“TONING FOR HAIRDRESSERS IS LIKE ICING ON THE CAKE!”
What a wonderful way to describe how important color theory is for hairdressers and hair colorists.
To become truly confident and predictable with color results, you need a deep understanding of how color works. As a hair colorist, there are endless possibilities when mixing, toning, and creating color behind the chair.
Traditional color wheels are helpful teaching tools — but understanding color in three dimensions changes everything.
Discover the Kolormondo globes for hair coloring →
UNDERSTANDING COLOR IN 3D
Kolormondo’s 3D color globe makes color theory easier to understand because it allows you to see color relationships not only around the wheel, but through the entire color space:
- Up and down
- Across
- Circular movements
- Transitions between hue, saturation, and value
- Complex color paths in every direction
Once you understand how these three dimensions work together, color formulation becomes much more intuitive and predictable.
THE THREE DIMENSIONS OF COLOR
We need to go beyond identifying color only by hue — yellow, blue, orange and so on.
Every color has three defining properties:
- Hue — the actual color family
- Value — how light or dark the color is, moving vertically through the globe
- Saturation — how intense or muted the color is, moving from the outer edge toward the neutral gray center
Together, these three dimensions fully define a color.
They work like coordinates in a 3D color map, helping you understand exactly what color you are working with and how it will interact with other colors.
When combining colors to create new results, understanding all three properties is essential for achieving controlled and intentional outcomes.
A TOOL USED BY HAIR COLORISTS WORLDWIDE
Hair educators and colorists from all levels of the industry use Kolormondo to teach and understand color theory in a more visual and intuitive way.
Kolormondo’s 3D color globe is used by:
- Independent educators
- Salon professionals
- Hair schools
- Brand educators
- International color trainers
WHY IT WORKS
Kolormondo transforms abstract color theory into something visual, spatial, and intuitive.
Instead of memorizing formulas, hair colorists can see how color behaves in three dimensions — making results more predictable and creative work more controlled.
CORPORATE HAIR EDUCATION
“I absolutly love the globes. They´re perfect! What a brilliant invention.”
Ian Mayer-Marszalek Senior National Corporate Trainer PPS and ASK Manager USA, Henkel Beauty Care North America, Schwarzkopf Professional
LEARN MORE FROM THE COMMUNITY
Hair dresser educators that work in ALL different levels of education come to classes from ALL over the world... from independent educators, to stylists from different color brands from the field as well as the corporate side. Hair colorists using different major brands – Schwarzkopf, Wella, L’Oreal etc - are using Kolormondo ´s 3D color wheel to understand color theory.
If you want to learn more directly from a hair colorist, have a look for instance at Headlesshairdesser's TikTok film that got over 46 000 likes.
HAIR EDUCATION
“Introducing Kolormondo to my color sessions have been game changing. I can go into much more depth and the students learning of how tone impacts our overall results improves.”
Kelly Furnival, Educator, KF Hair Education
