamless blend. The Eclipting technique is completely customisable to suit every client’s needs.

PB says: Being a blonde, I felt that I’d always missed out on the cool ombre and balayage trends. I thought that in order to achieve these looks, I would have to go back to being darker but I was surprised to learn that the new Eclipting technique, which was revealed at the latest Aveda Master Jam event, was perfect for blonde hair! Using lighter and darker tones of blonde, the colourist took to Eclipting my hair using darker tones of blonde around my face to help elongate, and using lighter tones around to help set this off. The colourist also worked with my eye colour (light brown to green) to make sure the colours she chose enhanced this feature.

Business benefits: Personalisation has been a hot trend this year, and especially contouring for make-up. Aveda has introduced “contouring” to the hair industry by the launch of this technique – not all tones and colours that come out of the tube suit everyone. Colour matching the client to suit their eye colour, skin colour and face shape makes their experience in your salon with you more personable, and the results will be better, as they’ll walk out of the salon with a hair transformation that suits them.

The lowdown: Aveda’s new colouring technique focuses on an individual’s face frame. The colourist plays with light and dark tones to personalise the client’s hair to accentuate their best facial assets. The Eclipting technique keeps hair darker around the face, which creates the frame, while a dusting of fine weave foils creates a seamless blend. The Eclipting technique is completely customisable to suit every client’s needs.

PB says: Being a blonde, I felt that I’d always missed out on the cool ombre and balayage trends. I thought that in order to achieve these looks, I would have to go back to being darker but I was surprised to learn that the new Eclipting technique, which was revealed at the latest Aveda Master Jam event, was perfect for blonde hair! Using lighter and darker tones of blonde, the colourist took to Eclipting my hair using darker tones of blonde around my face to help elongate, and using lighter tones around to help set this off. The colourist also worked with my eye colour (light brown to green) to make sure the colours she chose enhanced this feature.

Business benefits: Personalisation has been a hot trend this year, and especially contouring for make-up. Aveda has introduced “contouring” to the hair industry by the launch of this technique – not all tones and colours that come out of the tube suit everyone. Colour matching the client to suit their eye colour, skin colour and face shape makes their experience in your salon with you more personable, and the results will be better, as they’ll walk out of the salon with a hair transformation that suits them.