Redken's Best Hair Products of 2021
Before we look ahead to 2022, we're taking a minute to celebrate all the biggest and best innovations from the last year. We've rounded up all of our favorite color, haircare and styling products from 2021. From the latest innovations in color to our best haircare and styling products, read on to learn why these products are must-haves in your salon.
2021 was full of massive innovations in our haircolor line! From protecting your client's hair to maximizing your time like never before, read on to learn about two of our newest color products and the technology behind them.
From the same Shades EQ family you know and love, one of the newest innovations in hair color this year: Shades EQ Bonder Inside. This all in one toner features a built in bonder that helps strengthen sensitized hair and reduce damage while toning. After a lightening services, residual alkalinity is left behind on hair, causing damage and weak disulfide bonds for up to two weeks. The new Shades EQ Bonder Inside formula, featuring Citric Acid and Taurine, strengthens hair bonds and reduces alkalinity. The formula also evens porosity and pH levels to achieve the same shine and color results from our beloved Shades EQ Gloss. Learn more about Shades EQ Bonder Inside here.
Another massive color innovation from 2021 is Color Gels Lacquers 10 Minute Permanent Color. This express liquid color has the power to change the way you handle root touch ups, maximize your time and boost your business. How? Color Gels Lacquers 10 achieves up to 100% gray coverage in only 10 minutes! Created withSmart Pause Technology that prevents over processing, you don't need to stress if you lose track of time—color results are virtually the same between 10 and 15 minutes. This allows you to get more clients in and our of your chair, take more walk-ins, and get time back for yourself! Perfect for gray coverage, our 10 minute color has 1:1 shade matching with the original Color Gels Lacquers, there's no banding when blending and switching between formulas. Learn more about Color Gels Lacquers 10 here.
Haircare is finally having its moment! With more people learning to embrace their natural hair type and texture, there's an increase in consumers caring more about the ingredients they put in their hair. This also holds true for those who frequently color their hair! From protecting your clients hair in the salon to ensuring they continue proper at-home care, these are the must have haircare products of 2021.
Hair bonding has become one of the trendiest terms of the year for your guests, so it's no surprise that Redken's best haircare product of 2021 is the Acidic Bonding Concentrate bonding system. These products are formulated with Citric Acid, a technology that strengthens the weakened bonds of hair and improves strength for immediate, visible results your clients will love. Formulated with an acidic pH, Acidic Bonding Concentrate balances hair pH and defends against the negative effects of hair coloring, heat styling tools, and other environmental factors.
Exclusive to professionals, the Acidic Bonding Concentrate Backbar Service provides a personalized hair transformation for guests with damaged hair or dry hair. A perfect add-on service to those undergoing lightening services, this backbar treatment features professional strength Acidic Moisture Concentrate, Acidic Protein Amino Concentrate, and Acidic pH Sealer will visibly reverse surface damage in one single treatment. Not only will this added backbar treatment boost your revenue, your clients will love the results. Learn more about the backbar treatment here.
To add additional revenue, stock your salon with the at-home Acidic Bonding Concentrate system. This three step all-in-one regimen—complete with a shampoo, conditioner, and leave-in treatment—is also a no brainer to recommend to your clients. When used together, your clients experience 56% less breakage, 82% less visible split ends, and 11x smoother hair.
As people shed their loungewear and slowly reentered daily life, 2021 saw the return of style. Whether your clients returned to office life or are revitalized by socializing IRL, styling has finally made a comeback. From perfecting your clients blowout to must-have products, we've rounded up the best Redken styling from this year.
There are few hairstyles as iconic as the iconic '90s blowout. More than three decades later, the classic style is back. Characterized by maximum volume at the roots, the '90s blowout is all about effortless glamour. Redken's latest styling launch Big Blowout Heat Protectant Jelly is the perfect product to help you perfect this look for your clients. Big Blowout is a gel that melts into hair to provide a voluminous bombshell blowout to all hair types and textures. With anti-frizz and anti-humidity benefits, the heat protectant gel leaves hair with natural bounce and shine that lasts all day.
No blow-dry is complete without a primer. Another new launch, Quick Blowout Lightweight Primer Spray is a must have for all of your blow-drying needs. With a flash drying, bi-phase formula, Quick Blowout conditions and smooths hair while protecting from heat up to 450° F. Pair this with Big Blowout for the perfect blowout your clients will love.
As the name suggests, Oil for All really is the product for everyone. This weightless, multi-benefit hair oil is great for all hair types and textures--making it one of the best styling products of the year. From sealing moisture and smoothing frizz to providing heat protection and reducing blow dry time, there are so many reasons you and your guests will love this oil.