Words from the studio

Glossary

The terms you will hear in the studio and read in the guides, explained in plain words.

Attachment: The point where an extension is attached to your own hair. As the hair grows, the attachment moves away from the root.
Guide: Hair extensions

Balayage: A lightening technique in which the lightener is painted on freehand, in brush strokes. It gives a soft blend from a darker root to lighter ends and grows out less noticeably than classic highlights.
Guide: Blonde and lightening
Blow-dry: Drying the hair with a dryer and a brush into the shape you want: straight, with volume, or in waves.
Guide: Cut and styling

Colour correction: Putting right a colour that is unwanted or uneven, for example after colouring at home. It often takes several steps, and sometimes several visits.
Guide: Colour
Consultation: The conversation before a service: what you want, what your hair is like now and what is realistic for it. For lightening and extensions it is the first step.
Guide: Hair extensions

Depth (level): How light or dark a colour is, regardless of its shade. Two browns can sit at the same depth while one is warm and the other cool.
Guide: Colour

Extensions: Additional hair attached alongside your own for length, volume or both.
Guide: Hair extensions

Foils: The sheets that strands are wrapped in during lightening. They keep the lightened hair apart from the rest and hold in warmth.
Guide: Blonde and lightening

Gloss: A gentle colour that does not lighten but refreshes the tone and adds shine. It fades gradually, without a hard regrowth line.
Guide: Colour

Head spa: A scalp-care treatment given lying down, on a bed with a wash basin. The studio has such a station; ask about the treatment when you call.
Henna: A plant-based dye. It stays in the hair for a long time and behaves differently from salon colour, so it is important to mention it before lightening.
Guide: Blonde and lightening
Highlights: Fine strands of hair are lightened separately, usually in foils, from root to end. They give evenly lighter hair.
Guide: Blonde and lightening
Home colour: Shop-bought colour applied at home. Its pigment builds up on the lengths and is harder to remove, so say so before a colour change or lightening.
Guide: Colour

Layers: A cut in which the upper sections are shorter than the lower ones. It gives movement and volume, and needs the shape kept up a little more often.
Guide: Cut and styling
Lightening: The process that lifts pigment out of the hair. The darker the hair, or the more often it has been coloured, the longer the route to light.
Guide: Blonde and lightening

Pigment: What gives hair its colour: the natural pigment in the strand, or the artificial pigment from a dye.
Guide: Colour
Porous hair: Hair that takes in and loses moisture easily, often after lightening. It loses tone faster and needs more care.
Guide: Blonde and lightening

Regrowth: New hair at the root, in your natural colour, that appears as the hair grows.
Guide: Colour
Root shadow: The root is toned slightly darker than the lengths so the blend is softer and regrowth less noticeable.
Guide: Blonde and lightening

Sensitivity test: A small amount of colour is put on the skin in advance to check whether the skin reacts. Ask about it if you have ever reacted to hair colour.
Guide: Colour

Toner: A gentle colour applied after lightening that sets the shade of blonde: cool, beige or golden. Toner does not lighten; it fades with washing and is refreshed in the studio.
Guide: Blonde and lightening

Warm and cool tones: Warm tones lean towards gold, copper or honey; cool tones towards ash, beige or grey. The same tone does not suit every complexion equally.
Guide: Colour

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