The Gloss Encyclopedia: A Modern and Comprehensive Guide to Professional Demi-Permanent Hair Gloss
 
The definitive guide to mastering gloss hair color, created for stylists who want more than just formulas!
The Gloss Encyclopedia is a modern, experience-driven approach to understanding and working with demi-permanent color from beginner to master level. Designed by stylist and educator Christina Leist, this book transforms complex color theory into clear, usable knowledge you can apply behind the chair immediately.
This is not corporate education. This is real-world experience driven knowledge, refined over a decade of hands-on experience, experimentation, and obsession with better understanding and teaching about gloss demis.
 
Inside, you’ll learn how to:
Truly understand how demi-permanent color works (not just how to use it)
Deeply understand tone, level, and underlying pigment
Formulate Shades EQ with confidence
Navigate porosity, pH, and hair structure for predictable results
Create seamless toners, root shadows, lowlights, and full gloss services
Correct, neutralize, or enhance tone with precision
Execute gray blending and fill formulas with clarity
Use simplified cheat sheets and breakdowns you’ll actually reference daily
 
Whether you’re newly licensed or an experienced colorist, this book will elevate the way you think about glossing! Users will finally have the confidence to create consistent, customized, high-end results for every client!
 
If you’ve ever second-guessed a toner, struggled with formulation, or wanted your color work to feel more intentional and elevated—this is your missing piece.
This is where gloss formulation becomes an exact science—not a guess.