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In this section, we will take you inside the brand, behind the scenes at shoots and into the lives and passions of stylists across the world.

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Chatting With The Illustrator Behind R+Co Stickers

When you’re a kid, stickers outwardly communicate your personality—you cover your textbooks and binders, your lockers and mirrors, maybe even your smartphone or car (when you’re lucky enough to get ...

The Story Behind R+Co’s Imagery + Names

An arid desert landscape. A woman with a television as a head. Slim fingers brandishing glossy lacquered red nails. Highly recognizable and completely eye grabbing, the imagery on R+Co products ...

A Look Into R+Co's Sustainable Packaging

When you purchase a beauty product, what is the first thing you see? Boxes, bottles, tubes, jars—they’re your entryway to the formulations that transform your hair, and Richard Chalmers, R+Co ...

Anna Sui + Garren's Latest Collaboration: R+Co BLEU Robe

Approaching four decades of working together, fashion designer Anna Sui and R+Co co-founder Garren often set the tone for where hair and fashion are going. Having met in the ’80s ...

A World-Changing Partnership: R+Co BLEU + One Tree Planted

With the launch of R+Co BLEU, a focus on sustainability informed all of the packaging choices. From jars and bottles made from 100-percent post-consumer recycled plastic to tubes constructed from ...

Psychedelic Individualism with Garren: Anna Sui FW21

With the craziness of 2020 in the rearview mirror, designer Anna Sui decided to look ahead to a post-pandemic world where optimism is plentiful and swinging ’60s style reigns supreme. ...

The Answer to Heavenly Hair: New ON A CLOUD Collection

We attribute stress to our mind, but our hair also experiences stress—think: chemical irritants (bleach, relaxers, perms) and even styling (heat, too much product, over-cleansing, etc.). Such stressors can break ...

R+Co Dry Shampoos: You’ll Want More Than One

Shampoo: You typically need just one to get the job done. But dry shampoo? That’s another story. Like with any styling product, the formulation, application, function and end result all ...

Achieve Your Best Blonde With Richy Kandasamy

Whether you’re all-over blonde or gray, or have partial highlights and face-framing brightness, brassiness and dullness don’t have a place in cool-girl color. “Blondes have more fun, but we all ...

R+Co Talks Texture with David Reid

Times are changing—especially when living with textured, curly hair. Whereas the ideal used to be day-after-day of flat, straight-as-a-board hair, the curls of naturally textured hair have spun themselves a ...

Here Comes the Sun: Ashley Streicher Breaks Down Her New Collection

With her laidback attitude and accessible approach to hair, celebrity stylist and newest R+Co Collective member Ashley Streicher has cemented herself as a go-to hair guru for celebrities seeking effortless ...

Talking Pride with Thom + Garren

Not only is R+Co founded on the idea of collaboration, but it quite literally finds its roots in love: married co-founders and husbands Garren and Thom Priano have spent 47 ...

R+Co Global Educators Coping with the Pandemic

When almost all countries went into lockdown due to the novel coronavirus, people quickly found themselves figuring out how to stay busy, sane, creative, entertained, educated, and, for the hair ...

HOWARD MCLAREN + AMANDA WALL'S GUIDE TO SOCIAL DISTANCING

When you’re asked to stay at home and maintain a six-foot distance from your fellow humans, what do you do? Settle into a crossword puzzle? Teach yourself the newest banana ...

EVERYTHING R+ECO WITH THOM PRIANO

Sometimes what a bottle is made of is just as impactful as what’s inside the bottle—and with the launch of new SUPER GARDEN CBD Shampoo + Conditioner, that’s definitely the ...

SUPPORT SYSTEM: SMALL BUSINESSES NEED YOUR HELP

The world has changed seemingly overnight due to COVID-19, but as we evolve our day-to-day lives for the greater good, we must remember to take care of ourselves as well ...

Modern Gothic Vamp with Garren: ANNA SUI FW20

eave it to designer Anna Sui to find the beauty in horror—in particular, art-driven ’60s and ’70s foreign horror films, like the 1971 Belgium movie Daughters of Darkness, a surreal ...

R+CO CREATIVE DIRECTOR AMANDA WALL REVEALS HER INSPIRATION BEHIND BRIGHT SHADOWS

BRIGHT SHADOWS: The name bubbles with contradictions—and that’s exactly how R+Co Creative Director Amanda Walls wants it to be. Assigned to R+Co’s new line of root touch-up sprays, the moniker ...

R+Co x Gryph & Ivyrose

Parents devoted to R+Co, here’s yet another reason to love the brand: R+Co KIDS Gryph & IvyRose, a line of kids-centric hair and bath products. R+Co sought the partnership of ...

ELECTRIC HOUSE: All of the Galvanizing Details!

To say that ELECTRIC HOUSE lived up to its power-charged name would be an understatement. Held at Stage 48 in NYC, the night kicked off with guest Collective Member Danielle ...

GRUNGE GIBSON GIRLS WITH GARREN: ANNA SUI SS20

Always masterful at balancing her moody punk aesthetic with vibrant whimsy, Anna Sui debuted a feast of light-as-air patch-worked floral patterns, Victorian silhouettes and ruffles—so many ruffles!—every piece sure to ...

POWER TRIP: DISCOVER NYC'S ELECTRIC HOT SPOTS

This October, R+Co’s ELECTRIC HOUSE will bring you enough high-voltage theatrics and education to last a lifetime. But while you’re not being transported into the future of hair at ELECTRIC ...

R+CO X ANDREW KATZ: ELECTRIC HOUSE PRODUCER

When brands seek to create fantastical experiences—ones that leave indelible marks on attendees—they call on experiential producer Andrew Katz. Katz, who’s built whole worlds around the curious (check out the ...

MEET BRITTANY ASCH, THE FLORIST BEHIND CENTERPIECE

All eyes will be on your hair with CENTERPIECE All-In-One Elixir Spray, which delivers everything you could need in one outstanding formula. Infused with rich oils, the styling spray detangles, ...

Step into the Future of Hairdressing at Electric House

Are you ready to be electrified? If a creative spark is what you need in the here and now, you’ll find it at Electric House, R+Co’s barrier-breaking, new immersive education ...

ASHLEY STREICHER SHARES HOW TO GET KIERNAN SHIPKA’S NYLON COVER LOOK

Sally Draper, no longer: Actress Kiernan Shipka has shed her ingénue status as “Mad Men” teen in exchange for Netflix series lead of the supernatural hit “Chilling Adventures of Sabrina.” ...

ROSIBEL ARGUETA SHOWS HOW TO GET GIULIANA RANCIC’S LOOK FROM THE 2019 MET GALA.

For the Metropolitan Museum of Art’s 2019 Costume Institute Gala, the theme, “Camp: Notes on Fashion,” pays homage to writer Susan Sontag’s 1964 essay, Notes on “Camp,” in which she ...

R+CO GARREN THE RISE OF BIG HAIR

When Harper’s Bazaar noticed voluminous hair was primed to make a bigger-than-life comeback, the magazine’s staff knew just who to call on to conjure sky-scraping tresses for its “The Rise ...

INTRODUCING: R+CO X FRED SEGAL

The rule-bending, cutting-edge creativity of R+Co is often in-line with iconic fashion names, and the free-spirited, L.A.-luxe vibe of legendary retailer Fred Segal is no exception. As such, we are ...

CELEBRITY HAIRSTYLIST ASHLEY STREICHER BRINGS HER EFFORTLESS EDGE TO R+CO

And then there were four: R+Co is pleased to announce the addition of celebrity hairstylist and Striiike co-founder Ashley Streicher to The Collective. Working alongside R+Co’s illustrious founding trio—Garren, Thom ...

WIGGING OUT WITH GARREN: ANNA SUI FW19

In the colorful world of Anna Sui, anything goes—and that includes spunky, ROYGBIV-dyed wigs raised to the roof and delightfully topped with a petite bow. This youthful hairdo, created by ...

A CELEBRATION OF IMMIGRATION: JOSEPH ABBOUD FW19

Irish wools and Italian tweeds painstakingly distressed to appear as though they’ve withstood a trans-Atlantic journey: Menswear designer Joseph Abboud’s Fall/winter 2019 NYFW collection paid homage to turn-of-the-20th-Century immigrants in ...

THOM PRIANO: WHY I LOVE THAT R+CO HAS GONE 100% VEGAN

With R+Co newly reformulated to 100% vegan, Co-Founder Thom Priano, a 10-year vegan himself, couldn’t be more ecstatic. Because Thom walks the walk, we sat down with him to talk ...

L.A. HOT SPOTS + VISION ON

Bring Your Good Hair to L.A.In honor of VISION ON, our very own Howard McLaren, Garren and Thom Priano and R+Co’s Creative Director Amanda Wall have put together the definitive ...

GARREN'S INSPIRATIONS FOR ANNA SUI'S SS 2019 SHOW

For Anna Sui’s Spring-Summer 2019 show, Garren designed two brilliant hair looks by riffing on and enhancing Sui’s theme of magical wanderlust, fairy tales and her direct inspiration from the ...

HOWARD MCLAREN: CURRENT INSPIRATION + HAIR LEGENDS

For Education: The Hair Legends“A problem with today’s hair industry is that the legends have been forgotten. For Garren, Thom and I, part of the reason we got involved in ...

GET THE LOOK: HAILEY BALDWIN FOR ROXY

Newly engaged and fresh off the plane in Miami—Hailey Baldwin sports an effortless style courtesy of R+Co Global Educator, Jerrod Roberts. Read on to get Hailey's look from Miami Swim ...

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