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Did you know Philip designs and creates every Philip Pelusi haircare formula? So, having all New Talent view every product class has always been a standard of excellence at Philip Pelusi! It’s a well-worth investment of mandatory and paid time.
Learn virtually starting today! Go to www.busystylist.com to view each P2 & Tela Virtual Product Class video. Salon Leaders, for each New Talent, print the New Talent Virtual Product Class Checklist (Shared Forms) and track their Virtual Product Class attendance.
Philip Pelusi… Elevating the Beauty Profession for 56 Years and Beyond!
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Specially formulated for today’s slightly softer, moveable modern curly or wavy styles
Modern slightly flexible hold that boosts and holds waves/curls for a more sculpted look
Gives great body, texture, hold and style retention to fine to medium hair textures
Great for all wavy and curly styles that are worn wavy and curly with slight hold and firmer, more sculptured curl or wave formation.
Specialized micro-emulsion ingredients provide more protection, conditioning and color protecting benefits!
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Enhanced Ingredients…
Silk Protein helps strengthen and smooth hair while enhancing crisper texture, creating brilliant shine
Proprietary Micro-Emulsion Blend of Calcium, Zinc and Yeast Protein Derivatives are a high-end skin-care trio helps condition, protect, smoothes frizz, weightlessly hydrates and strengthens hair and scalp
Proprietary Micro-technology Emulsions add weightless moisture and strength to help protect hair color and hair’s strength from heat damage, helps control static in curly and wavy hair
Sunscreen to help protect hair strength and color from harmful UV rays
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Enhanced Features…
Alcohol-free so non-drying and actually helps condition hair just like our original formula
Paraben-free formula with new upgraded more consumer and environmentally safe preservative system to provide long shelf life and performance
Allergen-free Fragrance of White Tea and Thyme signifies free from allergens, highest quality standard in fragrances, safer for consumer and environment, Non-synthetic fragrance base
Silicone-free formula with upgraded moisture trapping and smoothing ingredients
Water-soluble Formula dries crystal clear, no cloudiness or chipping, hair rinses clean for zero build-up
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Environmentally Safe Packaging…
Non-aerosol packaging since the original formula was created in the 1980’s
Liquid mousse formula with unique pump dispenser turns liquid into airy mousse by naturally infusing air (creating bubbles) into formula as it leaves the dispenser
Part of overall Philip Pelusi environment/stylist/consumer friendly non-aerosol packaging standard of excellence
Same application techniques as original formula but might need add additional pump(s) if desire a crisper, firmer hold or mist on P2 by Philip Pelusi Define Root Lift for crisper feel
Highly concentrated. Place small amount into palm of hands. Rub together. Apply to damp hair. Repeat for maximum volume. Work into roots for more lift. Great for blow-drying or scrunch-drying.
Can be also used to blow dry fine to medium textures, medium to short lengths smooth with volume and firmer hold and control.
Can be air-dried or scrunch-dried with a diffuser
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Need a refresher? View this short educational video and start incorporating P2 Liquid Mousse into your Guest product recommendations!
Brought to you from the Philip Pelusi Film Studio…
Introducing Philip Pelusi Blonde Ambition, a vibrant film tribute to just a few of the hundreds of thousands of incredibly beautiful timeless hairstyles created and photographed by Visionary, Product Artist, Photographer, and Salon Developer Philip Pelusi! So, don your shades for this vivid hair imagery!
Philip Pelusi…A Playground for Hair! More to come! Stay tuned! Want to watch it again? Or show a potential New Talent? It’s archived on Films by Philip Pelusi (busystylist.com)
Check out this self-portrait of Philip! He was testing out lighting with black and white film at the very beginning of his long career as a self-taught photographer. Location? He was at a construction site in Squirrel Hill at the corner of Forbes Ave and Shady Ave near his very first salon.
His photography started organically. Philip simply wanted to take photos of his and his Designer’s work. The outcome was a burgeoning photographer, himself! Shooting an amazing 100,000 photographic images starting in 1965 usually from 2 cameras, one color and the other black/white film. Sometimes shooting 1,000 images in one day!
Philip Pelusi ~ Photographer 1970’s
He saw photography as a way to not only immortalize the work he and his team created, but also an avenue for more creative expression for his team. Hair, makeup, photo styling, the works! Teams working side by side creating their vision.
BuZZworthy is fun facts and photos about how Philip got started in the industry, his salon journey, the history of his products, with more adventures on the horizon! See ALL BuZZworthy on BuZZworthy (busystylist.com)
Hairstyles go Vogue while Ingredients go Rogue for 2025! And styling is making a comeback for 2025.
Over the last several years we have been slowly moving away from the “at home” looks of the pandemic and now, it seems, even past the extremely low maintenance looks that followed. And although airdrying and a minimalistic styling ethos still has its place, trends for 2025 involve a little more effort. And happily, clients seem willing to step up their styling game.
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And along with this mentality, styling product use gets a boost in popularity for 2025 too. Consumer demand is still up for earth safe formulations as well as scalp and hair treatment ingredients in just about every product applied.
But also the mindset to purposefully apply a product to achieve a specific styling result has returned to the trend scene in full force. So we welcome the challenge to help our clients achieve their luxuriant brunette hues along with 2 going-strong haircutting trends that are reaching next-level status for 2025.
Jessica Biel Bob Image Source TheRightHairstylesJoey King Image Source TheZoeReport
It seems all of Hollywood is a getting a bob haircut with Jessica Biel, Joey King, Katy Perry, Kim Kardashian, Elle Fanning, Sydney Sweeney, Penelope Cruz, Jennifer Lopez, Rita Ora, Ayo Edebiri, Julianne Hough and Lilly Collins all sporting this new, yet classic, hairdo. So, is it any wonder this trend is still going strong for 2025.
Kim Kardashian Image Source AllureSydney Sweeney Bob Image Source Byrdie
This year’s bob haircuts should look weightless and bouncy with high shine. Additionally their lengths can vary but the most popular and jaw dropping is a chin length bob with a center part. So interestingly, the love for side parts over the last few years is definitely shifting.
Hair is styled with a slight bend or wave or its styled smooth and sleek. And although this trend is called an Effortless Bob, some styling effort is most definitely required.
Ayo Edebiri Bob Image Source ElleLilly Collins Bob Image Source Myself
Certainly if you have a naturally smoother hair fabric, then your texture might already be bob friendly. But for most, texture needs an assist. So we are recommending a versatile heat protecting, hair smoothing groom that depending on what product it is mixed with it can either produce greater or less volume.
Our P2 by Philip Pelusi Soft Wax is our styling cornerstone product for today’s bob hairstyles. What’s so unique about it is that it contains Hyaluronic Acid, normally found in hydrating skin care products. This now well touted ingredient is something we have been adding to our hair care formulas going back to the 1970’s!
Hyaluronic Acid is also one of the most effective moisture binding heat protectants especially when paired with Polyquaternium-24 it becomes a Biopolymer Complex in our P2 Soft Wax that binds Hyaluronic acid to the damaged hair shaft, providing long lasting moisturization.
Heat activated during styling or drying, this product “melts” onto the hair fabric smoothing the cuticle as it is sealed with the brush during styling producing silky shiny, heat protected hair.
Hair and Photo by Philip Pelusi and The Philip Pelusi Design Team circa the 90’s!
But P2 Soft Wax is also a hair styling shape shifter when mixed with our P2 by Philip Pelusi Smart Styling Treatment Increase for more volume or P2 by Philip Pelusi Smart Styling Treatment Decrease for less volume. What’s so unique about these products is their ability to dramatically change the way hair performs without adding any weight to the hair at all.
Hair and Photo by Philip Pelusi and The Philip Pelusi Design Team
They are called P2 Smart Styling Treatments because their unique microemulsions penetrate into the hair structure to either weightlessly increase or decrease volume from inside the hair strand instead of an additional product layered onto the outside.
So, our bob requesting clients get smoothness and heat protection from the P2 Soft Wax but also help with texture augmentation along with strength, hydration, and color protecting treatment ingredients with either the P2 Increase or P2 Decrease depending on the desired result.
Hair and Photo by Philip Pelusi and The Philip Pelusi Design Team
Today matte rules the runway for makeup and nail trends. Blurred matte lips, skin and nails are all the rage. But glossy, shiny, lustrous hair never goes out of style! And even when the cut, color, and condition are all on point, hair needs a finishing pop of shine to take it to the next level.
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Here is when you can reach for P2 by Philip Pelusi BrilliantHair and P2 by Philip Pelusi Polish! But even though they both product incredible shine, these products perform very differently on the hair depending on density and texture even with a somewhat similar ingredient structure.
Both are Silicone Free and Vegan. They containTomato Fruit Extract loaded with fortifying vitamins and minerals including Calcium, Iron, Magnesium, Phosphorus, Potassium, Zinc, Copper, Selenium, Vitamin B6, B12 and Folate (a form of Vitamin B9). Tomato Fruit Extract is also rich in antioxidants Vitamins A, C and E that help protect hair strength and chemically and color treated hair.
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Organic Baobab Seed Oil hydrates, creates lustrous shine and provides heat protection and frizz reduction. Philip chooses the gold standard cold-pressed Organic Baobab Seed Oil meaning it retains its nutritional value during processing. It is rich with Vitamin D3 and 5 Fatty Acids that nourish and moisturize hair and scalp without weighing down hair.
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The Hydro Charged Pelusi Ceramide Complex joins the ingredient listing giving both products next-level color protection. This is a universal-texture complex of plant derived ceramides mimics the ceramides (known as lipids) found in between cuticle layers. It helps seal each cuticle layer to each other and to the cortex helping seal in color molecules below. This proprietary mixture strengthens, hydrates, helps protect color and creates shine.
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Jojoba Oil joins their ingredient lineup, derived from the seeds of the Simmondsia chinensis plant, a shrub native to AZ, CA, and northern Mexico. It possesses excellent healing and hydrating properties as well as providing heat protection, shine and detangling.
Squalane has also been added to the formula as a key source of antioxidants beneficial to hair color preservation. Extracted from various plants, vegetables, and grains, Squalane also provides moisture and increased shine.
Need a refresher on these two wonder products? View these 2 short educational videos and start incorporating P2 BrilliantHair and P2 Polish into your Guest product recommendations!
