Color analysis and hair color, finally speaking the same language.
A one-day, in-person course for color consultants and for hairstylists who know color technique and want to connect it to the client's skin, eyes and natural coloring. Professional color vocabulary, individual analysis and guided practice. Prerequisite: Drops de Cor Level 1.
✦$1,599, Hair Match Set included.
✦Every participant receives their own color analysis and hair color direction.
Enrollment opens December 2026. Joining the list does not reserve a seat.
“Can I go lighter?”
“How do I bring light to my face?”
“What should I do about my grays?”
Whether she is in a consultation or in a salon chair, the client wants to know what will look good on her. The right answer depends on her, not only on her season.
Hair Match gives you a method to answer these questions for the person in front of you, and the words to explain the answer.
Three skills, built in one day, in the same order a good consultation follows.
Look at hair the way a colorist does, and notice what it is doing to the face.
Read the individual client with the 21 Hair Match swatches, in the method's own sequence.
Turn the result into a clear hair direction the client and the hairstylist can both follow.
The season is a reference. The individual analysis guides the decision.
Two clients, two versions each. Every pair hides a single decision that changes how the hair reads on the face.
The shade and the technique are identical. One thing moved.
It isn't always the one with more contrast in the hair.
The answers, and why they matter for each client, are the first hour of the course.
A class of no more than 10 students. A full demonstration, then practice in small groups where everyone analyzes, is analyzed and observes. The day ends with an individual practical assessment.
✦You leave with your own color analysis and hair color direction.
Every student receives their own Hair Match Set, shipped when you enroll, with free shipping within the U.S. It is the toolkit the method is taught with, and yours to keep working with.
The tools don't certify on their own. The in-person practice is where you learn to use them.
Founder of Drops de Cor. Sissa rebuilt the 12-season method: she made it multicultural, so it reads every skin tone honestly, gave it a fashion designer's eye, and carried it past clothing into hair, makeup and mood.
Hair Match is that work applied to hair. Sissa teaches it in person, the same way she teaches every Drops de Cor certification.
Co-author of Dress for Success.
After the course you deliver a validation project. Once it is approved, you receive your badge. The badge depends on what you completed before Hair Match.
A badge is never awarded for attendance alone.
The exact date and venue will be published when enrollment opens.
Two groups learn side by side.
Both need to have completed the Drops de Cor Professional Color Analysis Training, 12-Season Method, Level 1.
Not the technique: you have that. You learn to read the client first and decide the direction in harmony with her face, before choosing how to get there.
Hairstylists take the Drops de Cor Professional Color Analysis Training, 12-Season Method, Level 1 first. Hair Match builds on it.
No. You won't be asked to color hair. You learn to analyze and describe the direction, and to talk it through with a hairstylist.
No. The course is about the visual direction. The formula, the products and the application belong to the hairstylist's own training.
Yes.
Yes, most of the day, in small groups, ending with an individual practical assessment.
Yes. Every participant receives their own color analysis and hair color direction during the course.
$1,599, and that includes your Hair Match Set. Classes are capped at 10 students.
Yes. Every student receives their own Hair Match Set, included in the $1,599 price and shipped when you enroll. Shipping within the U.S. is free. It contains 21 human hair swatches (14 inches), the manual, 12 Seasonal Hair Direction Cards, the Pro Hair Color Guide™ in digital edition and the Hair Match Assessment Sheet.
No. The course includes the Hair Match Set only. Color analysis drapes are not included.
If you need them, the full color analysis sets and the drapes are sold separately in our shop.
In New York, from January 2027. The class runs from 10am to 5pm, with a one-hour lunch break. Lunch is not included. Enrollment opens in December 2026, and the exact date and venue will be published then.
It depends on what you have completed before this course:
Everyone completes an individual practical assessment on the day. The badge is issued when your validation project is approved, not for attendance alone.
Hair Match builds on what you learn in Level 1: reading a client's depth, temperature, intensity and contrast, and knowing the 12 seasons. That is the foundation this course needs.
Level 2, the Advanced Practice Workshop or the Developing Your Eye mentorship, deepens your draping practice with real clients. It makes you a stronger analyst, but it isn't what Hair Match is built on. Hair Match has its own hands-on practice, its own tools and its own validation project.
That is why the badge reflects your path: with Level 1 you earn Bronze, and if you have also completed Level 2 you earn Silver.
No. It's a list for news about the launch and enrollment. It isn't a registration, a reservation or a special offer.
Learn to read a client's hair direction and turn it into guidance she can take to the salon.