Color Lounge Answers All Your Salon Transition Questions
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If you’re thinking about going gray from dyed hair, one of the first questions your friends will ask you is, “why don’t you just go to the salon and have them dye your hair silver?”
In order to better understand the salon transition, I went straight to the experts: Sai Hernandez & Grace Ilasco from the Color Lounge in Burbank, California.
Grace open the Color Lounge in 2014 and has been doing gray transitions. A lot of the clients’ friends or family members were not supportive, but she always welcomed their transitions because she support whatever the client wants.
Sai: Consultation is crucial. We can determine after we have a really thorough consultation because we can’t just say it’s going to be this much and your hair’s going to come up like this.
I’ve done consultations where I have to tell the clients, “I don’t think you should do the transition. You should just grow it out.”
Grace: All of our clients have a mandatory 60-minute consultation with us, even our regular clients. Hair color is a science. So a lot of times we have to educate our clients who want to go gray because instead of blaming us for why their hair went a certain way, they’re going to journey with us.
Sai: If the lightening process was a success, and if their hair is not turning yellow or anything like that, then they can just grow it out.Grace: I would say that even after you transition, there’s still some maintenance involved. The grayest gray you’re going to have is your own..
Grace: Even the simplest hair takes a long time because you’ve got to slow cook it. You want it to be healthy. We have to watch it and look at every foil and make sure everything is healthy.
I’ll just say it takes all day.