Award winner robert eaton mentors colour project team

Robert Eaton, Creative Director of Russell Eaton salons, recently gave his time to mentor the future generation of colourists: the Fellowship for British Hairdressing’s Colour Project. The team spent a day at the Wella World Studio in central London, where Robert – who is reigning British Colour Technician of the Year – passed on some of his technical expertise. Robert’s achievements include being a three-time North Eastern Hairdresser of the Year winner, two-time L’Oreal Colour Trophy winner, former member of the F.A.M.E. Team and an acclaimed educator. Russell Eaton salons are celebrating 40 successful years of business in 2018, also. Throughout the session, Robert shared his own personal journey to success as part of a family salon group and gave his own professional insight into colour trend predictions for the coming months, gathered through his invaluable experience in the industry. Robert demonstrated two looks - an on-trend pastel bob and an edgier navy crop - as well as explaining the colour theory and technical detail behind them. The team was then asked to trial what they'd learnt in the morning by practising colour techniques on their own block heads, as well as attempting a number of Robert's award winning techniques from previous collections. Doing so gave vital insight into new application methods, placements and palettes. Katie Scarfe, a member of the Colour Project working for CODE Hair Consultants, said: "I loved our day with Robert - he really took time out to find out about us and the things we wanted to learn. He showed us step by steps on so many techniques from his collections and then helped us achieve some of those techniques ourselves. We also worked on colour inspiration, where to find it and how to use it - it was massively insightful and everything we learnt can be taken back to the salon and our personal work to make us better stylists."