Inside the Colour Club, a new psychedelic rainbow pop-up salon
The Princess Margaret Cancer Foundation is kicking off their colourful new campaign, where visitors dye their hair a bold hue for cancer awareness, with a pop-up beauty parlour at Peter and Richmond streets. The space was designed by artist, HGTV host and coloured-hair enthusiast Tiffany Pratt. It’s a giant rainbow beauty salon filled with various booths (Pratt calls them “colour altars”) and accessories meant to give visitors a dose of colour therapy. Here’s a look inside the space.
The entranceway is filled with kaleidoscopic flower arrangements:
Here’s the rainbow beauty salon. Pratt and her team built the colour booths in 10 days:
Each booth has a vinyl hairstyle pasted onto the mirror so people can test out different looks, and each colour represents a different character. This pink booth is for the girly girl:
The orange booth channels Ziggy Starudst. Everything in each installations is glued to the table, but visitors can try on different styling capes. Here’s Pratt testing out the Ziggy booth:
The green station was inspired by nature and the powder blue by Pratt’s grandmother. “She was a clean freak, so this one is a little more precious and old-timey,” she says:
The red station is vixen-themed:
This waiting room was inspired by drying stations at old-school salons:
Pratt spent two days driving around to pick up chairs and dryers from Kijiji sellers:
She spent another two days cutting, colouring and styling 80 mannequin heads, which were donated to the Colour Club. She also did their makeup:
Pratt sourced some art from photographer Charlotte Forbes, who shot a series on old-school salons in Toronto and Cuba:
The rainbow stairs lead up to an information centre, where people can find out more about the campaign:
Visitors can even test out some temporary spray-on hair dye:
The Colour Room runs from April 17 to 27 at 128 Peter Street. Entrance is by donation and all proceeds support the Princess Margaret Cancer Foundation.
 and accessories meant to give visitors a dose of colour therapy. Here's a look inside the space.
The entranceway is filled with kaleidoscopic flower arrangements:
Here's the rainbow beauty salon. Pratt and her team built the colour booths in 10 days:
Each booth has a vinyl hairstyle pasted onto the mirror so people can test out different looks, and each colour represents a different character. This pink booth is for the girly girl:
The orange booth channels Ziggy Starudst. Everything in each installations is glued to the table, but visitors can try on different styling capes. Here's Pratt testing out the Ziggy booth:
The green station was inspired by nature and the powder blue by Pratt's grandmother. “She was a clean freak, so this one is a little more precious and old-timey,” she says:
The red station is vixen-themed:
This waiting room was inspired by drying stations at old-school salons:
Pratt spent two days driving around to pick up chairs and dryers from Kijiji sellers:
She spent another two days cutting, colouring and styling 80 mannequin heads, which were donated to the Colour Club. She also did their makeup:
Pratt sourced some art from photographer Charlotte Forbes, who shot a series on old-school salons in Toronto and Cuba:
The rainbow stairs lead up to an information centre, where people can find out more about the campaign:
Visitors can even test out some temporary spray-on hair dye:
The Colour Room runs from April 17 to 27 at 128 Peter Street. Entrance is by donation and all proceeds support the Princess Margaret Cancer Foundation.){kind=link}