Love your balayage or highlights, but don’t quite love the sneaky greys in your regrowth?Selecting the right colour and application technique to touch-up your roots while keeping your highlights and…
Ten Tips to Improve Your Hair’s Porosity
We would all like to maintain that hair high point when your fresh colour looks great.However, some of us are more likely than others to experience darker colour results or…
Let’s Talk About Colour, Time and Money
Aussies are spending $3.5 billion a year on professional hair colouring!Roy Morgan reports that the biggest growth in home colouring is amongst affluent women 35+ earning over $100K per annum,…
Ask a Colourist!
Colourist support and expertise, available 7 days a week!We don’t just bring you better hair colour with healthier ingredients, we include personalised expert colourist advice too!Colour selection and home colouring…
5 Tips for Flawless Hair Colour at Home
Getting flawless colour isn’t as hard as you think. Here are 5 tips to help your hair colour look perfect:1. Timing really is everything when it comes to achieving a…
How Hair Porosity Affects Hair Colour
What is Porosity?Porosity refers to hair’s ability to absorb moisture. The absorbency or porosity of your hair depends on the natural texture, colour history, styling, and degree of environmental exposure.Hair damage…
5 Super Simple Steps for Colouring the Back of Your Hair
If you’ve ever wondered how you can colour the back of your hair by yourself, you’re not alone. The good news – with a few steps straight from the salon,…
Expert Tips on How to Colour Someone Else’s Hair
We know quite a few of our clients colour their mother’s, sister’s or friend’s hair, which is a lovely way to spend some time together and be super helpful. Here’s…
6 Tips for Flawless Coverage over Colour Resistant Greys
Grey roots can be unwanted and difficult to cover. If you are looking to colour resistant grey hair, we can help you improve your colour coverage to give you consistent,…
5 Reasons Why Every Colourist Uses a Tint Brush and You Should Too
Colourists always use a tint brush and bowl and are very careful with their colour placement. Their results (and job!) depends on them placing the right colour in the right…
Colour Protection Shampoo and Conditioner
Protect and lock in luxurious, lasting colour with our nourishing Colour Protection Shampoo and Conditioner, specifically formualted to balance pH levels, seal the cuticle and lock in colour after colouring.…
Section Your Hair Like a Pro
Hair sectioning helps you manage your colour application, helping you achieve even, full colour coverage and professional colouring results at home. Sectioning helps you organise your colour application, helping you…
How to Avoid Colour Banding
Colour banding, also known as the halo effect, describes the darker colour band that can appear when new colour is applied over new regrowth, and extended to layer over previously…
Hot Roots
Colourists use the term hot roots to describe the effect where your hair’s roots are visibly warmer than the rest of your hair colour. Hot roots generally look lighter than…
Your Home Salon
The Shade is here to bridge the gap between the salon and home colouring. We provide personalised colour selection and application expertise, and send your salon colour and colour application…