All appliances were in the Artist Session Goody Bag. The Sam Villa Textur Iron was used at the scalp for volume and lift. It’s a wearable finish and ideal for the holidays…or just for going out and having fun.” Williams used the RSession Double Barrel Waver on small sections and then ­finished with the large Rusk Bumper Iron. There are multiple textures throughout which are covered with a soft wave. “I went for a faux hawk with a lot of movement. This collection offers some of the inspired looks from MODERN’s last Artist Session.Ĭheryl Williams of Abingdon, Maryland, wanted to create a lot of texture for this session.“It’s a ’60s-esque updo,” she says. For this last session, more than 80 models came to the casting and the artists featured on these pages found inspiration from the model’s face, hair, look and attitude.

“Once I met my model and saw her portfolio, I knew exactly what I wanted to do.” “That’s where you get inspiration,” says Michael Gregg, owner of the Heaven Salon in Winchester, Virginia, who was attending the session for the first time. The stylists attending Artist Session rarely know what they want to create on set until meeting their models at the casting on day one.