You can learn the AirTouch Method, the newest global blonding trend that’s garnered has more than 3.8 million #AirTouch Instagram posts for users seeking out natural balayage techniques, at Hair Festival 2025. Alisher Karabaev, the only certified AirTouch specialist in Australia, will teach this trend on Sunday afternoon, June 29, in the Hair Festival Education Sessions, allowing attendees to learn natural seamless blondes.
“Using a patented hair drying technique, AirTouch blows out baby hairs, leaving only the longest and strongest strands for lightening. This creates an ultra-soft blend from roots to ends, with no harsh lines or streaks,” Alisher explained. “Unlike traditional teasing balayage methods, you maintain 100 per cent control over the colour application by applying the 30-40-50 method . AirTouch allows you to customise every section for perfect blonde balance.”
The AirTouch method ensures precision and repeatability for total consistency thanks to precise sectioning and full control over lightening. It also ensures seamless corrections and touch-ups so that colour remains balanced. Adjustments are made easy within this predictable method, in a technique you and your clients can always trust. Hair is also made stronger and healthier within these applications, as shorter, weaker baby hairs are excluded from the lightening process, preventing overlay and breakage.
This session is ideal for experienced colourists who want to innovate and grow their business and income in the process by offering this unique, trending service. It also becomes the ideal service for darker haired clients who often struggle with traditional balayage, as it provides soft lift, without harsh contrasts or brassiness.
The one-hour session will include an AirTouch demonstration that covers specific sectioning techniques, designed for the AirTouch technique and maintaining the natural flow of the hair, as well as strategic parting to create different blonding effects for the final result – from soft dimensions to high contrast blondes, or natural sun-kissed effects. Finally, the session will teach the most critical element of AirTouch, balance, which showcases the essential nuance needed to master the short layers and 30-40-50 method. Here, you’ll learn how to adjust airflow and control the percentage of blown-out hair.
You’ll also have the chance to partake in a Q&A with Alisher, whose hairdressing experience stems from a formal education in fine arts, where his foundational understanding of colour, shape, texture and balance has shaped his approach to blonding and hair. He now boasts over two decades of hair industry experience, from the French academy Dessange to perfecting blonding skills in Sydney’s Eastern Suburbs over the past eight years.
AirTouch was created by Vladimir Sarbashev and Alisher has undertaken advanced and intensive training of the technique in Barcelona and New York.
“AirTouch creates artistic possibilities that traditional hairdressing doesn’t, whilst being more natural and longer lasting. You can craft different looks while maintaining complete control over colour placement—something traditional techniques simply can’t offer,” Alisher shared.
This session joins dozens of Education Sessions across two days of Hair Festival, taking place at The ICC, Sydney, on June 29 and 30. You can purchase five Education Sessions across business and creative acumen and receive the sixth one for free or you can experience it all with the All Access Pass that offers all education, the REALtalk Business Forum and the Wonderland party, to maximise the weekend in full, at $1460 of total value. The Festival HUB of innovations, activations, stages, shopping and on-stand demonstrations remains free to register for!
For more information visit www.hairfestival.com.au
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