Ep 51 Hair Colour Legend Christophe Robin of Christophe Robin Hair Care

Today we’re talking hair colour with a French master. The colourist behind Tilda Swinton, Vanessa Paradis and Catherine Deneuve’s serious coiffs— it’s Christophe Robin! Christophe was the long-time magic man behind all the big L’Oréal hair ad campaigns, plus the hands responsible for 90’s supermodels’ sparkling manes. They all went to Christophe to get this signature look: natural radiance without compromising the health of hair. (Except for that one angry model who did something completely outré when Christophe committed a hair colour faux pas once… and he’s spilling the tea!)

Christophe debuted his own salon, dedicated solely to hair colour, when he was just 24 years old. It was the first of its kind to put the spotlight squarely on hair hue back in 1995, in Paris. Shortly after, he launched his eponymous line with the aim of solving the issues he observed from behind the chair. Mixing up salt-water solutions to help sensitized scalps post-dyeing, or vinegar to balance the pH alkalinity, these are the hand-spun fixes he would build on to create his luxury formulations for women to use at home. Today, his Cleansing Purifying Scrub With Sea Salt is a best-seller and, as we can attest, the colour-safe detoxifying scrub keeps roots feeling clean for 3-5 days. (Psst…. a follow-up detangling jelly will join the range in April!)

Having introduced the rest of the world to the concept of scalp exfoliation, Christophe makes customer education top priority in his salon, now located on rue Bachaumont in Paris. Right here on Breaking Beauty Podcast, don’t miss the guru’s no-filter take on vegetable hair colour; dry shampoo ‘don’ts’; how to tweak your hair colour to make dark under eye circles less obvi; and a hack for taking your hair colour down a notch if you return from the salon a tad too stark. It’s a podcast episode so chic, it’s magnifique!

Products mentioned in this episode: Christophe Robin Cleansing Purifying Scrub With Sea Salt; Christophe Robin Purifying Shampoo with Jujube Bark Extract; Christophe Robin Detangling Gelee With Sea Minerals; Christophe Robin Hydrating Shampoo Bar with Aloe Vera; L’Oréal Preference

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