Our Story

Italian Luxury.
Elevated by Science.

Giacomo Forbes
Giacomo Forbes Creator · Celebrity stylist · Educator
How it began

Thousands of styles later... from the stylist who has fixed everything else.

Nera³ products were designed by two friends. One formulates. The other is Giacomo Forbes - thirty-five years behind the chair, much of it with celebrities and their ever-demanding hair - working in color, chemical services, and extensions from the earliest days of the craft through everything it has become.

This is how the formulations were proven. A stylist who has spent that long repairing what other products have damaged knows exactly where a formula fails: in treatment, grips in patches, weighs down hair, and wastes ingredients down the drain. He had already spent decades formulating privately, in small batches, for the clients in his own chair.

Every version was tested against that standard before it was tested against anything else. The result is not a molecule with a routine arranged around it. It is a sequence, built in the order hair can actually use.

Behind the chair Thirty-five years · balayage, custom color, and premium extensions · ammonia-free systems
Worked from Rome · Paris · New York · Los Angeles · Miami · Austin
In the chair Sandra Bullock · Sarah Jessica Parker · Emma Thompson · Kate Moss • and more
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How we work

Made in small batches.

Produced in Austin, Texas, in small batches - the scale at which a formulator can still stand over the work, and the reason a stylist's objection can still change a formula.

One job per bottle

Nothing in the line tries to be a whole routine. Each formula is written for a single act - cleanse, hydrate, strengthen, protect - and judged only on how well it does that one thing.

Ingredients where they stay

Rich ingredients go into the steps that remain in the hair, not the ones that rinse away in seconds. It is why the shampoos read as short formulas and the treatment does not.

Claims we can point at

Performance figures describe what an ingredient is documented to contribute. We say what is in the product rather than what it will do to you, because those are different statements.

Thirty-five years of it,
in one ritual.

Built for color-treated, chemically processed and extension-worn hair - by the people who spent their careers repairing it.