Stevey G SMP 844-936-2004 The Theory, By Its Creator
Every skin is its own mix of black, red and yellow. Modern Color Theory picks the ink for yours, so it heals the color of a hair follicle. Created by Stevey G, taught to artists worldwide.
The problem
A healed impression is semi-transparent. Your skin shows through it, so plain black drifts: blue-grey or muddy green, depending on the skin. The pigment never changed. The skin was never accounted for.
Modern Color Theory starts with the skin itself: how much black, red and yellow it carries.
The Cancellation
Your skin is its own mix of black, red and yellow. Plain black pigment lets the red and yellow show through, and it heals that color. The right corrector cancels them. Where the two meet, they absorb each other to neutral: the shade of a hair follicle.
The science
Skin gets its color from two pigments: eumelanin, the black, and pheomelanin, the red and yellow. The red and yellow are your undertone. The corrector mixed into the ink cancels it.
The ink is 80% black and 20% corrector, and the mix is different for every client.
Together they heal the color of a hair follicle.
Want it in plain words? Read why SMP turns blue and the SMP pigments guide.
The Sculpted Skin Matrix
Your skin is one cell on this map. Left to right is how much black it has. Top to bottom runs from red to yellow. Front to back is saturation. These are the skin types that walk through the door most. The industry still grades skin on the Fitzpatrick scale, one line from light to dark. That whole scale is the thin line running through this map. Drag it. Tap any cell to open its file.
Tap any cell to see its mix
What this means for you: your ink is mixed for your skin before the first impression, so it heals the color of your hair and does not turn blue.
FAQ
SMP turns blue when the pigment is too strong, or placed too deep, for the client’s skin. Light passing through the skin makes it look grey, then blue, as it heals. The pigment itself has not changed color. Modern Color Theory matches the pigment to the skin so this does not happen.
A framework created by Steven “Stevey G” Greitzer. It looks at the three things that decide how SMP heals: the client’s skin (its mix of black, red and yellow, and its saturation), how much the pigment is diluted, and how closely the impressions are placed. Get all three right and it heals the color of a hair follicle. Get them wrong and it turns blue or fades. It is taught to SMP artists worldwide.
Yellow is cancelled by violet, red by green, a mix of yellow and red by violet and green, and cool skin by amber. The corrector is about twenty percent of the ink; the rest is black.
Yes, and it matters most there. Scar tissue takes pigment differently from the rest of the scalp, and women’s density work sits right next to natural hair, so a wrong color shows fastest in both. Both are taught as part of the theory.
Yes. Modern Color Theory is an online course, and Stevey G teaches it in person as one full day of the 3-Day Training Intensive in Miami and New York.
SMP turns blue when the pigment is too strong, or placed too deep, for the client’s skin. Light passing through the skin makes it look grey, then blue, as it heals. The pigment itself has not changed color. Modern Color Theory matches the pigment to the skin so this does not happen.
A framework created by Steven “Stevey G” Greitzer. It looks at the three things that decide how SMP heals: the client’s skin (its mix of black, red and yellow, and its saturation), how much the pigment is diluted, and how closely the impressions are placed. Get all three right and it heals the color of a hair follicle. Get them wrong and it turns blue or fades. It is taught to SMP artists worldwide.
Yellow is cancelled by violet, red by green, a mix of yellow and red by violet and green, and cool skin by amber. The corrector is about twenty percent of the ink; the rest is black.
Yes, and it matters most there. Scar tissue takes pigment differently from the rest of the scalp, and women’s density work sits right next to natural hair, so a wrong color shows fastest in both. Both are taught as part of the theory.
Yes. Modern Color Theory is an online course, and Stevey G teaches it in person as one full day of the 3-Day Training Intensive in Miami and New York.
Modern Color Theory is available as an online course, and it’s taught in person, machine in hand, as a core day of the 3-Day Training Intensive in Miami and New York. Artists graduate with the Advanced Color Theory certification among their three certificates.
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