All-over colour, regrowth and colour correction in Silverdale

All-over colour and regrowth retouches

All-over colour gives brunettes, coppers and reds the depth and shine that a single flat shade never quite manages, because the formula is mixed for your base, your history and the light you'll be seen in. Short hair is from $235 (from $265 with a cut) and long hair is from $280 (from $325 with a cut).

Once the colour is in, a regrowth retouch keeps it seamless: from $190 with a blow-dry or from $235 with a cut, every 4 to 6 weeks. The ends are refreshed with a gloss at the same visit when they need it, so the whole head reads as 1 colour rather than a fresh top and a faded length.

Colour correction, planned at a consultation

A correction is any colour job that starts from somewhere complicated: a box dye that went darker than the packet, a home bleach with bands, a blonde that's drifted warm, or a colour from another salon that missed the brief. Every one is assessed in the chair, because what's already on the hair decides what's possible in 1 visit.

At the free consultation your stylist looks at what's on the hair section by section, checks its strength and porosity, runs a strand test where the plan involves lightening, and then gives you the route: how many visits, what happens at each, and the price. Corrections commonly run 3 to 6 hours in the chair, and you get the number before the appointment, never after.

Dark to blonde

Dark hair lifts through red, orange and yellow before it reaches blonde. Caramel and honey tones are a 1-visit job. A bright or cool blonde from dark brown or black is a 2 to 3 visit plan, spaced 4 to 8 weeks apart, with a bond-building treatment at each stage and a toner that keeps the in-between stages wearable.

Previously box-dyed hair is the slower path, because artificial dark pigment lifts unevenly and needs a colour remover or a gentler lift first. That's exactly what the strand test tells us at the consultation.

Blonde back to brunette

Going darker properly means filling first. Lightened hair has lost its underlying warmth, so a brunette shade applied straight onto blonde turns flat or muddy within a fortnight. We put the warmth back with a filler, then apply the target shade over it, so the brunette holds for its full 4 to 6 weeks and fades evenly.

Grey coverage and grey blending

For full coverage, an all-over colour with a retouch every 4 to 6 weeks keeps every grey covered and the tone consistent. For a softer approach, grey blending uses foils and a lived-in placement so the greys become part of a dimensional blonde or bronde, and the regrowth is gentle enough to stretch to 8 or 10 weeks. Both are planned at the consultation around how much grey you have and how often you'd like to be in the salon.