This year has been a rollercoaster for the Beauty Launchpad team, from fun attending trade shows and industry events, promoting and working with the newest hair launches and innovations and even growing and evolving our team to continue to provide the best hair and salon education to our audience. As we approach 2025, we're reflecting on the articles you loved most in 2024. From hair tutorials to trends to hair health and wellness and salon business education, we've covered it all, but here's the top 10 articles our audience liked best!
Beauty Launchpad's Top 10 Articles of 2024
1. How-To: Jamie Lee Curtis' Elegant Hair Look
Celebrity hairstylist Sean James brought Jamie Lee Curtis' hair look to life at the 2024 Academy Awards. He used products from Giovanni Cosmetics.
In this article, James shares his tutorial for creating the look worn by Curtis while presenting the award for Best Supporting Actress, which she won in 2023 for "Everything Everywhere All at Once."
2. Top 10 In-Demand Hairstyles for Spring 2024
Fresha analyzed online search volumes for 64 trending female hairstyles. By combining the average monthly searches for over 300 keywords, the study found the hairstyles that have received the most nationwide interest in the past six months during Spring 2024.
In this article, we break down five of the top 10 spring hairstyle trends, many of which became consistent trends throughout the year.
3. How-To: Christina Aguilera's Glamourous Vintage Waves
Christina Aguilera joined Sabrina Carpenter on stage for a mash-up of two of her hits "Ain't No Other Man" and "What a Girl Wants" at LA night one of the Short n' Sweet tour. Celebrity hairstylist Iggy Rosales (@hairbyiggy) created Aguilera's stunning hair look for the night using hairtalk hair extensions.
To get the tutorial for these glamorous vintage waves, you are going to want to read this article.
4. 10 Best Foods for Hair Growth
Hair health is becoming an increasing priority for clients, who are seeking out cleaner and more environmentally friendly haircare options. However, your diet also plays a role in the health of your hair. Just like your body needs nutrition to be healthy and strong, your hair does too! If you’ve been experiencing damaged hair, hair loss, breakage, dandruff, oily scalp, dry scalp or hair shedding, it might be what you’re feeding yourself and your hair.
In this article, Board Certified Nutritionist Debbie Williams shares her recommendations for the 10 best foods for optimal hair health.
5. 5 Hair Trends to Try This Spring
Spring hair trends were very popular with our audience. Overly styled hair took a backseat to easy-to-achieve, lived-in texture and breezy bobs.
To learn more about these effortless spring hair trends from UNITE Hair, including how to create the looks, check out this article.
6. 11 Pixie Cuts
Clients are looking for low maintenance looks that are easy to maintain and effortless, so what a better option to try than a pixie? Reminiscent of fairies, sprites and forest elves, this style is fun and whimsical and a great option for people on the go!
Pixie cuts were a popular style in 2024, so we rounded up some of our favorite looks created by our followers. Mari Reed (@messy_tresses) also shares her tutorial for creating the look.
7. 3 Hair Color Trend Predictions for 2024
To start off 2024, hair color experts from R+Co’s R+COLOR Collective: Richy Kandasamy, Cameron Kepford and Marwa Bashir and Chase Kusero, Celebrity Colorist and Co-Founder of IGK, weighed in on all the hair color trends they anticipated to be trending for the year and what to ask for in the salon to bring those looks to life on your locks.
From high contrast color blocking to golden blonde and rich coppers, you will want to read this article for more on these trendy colors.
8. 7 Hair Trends for Long Hair in 2025
While 2024 was the year of the short cuts, long cuts are going to be in for the new year. If Fashion Week Spring/Summer 2025 is any indication, the new year will bring hip-length locks and extra-long curls. From Naomi Campbell’s shining strands at the Ralph Lauren show to the soft, ethereal waves seen at Chloé, it's likely you will be seeing even more dramatic length at the salon in 2025.
For clients who want to embrace a new look without the commitment, hairtalk hair extensions shares seven hair trends for long hair to anticipate for 2025.
9. Top 10 Cut, Color and Style Trends of 2024
Trends are a vital part of the industry. It’s important to keep up with what looks everyone is asking for and where their inspiration is coming from, so you can speak your clients’ language and be able to provide them the services they are asking for. '
In our November/December issue, we round up the top 10 cut, color and style trends of the year, with tutorials for creating the looks from the pros.
10. Learn More About the Braided Balayage Technique
The braided balayage is a creative coloring and highlighting salon technique that is gaining popularity with hair colorists that want to give their clients something more than routine salon services. The hair coloring and lightening application technique produces a melted colored hair look that appears blended with no visible lines of demarcation.
Bee Sam, a master colorist out of Vancouver, WA, shares her insight on the trend.
