Colour placement and effects
Tell the shape you see apart from the cut, styling or install behind it.
What to notice
Where the contrast or effect sits. Placement hints at a look but does not prove the technique.
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27 terms to explore
- All-over colour
- A colouring service that applies colour across the hair, rather than only highlights or a root touch-up.
- Babylights
- Very fine, closely spaced lighter strands.
- Balayage
- A freehand colour-painting technique.
- Bleach and Tone
- Hair lifted with bleach all over, then toned to the target shade.
- Color Blocking
- Solid geometric panels of contrasting colour.
- Color Correction
- Fixing unwanted colour: banding, brass, or a previous colour gone wrong.
- Foil Highlights
- A hair-colour service using foils to separate selected sections.
- Foilayage
- Balayage-style painting inside foils for extra lift.
- Gloss
- A hair-gloss treatment, clear or tinted, intended to alter shine or tone.
- Grey Blending
- A colour service intended to blend grey or white strands into the overall colour.
- Grey Coverage
- A colour service intended to cover grey or white hair.
- Highlights
- Lighter strands or sections visibly contrasting with the surrounding hair.
- Lowlights
- Strands or sections visibly darker than the surrounding hair.
- Money Piece
- A bright face-framing panel at the front hairline.
- Peekaboo Color
- A visibly contrasting underlayer or concealed-side colour panel exposed by the photographed arrangement.
- Root Melt
- A gradual blend from the visible root colour into the mid-lengths, without a distinct colour boundary.
- Root Smudge
- A softly blurred transition from the visible root colour into the nearby lengths.
- Shadow Root
- A darker-looking root area transitioning into lighter lengths.
- Single Process Color
- A colour service completed in one application step.
- Split Dye
- Two visibly contrasting colour areas divided near a middle part.
- Toner
- A deposit-only colour that corrects or refines tone after lifting.
- Toner Gloss
- A toning-gloss service that refines tone and may add shine.
- Vivid Color
- Saturated fashion colour (blue, pink, green, etc.) rather than a natural shade.
- Multi-Colour
- Several distinct colours in one look.
- Ombre
- One colour graduating into another.
- Rainbow
- Many hues in sequence.
- Two-Tone
- Two distinct colours placed separately.