by Nikki ~ Product Education Director

It’s a retro revival for Spring 2026.  This season, nostalgic hair trends emerge but with a futuristic hair conditioning assist from neoteric ingredient technology.  This Spring’s vintage styling resurgence gets us inspired.  We are now celebrating our 60^th year in business and almost that length of time creating haircare products as well.  So, we absolutely love that old Hollywood styles are back in vogue and we’ve added our fresh take on them, like our featured model’s Victory Roll updo incorporating her beautiful natural texture.

Additionally, we also love the results we are seeing and positive feedback from clients and stylists alike about how our styling products do so much more than hold or shape the hair.  Even model’s themselves have shared with us that their hair actually feels better after a day at one of our photoshoots.  So this season’s hair trends really merge those two themes while innovative ingredients take styling products from pretty to performance.

We’ve also combined one of Spring 2026’s hottest color trends to our vintage reduxes, Champagne Brunette.  We love that brunettes continue to get a variation in tone, where this tonal change up is usually reserved for blondes and redheads.  Champagne Blonde’s soft golden teak or wheat tone is present in both the brunette and blondish components of this trend.

The hue calls for medium brunette roots, either natural or via a base break, melding into a lighter midshaft and ends.  It’s sort of a combination of trends coined “Bronde” and “Color Melting” with seamless blending from root to end.  The lighter midshaft and ends are not pinstriped highlights, they should appear to be grown out roots.  Plus Champagne Brunette is part of the overall continuing trend towards low-maintenance color.

To maintain this look, we like every client to have a strong color protecting foundation with a selection Philip Pelusi Shampoos and Conditioners.  Plus we recommend our P2 by Philip Pelusi Violet Orchid Color Boost Color Enhancing Conditioner to help maintain the tonality of their Champagne Brunette.  This product stains the cuticle of the hair with flower derived pigments and there are a couple ways to use this incredible product depending on how strong a cool champagne tonality you want to achieve. 

Apply P2 Violet Orchid all over the blonde and the brunette colors in the hair to give an overall cooled down tone.  Options including, applying it right on top of the application your Philip Pelusi Deep or Instant Conditioner.  This will lower or buffer its staining impact. 

Also the longer you leave the product on and the frequency it is applied also can increase its level of color “boosting”.  But this product is so gentle, you can even mix it into your Philip Pelusi styler and apply to clean, conditioned, damp hair then blow-dry onto the hair.  Either way you are able to help that client maintain that neutral to cool tone of the Champagne Brunette trend.

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