AI, Art, & Hair Color

ChatGPT can give you accurate hair color formulations in 2 seconds.

This weekend I was scrolling on Pinterest which is my favorite pastime while vegging out in my giant fluffy LoveSac. One post intrigued me because it was a screenshot of the Artificial Intelligence provider Chat GPT.

Screenshot from my Pinterest account. AI color formulas are in the middle.

Equally horrified and immediately obsessed I headed over to good old chatty to see if this was really real. And here’s what I found:

The formula was accurate y’all. So accurate I had just used a slight variation to it to achieve this blonde

I expanded my search to include formulations from two other color lines I’m intimately familiar with. Beyond just the formulations it gave me the why and some adjustments to make based on the clients hair.

Even without ChatGPT, Claude, and other Artificial Intellience platforms you can find a photo and a formula of any hue, shade, and tone of hair color imaginable. Product companies have been rewarding their stylists and educators with prime space not there feeds when they share color formulations and their results. Every hair color company has had editorial collections where they share everything that was done. Social media has eliminated the common industry practice of hair color formulas being closely guarded intellectual property.

This is why art matters.

Formulations are a dime a dozen (placements too). Anyone licensed, and many who are not, can follow a generic map and mix color to the proportions given. What is going to separate the low wage technicians from the well paid and in demand innovators is art. Understanding the complex relationship between the elements and principles of art and how they impact each clients desired results.

The era of following everyone else’s methods is over, AI has ensured that. But What Chat GPT can’t do is replicate your eye, your aesthetic, and how you compose & execute your vision.

Before this year is over ask yourself if you are replicating what is influencing you, or are you creating from your own artistic vision?

Did this get your wheels spinning? Check out Chroma & Contrast in The Design Labs