AlbertColor Editorial — Hair, Beauty, and the Long View
Observations on hair, beauty, and the people who live in both — gathered over thirty-five years. Some of it is technical. Most of it isn't.
It all begins with paying attention. The writing comes afterward.
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Inside the Journal
Original essays on hair color, gray transitions, beauty culture, seasonal change, fashion, and the quiet moments that shape how we see ourselves.
Copper Hair Color: Who It Suits, Why It Fades First, and How to Keep It
What copper hair color is, how it differs from auburn, who it suits, why it fades faster than most shades, and how to keep it bright between salon visits.
What Comes Off in September
The men's magazines have called it: put the summer away, buy the coat, change the trousers. Every list stops at the collar. Above navy and ecru, hair that spent August outside is the one thing the edit forgot.
The technique returns; the 2000s look does not.
Foils are back. The stripe is not. This season, placement is back—along with a warm palette to support it.
September Opens the Door
Fashion Week is the starting gun. What follows is fifteen weeks of being seen, and color chosen for a season behaves differently from color timed to one night.
What Your Hair Tells Me in September
Summer removes everything that was propping a color up. What returns in September is the honest version — and almost everything the season calls for is subtraction.