Blonding Services
Foils
Foils are a classic highlight technique that involves picking up thin slices of hair all over the head, and weaving out individual highlights from each slice, then placing the highlights in foils with lightener.
This technique:
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allow for maximum brightness as the foils help the pieces get lighter. This technique is the best choice for someone who wants a full head of blonde that goes all the way to the root, as blonde as possible.
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can be close together or far apart as needed for the look desired by the guest. The separation by the foils also allows multiple colors to be used, such as highlights and lowlights - light and dark pieces mixed throughout the head. Or multiple shades of blonde, or red, etc.
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the highlights don't have to be blonde!! Highlights just mean lighter pieces than the rest of the hair. On a brunette, medium brown, light brown, or caramel highlights are a beautiful way to change up your look. Or golden, copper or lighter red highlights on a redhead.
Balayage
Balayage is a highlight technique that is done free-hand, with strokes of lightener painted directly onto the hair, no foils or weaving involved. The result is seamless, with no starting point for the highlights (meaning no root line).
This technique:
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leaves more hair untouched than foil highlights, so there is more dimension to the color - more light AND dark visible, as opposed to almost all the hair being lightened, as with foils.
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gives a seamless, blended appearance to the highlights
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tends to look more natural and "sun-kissed". Similar to when a child gets natural highlights from the sun.
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is by far the lowest-maintenance form of blonding. It grows out so well it requires little, if any upkeep.
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can be touched up in 8 weeks to keep the blonde as bright as possible, or allowed to grow out for months, resulting in a rooty or ombre look, or anything in between. This is called Lived-In color.
One drawback to this method is that because of the type of lightener used, and without foils to incubate the highlights to maximum brightness, balayage can only lift the hair about 3-4 shades lighter. Again, resulting in a more natural look.
Platinum Card
Also known as "Global Blonding", this method is for guests who want to be completely bleached blonde from the scalp, no natural hair visible at all. This method must be done with utmost care and precision to prevent damage to the hair.
This service:
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includes a mandatory K18 treatment to be done along with the service, to prevent and repair any damage incurred from the intense lightening.
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includes a toner because the bleached hair needs to be toned to the guest's desired shade - whether that be icy platinum, or silvery ash blonde, creamy vanilla, etc.
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are a high-maintenance blonding method. Because every strand is bleached, a stark root line is visible when it grows out. Once there is 1.5 inches or less* of regrowth, a touch up is needed.
The Touch Up appointment involves painting lightener all over the scalp on the root area, then a toner to match it to the rest of the hair once it's washed out.
* Please Note: If the regrowth area grows out longer than 1.5 inches, another Platinum Card service will need to be done to insure even lightening roots to ends. So make sure to schedule your Touch Up appointments!
Corrective Color
Corrective Color is a broad term to cover a lot of situations where a guest's color needs to be fixed and requires multiple steps and color expertise. Because of this, hourly pricing is implemented to make sure every step and precaution needed can be taken to achieve the desired result.
Some examples of a color correction:
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a guest is unhappy with their color, whether it was done by themselves, a friend, or another salon/stylist and needs to be fixed
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a guest wants a huge change to their color. Taking hair that has been colored dark brown, black or red and lightening to blonde, for example
Hourly pricing insures that I can take any and all steps to get the best result, with the health of the hair being most important. With these services things happen that can't always be predicted, like needing to reapply lightener or apply multiple toners. By charging hourly I can adjust the plan as needed, without changing the price of the service.
Note: Some complicated corrections can require multiple corrective color sessions.
