Marie Robinson

Adding dimension to your at-home hair color is a lot easier than you think. Hair colorist Marie Robinson is known for creating beautifully colored hair for celebrities like Anne Hathaway, Kristen Stewart, and Michelle Williams, but she let us in on a trick to creating dimensional hair color at home. Just buy a box of hair color for root coverage, such as Nice'n Easy's Root Touch-Up ($7 per box), in two to three shades lighter for highlights or one to two shades darker for depth or lowlights.

Robinson recommends starting off with your hair pulled half up and clipped. Next apply your highlights or lowlights (depending on the look you want) on eight random pieces about two inches apart. Now let your hair down and start to add highlights about two inches above the ears, slowly working your way up to your natural part, highlighting about six to eight pieces on each side. And to complete your look, consider adding a few face-framing highlights to lighten the hair around your face.

If there's an iconic hair color for summertime, it's a perfectly sun-kissed blond. But sun and water can take their toll on blondes, especially if you color your hair. To steer you away from brassiness and faded color, we called on Marie Robinson, Clairol Color Director. The colorist for some of Hollywood's biggest stars, she's a fan of Clairol Nice ‘n Easy Color Blend Foam. (She used it on us!) Here, she shares her top tips for keeping blond hair, well, blond.

Moisturize and condition
You know those shampoos and conditioners for color-treated hair? Use them — they're specially formulated for your needs, and moisturized hair will keep its color better. "I also recommend spritzing your hair with a leave-in conditioner before swimming or spending extended amounts of time outdoors," Robinson says.

Go clear
Believe it or not, some styling products could shift your color. "When conditioning or moisturizing your hair to protect against dehydration, make sure you use products that are white or clear in color," Robinson advises. Products with a hue, such as olive oil or argan oil, can make light hair more yellow with repeated use.

Rinse
Here's another good reason to shower before hitting the pool: rinsing your hair beforehand can help protect color. "Dry hair typically absorbs more chlorine than wet hair," Robinson explains. So get wet before you get wet, and you'll avoid discoloration.

Cover
The easiest way to protect your hair color, of course, is to keep the sun's rays from ever reaching it. This season, hats are hugely popular — and you'll protect your face from the sun, too. Not into hair accessories? "Simply throwing your hair up into an updo will help to reduce sun over-exposure," Robinson says.

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Having colored my hair dozens of times as a teenager, I'm no stranger to unusual hues. Pink, red, purple, black, green (OK, that last one was a mistake) — I've worn it all. That was then. This is now: virgin, natural brown hair that hasn't been colored in years. And as it turns out, upon close inspection, the "natural blond highlights" I'd thought were peeking through were actually gray. I wanted to dye.

Enter Marie Robinson, one of the top colorists in the country. She has a popular salon in Manhattan, she's done the color for stars like Anne Hathaway and Rachel McAdams, and she's also the color director for Clairol. So who better to turn to for help? Keep reading to see the before-and-after photo.

The models above have gorgeous, velvety brown hair. And if you guessed that this color came from hours in an expensive salon chair, you'd be wrong. Colorist Marie Robinson colored their hair for the Spring 2012 Naeem Khan show with Clairol Perfect 10 (some of which she picked up at a nearby drugstore during a last-minute run). "Coloring hair at home isn't as scary as people think," she says. "A lot of people don't realize how easy it can be." Here are the dos and don'ts of unboxing your color.

Not only is Marie Robinson the color director for Clairol and colorist to stars like Anne Hathaway and Rachel McAdams, but she's also owner of the posh Marie Robinson Salon in NYC. Since last week, Marie's been sharing her advice with us on doing color right, from her at-home coloring essentials to selecting box color, but for the final installment of this series, Marie's talking Fall trends. To see what she has to say, just keep reading.

What's so cool about celebrity colorist Marie Robinson is the fact that even though she runs an upscale establishment, Marie Robinson Salon in New York, and works with clients like Sarah Jessica Parker and Rachel McAdams, she's still down with talking about DIY box color. I call that instant cred. I recently chatted with Marie, Clairol's color director, about how we can get the best results while playing home colorists ourselves. So get armed with her list of at-home hair coloring essentials and find out more when you keep reading.

With her platinum blond hair and cool-girl style, celebrity colorist Marie Robinson has an ultrahip vibe about her — much like Bella beauty icon Kate Lanphear. Marie has an equally cool résumé to boot, having worked with A-listers such as Kristen Stewart, Scarlett Johansson, and Anne Hathaway. When it comes to at-home color, Marie says there are a few essentials to have on hand to make your DIY job go all the more smoothly. To get her must haves, just keep reading.

Imagine hurrying through the subway when, suddenly, a disembodied voice comes out of a huge mirror in the middle of the concourse and starts asking you whether you need to touch up your roots. In New York's Grand Central Station this week, some women actually had this experience when Clairol set up a giant talking mirror to promote its Root Touch Up product.

The installation used actress Angela Kinsey (who plays Angela on The Office) to spot people, as WWD reports, who looked like easy targets. At that point, Angela called out to ask people to look at their reflection. Then, the "mirror" directed women to colorist Marie Robinson, who gave them a color consultation and a box of Nice 'N Easy. Would you have stopped for this mirror?

The Internet was in a tizzy yesterday after Kristen Stewart debuted a new hair color, a gorgeous coppery shade that the majority of you were loving. Want to get the look? Stewart's main stylist, Adir Abergel, worked with Clairol Celebrity Stylist Marie Robinson to create the new color. To recreate the '50s-inspired hue at home, they recommend Fekkai Salon Color in 6R Copper-Lucy ($30). If you don't think box color can do the trick, look at these before and after photos — you might change your mind.

At the Met Gala earlier this month, Sienna Miller stepped out sporting a lighter hue that gives her hair that perfect, beachy feel. And if you want to try out the style yourself, we've got the scoop from her colorist, Marie Robinson, on the whole how-to.

If you have naturally medium-brown to medium-blond hair, try using an at-home hair lightening kit to re-create Sienna's highlights. Start an inch away from the face and use a clean mascara wand to dip and saturate the hair color, then pull through on strands of hair. According to Marie, you'll then want to "make sure the wand is saturated again with lightening product and pull through random strands from mid-length to ends." Next, let it process as directed. Voila! Easy styling for a face-brightening, no-fuss look.