Janine Ker’s Rainbow Buzz Cuts Are a Real Head Turner

Sometimes a haircut is much more than a haircut. Take hairstylist Janine Ker. Working primarily with bold and bright colors, her work aims to turn heads, pun intended.

And while we’ve seen our fair share of rainbow-colored hair, her rainbow buzz cuts have taken the trend to a whole other level, earning Ker a well-deserved cult following. Operating from Pasadena, California, Ker dyes areas of her client’s hair in a variety of colors before carving out geometric shapes and patterns, that totally give us ’80s vibes (but in a good way.

“I take a lot of my inspiration from experience and I am very nostalgic,” she admitted in an interview with Dazed & Confused. “So I love creating odes to visual things that make me happy. It might be my favourite blouse, a grandma’s chair, or a texture I find interesting. I love being able to prove that they can be translated into hair.”

“I love the 80s. I missed the decade (or rather I was too young to ‘grow up’ in it) but I always gravitated towards it. I still do. I spent a lot of time dissecting and immersing myself in the fashion and especially, music. Geometric shapes also work really well with hair. They are simple and create clean work, which is important to me.”

Talking about her attitude toward the beauty industry, she adds: “‘beauty’ has always been a complicated thing to me. I can appreciate a good supermodel. But I tend to find beauty in a lot of unconventionally beautiful things… smeared make-up, an untucked shirt, birthmarks, crooked teeth… greasy hair. To me, it’s all about orchestrating it right.”

Check out her colorful designs in the gallery below.

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