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Hair Color

Our colorists specialize in creating custom looks tailored to your style and hair goals.

Whether you’re looking for a sun-kissed balayage, vibrant highlights, or gray coverage, our experienced team is here to deliver stunning, personalized results.

Custom Color
Expertise

From balayage to blonde transformations, our team tailors every color service to enhance your natural beauty and style.

Premium
Products

We use top-tier products like Iles Formula and Color Wow to ensure vibrant, long-lasting color and hair health.

Personalized
Consultations

Every appointment starts with a consultation to understand your vision, hair history, and desired results.

Transformational Color Session

5 hours

Our most comprehensive color session, reserved for significant changes that require additional time, planning, and product.

Best for: Major blonde transformations, corrective color, vivid color, all-over lightening, multi-step changes, or extensive color history.

Premier Color Session

4 hours

An extended color session for high-impact results or detailed work throughout the hair.

Best for: Full highlights, full balayage, dimensional transformations, grey blending, major brightness, or detailed blonding.

Signature Color Session

3 hours

A customized color session designed to refresh, brighten, or add dimension to your current look.

Best for: Partial highlights, balayage maintenance, lived-in color, face-framing brightness, dimensional color, or grey blending.

Basic Color Session

2 hours

A focused color appointment for maintaining or refreshing your current look without a major transformation.

Best for: Solid color, root-to-end color, subtle dimensional updates, or simpler maintenance appointments.

Root Color Retouch

1.5 hours

Designed to refresh up to approximately two inches of regrowth while maintaining your existing single-process color.

Best for: Grey coverage, root maintenance, and consistent single-process color.

Creative & Corrective Color

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Explore bold color transformations or corrective services tailored to your hair goals. From vivid fashion colors to complex corrections, we ensure stunning, personalized results.

Ideal for: Multi-Step Transformations, Vivid/Fashion Colors, All-over Bleaching, Color Correction, Unique Color Techniques (e.g. color blocking)

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Our Process

We want you to feel prepared and excited for your first visit!

Here’s what to keep in mind before your hair color service:

Clean, Dry Hair

Come with clean, dry hair.

This allows us to see your natural texture and current color clearly to make the most of your appointment.

Inspiration Photos

Bring inspiration photos.

If you have a particular look in mind, we’d love to see it! Visuals help us understand your style goals.

Appointment Form

We’ll send you our salon policies to review and sign. This will ensure you’re familiar with our guidelines before your appointment & help everything run smoothly when you arrive.

frequently asked

Which color session should I book?

Complete our online booking form and our team will review your hair history, goals, and current needs to recommend the right session, appointment length, and stylist.

In some cases, there may be an additional color allotment fee.

Each stylist’s hourly rate includes a set amount of color product, but if your service requires extra color due to longer hair, thicker density, or a more complex color process, a small fee will be added.

This ensures you’re only charged for what you actually need. Your stylist will let you know if this applies during your consultation, so there are no surprises!

Most color appointments range from 2 to 4 hours, depending on your hair’s length, density, and any previous color treatments. More complex services, like balayage or color correction, may take longer.

Your stylist will provide a more accurate estimate based on your specific needs during the consultation.

Your session includes reserved appointment time and a standard color allotment. The techniques used will be customized to your hair and desired result.

Each color session includes a standard amount of color product. If additional color is needed due to hair length, density, previous color history, technique, or your desired result, an additional color allotment charge will apply.

We weigh color throughout every service so any additional charge reflects the product used specifically for your hair.

Yes. A haircut can be added to a scheduled color service. Pricing varies by stylist tier.

Yes, we do! Color correction is a specialized process that may require multiple sessions to achieve your desired result. It involves safely adjusting or removing unwanted tones, correcting uneven color, or fixing prior at-home color jobs.

A consultation is required to assess your hair and set realistic expectations for the process, timeline, and cost. Our primary focus is maintaining the health of your hair while achieving the best outcome.

Grey blending is a technique that softens the appearance of grey hair, creating a seamless transition between natural and colored hair. It’s a great option for a natural, low-maintenance look.

Full grey coverage, on the other hand, completely conceals grey hair, providing a uniform color with more upkeep. Both techniques offer unique benefits, and your stylist can recommend the best option based on your goals and lifestyle.

Grey blending is our preferred method for helping clients transition from full grey coverage to natural grey hair. We ask for an abundance of patience, both for yourself and your stylist, as growing out full grey coverage takes time and can be a long, imperfect journey.

We understand the emotions and frustrations that can arise during this process, but we aim to set realistic expectations and ensure the health of your hair throughout the transition.

While dramatic transformations from full grey coverage to a bright silver hue are popular online, they often require 10-12 hours or more, involve significant product use, and can be very costly.

Currently, we do not offer extreme silver transformations. However, we specialize in gradual transitions that ease the grow-out process while keeping your hair healthy. This approach may take up to a year, but it’s a safer, more manageable way to achieve a soft and natural result.

Definitely! We offer grey blending, highlights, and lowlights to soften the appearance of grey hair while keeping the maintenance minimal.

These techniques create a natural, seamless look and reduce the frequency of salon visits. Our goal is to help you embrace your natural beauty while keeping things low-maintenance.

The key to a low-maintenance look is staying close to your natural color. We can enhance your hair with subtle highlights, lowlights, or tweaks to your natural tone.

For those seeking lighter shades, we offer techniques that ensure a seamless grow-out, minimizing harsh regrowth lines. This approach gives you a fresh, effortless look with fewer touch-ups.

Low-maintenance color offers several advantages:

  • Fewer salon visits, saving time and money.
  • Softer regrowth, reducing the appearance of harsh lines.
  • Healthier hair, since less frequent processing is needed.
    With low-maintenance color, you’ll enjoy a fresh, natural look without the stress of frequent upkeep.

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