Last weekend yoga aficionados from across the world came together for the ultimate yoga celebration: The 2015 Wanderlust Festival, Squaw Valley in Lake Tahoe, California.  We took advantage of the opportunity to ask them their advice on staying centered and feeling beautiful. Above, yoga educator Caley Joyner, @Caleyalyssa, celebrated beauty and balance with Sophie Jaffe,…

Aveda Men’s styling products lined up at the first-ever Spring 2016 Men’s Fashion Week in New York City with Aveda‘s Global Artistic Director for Hair Styling, Allen Ruiz, and Aveda Guest Artist Frank Rizzieri creating two cool-guy styles for the look of Public School and Richard Chai. THE USUAL SUSPECTS: PUBLIC SCHOOL MEN’S SPRING 2016…

Last night more than 3,000 hair care industry professionals donned their celebratory best for the 26th Annual North American Hairstyling Awards (NAHAs), the leading photographic hairstyling and beauty competition in North America where beauty pros rejoice their craft and honor their peers. Aveda is pleased to share that three network professionals won four of these…

It’s no secret we love gorgeous hair and makeup, but for us, working backstage at New York Fashion Week is also about making great connections with like-minded people. This was the case during the Fall/Winter 2015 season when we met Diederick Rijsemus and Matt Scanlan, the founders of eco-conscious design house Naadam. For Naadam’s gorgeous…

While you may be a curly girl with a lifelong relationship with managing your texture, we know that receiving more good advice is never a bad thing. That’s why we recently sat down with some of our artists and asked them to share their top tips for achieving curl power; including a chat with Tippi Shorter,…

At Aveda, we’ve been very lucky over the years to partner with true pioneers.  Here’s one very special story. This past spring, Aveda Global President Dominique Conseil visited the Chappaqua Central School District in Chappaqua, New York to thank teacher, Amy Fishkin, and her second grade class of 2005-2006 from Westorchard Elementary for leading the…

Throughout June, Aveda students and stylists across North America have been celebrating Pride Month in a multitude of ways. Here, a few shared with us how they showed their pride in 2015: ATHENA SALON & SPA Located on the Pride Parade route of Boylston Street in Boston, Massachusetts, Athena Salon & Spa goes all out…

We know that honey bees corner the market on engineering the sweet, sticky stuff, but these busy creatures are doing much more. One out of every three bites of food we eat every day, not to mention all of the planet’s herbs, nuts, flowers and plants that keep us healthy, is thanks to the honey…

Welcome to wedding season! For soon-to-be bride Samantha Gronwoldt, her wedding day is an opportunity to make a statement about how she cares for the planet. Hailing from Danbury, Conneticut, Samantha, who works as an assistant teacher in a preschool classroom, is one of the new breed of environmentally-aware brides that are celebrating their nuptials with…

We love beauty and we love animals, so when we heard about Peanut, the resident cat of The Black Cat Salon’s Kailua location on the island of Oahu in Hawaii, we couldn’t resist this purrfect opportunity to celebrate our new feline friend coupled with our passion for the salon industry. Known for its artistry and…