On Monday, November 2, the Canterbury & Co. stylist team will be in Miami for Depth and Tone: Deep Dive, a color class at the Wella Creative Academy Miami, part of Wella Education’s Creative Academies, held at Atma Beauty in Miami Beach. It is taught by Wella Signature Artist Carrera Alvarez and Design Team artist Crystal Perez.
Wella Education runs its Creative Academies in six cities: Atlanta, Miami, Montclair, Chicago, Washington DC and Austin. They are classes for working stylists, each hosted by a Wella partner salon, and Atma Beauty is the Miami host.
Wella Professionals is our color partner: the Canterbury Color Team specializes in its color, and a day like this keeps that partnership working in both directions. The stylist team brings new technique and formulation thinking home to share with the rest of the Color Team, and Wella’s artists meet the stylists who use their color in Fort Myers every day.
It is also a good room to be in. A Creative Academy puts working stylists from other salons alongside Wella’s own educators, so the day is as much conversation as demonstration: how other salons approach formulation, what clients are asking for this season, and what is working behind other chairs. It is a chance for the stylist team to represent Canterbury & Co. among people who care about color as much as we do, and we are proud to have them there.
This one is about color deposit, the side of hair color that adds pigment rather than lightening. Wella builds the class around creating “the perfect winter hue”, and its class page names three things stylists come away with: formulation, placement and color layering.
In plain terms, that means choosing a formula for the depth and tone you want, deciding where each shade goes, and layering neutral, warm and cool tones so the finished color looks rich and balanced, with light moving through it, rather than one flat block. The class also covers the care products that help a layered color keep its tone, shine and softness once you have left the salon.
Depth and tone are much of what makes a color look rich rather than flat. A brunette built from several related tones moves and catches light in a way a single shade does not. And tone is often the first thing to drift as a color fades, so how it is built on the day has a lot to do with how long it keeps looking the way it did when you left.
The Canterbury Color Team specializes in Wella Professionals color, so a Wella class like this one speaks directly to the work the Color Team does every day. Education runs through color at Canterbury & Co. Our founder, Alli Canterbury, spent years as a Wella Professionals color educator, traveling the US to train other stylists. Learning from other artists, and bringing it back to the whole team, is part of the same habit.
Two days, two classes. On Sunday, November 1, the day before Miami, we host Hattori Hanzo Shears’ haircutting class with Wayne Tuggle at the salon in Fort Myers. It is a class for hair professionals, and the details and registration link are in our post about the class.
Hair professionals who would like to see Depth and Tone for themselves will find it on Wella Education’s Creative Academies page. And if you are a stylist who wants education like this built into your work, our careers page is the place to start.
Details of the class come from Wella Education’s Creative Academies page, its Miami calendar and class listings on wellaed.com, and the event flyer Wella sent the salon. The quoted phrase is Wella’s own.
