Services Category: Color

Toner/Glaze/Gloss – ($50+)  Express service, adds 35% improved hair structure—convenient application at shampoo bowl.  Remove unwanted tones, brighten or deepen older highlights, or provide color balancing from roots to ends.  A semi-permanent color is most often used for this service, lasting approximately 4-6 weeks.  Extra color may require an additional charge.

What Is Toning/Color Balancing?

Toning and color balancing is a fast process designed to help remove unwanted tones, brighten highlights, deepen lowlights, or balance your color from the roots of your hair to the tips. You can use it immediately after coloring to help remove brassiness or improve your overall results, or you can use it between colorings to keep your color as vibrant as the day it was done. Toning and color balancing are appropriate for blonde, dark, and even fashion colors.

How it Works

The entire process is relatively quick, often using a semi-permanent hair color that lasts up to six weeks. The solution is applied to dry hair free from styling products and left to process for the required time, which varies from person to person and color to color. Once processed, the toner is rinsed from the hair and can be styled as usual. There are many options from which to choose, and a stylist can help you decide which choice will help you realize the results you want. Some options are designed to help remove brassiness, while others can help darken specific areas of your hair and improve its overall visual texture.

Caring for Hair After Toning or Coloring

Following the toning process, it is vital to use suitable shampoos, conditioners, and styling products to help maintain your color. There are numerous color-safe options, but the best ones are those that are free from sulfates, which can strip the color from your hair. You should also use a heat-safe product whenever you curl or straighten your hair with a flat or curling iron. The extra heat can fade your color more quickly than usual. To maintain your color once applied, you should have the toning or color done every four to six weeks.

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Discover the art of Balayage at Salon Invi, Andover, MA’s premier destination for bespoke hair coloring treatments. Our expert stylists are passionate about bringing your hair to life with the vibrant, natural-looking highlights that Balayage is renowned for. This free-hand painting technique allows for a more natural, sun-kissed radiance that looks like you’ve spent a summer by the beach rather than hours in a salon chair.

What is Balayage?

Balayage, a French word meaning ‘to sweep’ or ‘to paint,’ is a coloring technique designed to create very natural-looking highlights that grow out without developing a noticeable and obvious root. This method offers a beautiful, seamless blend of color, adding depth, dimension, and movement to your hair. Unlike traditional foiling methods, Balayage allows for a more personalized, artistic approach, giving your hair a unique, bespoke finish.

Why Choose Salon Invi for Balayage?

At Salon Invi, we believe in the power of personalized beauty. Our highly skilled stylists are trained in the latest Balayage techniques to ensure each client receives a custom-tailored look that complements their style and facial features. Here’s why Salon Invi stands out:

• Expert Stylists: Our team of colorists are artists at heart, each with a deep understanding of color theory and the skill to execute flawless Balayage.
• Personalized Approach: We consider your hair type, color history, and lifestyle to create the perfect Balayage look that is uniquely yours.
• Luxury Experience: Enjoy our salon’s luxurious, inviting atmosphere while we transform your hair into a masterpiece of color.
• Quality Products: We use only the highest quality, hair-friendly coloring products to ensure your hair remains healthy and vibrant.

Our Balayage Process

1. Consultation: Every Balayage journey at Salon Invi begins with a thorough consultation to discuss your vision, assess your hair’s condition, and plan your personalized color transformation.
2. Customized Coloring: Our stylists expertly apply the Balayage technique, painting your hair with precision and care to create the desired effect, from soft, subtle highlights to bold, dramatic shifts in color.
3. Finishing Touches: After achieving the perfect shade, your hair is treated with a gloss or toner to enhance the shine and depth of your new color. A bespoke cut and style finish the transformation, ensuring you leave the salon with a stunning, photo-ready look.

Caring for Your Balayage

We recommend using salon-quality, color-safe hair care products to keep your Balayage looking its best. Our stylists will provide personalized advice on maintaining your color at home, including how often to return for touch-ups to keep your Balayage fresh and vibrant.

Book Your Balayage Appointment Today

Ready to illuminate your hair with the natural, dimensional beauty of Balayage? Visit Salon Invi in Andover, MA, and let us create a customized color that shines as brightly as you do. Book your appointment today and experience the transformation.

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Full Head- ($130+)  Custom color placement throughout the entire head, allowing for a full range of creativity.  A full foil service involves placing 45-100 foils around the entire head, depending on the guest’s hair and color goal.  A full foil includes foiling underneath your hair.  Pulling your hair up in a ponytail or similar fashion will require a full foil.

What Are Highlights?

Highlights are a hair coloring method which adds dimensional color to pieces of your hair instead of coloring your entire head. A similar coloring option is lowlights, and the two forms are often confused, though they offer very different results.

The highlighting process is accomplished using hair color or bleach, depending on the guest’s ideal final result. These pieces can range from thin and subtle to thick and bold, including everything between. Modern fashion trends lean towards favoring thinner highlights, but thick or chunky coloring always has a place in the beauty world.

Highlights Vs. Lowlights

Highlights allow a daring, vibrant contrast to your natural hair color by lightening pieces of your hair at least two shades lighter than the rest of your mane. The lighter the highlights are in comparison to the rest of your hair, the more drastic the contrast. People often choose highlights in the summer, as it adds a bright, sunny feel to an individual’s overall look.

Lowlights, on the other hand, offer the exact opposite effect. These are pieces of color which are at least two shades darker than the rest of your hair, and are often chosen during the winter months when fashion tends towards darker coloring.

Full Foil Highlighting

With full foil highlighting, color placement is done throughout your entire head, which allows for a wide range of creativity, and a multi-faceted end result that is without compare. It is recommended by professionals that individuals who typically wear their hair up – such as in a ponytail, bun, or similar fashion – use full foil highlights versus partial highlights. Partial highlights, another foiling option, only cover a portion of your head. Typically, this is applied only at the top of your head, from ear to ear, and from fringe to crown.

What To Expect

When choosing full foil highlights to create your new look, you should expect for between 45 and 100 foils to be used, which includes foiling done underneath your hair as well as on top. The exact number will depend on a variety of facts. A few of these factors include:

• The desired size of highlights. Individuals wishing for thinner pieces will receive more individual foils than those desiring thick or chunky ones.
• The exact style you are aiming for. Some guests simply prefer a look featuring less highlights than others.
• How thick your hair is. Thicker hair may require the placement of more foils than thin hair.

Full foil highlighting starts at $105. The price may be increased based on how many foils are needed. You should arrive at the salon with plenty of time to complete this process. Perfection cannot be rushed, and full foil highlighting can be a time consuming process.

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Partial Head Hair Highlights & Color – ($110+) a partial head is a great choice for a natural sun-kissed look.  Sectioned foil packets can be artfully placed to lighten hair as if the sun lightened it naturally.  This is also a great way to look multidimensional.  Color can trick the eye into thinking there is more volume.  This is just the top and sides of the head.

What Are Hair Highlights?

Highlights are a hair coloring technique that adds dimensional color to portions of your hair versus your entire head. They are often confused with a similar coloring method called lowlights, although the results of each differ significantly.

Highlights are accomplished using either hair color or bleach, depending on the shade the guest desires. Hair color is used for lighter browns and reds, while bleach typically creates a very light blonde. These pieces of color can range from thin to chunky, encompassing everything. Modern fashion trends favor thinner highlights, but thick or chunky highlights never go out of style.

Highlights Vs. Lowlights

Highlighting creates a multi-faceted appearance of depth and dimension in your hair by lightening areas at least two shades lighter than the rest of your locks. The more drastic a contrast desired, the lighter the pieces should be. Highlights can naturally make your hair appear fuller and thicker, as the contrast in coloring tricks the eye into believing there is more volume than there is. This makes highlights the perfect option for individuals with thin or fine hair.

While the technique used in lowlights is the same as highlights, the difference is that lowlights are pieces of color that are two shades darker than the rest of your hair. People often choose lowlights in the winter when fashion trends lean towards darker coloring. On the other hand, highlights are often selected in the summer to create a sunny, beach-ready look.  Sometimes, highlights and lowlights are used simultaneously to create a stunning multidimensional look appropriate for all seasons.

Partial Foil Highlighting

Partial foil highlighting creates a natural, sun-lightened appearance that varies based on a guest’s preference. Unlike full foil highlighting, which applies pieces of color to your entire head (including underneath), partial foil highlighting focuses on the top and sides of your head. This area would usually be affected by the sun’s natural hair-lightening effects, allowing results to appear very natural. Typically, foiling will be done from ear to ear and fringe to crown. The process is customizable, so speak with your stylist about your desired final look.

What To Expect

When getting partial foil highlighting, you can expect over fifteen foils to be used. Before beginning, your stylist will discuss with you the look you’re trying to achieve, and the two of you will devise a plan to accomplish this. The amount of foils may increase or decrease based on numerous factors, including the thickness of your hair, desired style, and size of highlights.

Always leave an appropriate amount of time in your schedule to complete your partial foil highlights. Hair styling is an art and cannot be rushed if you wish to achieve the perfect look. The final cost will depend on the number of foils used and the times required to achieve the desired style and can be discussed with your stylist before beginning.

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Accent Pieces – ($50+) Custom color formulations designed to produce pieces of color variation.  Whether you want to go a bit lighter, or add depth to your allover hair color.  Try just adding a few.  Approx. 5 pieces or fewer.

What Are Highlights?

Highlights are pieces of hair colored at least two shades lighter than the rest of your head, used to create dimensional color schemes. They are often confused with a similar process called lowlights, although the placement of dimensional pieces make the two very different.

The highlighting process is accomplished by using either hair color or bleach. The pieces can range in size from thin to very thick, or fall anywhere on the spectrum between. Modernly, most people lean towards thinner, more natural highlights. Thick, bold highlights, however, never go out of style, and are always a great fashion choice.

Highlights Vs. Lowlights

Highlighting is a way to add depth and dimension to your hair by tricking the eye into believing hair is more voluminous than it really is. A more drastic contrast can be created by lightening the hair three or more shades lighter than the rest of your locks, while a more natural look can be achieved with a more similar coloring.

Many people confuse highlighting and lowlighting because the process is the same, involving coloring placed via foils around the head. The difference is that while highlights are two shades lighter than the rest of your hair, lowlights are two shades darker. Some people use highlights and lowlights together to create even more volume or originality to their style.

Few Foil Highlighting

Few foil highlighting is a fantastic way to add a bit of contrast and dimension to your already gorgeous hair. It’s a wonderful option for someone who has never had highlights before, and would like to take multi-dimensional coloring for a test drive before getting a more extensive process done – like partial or full foil highlighting. The final product offers a very natural, sun-kissed appearance which can be added to later should you wish.

What To Expect

When getting few foil highlighting you can expect for approximately seven foils or less to be used. Speak with your stylist about what look you’re trying to achieve so they can work with you to create perfection. The final cost will vary slightly based on exactly how many foils are used, as well as how thick the highlights are.

Although few foil highlighting does not encompass as much time as partial or full foil highlighting, you should still be sure to leave enough room in your schedule for your stylist to work their magic.

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Single Color Root Touch Up – ($60+)  Single process generally refers to coloring your hair one color.  Provides 100% gray coverage for all hair types.  Colors can be kept natural or more trendy.  Color can be applied with permanent formulations. Single Process Color includes up to 1″ from the roots. Extra color may require an additional charge.

What Is Single Process Root Touch Up Coloring?

The single process typically refers to coloring your whole head with one single color. This includes more natural colors, such as shades of brown, red, black, or blonde. It also includes trendy or wild colors, such as wine, burgundy, or even pink, green, blue, and purple. The options are virtually limitless. Sometimes, single-process coloring is done before dimensional pieces are added or done as part of a brand-new haircut.

Color can be applied with permanent or semi-permanent formulas. Permanent formulas will grow out over time and don’t tend to change as quickly as semi-permanent formulas. These formulas are most often seen with natural hair colorings. Semi-permanent formulas, often used with wilder coloring, tend to fade out after numerous washes. It is important to know that the way coloring fades and the amount of time it takes to do so depends on many factors. A few of these include:

• Thickness and health of hair
• How your hair takes to the coloring
• How often do you wash your hair
• Heat sources applied to your hair

Benefits of Single Process Color

There are many benefits to having your hair professionally done with a single process color. The main advantage is that it offers 100% gray coverage for all hair types. Shine and conditioning agents are also added to your hair during the coloring process. This means you will leave the salon with shinier, healthier hair than you came in with.

Sometimes, altering your appearance can make you feel like a hundred bucks. This, too, can be a benefit of single-process coloring. You will feel good and love how your new color looks, which can help boost your confidence and self-esteem.

What To Expect

Hair color will be applied to your entire head, and you will need to sit appropriately to process correctly. Depending on whether you are going lighter or darker, your hair may need to be lightened before applying the color. Your stylist will explain what they will be doing ahead of time so that you can be prepared.

The exact cost of single-process coloring will depend on a few varied factors, specifically in regard to how much color is needed – as well as whether or not a lightener will be applied first. Hair that is especially long or thick may need more color than the average person to cover the entire head.

Remember that creating the perfect look takes time, so please leave enough room in your schedule for your stylist to work their magic.

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