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There’s a new hair trend in town and it’s "Pixel-ated".Following last year's popularity of the soft "ombre" look,this new trend follows a exceptional different approach its like pixel-style graphics being colored into your locks. Hair stylists around the world are getting really into a new dye technique called “xpresionpixel”, which creates a pixel-ated effect on the hair.
X-Presion, a hair research and development company in Madrid, has pioneered an interesting new pixelated hair coloring technique that has the internet abuzz. They call it #xpresionpixel.
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What is "xpresionpixel" style actually?
Dubbed as ‘xpresionpixel’, it involves dyeing square sections of hair in contrasting colors to simulate the look of pixels on a screen. Square blocks of color are soaked into the hair, before being blended and cascaded into one another to create the graphic effect.
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The look, called #xpresionpixel, was pioneered by hairdressers Jose Luis Almendral, Marco Antonio Restrepo, and Jorge Cancer at Madrid hair salon X-presion Creativos. The new 3D hair trend wasn't actually a planned creation ,in fact it "was created by mistake " .Jorge Cancer, a press rep for X-Presion, told the style “was created by mistake. We were in Minneapolis preparing a big show for 4500 people and then, with one of the models, I got an effect in her hair that I didn’t expect. After that, we started to study and think until we got the trend as it is now”And they recreated it for Revlon’s AW14 campaign.The look started in Spain and is now making big waves on social media.
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He said that the style “is really easy to maintain. When your hair grows, your pixels will be lower but still look great. And if you want to retouch and keep the existing ones, you just need to make a few more pixels closer to the roots. Easy!”
“Its something really easy to do, but you must go to a hairstylist who has been to the X-presion Creative Education Seminars. You need to learn a few rules, otherwise it could be a big mess”
Take a look at some of the ways stylists have manipulated hair and dye to look like something straight off your computer screen:
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If you’re bored of sporting ‘all natural’, ombré hair and would love to make a bolder beauty statement, then get ready to go full futuristic with pixel-inspired hair. Yep, the tetris-like hair is the newest trend in town.
It’s not yet clear how this mix of digital art with real-world hair styling holds up once you leave the salon, but plenty of people have already tried it out. What do you think of this new style?
Stay Gorgeous,
