Coloring and colour correction
Root touch-ups, full colour, highlights and rescuing colours gone wrong — every colouring service with us starts with a look at your natural hair and a conversation about your goal.
Color Consultation
Skin tone first, then the color pot
A color never looks the same in the pot as it does on a person: we match skin tone, eye color and the existing color in the lengths before we mix anything.
It all starts with your existing hair. Two-year-old color remnants in the lengths, faded highlights or naturally red-tinted hair each react differently to the same mixture. That's why we examine your hair in its dry, unwashed state — that's where its true structure shows most honestly.
After that, we talk about your everyday routine: how often you wash your hair, how much time you have for care, and when your next appointment might fit in. From these answers, we determine whether a root touch-up, a toning treatment or a soft color gradient is the gentler choice.
Our Color Services
Four Paths to a New Color
Whether only the roots are touched up or the entire length gets a new tone determines the duration, effort and price — here are the four services side by side.
Process
How Your Color Appointment Unfolds
From color diagnosis to the final blow-dry, we allow between 60 and 150 minutes depending on scope. These are the five steps you'll go through with us.
Color diagnosis at the daylight window
We determine your starting point: natural tone, proportion of gray hair, remnants of old color in the lengths and the hair's condition. At the untreated roots we identify the base level, and in the lengths we see how much pigment is already present. Both factors determine whether your desired tone can be achieved in one appointment or needs to be built up over two sessions.
We determine your starting point: natural tone, proportion of gray hair, remnants of old color in the lengths and the hair's condition. At the untreated roots we identify the base level, and in the lengths we see how much pigment is already present. Both factors determine whether your desired tone can be achieved in one appointment or needs to be built up over two sessions.
Using the color chart, we hold possible tones up to your face and compare them with your skin undertone and eye color. For major changes — such as going from dark brown to ash blonde — we do a test strand beforehand on a hidden section. This way you see the real result before your entire head is colored.
The color is freshly mixed for you, with the appropriate developer strength: lower percentages for tone-on-tone, higher ones for lightening. It's applied in narrow, sectioned partings, starting with the roots and then the lengths. For gray coverage, we start where the gray proportion is highest, usually at the temples and part line.
Depending on the product, the color processes for 20 to 45 minutes. In between, we check the tone's development on a strand and rinse out as soon as it's right — not by the clock. This is followed by an acidic aftertreatment that closes the cuticle layer and makes the color longer-lasting.
After rinsing, we trim the ends on request and blow-dry into the finished style. Finally, we discuss which shampoo supports the tone, when the next root touch-up is due and whether an intermediate treatment makes sense. We note the recommended follow-up appointment directly on your card.
Prices
Prices and What Influences Them
The price of a coloring service depends on hair length, hair thickness and the amount of color that needs to be mixed. The figures below are starting guide prices; we'll give you the binding amount after the color diagnosis, before we begin.
Coloring — Guide Prices
Farbe
- Root touch-up
Recoloring the regrown centimeters at the roots, including washing and blow-drying.
approx. 75 minutes
- Coloring roots and lengths
Roots plus full-length coloring, when the overall tone needs refreshing.
approx. 105 minutes
- Tone-on-tone gloss color
Without lightening, it lays a veil of color over the hair and adds shine. Gradually washes out over time.
approx. 60 minutes
Farbwechsel
- Color correction after consultation
For color remnants, root banding or a significant shift in color depth. We determine scope and price together in a preliminary consultation.
Appointment length varies
Zusatz
- Women's haircut with color
Cut in the same appointment, right after the color is rinsed out.
- Treatment
Restorative treatment following the coloring, for stressed or frequently colored hair.
What You Can Prepare
Let's Talk About Your Project
Briefly describe what you have in mind – Salon Scherenwerk will get back to you with an assessment.