This national contest is for Bumble Salons and the winner will be published the October issue of W Magazine!

 The Chameleon stylists created these editorial-inspired looks using the new Bumble Thickening Full Form Mousse and Creme Contour!

A panel of Bb.Stylists along with W Beauty Editor Jane Larkworthy will choose six semi-finalists to appear on the W and Bb. Facebook pages. W magazine’s Facebook fans will choose the grand prize winner by voting for their favorite. The stylist with the most votes will become The Artist.

Here are a few photos from the teams photo shoots.

I can’t believe that I’ve been around long enough to see hair come full circle. It’s amazing that we are now seeing hair styles that were popular in the sixties. There are of course those famous styles from the forties, fifties, seventies, and even styles from the twenties were also making appearances at the Grammy’s and the Oscars.

I started my career 40 years ago in 1971. Forty-one years ago and boy did hair go full circle. I remember in my high school days, a classmate came to school with a Sassoon haircut that she had gotten in New York City. It was so amazing and different; I loved it! It was not very popular in my small town because it was different; it was asymmetric. I didn’t get to cut a style like it until a few years later. Maybe that’s why I still like asymmetric hair to this day.

In my senior year of high school, we saw long bangs and teased tops. Oh my gosh, we’ve been seeing this hairstyle a lot in the past few years. There is always a difference when old styles come back though; they have a different flair to them. A more modern flair if you will. Like clothing today has a similar feel of yesteryear, but with new material and a more modern cut to it.

In hairdressing school, someone came from Westport to demonstrate a shag haircut to us. That was another amazing haircut, albeit, similar to the Sassoon it didn’t go very far because the original shag was so extreme. It was gorgeous and it was also called the question mark cut. What did happen with the shag were variations on the original cut: long, short, medium, teased, not teased, curled, not curled. It was adapted to all different faces, body shapes, and textures. These became accepted and sought after hairstyles. Read More »

Chameleon created a challenge between our New Haven and North Haven Salons.  The challenge was to recreate a  photo done by world famous stylist “Oribe”.   The teams had to find the models, clothing, photographers and locations. They then had to recreate the hair, makeup & styles to create a single photo.

These final photos are shown on our Face Book Page in a album as “New Haven Chameleon Team Oribe Cover Photo” and “North Haven Chameleon Team Oribe Cover Photo”

We ask that you go to our Face Book Page and cast your vote for your favorite of these two Chameleon photos by clicking on the “Like” button.  Click Here for our Face Book Page to Vote

Then please share these photos on your Face Book pages. Please have your friends and family cast their “Likes” also The voting will close at the end of the month and the Photo with the most “Likes” will be declared the winner!

Chameleon Haircolor Cafe & Spa has searched and evaluated numerous anti frizz treatments.  Time and time again they fall short and the results are poor. There is one exception to our evaluations.

The one treatment which we feel is the absolute best is Brazilian Blowout!  We have done hundreds of Brazilian Blowouts and the results are always fabulous!

The below are typical results

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The Chameleon team Joy and Stephanie headed down to NYC  for a Oribe editorial styling class, at ION SALON in Greenwich Village. They trained with Florence born Stylist Marco Santini. This was a special class offered to select stylists in the Oribe Network. Read More »

Designer Jahi’ Fitzgerald of Evoli Fac’cion  was one of six designers selected to unveil his fall 2012 collection at the Emerge Fashion Runway Show, during the much anticipated Mercedes-Benz Fashion Week, NYC. He is also a friend of Chameleon.

First inspired by watching his parents dress in their 1940’s tailored, refined, classic couture looks, later in his fashion career Jahi’, would become inspired by couture preeminent designers such as, Christian Dior, Valentino Garavani, Alexander McQueen, Hubert De Givenchy, Stephen Burrows, Willi Smith and Gian Franco Ferre, said Jahi’. Read More »