South Tampa Florida Blondes, Let's Talk Hair Commitment to Your Hair

This weeks blog is to educate our clients on maintenance and maintaining their hair.  Why certain services cost more than others and why knowing your commitment before you get the color is important.

If you can't commit to your hair color of choice we need to as your colorist have a discussion about this, so your color specialist can point you in the right direction!!  In a consultation it is very important to let your stylist know how often you have your hair colored and the topic no one wants to discuss, what is your budget?  Once those two areas have been established your color specialist can create and maintain the color of your dreams.

Platinum Blonde:
One popular service asked for in Salon's is Platinum Blonde. For Platinum Blondes we are the salon, color specialist for South Tampa Blondes.  One key point on going Platinum Blonde is retouch, retouch, retouch. A retouch for a Platinum Blonde is 1 inch of regrowth, yes ladies and gents, 1 inch!!!!   What does this mean for the Beautiful Platinum Blondes, you will need to have a retouch every 4 weeks.

You may ask WHY retouch at 1 inch?  If there is more than 1 inch of regrowth you start the nasty yellow rings that can be the thorn in the side of Color Stylist.  Yellow rings are not the easiest task to blend out which puts you into the UGLY service of a color correction. The reason you move into a color correction service is the the hair does not lift at that point the same.  Each section of the regrowth has to be approached differently. Bottom line if you are going for the Platinum Blonde retouch every 4 weeks or move to a color correction which starts at 100 an hour and will take twice the amount of time in the salon.

Balayage:
A low maintenance girls dream hair color service is a balayage. Although a Balayage, Hair Cut and Glaze may cost you around 250.00 and up, it is less to maintain!!! As a Tampa Colorist I tell all my Balayage clients to redo their balayage ever 8 weeks.  If at 8 weeks your balayage still looks amazing  just a fresh hair shape, treatment and maybe freshen up your money piece, (face framing hair color) every 5 weeks. Also you may just need the balayage brightened up from sun fading since we are in Tampa Bay, swimming or salt water from being at the beach.

Shadow Root, Extension and Hand Painted Ends:
Shadow root, extensions and hand painted ends seems low maintenance there are things to remember in maintaining this style. Glazes (toners) fade, some faster than others depending on the condition of the hair and your activities in life, swimming, working on your tan in the sun or just a day at the beach. Your color specialist will recommend the entire service being redone every 7-8 weeks and recommend redoing your glaze (toner) every 3-4 weeks.

Regular Highlights:
Regular highlights are recommended to be redone every 5-6 weeks. Waiting longer that the recommended time can turn your service into a color correction simply because your color specialist has to make your color even.  This has nothing to do with the skill of the colorist but the Law of COLOR.  So the recommended plan for regular highlights Full Highlight, Partial the Next appointment and then following up with a Full Highlight the next service.

Vivid Colors:
Vivid colors are a HUGE DISCUSSION!!!! We can never promise how long these colors will hold.  Again, this has nothing to do with the skill of the colorist but all about the Law of Color and Condition of hair.  Vivid colors are a high maintenance hair color service.  Your colorist will recommend less shampooing, and refreshing your color every 3-4 weeks. 

We always want our clients happy when they leave the salon but most important is that the client is still happy when they return for their next scheduled service.  So, Let's Talk, Let's Communicate and Build a great relationship.

Stay tuned for our next blow we will be discussing Blonde hair and what products you should be using to have happy, healthy hair!!!!

Have a great November from your Tampa Hair Color Salon, UBU Color Salon,