Hair Color

Highlights vs Lowlights

Whether you're wearing hair extensions or enhancing your natural hair, strategically placed highlights and lowlights can add beautiful dimension, brightness, and depth. We use a variety of techniques—including traditional foils and custom placement—to seamlessly blend color throughout your hair and extensions for a natural, multi-tonal finish.

Full highlights are ideal for those who wear their hair up or want brightness throughout, while partial or accent foils can create softness and light around the face. Highlights are typically a few shades lighter than your base color, perfect for adding interest to brunettes or brightening up blondes. Lowlights, a few shades deeper than your base, are a great way to add contrast, depth, or even soften overly light hair.

Our color services are designed to complement our extension clients. If you're looking to refresh or transform your color in harmony with your extensions, we’d love to help.

Teasylights -A Bright, Blended Look for Extensions

Teasylights are perfect for creating a bold, lived-in blonde look—especially when you're blending extensions. This technique uses a combination of teasing and foils to mimic balayage while delivering a brighter result. It’s ideal if you love the dimension of balayage but want the lift that only foils can provide. If you’re wearing hair extensions or planning to add them, teasylights are a great way to create seamless, radiant color from root to tip.

Babylights - Soft Dimension for Natural-Looking Blondes

Babylights are ultra-fine highlights that mimic the natural, multi-tonal hair color seen in children’s hair. This delicate technique is especially flattering on fine hair or when blending hair extensions for a subtle, natural finish. If you're looking to enhance your blonde gradually or maintain low-maintenance color with a soft grow-out, babylights are an elegant choice—particularly for our extensions clients who want dimension without harsh contrast.

Money Piece Foils - Face-Framing Brightness, Perfect Between Appointments

The “money piece” is all about framing your face with high-impact brightness—perfect for keeping your color looking fresh in between full highlight or extension appointments. For our blonde clients, this targeted touch-up is a smart way to maintain brightness without a full session. Many of our extensions clients love pairing this with a toner to refresh their color and prolong the life of their blonde in between major services.

Warm Blonde Hair– Rich, Golden Dimension That Pairs Beautifully with Extensions

Warm blonde tones—like Honey Blonde, Sun-Kissed Blonde, and California Blonde—are having a major moment. Achieving this look often involves full-head foiling and careful root blending, especially when paired with hair extensions. These golden hues work beautifully for clients transitioning from brunette or anyone wanting a soft, sunlit effect that complements their extensions.

Cool Blonde Hair – Platinum Perfection with Tonal Balance

Cool blondes like Icy Blonde, Ash Blonde, or Platinum deliver a crisp, clean finish without any warmth. For our extensions clients, maintaining that cool tone requires the right toning techniques and home care. A toner applied in-salon plus a purple shampoo routine at home can keep your blonde looking fresh and brass-free between visits.

Neutral Blondes -Balanced, Soft, and Seamless

Neutral blonde tones combine the best of both warm and cool worlds. Shades like Butter Blonde, Wheat Blonde, or Beige Blonde are timeless and flattering, especially when color-matching to extensions. This is an ideal option for clients who want a lived-in, versatile blonde that feels natural and blends beautifully with added hair.

Custom Blonde, Designed for You

Every head of hair is different—especially when working with extensions. Whether you prefer warm or cool tones, soft highlights or high-impact brightness, our approach is always tailored to you. We specialize in color that complements your skin tone, your features, and your lifestyle… and looks just as flawless in your extensions as it does in your natural hair.

Single Process Color - One Hair Color All Over

Single process can mean a few things. A single process hair color service is one that can be processed in one step. A single development time with a single shampoo.  An example of a single process color is all over color...one shade applied all over, covering the entire head. There are three levels of single process color: semi-permanent, demi-permanent, and permanent, each vary in strength and in how long they last. This process changes the color of your entire head of hair, giving you a new, one-dimensional tone.

Gloss with Color Treatment

A gloss service is a single process color but you get a two in one benefit. Using a demi-permanent color, color is applied all over the head with added shine and softness. So if you come in for a haircut in between your big color services, consider adding a gloss service to give your color a refresh. A demi-permanent gloss service is also a nice option for those who like frequent color changes. If you go red during the winter and plan on lightening up in the spring, a demi-permanent color is easier for us to lift off later.

Gloss Treatment, Shine Treatment

All of the shine, none of the color, but it's worth mentioning here. A gloss treatment is one of the unsung heroes at the shampoo bowl. If you're not due for color, we don't have to mix in any pigment to give you that divine shine.

Double Process Color - 2 Step Hair Color

By contrast, a double process hair color service requires multiple steps. It's almost like getting two different services in one visit. The first step is applied, processed, and rinsed before the next process can begin.

Examples of a double process hair color:

• All over color + foil highlights.  This service updates your overall base color before highlights are added.
• Root melt. After a highlight service, a single process color is applied just at the roots to blend in the highlights.
• Bleach + Tone.  This service lightens your entire head first, then a toner is applied to neutralize any harsh or brassy tones.
• Vivid Color. Typically, before a vivid hair color can be applied, the entire head must be lightened in order to create a light canvas and maximize color fidelity and intensity. Then pigment, or multiple pigments, is applied to create the desired look.

Grey Hair Coverage

Covering resistant grey hairs is a job best left to a skilled hair colorist. They can quickly get rid of unwanted white or grey hair with the correct formulation and a precision application. Your hair stylist can assess how your color varies around your head and make adjustments. This will assure there is no overlapping of color – often the result of using box hair dye - only beautiful healthy, shiny looking hair!

Transitional Grey Hair

The opposite of grey hair coverage here! Transitional Grey Hair, or graceful grey,  is all about letting your grey hair grow in - without the awkward grow in phase. We'll analyze your grey roots to match your color and your natural salt and pepper pattern. Then leaving your roots alone, we'll color the rest of your hair. A transitional grey hair service can create a subtle low-maintenance look or it can take you straight to a dimensional silver! This is typically a multi-step service involving multiple methods to recreate the look of natural grey hair.

Root Touch Up - Cover New Growth

To avoid a color difference between your roots and the rest of your hair, it is important that you book a root touch up appointment at regular intervals. A root touch up service is designed to cover new growth and grey hair with single color applied to the roots.

Root Melt Hair Color

There are few names for this look.  A rooted look, shadow root, root pull, or root smudge. As the name implies, it's all about the roots. This look is not the same as a root touch up. In fact, a root melt emphasizes the roots. After getting blonde highlights, some clients like to have a blended effect at the top of the head. They don't like the ribbon effect that foil highlights can reveal on some hair. A root melt service involves a demi or semi permanent hair color applied at the roots and pulled down a few inches. The rooted look gives you a lived-in hair color.

Vivid Hair Color

It's a new age in hair color. Wearing bright, funky hair color isn't so shocking anymore. From rainbow hair to subtle rose gold tones, there's no one way to play your fantasy hair color. Whether you're ready to dive into mermaid hair or experiment with softer shades of violet, pink or green hair color, we'll help you express your personal style!

We use high quality professional hair pigments which can be intermixed to create a completely unique look for you. They also fade true to tone over time, which means they'll wash out without losing the shade values.  Your ocean blue won't turn into mint green!

We can do it, whether you want a a single vivid color or a rainbow of color. Mermaid hair, unicorn hair, Rihanna red, violet hair, purple hair, green hair, blue hair, granny grey hair, silver hair, metallic hair.

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