Find the best starting point for you.
Take the 2-minute color check-in for a class suggestion, or explore the three learning phases below.
Start with what you understand now, not how many years you’ve been doing hair.
You don’t have to start at Phase 1. Choose what you need to strengthen, then keep building.
Phase 1 Build your basics
Start here when the basics of color, hair structure, pH or the formulation process need clearing up.
Phase 2 Learn how tones mix
You know the basics and want to connect the wheel to your tubes of color and the hair in front of you.
Phase 3 Bring the pieces together
Three courses that build your ability to formulate with purpose: Foundations of Color Theory, Chemistry of Color, and Formulating With Purpose.
After your live In-Depth course, bring your questions and activity work back for feedback and support.
See the community →Yes. Many stylists who learn with us have been behind the chair for 10, 20 or 30 years. This learning helps you understand the why behind what experience has already taught you.
You don’t need more years behind the chair to begin learning. Start with the phase that fits what you understand now and build from there.
Find your starting point with our 2-minute color check-in.
Choose Your Learning Path Below
Paced learning, guided practice, check-ins and community support.
Build and strengthen the basic color, hair structure, pH and formulation knowledge everything else rests on. Fill in gaps, clear up confusion and get ready for Phase 2 & 3.
Next step: Mid-Level Classes or In-Depth, depending on where you are.
Get color moving. Connect the wheel to tubes of color and hair, see how colors shift as they mix and use what you see to make clearer tone choices.
Next step: The In-Depth Class Series.
Bring color theory, chemistry and formulation together to decipher your line, predict color movement and lift, hit targets and make clearer formulation decisions.
Includes access to the CWC Community for continued practice, feedback, and support.
This is where in-depth students keep building through feedback, questions, practice, and support. It helps close the gap between getting information and using it with more confidence behind the chair.
Access included when you take a CWC live In-Depth Zoom class.
The 2 Min Color Check-In ⤵️
This quick check-in looks at the basic knowledge hair color formulation builds on and points you toward the class and phase that fits you best.
A lot of the stylists who learn with us have been behind the chair for 10, 20, even 30 years. They’re already doing good hair. Most of the time, their color works.
But every once in a while, something doesn’t go the way they expected, and they’re left wondering what actually happened and why.
This learning lets you add the why behind what experience has already taught you, so you can better understand what happened and know what to do the next time different variables show up in your chair.
You can read what some of them had to say HERE
You may be wondering if this will be too much for you, or if you need more experience first. You don’t.
Learning this earlier means you get to build your experience on understanding. You can practice it, use it behind the chair and let it become how you formulate instead of trying to piece it together years later.
