EP350: Must-Know Hair Colour Trends to Wow Your Clients, with Melanie Smith

How To Cut It in the Hairdressing Industry

In this week’s episode, we’re talking about the must-know hair colour trends to wow your clients with in 2025. In particular, we’ll be focusing on the Wella Colour Touch Melt trend—a technique that will make your clients’ hair shimmer with a seamless and lustrous look.

Brought to you by our friends at Wella Professionals UK and Ireland, I’m thrilled to be joined today by Melanie Smith, a leading celebrity hair colourist at Hari’s Hair and Beauty Salon in London. With over three decades in the hair industry, Melanie has been named twice in Tatler Hair Guide as ‘One to Watch’ and specialises in creating natural yet enhanced hair colour.

In our conversation, we’ll discuss the importance of hair colour trends and why you need to keep yourself updated with them. Melanie takes us behind the scenes of Wella Professionals’ Colour Touch Melt trend, offering insights on how you can integrate these into your hairdressing business to create buzz and excitement for clients. We’ll also ask Melanie for her thoughts on how to price colour services correctly

And what about the innovative Wella products and techniques you need to know when using the Colour Touch Melt trend for your clients? Melanie has you covered on all of this. Plus, Melanie shares some other colour trends that are sure to be a hit with your customers—including her Mocha Coffee look created for a recent Wella Professionals shoot.

So, what’s all the hype about Colour Touch Melt and hair colour trends in general? Hit play to find out!

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