If you joined us at Colour World this year, you may have caught one of Rick Roberts’ Colour Shair demos. If you were one of those lucky few, you would have seen him playing with a brand new Schwarzkopf professional colour product that gave truly mesmerizing results.
In Collaboration with T H E U N S E E N, Schwarzkopf Professional presents the world’s first prismatic, holographic hair colour reactive to temperature: COLOUR ALCHEMY.
The COLOR ALCHEMY collection by Schwarzkopf is inspired by the bright iridescent colours found in nature and developed with a view to transform colour services. The specialist crystal formula replicates the visual effect of ‘structural colour’ a natural colour phenomenon found only in nature such as a peacock feather or the shell of a Scarab beetle. Unlike static pigmented colour, each shade scatters the light in a range of kaleidoscopic hues, which transform and shift in response to temperature.
COLOUR ALCHEMY reveals prismatic colours that have never been seen on hair before and that don’t require pre-lightening or bleaching treatment, even on the darkest hair base the temporary colour takes effects instantly. Hairdressers and customers alike can now create unique colour in tonal spectrums with no damage to the hair or scalp.
COLOUR ALCHEMY: THE FORMULAS: The colour collection is inspired by the transformational phases of Alchemy developed to transform colour services into artisanal magic across five prismatic, colour-changing shades:
· 01 SCARAB 
Visible applied colour: none
Prismatic colour change: solar orange, jasmine green, lapis blue
Suitable for bases: 1-3
· 02 PEACOCK 
Visible applied colour: petrol blue
Prismatic colour change: peacock green, cyanine blue, ultraviolet
Suitable for bases: 1-4
· 03 BOREALIS 
Visible applied colour: iris purple
Prismatic colour change: clover green, flame orange, imperial violet
Suitable for bases: 3-6
· 04 ANDRITE
Visible applied colour: azalea pink
Prismatic colour change: emerald green, cobalt blue, ruby purple
Suitable for bases: 4-6
· 05 PHOENIX
Visible applied colour: amber red
Prismatic colour change: burnt orange, pollen yellow, ultraviolet
Suitable for bases: 4-6
COLOUR CHANGING TRIGGERS
· Sunlight
· Moving from shade to sunlight and vice versa
· Using a heat source e.g., heat lamps, hairdryer
· Body temperature – Natural warmth of the head or shoulders or hands
· Cooling Wind or a warming breath
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