Can you get my colour to a bright blonde in the first/one visit?

This is one of our most frequently asked questions and requested services!

Unless you are a trained hair stylist, it can be hard to understand why it is difficult to achieve blonde straight away. Firstly, genetics places a key role – every single person has an underlying natural pigment that is exposed when we do any form of lightening. For individuals with dark hair, the most common exposed pigment is red. Occasionally, some individuals with brunette hair can achieve a level of blonde very easily – and this may be due to European ancestry where the underlying pigment is quite light.

Any hair that has colour build-up may be difficult to lift easily, and you won’t be able to achieve blonde in one session. If you have stubborn hair that struggles to lift well or quickly – this means you will have a long road ahead! There will be many ‘in between’ colours or red, orange, copper, yellow and the possibly blonde. Because we have no idea how your hair will lift prior to any colour service, sometimes this is a guessing game – and whilst this is difficult, we prefer to be honest with our clients about lightening as a process.

At LUXE Concept Salon, we strongly recommend and prefer to use Olaplex during each session – a treatment that helps keep the hair bonded, and protects the integrity of the hair. We also do our best to use common sense, to only lift the hair to a level that it can tolerate. We are asked many times why we cannot take hair straight to blonde ‘all in one go’ – but if we did that, the integrity of your hair would be so compromised, you would be left with very damaged or no hair at all!

Have faith in your stylist and their recommendations – we want you as a client for life, and do not see the services we provide simply as a way to make money or to ruin your hair. We reserve the right to refuse lightening services, and do it all the time – purely because we know you will regret it if your hair cannot cope. If you are a client that will have a long journey to blonde, we will do our very vest to ensure that your ‘in between’ colours are applied beautifully, and that you will still feel attractive & happy.