Pulp Riot was created to put the power back in the hands of the artist, and disrupt the status quo of a stale hair colour industry with Pulp’s unique brand of creative, colourful and superior artistry. Today Pulp Riot is the fastest growing colour brand in the industry, having won the hearts of a new generation of artists.

Their secret? Rather than being the brand that pushes their aesthetic on to the industry, they give artists the stage to show their art and in doing so colours their world with a new kind of paint but also the opportunities through their unique social artistic community to make their own worlds and careers more colourful.

This September, they have done it again with the first ever UK created collection by 3 of Pulp’s brilliant UK artists. The collection expresses what it means to make artist’s and their client’s worlds more colourful through creative transformations. The resulting incredible collection showcases Pulp Riot’s most iconic products, the superior semi-permanent range, including the brand new Neopop collection, launching in October.

The artists created 6 mind-blowing transformations and have created step by step content to break it own, share their knowledge and insider trickers and inspire you try out your own creative colour creations.

We sat down with the three Pulp Riot artists that created this beautiful collection to ask them about their journey with creative colour and why making them and their client’s lives more colourful is so important to them.

1. @peachsodaa is the artist. Introducing Tegan, a transformations artist, vivid colour queen and diversity champion, created a blended look.

Q1) What does make your world more colourful mean to me?

Answer.  I love sharing my passion for colour with others. Colour inspires me every day and makes me so happy. I love that i get to work with colour every day to brighten people’s lives up

Q2) What is your favourite colour to create and why?

Answer.  I love working with interesting colour combinations that people wouldn't necessarily think of. For instance, purple and orange or green and lilac

Q3) What is your pro tip around creating the ultimate creative colours?

Answer.  My pro tip is to not hold back with colour and run wild

Q4) What would your recommendations be to someone starting out with creative colour?

Answer.  I recommend throwing yourself in the deep end and be as creative as possible. If you don’t like your creation you can always blank canvas it out if you used Pulp Riot colour

Q5) Give 3 reasons you choose Pulp Riot as your go-to semi-permanent colour?

Answer.  They fade true to tone; the colours are vibrant and stunning, and they don’t stain the hair

Q6) What technique did you use on your model and why?

Answer: I was lucky enough to work on a shaved head so had to make sure the colour was fully saturated and even. I then blended the colours together using a sponge.

2. @Heffyx is the artist. Heffy Wheeler boss babe of @hxhair is a balayage master and pastel hue lover with an award-winning salon. She created a textured highlight in this beauty dusky rose result.

Q1) What does make your world more colourful mean to me?

Answer.  To me it’s a celebration of colour, and a celebration of individuality, colour is truly for everyone no matter what your style- and a beautiful way to show what makes you unique, I think these images capture that perfectly.

Q2) What is your favourite colour to create and why?

Answer. Vivid colours are always my favourite, but currently I am enjoying creating a more delicate pastel incorporating multiple colours to create something impactful but also soft and wearable.

Q3) What is your pro tip around creating the ultimate creative colours?

Answer.  Make sure you are using a product that works for you and helps you to achieve the best possible result, colour map your shades on a piece of paper to get a feel for how they will sit together and remember you are the artist- let your creative juices flow! 

Q4) What would your recommendations be to someone starting out with creative colour?

Answer.  Get educated, a good knowledge of the product you are using is the important foundations for a great vivid colourist, free FaceTime education is available with pulp riot! Follow lots of vivid hairdressers on Instagram to give you plenty of inspiration.

Q5) Give 3 reasons you choose Pulp Riot as your go-to semi-permanent colour?

Answer. 

True to tone fade- something I have struggled with when using other brands, pulp riot colours don’t change, they just fade! So, no purples or blues ending up a minty green.
Removal- thanks to the amazing blank canvas, all pulp riot colours can be removed quickly and safely back to a perfect blonde base.
Vegan & cruelty free- this is absolutely essential for me, and also extremely important to all of our clients!
Q6) What technique did you use on your model and why?

Answer.  I did a textured highlight taking diagonal back sectioning, with a slight back comb at the root, next I used the beautiful Cleopatra pink, one of my all-time favourite colours.

3. @Lauramaystevenshair is the artist. Laura, one of the first users of Pulp Riot in the UK and now a Pulp Riot Educator at the top of her artistic game, did a colour melt and classic Pulp Riot rainabow babylight face framing technique.

Q1) What does make your world more colourful mean to me?

Answer.  Make your world more colourful to me means getting artists from all over the UK to collab create some incredible hair and show hairdressers new to pulp riot how to use the products!

Q2) What is your favourite colour to create and why?

Answer.  My favourite colours to create would either be a lived in balayage blonde or a vibrant copper!

Q3) What is your pro tip around creating the ultimate creative colours?

Answer.  My pro tip for creating ultimate creative colours would be - nice fine sections for even saturation and also get creative! All the pulp riot semis are intermixable so there is an infinite number of colours you can create! 

Q4) What would your recommendations be to someone starting out with creative colour?

Answer.  when starting out with creative colour my tips would be- have fun and custom mix shades!

Q5) Give 3 reasons you choose Pulp Riot as your go-to semi-permanent colour?

Answer.  Three reasons why I use pulp riot semi permanents for my creative colours

The vibrancy 
The longevity 
The blend-ability
Q6) What technique did you use on your model and why?

Answer.  The technique I used on my model was a colour melt and face framing!