Adding lighter tones to your hair creates stunning dimension that is both flattering and fashionable. The interplay of light and dark shades enhances your natural contours and highlights your features beautifully. At Pure Self Salon N Spa in Markham, we specialize in various lightening techniques, including balayage, foil highlights, and babylights. Our expert stylists can customize each look to reflect your personal style, whether you prefer the seamless blend of balayage or the precision of foil highlights. For those seeking a bold transformation, options like ombre, bleach and tone, and extreme lifting techniques are also available. With our versatile lightening options, we create a perfect balance of light and depth, ensuring a radiant and refreshed appearance.
Book NowBalayage is a freehand highlighting technique that uses precise lightener application to create natural, sun-kissed highlights. The lighter accents gradually brighten from mid-lengths to ends, enhancing your facial features. Known for its low-maintenance nature, balayage complements all hair colors, including vibrant fashion shades and pastels. This versatile choice offers a fresh, radiant look while minimizing the need for frequent salon visits.
While balayage and ombre are often confused, they are distinct techniques. Balayage involves a freehand method for a natural, sun-kissed effect, creating subtle highlights that blend effortlessly with your base color. In contrast, ombre features a noticeable gradient, transitioning from dark roots to lighter ends, providing a striking, dramatic look. A modern twist is the color melt technique, blending three or more shades from the same color family for a smooth transition. Ombre emphasizes contrast, while balayage delivers understated, nuanced highlights. The color melt offers a seamless blend, resulting in a harmonious, multi-dimensional look that enhances your overall style beautifully.
Call NowFoil highlights add dimension to your hair by using shades lighter than your base color for a multi-tonal effect. Caramel or honey tones can warm brunette or black hair, while ashy tones enhance lighter shades beautifully. Lowlights, which are darker shades applied to light hair colors, deepen and enrich the look, creating depth and contrast. They are also effective for adding dimension to naturally grey hair, ensuring a vibrant and balanced appearance. Both techniques refresh your hair color with added interest and style, giving you a stunning, polished look that enhances your overall beauty and perfectly complements your personal style.
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Strategically placed foils around the face enhance brightness and offer a refreshed appearance, ideal for subtle updates or touch-ups without a full color change.
This technique frames the face with a bold highlight, striking a contrast that brightens your look between full highlight appointments.
Combining balayage and foiling, this method applies lightener through techniques and wraps hair in foils for extra lift, resulting in a brighter, radiant outcome.
Babylights utilize a delicate foil highlighting technique that mimics the soft, multi-dimensional color often seen in children’s hair. This approach achieves a natural, low-maintenance look while subtly enhancing your hair color. Ideal for fine hair, babylights can be applied to any hair color or length, focusing on a refined application around the hairline and parting. The result is a gentle graduation of color, lighter at the ends, delivering a soft, sun-kissed effect that integrates seamlessly with your natural hair. Teasylights, a hybrid technique, involve lightly teasing sections of hair before applying lightener, effectively combining the natural appearance of balayage with the precision of traditional foils for stunning results that add depth and brightness to your hairstyle, making your hair look beautiful and fresh.
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Whether you want to brighten your existing color or transition from dark to a lighter shade, Pure Self Salon N Spa in Markham provides expert techniques for stunning results. We customize our services to achieve your ideal shade, utilizing multi-dimensional coloring methods for a vibrant, healthy look. Schedule a consultation today to start your personalized transformation journey.
If your hair color isn’t quite right—perhaps it’s become brassy or too light—it’s time for professional color correction. At Pure Self Salon N Spa, our expert stylists are dedicated to assessing your hue and discussing the best options for achieving a perfectly balanced look. We specialize in adjusting and restoring shades to ensure your hair looks vibrant and well-maintained. Our color correction services focus on correcting unwanted tones and refreshing your color for a more flattering result. Whether you want to enhance your current shade or transform your color completely, we are here to help you achieve your ideal look with precision and care.
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We use toners and adjustments to correct brassiness and restore a balanced, natural shade, ensuring a more vibrant finish.
Yes, we can safely darken lighter hair for a different look, using techniques that maintain hair health and shine.
The duration depends on the extent of the correction needed, typically ranging from one to three hours.
Our skilled stylists prioritize hair health, using gentle techniques to minimize damage during the color correction process.