The Professional Hair & Beauty Trends For Spring 2026

Want to know what’s trending for spring in the world of professional hair and beauty? We’ve rounded up the products that your salon has to try this season, perfect for elevating your in-salon services or recommending to clients to add to their at-home routines. Including a strong focus on scalp health, damage repair and low-maintenance routines, we have the products that will help you stay ahead of the industry…

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How To Maximise Salon Profits With These Speedy Salon Services

Let’s face it, we’re already prepping for the festive season, and with it comes jam-packed schedules and appointment bookings, last-minute walk-ins and clients being extremely eager to look their best for the party season. But with strict timings and an overflowing column, being efficient is everything. That’s where fast salon services come in. From express colour to speedy treatments, these quick turnaround options allow you to fit in more clients, maximise profits, and keep your guests looking and, of course, feeling incredible! Let’s dive into how to make every minute count this season with time-saving salon heroes your clients will love…

The Ultimate Christmas Gift Guide of 2024

Clients feeling uninspired this gift-giving season? Leave it to us! Our ultimate gift guide has everything from complete sets to stocking fillers to add fun and festivity to your salon while helping your clients solve their last-minute Christmas shopping dilemmas. Let’s dive into the perfect holiday gifts for hair enthusiasts!

Thinning Hair: The Foundation For Better Hair Growth

With hair loss and thinning now ranked as the #1 fastest-growing hair concern, affecting nearly 29% of consumers, professionals need a solution that bridges the gap between clinical scalp care and high-performance styling. Redken is proud to introduce the NEW Acidic Grow Full Range, a breakthrough innovation designed to rebalance, strengthen, and densify.

Hair Glossing: Your Salon’s Most Underrated Service

Every salon has that product sitting on their colour shelf that doesn’t get nearly enough attention. It delivers amazing results, saves you and your client time, and makes your clients’ hair look incredible, but it somehow still gets overlooked. And for many salons, that product is Quif’s Magi:gloss. Trust us when we say this, if you’re not already making the most out of this versatile product, you’re missing out on one of the easiest ways to give your clients hair a glow up. Plus, it can add extra revenue to your salon’s menu! In collaboration with our Education Manager, John Anthoney, we unpack why you need to be making the most out of Magi:gloss…

How To Achieve the Modern Wave with Magi:Form

Get the male hair trend with Magi:form. The textured wavy hairstyle is having a major moment in the male hair space, and Quif’s Magi:form Permanent Waving System is the key to creating that natural movement and soft structure. Ideal for clients seeking a low-maintenance, high-impact style, Magi:form lets you add volume, shape, and subtle texture to a look that will flatter any male haircut.

Introducing The Luna Hybrid Pro Smart Dryer

Meet the new Luna hybrid pro smart dryer, a fusion of creative design and smart technology, created to give you an experience like no other when drying your client's hair. Available in two stunning colourways - glossy black and rose gold - the Luna brings the ultimate aesthetic touch to your salon’s styling sessions. Discover the all-new smart features the Luna brings to your salon styling sessions…

Autumnal Haircuts of 2024

Autumn 2024 is basically here, and for many, it’s a chance to have a fresh start - whether clients are starting a new school year or simply want a change, it’s the perfect time for a brand new haircut. This season, we’re seeing a reinvention of styles that will offer your clients to wear the hottest of looks. We’re talking a variety of bobs with a mix of voluminous styles that will make your clients feel fresh and ready for the season ahead. Let’s jump into the hottest looks of the season!

A Deep Dive into Quif Trend:01 – Pixie Blush

There’s not many hair styles out there as daring and expressive as a short, textured pixie cut… until you make it pink!

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The Ultimate Blue Monday Makeover

We don't mean to be the bearer of bad news, but today is Blue Monday - the saddest day of the year. Luckily for you, we have just the way to brighten up your miserable Monday. Elevate your spirits, boost your confidence and radiate positivity this Blue Monday, with our ultimate self-care power tools for an ultimate Monday make-over.

Hair Trend Predictions for 2025

As we approach 2025, within the professional hair industry colourists are eager for fresh ideas, techniques and most importantly trends, that are going to set the creative scene within salons. We sat down with Education Team members, Sara Simpson and Adam Murphy, our hair colour experts who have an immense amount of knowledge on all things hair colour, to get their predictions and insights into what the hairdressing industry has to bring in 2025.

5 Ways To Increase Client Retention In Your Salon

Within the competitive world of professional hair & beauty, client retention is key to long-term salon success. While attracting new clients is obviously essential, building a loyal customer base with strong and trusting relationships is where the true growth happens. Your loyal clients not only become regular returners but also hold the power to recommend your salon to others through word of mouth, which can actually be the most valuable promotional tool. We’ve dived into five strategies to help salon owners and hairdressers increase their client retention, to overall boost their bottom line. Let’s make 2025 the year of salon success!

How To Use Blast In-salon

With our latest launch of Blast in full swing, at Quif, we want to ensure professional hairdressers have the confidence to work with creative colour and introduce it to their clients. Our vivid colours are designed to deliver vibrant, long-lasting results, providing professionals with endless creative possibilities, from pastel hues and bold colours to more natural tones. Whether you're new to the creative colour scene or looking to up-skill as an all-round hair colourist, Blast offers the flexibility you need!

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Discover Alfaparf Milano – Italy’s leading professional haircare brand, offering advanced colour, smoothing, and lightening solutions for salon-perfect results.

Go Behind The Stage with Melissa Timperley & Sara Williams

Have you ever wondered about the planning and prep that goes on behind the scenes of stage work in the professional hair industry? We have all the insights and backstage knowledge from our two talented Alfa Italia artists & industry icons, Melissa Timperley & Sara Williams, on their latest stage work at this year’s Salon International. Taking the spotlight on the HJ Stage, Melissa & Sara delivered two beautifully contrasting looks designed to inspire artists on all levels.

How To Achieve Caramel Brownie Brunette

With summer just around the corner, it's likely that your brunette clients are craving to add some brightness to their everyday hair look. Luckily we have the perfect trending shade that will satisfy your client's craving: 'Caramel Brownie Brunette'. With warm and golden hues that add instant brightness to your client's hair for a sun-kissed look, Caramel Brownie is the perfect hair colour for those clients who can't decide between blonde or brunette. Indulge in this deliciously stunning shade for the ultimate summer glow-up and sprinkle some sweetness into your client's new hair-do.

A Deep Dive into Quif Trend:01 – The Player

Introducing “The Player”, featured as part of the Quif Trend:01 collection from The Quif Art Team. This look showcases the popular, commercial skin-fade cut most young guys are requesting in salons and barbers across the country alongside the growing demand for blonde on a darker base.

Summer Hair Care 101

"I'm a professional hairdresser and this is my ultimate summer hair care guide". Summer is nearly here and it's time to get your clients prepped with a summer hair care routine for the hot summer months that are to come. We've teamed up with our Education Development Manager, Adam Murphy, who has a vast amount of knowledge on all the summer hair care tips and tricks we can't wait to share.

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Embracing Hair Texture in 2026: Why This Salon Service Is What Your Clients Need

If you’ve been in the professional hair industry for a while now, you’ll know that hair trends have changed dramatically over the years. Back in the late 90’s, clients wanted one thing, and one thing only… hair that was as straight as possible. Fast forward to 2026, and the conversation is pretty different. Instead of fighting against natural texture, clients are actually looking for ways to enhance it. Clients, whether they have curly, wavy or straight hair, are searching for a controlled way to make their natural texture easier to manage, and that’s exactly why services like QiQi Hair Controller have become so popular in salons. Let’s rewind and take a look at how we, as an industry, got to this point.

Introducing Quif magi:form wave system

Have you heard? Perms are back, but not as you know them. Introducing magi:form - a wave system changing the narrative on perms. Unlike the classic 80’s hairstyles full of frizz and uneven texture, perms are here to make a modern comeback, and they’re nothing like their reputation. Quif magi:form is an innovative waving system designed to deliver your ideal wave from soft waves, lived-in texture and defined curls, all with the flexibility, strength and health of today’s haircare science.

magi:gloss get the look: Champagne Lustre

Have your blonde and balayage clients returned from their summer holidays in need of a hair refresh? With the colour-correcting power of magi:gloss, you can magic away any unwanted orange or yellow tones, creating a range of beautiful blonde hues.

The Festival Hair Trends of 2026

Coachella has kicked off festival season for 2026, and thanks to this heavily influenced fashion-led festival, we’ve already got a clear idea of what trends are about to take over. This year, we’ve definitely noticed a shift in the hair, being less over-styled and more of the effortless, thrown-together (yet still amazing) kind of hair. With lots of soft textures, natural movement, these are the styles that will actually last from the am to pm. If you’ve got clients booked in the diary for a festival, here is exactly what they’ll be asking for…

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Prom Hairstyles for 2026

For prom 2026, we’re seeing a huge shift towards styles that feel softer and less overdone. Pretty much the opposite of what you’re used to, right? The brief this year will be soft texture, face-framing moments, and styles that are, of course, glamorous, but still wearable. Dreamy waves and modern up-dos are big this year and all about that cool-girl edge. And to help create these on-trend styles, we’ve teamed up with our Shed artists Amelia Wilmott and Charlotte Singleton, who will be breaking down the biggest prom hair trends of 2026. With techniques, product recs and styling tips, they’ll help you recreate them behind the chair.

The Boy Fringe: The Haircut That Is Taking Over Hollywood

We’ve seen a massive shift within the male haircut realm, seeing less of the structured styles and more of the looks that give texture and movement. And with that comes the newest trending haircut… the Boy Fringe. Also known as ‘Boy Bangs’, this is a laid-back, slightly undone haircut that’s been popping up on every red carpet, so we had to see what it’s about. From Hollywood straight to your salon, let’s take a look at the style that’s quickly becoming the go-to men's haircut for 2026.

Hair Meche VS Hair Foils

As a professional hairdresser, you have your go-to colouring technique that you usually stick with, as it delivers the best results. And this probably includes your preferred choice of foils! But why not try something different? Meche is a great alternative to using hair foils that many colourists have yet to try. If you want to find out the ins and out of hair meche and foils when colouring, keep scrolling to see what is best suited for you.