Meet Julie Kleine
Owner & Educator Of Colors With Chemistry
Most stylists weren’t taught how hair color actually works. They were taught how to follow formulas and told what to use, but not given enough education to feel consistently confident building their own.
As a former national trainer for a major color brand, Julie has been involved in training new educators and helping build curriculum for color brands. Her training comes from education with cosmetic chemists in the field, studying with some of the best international color theory educators, and her own training in Learning & Design (L&D), with a strong focus on how people actually learn.
The education she builds at CWC is a combination of chemistry, color theory, and learning design, combined with her own personal experience as a stylist behind the chair and a brand educator.
She’s taught corporate educators, color line owners, NAHA winners, technical trainers, sales teams, stylists with 40 years behind the chair, and stylists just starting out. Students from over 39 countries, using all different color lines, have gone through her programs.
Through her years of educating, she’s seen the same theme over and over: too many smart, talented stylists who weren’t given real foundational education. Just enough basic information to get started, and formulas that came with minimal context or explanation of why.
That’s why she built Colors With Chemistry differently.
At CWC, we teach hair color principles and help stylists build their formulating thinking, so they can have more freedom behind the chair.
We give stylists visual, practical tools like our Directional Color Mapping System™ to help them see what’s happening in the hair and make formulation adjustments that make sense. Not because someone told them what to do. Because they finally understand how and why.
When you start building understanding, everything changes.
Meet Alisha LaShun
CWC Hair Color Educator
With over 25 years of experience behind the chair, Alisha quickly realized that artistry alone wasn’t enough, she wanted to know why. Why does this technique work on one canvas but not another? Why do certain formulas succeed or fail depending on the hair? That curiosity sparked a lifelong journey into the science behind the art.
Through years of hands-on work and continued learning, Alisha has answered countless questions for herself and others, supporting guests, educating fellow stylists, and even helping those who were once tasked with fixing their own hair. But she’s not done learning, and she’s not keeping what she’s learned to herself.
For Alisha, teaching is about more than technique. It’s about sharing the deeper understanding that transforms confusion into clarity and turns challenges into wins. Passing on knowledge, resources, and hard-earned experience to other creatives is more than rewarding, it’s what drives her.Let’s go get these wins...together! 🏆
Through years of hands-on work and continued learning, Alisha has answered countless questions for herself and others, supporting guests, educating fellow stylists, and even helping those who were once tasked with fixing their own hair. But she’s not done learning, and she’s not keeping what she’s learned to herself.
For Alisha, teaching is about more than technique. It’s about sharing the deeper understanding that transforms confusion into clarity and turns challenges into wins. Passing on knowledge, resources, and hard-earned experience to other creatives is more than rewarding, it’s what drives her.Let’s go get these wins...together! 🏆