The six-week problem
A color service is measured two ways. What it looks like on Friday night, and what it looks like the following Wednesday six weeks later. Most salons only optimize for Friday.
The work we do here is built to age well. Not flat, not dull, but softer. A balayage placed with the light in mind grows out the way a suntan does, which is to say, it fades into you. You don't see a line.
What lived-in actually means
The phrase gets used loosely. Here's what we mean by it. Your roots should never be the enemy. The difference between new growth and color should be a suggestion, not a stripe. The shade at your ends should be two full tones warmer than the middle, because that's how sunlight actually reads.
Which is also why we dry-cut before we color. If we don't know how the shape moves, we can't know where to place light. Color follows shape. Not the other way around.
Color that doesn't announce itself. The difference between a great colorist and a good one is restraint.
How we book it
Balayage is a two-and-a-half-hour service and we never book it back-to-back. If you need color correction, that's a separate consultation, it always is.