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ABOVE: ACTRESS LUCY BOYNTON GIVES
HER BLONDE BOB AN AQUA UPDATE FOR
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Russian model Simona Kust was
tinted with a shade of washed-out rose
in homage to a late-’90s Kate Moss.
Ott calls the color “the catalyst” for the
new polychrome-hair phenomenon,
although the era itself has also been
a point of steady inspiration. At the
debut presentation for Puppets and
Puppets, the New York line from
artists turned designers Carly Mark
and Ayla Argentina, Ott channeled
an old photo of a streaky-dyed
Kurt Cobain, roots and all, giving
the models lo-fi tints in blue, green,
violet, and yellow. “I wanted it to look
almost like at-home hair mishaps,”
she explains, as if to encourage DIY
experimentation.
DA N I E L MOON
Daniel Moon is in the business of
giving his clients what they want—the
blues, purples, pinks that first-time
color dabblers ask for by name. “But
I also like introducing people to new
colors,” says the 40-year-old, who runs
the salon HAIR Los Angeles. “I’ll be
like, ‘Have you seen this chartreuse or
this electric coral?’ ” Moon’s trajectory
is an unlikely one: He was a barber
for his platoon in the Marines before
getting an early discharge to attend hair
school; after graduating and honing
his skills, he was hired by Hollywood
favorite Andy Lecompte. Because there
was no youthful Manic Panic phase (“I
was into Morrissey—those guys are all
about black hair”), he owes his color
fluency to a lot of experience, and
a gallerist friend whose ever-changing
dye jobs drew inevitable comparisons
to performance art, helping to
spread the word. The fact that his
kaleidoscopic color mash-ups play
well on Instagram has also been good
to Moon, whose clients include Kanye
West, Madonna, and, for this year’s
Met gala, a Thin White Duke–inspired
Kristen Stewart, who debuted chunky
red highlights. “It’s my challenge to
myself to give every person something
that nobody else has,” he shares—and
to do that with a light-handed touch
that does not alter the integrity of the
hair. That dual mission is helping guide
Moon’s forthcoming product launch:
a hair mask that will arrive this spring
and follows his popular tinted glitter
gel Major Moonshine, which is already
a conversation starter. “Color is so
reactive, and at a time when we are
communicating less with each other, it
creates an automatic connection.”
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