by Nikki ~ Product Education Director
We are now celebrating our 60th 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 Old Hollywood Bob. Throwback trends contrast trailblazing ingredients 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.
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.
The glamourous hairstyles worn by 1940’s silver screen sirens such as Rita Hayworth, Lauren Bacall and Ava Gardner are being reincarnated with a new modern twist for Spring 2026. Vintage or retro hairstyles have been on full display on fashion runways and red carpets alike, such as at 2026 Golden Globe Awards.
For Spring 2026 the retro style the Old Hollywood Bob has been gracing the red carpets by many current Hollywood stars. Easily recognizable with its classic smooth sculpted waves, it’s a real glam roller set look. The styling is more perfect and purposeful. Groomed with gleaming shine and we are even seeing finger wave details making a comeback.
Romantic shorter versions of this style are popping up everywhere. But if you don’t feel like doing a “big chop” haircut, faux bobs, where we pin the hair up from underneath, have also resurged in popularity especially for special occasions. Lastly, to get any style off to a good start we always like to see clients create a good hair fabric foundation with the right Philip Pelusi Shampoos and Conditioners to enhance their texture and improve the condition of their hair.
If the hair requires it, we do a hot roller set on dry hair using our P2 by Philip Pelusi Fluid Spray. Its delicate balance of setting agents and heat protectants makes setting the hair easier while getting the prefect amount of style memory and still remains flexible. Additional benefits we experience also include easier roller removal resulting in less breakage on the hair plus shine.
Next, to sculpt the hair, we recommend our Tela Beauty Organics by Philip Pelusi Modern Hair Wear Play Freeform Wax as it allows the client or stylist to shape, re-shape, and literally “play” with the hair until the look is perfected. The end result is beautifully sculpted yet modern looking shapes as opposed to the teased bouffants of yesteryear. Plus, the hair improving ingredients in this styling wonder is endless.
Our Tela Hair Immunity Complex™ of Probiotics and Fermented Kelp Extract helps improve scalp and hair condition with a combination of Pre and Probiotics derived from Fermented Kelp Extract. It is rich in essential minerals, vitamins and amino acids that help strengthen and hydrate the scalp and hair leaving it shiny, full of body, with increased elasticity. Additionally, Kelp is also a key source of antioxidants that help fight oxidation, inflammation of the scalp, and help protect color and strength from free radical pollutants.
Tela Play Freeform Wax also contains Organic Hydrolyzed Quinoa Protein and the Hydro Charged Pelusi Ceramide Complex to help strengthen, shine, increase body, and preserve color. Plus, USDA Certified Organic Peppermint, Milk Thistle, Honey, Aloe, and Lavender for hydration and weightless heat protection. And lastly, the Tela USDA Certified 35 Organic Ingredient Base Blend plus our Tela Tea Blend of White, Green and Oolong Tea.
Last to add a glossy finish, we mist on our recently reformulated P2 by Philip Pelusi BrilliantHair. Now Silicone Free and Vegan, our new P2 BrilliantHair contains the latest innovations in naturally derived chemistry to replace those Silicones and other “Franken Chemicals”. We achieve this luminous shine plus frizz reduction and sun and anti-color fade protection with the finest cold-pressed Organic Baobab Seed and Jojoba Oils.
We also added the latest biotech-derived ingredient, Hemisqualane as a key source of antioxidants beneficial to hair color preservation plus moisture and increased shine. Historically created from animal sources, this Silicone replacement is strictly vegan in that it is derived from biotech plant sources.
Our aforementioned Hydro Charged Pelusi Ceramide Complex has also been added P2 BrilliantHair plus it contains Tomato Fruit Extract to help fortify hair with vitamins and minerals including Calcium, Iron, Magnesium, Phosphorus, Potassium, Zinc, Copper, Selenium, Vitamin B6, B12 and Folate (a form of Vitamin B9). Tomato Fruit Extract is also rich in antioxidants Vitamins A, C and E that help protect hair strength and chemically and color treated hair. Formulated for zero hold, just tons of shine. So if you want a firmer hold, mist on a firm finishing spray first, let dry and then apply P2 BrilliantHair on top.
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