by Nikki ~ Product Education Director

There are a few unlikely alliances for Fall 2025 style and product innovation trends.  Hair trends are at opposite ends of the style spectrum, ranging from dramatically coiffed to understated and undone.  While ingredient technology and consumer demand for multifunctional, time saving products make for a perfect pairing.

This season, styling becomes the focus with precision crafted updo’s starring opposite low maintenance relaxed waves.  Then there’s the battle of the parts.  Short boxed bobs with side parts compete with long sleek styled hair with center parts.  But the partnership between polar opposite hairstyling and analogous product trends make for some off the charts amazing looking hair.

The ongoing Box Bob trend continues but with a new twist.  Box bobs are now trending with either side or off center parts.  We’ve always been advocates for letting the growth pattern of the front hairline and face shape determine the best place to part the hair, so this opens up the possibilities for those not able to wear or achieve a center part.

The structured look of a Box Bob requires a precise blunt bottom line and glossy, healthy looking hair and absolutely zero frizz.  So we’ve introduced the use of some highly specialized USDA Certified Organic hydrating oils to add moisture and sheen to the hair.  Our Tela Beauty Organics Frizz Buster Dry Texture Anti-Frizz Styling Spray contains our proprietary blend of nutrient rich oils Organic Quinoa, Baobab, Sunflower, and Lavender that lock in moisture for exceptional anti-frizz control, shine and manageability.

Tela Frizz Buster is perfect for finishing Box Bob styles and helps them stay frizz free throughout the day.  Mist on dry hair to help eliminate frizz on the part-line and front hairline.  Plus Tela Frizz Buster does have a smidgen of hold so it can be used at the root for light lift and dry scrunched into hair to create some movement if desired.

Check out these iconic Philip Pelusi Volumetric Bob Haircuts from the 90’s!  Timeless, they look they were freshly cut today!

To see all Philip Pelusi Trend Alerts go to Trend Alerts (busystylist.com)

by Nikki ~ Product Education Director

There are a few unlikely alliances for Fall 2025 style and product innovation trends.  Hair trends are at opposite ends of the style spectrum, ranging from dramatically coiffed to understated and undone.  While ingredient technology and consumer demand for multifunctional, time saving products make for a perfect pairing.

This season, styling becomes the focus with precision crafted updo’s starring opposite low maintenance relaxed waves.  Then there’s the battle of the parts.  Short boxed bobs with side parts compete with long sleek styled hair with center parts.  But the partnership between polar opposite hairstyling and analogous product trends make for some off the charts amazing looking hair.

Competing with this season’s wavier texture trends is a reincarnation of “Cher hair” from the 70’s but with an even crisper, shinier finish.  Hair is first blown out smooth then flat ironed pin straight starting close to the head to produce a zero volume look.  So this look is worn close to the head with heat protection required during both of these styling phases.

So we are recommending our recently reformulated multi-task wonder P2 by Philip Pelusi BrilliantHair Smart Styling Treatment.  It should be first applied to clean conditioned damp hair prior to blow-drying and again throughout blowout to tame texture.  Then, lightly mist on again before and during for flat ironing then if needed, as a final glossy mist to finish.  Dial this usage up or down depending the amount of hair and its texture.  P2 BrilliantHair can be universally used but apply more sparingly on baby fine, sparse hair.

Reformulated to be Silicone Free and Vegan, P2 by Philip Pelusi BrilliantHair contains the latest innovations in naturally derived chemistry to replace those Silicones and other “Franken Chemicals”.  When we originally created P2 BrilliantHair, it was formulated in an era when “Silicones” were not yet moving into the regulatory and marketing-adverse spotlight.  Whereas this revamped P2 BrilliantHair is a new Silicone-free “clean and compliant” product that conforms to current regulatory issues. 

P2 BrilliantHair delivers the same incredible product functionality everyone has come to know and love in our original formula.  And because of this formula update, we are able to achieve over-the-top heat styling, sun and anti-color fade protection.  Zero hold, this product allows the hair to swing and stay moveable perfect for this trend.

P2 BrilliantHair has been updated with Organic Baobab Seed and Jojoba Oils to hydrate, creates lustrous shine and provide heat protection and frizz reduction.  We choose the finest cold-pressed oils,meaning they retain nutritional value while still feeling light on the hair.

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 based on animal sources, this Silicone replacement is strictly vegan in that it is derived from biotech plant sources.

Additionally, our Hydro Charged Pelusi Ceramide Complex also joins the silicone-free P2 BrilliantHair ingredient listing for top notch color protection.  This universal-texture complex of plant derived ceramides mimics the ceramides (known as lipids) found between cuticle layers.  It helps seal each cuticle layer to each other and to the cortex helping seal in color molecules below.  This proprietary mixture strengthens, hydrates, helps protect color and creates shine

Plus, Tomato Fruit Extract helps 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.

Reflecting today’s consumer multi-task ingredient wishes, Philip Pelusi formulas continue to be Sulfate Free, Paraben Free, Formaldehyde Free, Silicone Free, Mineral Oil Free, Retinyl Palmitate Free, Coal Tar Free, Oxybenzone Free, Hydroquinone Free, Triclosan Free, Triclocarban Free, PEG-Free, Dioxane-Free, Synthetic Dyes Free, GMO Free, Silicone Free, Cruelty Free and never tested on animals.

To see all Philip Pelusi Trend Alerts go to Trend Alerts (busystylist.com)

by Nikki ~ Product Education Director

There are a few unlikely alliances for Fall 2025 style and product innovation trends.  Hair trends are at opposite ends of the style spectrum, ranging from dramatically coiffed to understated and undone.  While ingredient technology and consumer demand for multifunctional, time saving products make for a perfect pairing.

This season, styling becomes the focus with precision crafted updo’s starring opposite low maintenance relaxed waves.  Then there’s the battle of the parts.  Short boxed bobs with side parts compete with long sleek styled hair with center parts.  But the partnership between polar opposite hairstyling and analogous product trends make for some off the charts amazing looking hair.

This season the antithesis to perfected coifs is the current Relaxed Styling trend with loose, purposely disheveled waves.  Relaxed Styling is very popular due to its ease of styling execution and casual “just woke up” look.  Plus matching the overall non-conformist attitude of this look, is its extremely stress-free styling routine and great results on 2^nd day or late in the day hair.

Relaxed Styling can be simple for guests to recreate with the right products and process.  We recommend starting with clean air dried hair or late in the day or 2^nd day hair.  This helps give the hair a little texture, advantageous when creating this trend.  Next, reach for a dry shampoo or hair refreshing product to pull off this easy styling hack. 

So we are recommending both our P2 by Philip Pelusi RefresHair Texture Treatment and Tela Beauty Organics by Philip Pelusi Dri Shampoo for texture and hair refreshing.  There is a bit of functionality crossover but also some definite difference between these two products.

P2 RefresHair Texture Treatment, being water-free, volatilizes completely and carries off sebum and up to 50% of surface debris and other residues left behind by styling and conditioning products.  It also refreshes hair scent with our exclusive allergen free White Tea and Thyme fragrance, making it a win-win for revitalizing hair.  P2 RefreshHair Texture Treatment also contains Sunflower Seed Extract, a natural UV Protectant, Fennel, Asafetida, and Mushroom Extracts to add strength and body where hair may be damaged.

P2 RefresHair is a lightweight, multitask spray that leaves hair shiny, full of body, with none of the dusty residue of powder dry shampoo products.  Mist on and brush or scrunch through hair.  P2 RefresHair also works great as a setting, holding and heat protecting spray plus you’ll get a little hold from this product.

Our Tela Dri Shampoo is a powder-free alternative to dry shampoos.  We created this easy to use spray-on version to help eliminate surface debris, add texture and freshen hair’s scent with Organic Lavender.  Plus, powerful antioxidants Organic Reishi Mushroom, Oolong Tea, Chinese Foxglove and White Tea help prevent hair color fadage.  Mist on and scrunch or brush through the hair until the proper level of texture is achieved.  It has a very light hold, remaining soft and pliable.

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One of the easiest ways to create the Relaxed Styling look is with a few big bobby pins or electric roller clips, if those are more readily available.  Then working in sections around the head, lightly mist 1 – 2 times with either product, then lightly twist the section and wrap it around into its own loose bun.  Then, pin the end into place or secure with a big electric roller clip.

Keep in mind the smaller the section the tighter the waves.  Also the thicker the hair or the more layers you have, the more sections you will need to create.  Also if you want a little height and volume, create those sections to sit right down the center top of your head, putting one in the crown and 1 or 2 more in on the part line and front of your hair.

Tela Dri Shampoo and P2 RefresHair both dry in just a few minutes, so put on your makeup or eat breakfast to multitask while these sections dry.  Remove the clips and you are off to a great day or evening with loose relaxed waves.

To see all Philip Pelusi Trend Alerts go to Trend Alerts (busystylist.com)

by Nikki ~ Product Education Director

There are a few unlikely alliances for Fall 2025 style and product innovation trends.  Hair trends are at opposite ends of the style spectrum, ranging from dramatically coiffed to understated and undone.  While ingredient technology and consumer demand for multifunctional, time saving products make for a perfect pairing.

This season, styling becomes the focus with precision crafted updo’s starring opposite low maintenance relaxed waves.  Then there’s the battle of the parts.  Short boxed bobs with side parts compete with long sleek styled hair with center parts.  But the partnership between polar opposite hairstyling and analogous product trends make for some off the charts amazing looking hair.

One of the coolest hair trends to make its comeback in 2025 are pin up girl, big volume hairstyles, first made popular in the 1940’s and 50’s.  Historically called Victory Rolls, Back Rolls and Low Pompadours, then models Brigitte Bardot and Betty Paige helped make these styles all the rage in their time.  But such an elegant hair trend was sure to make several styling comebacks including for Fall 2025.

For this season these retro styles have a modern twist, especially when it comes to the styling products.  These styles require products with the multifunctionality and ease of use today’s consumer and Stylist demands.  So we are recommending our P2 by Philip Pelusi Fluid Spray to create these updo styles.

Of course, its best if these updo styles can be created by an expert Stylist.  But especially if achieving these looks at home, today’s consumer needs a mistake proof spray.  Our P2 Fluid Spray has good style memory and a light hold so it can be brushed through for any adjustments that need to be made when rolling pompadours or when building the updo as a whole.

P2 Fluid is the wunderkind of styling sprays.  First, it is incredible for any type of setting; curling iron, hot rollers or Velcro.  Working in sections around the head, mist P2 Fluid on one section at a time, then wrap the hair around.  Then, let set a second or two around a curling iron and a couple of minutes, or longer is desired, for rollers.  It works great with or without a hooded drier too.  Next unwrap the hair, let cool.

Then once you finish creating your look, add a dash of P2 Fluid Spray to lightly hold the whole look in place.  Or for a firmer hold reach for our P2 by Philip Pelusi Rivet Medium Hold Spray or P2 Industrial Holding Spray.

To see all Philip Pelusi Trend Alerts go to Trend Alerts (busystylist.com)

by Nikki ~ Product Education Director

One of today’s top trending haircuts, the Butterfly Cut, harkens back to the Charlie’s Angels actress and haircut style icon Farrah Fawcett!  She wore the original Butterfly Trend in the 1970’s.  This iconic look features a full, voluminous, round brush blowout paired with a big roller set additionally creates one of this season’s hot styling trends too.  And it looks great when paired with butterfly, curtain, and side swept bang trends.

To get this look, some texture management will most likely be needed.  Butterfly Cuts are just that, blown out smooth but with lots of big fluffy volume.  So, finer textures will most likely need help with lift at the root and more texture and structure throughout the entire head. 

And medium to coarser textures will need addition slip and smoothness but without weighting the hair down.  Butterfly Cuts are light and airy, so even though the hair texture will mostly likely need some support, the overall look should appear effortless without the look of too much product.

So, our go-to recommendations are either our Tela Beauty Organics Make It Bigger! Hair Thickening Serum and Tela Beauty Organics Smooth Operator Blow Out Serum, depending on the texture issue.  Both products are part of our Tela Beauty Organics by Philip Pelusi Dream Hair Collection.  Both are wet-hair application hair serums that help enhance and remedy texture issues while leaving the hair feeling soft, natural, and modern.

To thick medium to all coarser textures, our Tela Beauty Organics Smooth Operator Blow Out Serum gives silky, lustrous blowouts making them easier to achieve and longer lasting.  It is powered by Organic Adansonia Digitata (Baobab) Seed Oil rich in unsaturated fatty acids, hair is left silky, smooth, and surprisingly light and airy. 

And teamed with our proprietary Tela Certified Organic Regenerating Blend consisting of Reishi Mushroom (Ganoderma lucidum) with moisturizing and antioxidant benefits, Red Sage (Salvia miltiorrhizae) with antimicrobial and antioxidant benefits, Horsetail (Equisitum Hyemale) with saponins, flavonins, and amino acid activity, Sprouted Soy (Glycine max) for enhanced hair health with genistein and soy isoflavone activity and Burdock (Arctium lappa) with antibacterial, antifungal and anti-inflammatory action.

Tela Smooth Operator Blow Out Serum

To all fine textures and sparser shorted medium textures, our Tela Beauty Organics Make It Bigger! Hair Thickening Serum adds incredible structure and volume with Organic Horsetail.  Organic Horsetail, a natural source of Silica, not Silicone, that binds to the surface of hair, increasing strength and volume.  This formula is also loaded with another of our star ingredients, our proprietary Hydro Charged Pelusi Ceramide Complex, a breakthrough only available exclusively at Philip Pelusi. 

This plant derived micro emulsion mimics the way ceramides work in the cuticle layer of the hair.  It reinforces the cuticle layer’s adhesion to the cortex by replacing missing ceramides to help bond color treated and aging hair’s often damaged cuticle layer to the cortex.  This improved adhesion also adds strength, color retention and lots of shine as well. 

Tela Make It Bigger Hair Thickening Serum

Check out just a few of the many Butterfly Cuts created by incredibly talented Philip Pelusi Designers…

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by Nikki ~ Product Education Director

This Spring and Summer hairstyling trends run the gamut from coiffured looks set with hot rollers or a big barrel curling iron to much more relaxed styling with loose, purposely disheveled waves and curls.  Relaxed Styling is this seasons much beloved trend due to it’s casual look and ease of styling execution.

Interestingly it’s an extremely easy styling routine for 2^nd day or late in the day hair and in fact helps zero in on the “just woke up” look this trend exudes.  Relaxed Styling can be simple for guests to recreate with the right products and “post” styling process.  Let’s explain…

We also recommend working with clean airdried hair or with late in the day or 2^nd day hair.  This helps give the hair a little texture to pull off this easy styling technique.  First, choose your product.  We recommend either our P2 by Philip Pelusi RefresHair Texture Treatment and Tela Beauty Organics by Philip Pelusi Dri Shampoo for texture and hair refreshing.  There is a bit of functionality crossover but also some definite difference between these two products.

Our P2 RefresHair Texture Treatment refreshes hair’s scent with White Tea and Thyme while helping to remove up to 50% of surface debris and adding texture to this styling trend.  A win, win for reviving late in the day or 2^nd or 3^rd day hair aligning perfectly with this low maintenance trend.

This lightweight spray is a multitask product leaving hair shiny, full of body, with none of the dusty residue of powder dry shampoo products.  Mist on and brush or scrunch through hair.  P2 RefresHair also works great as a setting, holding and heat protecting spray as well and you will get a little hold from this product.

Our Tela Dri Shampoo is a powder-free alternative to dry shampoos.  Philip created this easy to use spray-on version to help eliminate surface debris, add texture and freshen hair’s scent with Organic Lavender.  Plus, powerful antioxidants Organic Reishi Mushroom, Oolong Tea, Chinese Foxglove and White Tea help prevent hair color fadage.  Mist on and scrunch or brush through the hair until the proper level of texture is achieved.  It has a very light hold, remaining soft and pliable.

Now for the technique.  One of the easiest ways to pull off this look is with a few big bobby pins or electric roller clips if those are more readily available.  Moving in sections around the head, grab a section of hair and lightly mist 1 – 2 times with your Philip Pelusi product of choice.  Then loosely twist the section and then wrap it around into its own loose bun, pin the end into place or secure with a big electric roller clip.

Keep in mind the smaller the section the tighter the waves.  Also the more layers you have the more sections you will need to make and last, the thicker the hair the more sections you will need to create.  Also if you want a little height and volume, create those sections to sit right down the center top of your head, putting one in the crown and 1 or 2 more in the middle and front of your hair.

Tela Dri Shampoo and P2 RefresHair both air dry in a few minutes, so put on your makeup, get dressed or eat breakfast to multitask while these sections dry.  And yes, 110% you can use a low setting on your hairdryer to help with this process.  Remove the clips and you are off to a great day or evening with loose relaxed waves or curls, lookin’ good!

To see all Philip Pelusi Trend Alerts go to Trend Alerts (busystylist.com)

by Nikki ~ Product Education Director

Stunning blonde bobs, innovation, and value rule Spring 2025 trends!  It seems like guests are ready for more this Spring season, more of everything.  More value for their dollar, more ingredient innovation, more panache in their look, and they are even up for more styling to achieve it too.  We are up for the task at Philip Pelusi with several hopeful predictions for Spring 2025.

We are seeing today’s savvy consumer looking for high quality, transformative ingredients and products.  And even if they prefer to streamline their purchasing, they are not swayed by price as long as they get an incredible product with great results.  But products and services must deliver, period.

We are also feeling that ‘back to business’ attitude when it comes to our guests’ attitude toward recreated current trends for their own look.  Despite the last several years where style took a backseat, today’s guests are getting their style on craving customized blonde hued precision bobs with all the face framing bling they can get.

Put the playful 1990’s updos worn by Reese Witherspoon, Drew Barrymore, and Gwen Stephani into a time machine and viola’ we’ve got this eclectic hair crafting trend for this Spring, Face Framing Accents.  This look includes 90’s-esque “money” pieces framing left and right sides of face combined with a center part and a 90’s inspired spiked updo. 

Or playful pieces from the hairline sculpted directly onto the face, into whimsical shapes such as spirals and curls.  Or any style bangs from long fringy to short micro bangs.  It’s all about adorning or framing the face.

So some products are in order to sculpt and shape these face framing accents.  If a slick but firm look is desired, we are recommending an ultra-firm gel such as our unique P2 by Philip Pelusi Hard Stuff Crystal Gloss and Groom, 7 times stronger than gels on the market. 

Much of this excellent hold results from its Calcium and Magnesium content in a delivery system in which these usually insoluble ions are solubilized via fermentation in the presence of Brewer’s Yeast, thereby creating a firm hold that requires less fixative polymer and results in less cosmetic weight on the hair. 

P2 Hard Stuff can be used for any crisp finish face framing accent whether those details are styled with wet or dry hair.  And the bonus is its incredible Lemon Grass fragrance.

If a more flexible hold is desired, we’re reaching for our newly reformulated P2 by Philip Pelusi Honey Molding Beeswax.  This formulation is now Silicone Free and Vegan, containing the technological wonders, Synthetic Beeswax, Milk Thistle Ester, and fortified with the Levan-based Prebiotic Vegan Honey substitute which actually surpasses the moisturization and heat protection benefits of our original P2 Honey formula.

Synthetic Beeswax, an alternative to natural beeswax, interestingly cannot be classified as “Vegan” as this terminology primarily pertains to food.  But bottom line, we are thrilled with its performance on the hair and our Stylists and guests agree.  P2 Honey maintains the silky smooth texture of natural honey but without the stickiness.  But this updated P2 Honey formula does not contain any actual honey but instead several Natural Sugars, one a prebiotic polysaccharide obtained from sugar cane.  These natural sugars mimic the benefits of honey increasing moisture retention, heat styling protection and creating shine.

Milk Thistle Seed Oil in its Ethyl Ester form contains lubricious and hydrating triglycerides that help provide a silky soft feel to the hair as well as weightless heat protection.  Plus, this Milk Thistle Oil derivative has antioxidative properties to help prevent color fadage, and when combined with our Hydro Charged Pelusi Ceramide Complex (Ceramide II) forms a delivery system to penetrates past hair’s cuticle layer, amplifying benefits as mentioned above.  We also added our signature White Tea and Thyme Fragrance to give this updated P2 Honey a light and lovely scent.

The change from “silicones” in P2 Honey to non-silicone alternates allows us to maximize its content and activity in a way not achievable with silicone bases.  All of these ingredients provide even better hydration, heat protection, and style ability to the hair.  And they give the product a much easier to work with smoother, creamier, and lighter texture while still delivering all the styling benefits P2 Honey loyal customers have come to know and love. 

P2 Honey can be used on damp or dry hair, working slowly with fingertip amounts of the product to twist, scrunch, and piece out hair.  P2 Honey is a shapeshifter in that hair can be styled and restyled over and over again perfect for this Face Framing Accent trend. To see all Philip Pelusi Trend Alerts, go to Trend Alerts (busystylist.com)

by Nikki ~ Product Education Director

Stunning blonde bobs, innovation, and value rule Spring 2025 trends!  It seems like guests are ready for more this Spring season, more of everything.  More value for their dollar, more ingredient innovation, more panache in their look, and they are even up for more styling to achieve it too.  We are up for the task at Philip Pelusi with several hopeful predictions for Spring 2025.

We are seeing today’s savvy consumer looking for high quality, transformative ingredients and products.  And even if they prefer to streamline their purchasing, they are not swayed by price as long as they get an incredible product with great results.  But products and services must deliver, period.

We are also feeling that ‘back to business’ attitude when it comes to our guests’ attitude toward recreated current trends for their own look.  Despite the last several years where style took a backseat, today’s guests are getting their style on craving customized blonde hued precision bobs with all the face framing bling they can get.

90’s style influences are still going strong in 2025, so bob haircuts aren’t going anywhere.  One of the most beautiful bob trends for this season is the Italian Bob.  This chin length, blunt cut bob has a sharp bottom line, equal distant from front to back.  The Italian Bob has minimal visible layering, yet has internal and perimeter layering to create movement.  No inverted angles or stacking gives this look a modern feel for 2025.

At Philip Pelusi, we wield the precision skills of our exclusive Volumetric™ The Pelusi Method Organic Haircutting System to create a custom haircut tailored to each individual guest.  And since we first created and launched our groundbreaking Volumetric™ cutting system in the early 1970’s, we are happy to see it is still ahead of the curve.  Especially now with what seems an increasing consumer interest in personalized AI generated haircut designs and product recommendations.

We’ve always felt our human approach to personalized hair designs and product recommendations works best.  We believe our Stylists understand the intricacies of the guests’ texture, density, growth patterns, fall lines, shape of the head, facial features, and hair fabric type, and that should all be assessed.  And we feel this also works best for product recommendations too, taking into considering how much time, effort, energy, and financial investment the consumer wants to make on their hair.  We also allow guests to exchange or get a product refund if they don’t feel they are getting results.

We are finding this longstanding approach is even more important today with our guests’ renewed desire to get the very best value.  Overall, we’re seeing guests be a lot more selective when purchasing products, cutting down on the amount or streamlining.  They’re happy to pay a higher price point as long as the product contains high quality ingredients and impactful innovation as well as being long lasting both on the hair and in the concentration level of the actual product.

Lastly, one almost universally loved product that is at the tops of our Italian Bob product recommendation list is our P2 by Philip Pelusi Potion Smart Styling Treatment.  This unique product is a combination weightless hydrating groom and UV protectant, which also further supports the enhanced summer sun protection guests are looking for.  And it’s perfect for the Italian Bob Trend because it’s weightless, no hold, feels like nothing on the hair finish gives the hair silky shine and moment.

P2 Potion is fortified with dynamic antioxidant herbal ingredients Matricaria, Asafetida, Blackberry, Grapeseed, Horseradish and Sage, all part of our Pelusi Hair Matrix Blend.  In addition, Guar Bean and USDA Certified Organic Baobab Seed Oil detangle hair like a dream.  Plus, our innovative Hydro Charged Pelusi Ceramide Complex (Ceramide II) and moisture binding phytokeratins, helps protect against heat damage throughout the styling process and gives today’s beauty consumer the innovation they are craving.

P2 Potion can be used as a standalone styling product on any texture.  Just apply a small dime to nickel size amount to damp hair prior to any other styling product then style as usual. 

To see all Philip Pelusi Trend Alerts, go to Trend Alerts (busystylist.com)

by Nikki ~ Product Education Director

Stunning blonde bobs, innovation, and value rule Spring 2025 trends!  It seems like guests are ready for more this Spring season, more of everything.  More value for their dollar, more ingredient innovation, more panache in their look, and they are even up for more styling to achieve it too.  We are up for the task at Philip Pelusi with several hopeful predictions for Spring 2025.

We are seeing today’s savvy consumer looking for high quality, transformative ingredients and products.  And even if they prefer to streamline their purchasing, they are not swayed by price as long as they get an incredible product with great results.  But products and services must deliver, period.

We are also feeling that ‘back to business’ attitude when it comes to our guests’ attitude toward recreated current trends for their own look.  Despite the last several years where style took a backseat, today’s guests are getting their style on craving customized blonde hued precision bobs with all the face framing bling they can get.

One of the prominent trends for Spring 2025 is Chantilly Blonde hair color.  Actress and trend setter Zendaya was one of the first to kick off this trend in late 2024, and we feel this look should continue well into 2025.  The look is a light warm blonde with subtle creamy undertones of vanilla and champagne to give this color a level of sophistication.  The blonde tones are bright yet soft.

The sunny months of Spring and Summer can make it tougher to hold onto color molecules, so to keep this blonde hue and all color services looking good we are focusing on much needed sun protective product recommendations.  This fits right in with the current consumer trend for sun protection products that contain additional beneficial, innovative ingredients to enhance the skin.

But we’ve always felt sun protective efforts should also be paralleled with sun protection for hair, giving guests what we refer to as an insurance policy for their hair color investment.  Our goal is to help protect the color itself while also improving the condition of sun exposed hair with proper hydration and protection.

This is our thought process behind our Tela Beauty Organics by Philip Pelusi Guardian Angel Solar Hair Serum.  It contains Sunflower Seed Extract, well known for its ability as a hair UVA/UVB sunlight protectant and stabilizer of synthetic hair color.  Plus we added Chlorophyllin, a naturally derived synthetic Chlorophyl derivative, that contains Copper at its core, making it water soluble and more bioavailable. 

When combined in a haircare product these two protective powerhouses effectively turn off the damaging effects of UV, helping provide maximum protection of the hair fiber against color fadage and tensile strength degradation due to UV exposure while unique ultra-lux hydrating oils help replenish lost moisture due to sun exposure, heat styling and hair coloring.

We added 3 different types of weightless hydrating cold pressed oils for hydration, heat protection and shine.  Cold pressed, meaning they maintain their integrity and potency during processing.  USDA Certified Organic Quinoa Seed Oil penetrates the cuticle and cortex to smooth, strengthen and enhance hair.

Organic Quinoa, contains all 8 essential amino acids as well as Vitamin E helps create brilliant shine, hydrated stronger hair, reduced frizz and heat protection.  USDA Certified Organic Jamaican Black Castor Oil, rich with Vitamin E and Omega 9 Fatty Acids, adds incredible shine and moisture as well as anti-frizz action. 

And USDA Certified Organic Plukenetia Volubilis Seed Oil, well known as Sachi Inchi Oil, rich in plant protein and Omega 3, 6 and 9 Fatty Acids to strengthen, hydrate and help with heat protection.  This incredible ingredient is also rich with hair protective antioxidants Vitamins A and E that help ward off environmental pollutants while helping slow the oxidative process that fades hair color.

Apply Tela Guardian Angel Solar Hair Serum to damp hair and scalp every morning prior to any other styling groom, similar to how one would apply a face SPF prior to cosmetics.  A dime to nickel size amount should do the trick, apply starting at the ends working up towards and including the scalp.

To see all Philip Pelusi Trend Alerts, go to Trend Alerts (busystylist.com)

by Nikki ~ Product Education Director

Men’s hairstyling trends have exploded over the last decade, with our male clientele equal in interest to project a certain look or personal vibe through their haircut or color.  Business norms have changed so gents can still be considered professional looking while wearing facial hair and even more creative cuts and colors.  But looking groomed is the key here, so this Textured Crop trend will continue to grow in 2025.

The look is stylish, yet neat and groomed.  The top has more length, while the sides are shorter but not tapered close to the scalp and everything is blended from the bottom of the back hairline to the front hairline. 

And the top is textured so when paired with the right styling groom, the client is able to style their hair easily while still hitting the mark of a groomed textured look.  And this is something very important to our male clientele.

For creating the Textured Crop, we recommend two products from our Tela Beauty Organics by Philip Pelusi Modern Hair Wear Collection.  Choose one or the other depending on which finish preferred on the hair.  Not only will these products create a modern piecey textured look but they also enhance the scalp and hair with their cutting-edge ingredients.

The Tela Modern Hair Wear Collection,The New Textile for Hair™, provides a modern feel and approach to styling and wearing hair, almost melting into hair creating a new textile.  Tela Play Freeform Wax is a thick crème formula that controls like a wax yet is totally moveable. 

Tela Taffy Pomade Gel isa medium density pomade-like formula with light moveable hold.  Both can be applied to wet or dry hair for freeform piecing, grooming and finger styling with zero buildup.

They contain the Tela Hair Immunity Complex of Probiotics and Fermented Kelp Extract to help improve scalp and hair condition. 

The Tela Hair Immunity Complex™ is a combination of Pre and Probiotics derived from Fermented Kelp Extract, well known to be abundant in the 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 helps protect color and strength from free radical pollutants.

Tela Modern Hair Wear also features Organic Hydrolyzed Quinoa Protein and the Hydro Charged Pelusi Ceramide Complex help strengthen, create shine, increase body, and help 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 and Tela Tea Blend of White, Green and Oolong Tea.

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