Color Lounge Unveils Answers to Your Salon Transition Queries

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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?”

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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.

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They’ve been transitioning women to gray hair with great success since 2014. In fact, they are the salon that did my friend Michelle’s beautiful salon transition!

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Grace: We opened The Color Lounge in 2014 and we’ve been doing gray transitions a little longer. We started to get a word-of-mouth following for gray transitions.

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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.

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Grace: All of our clients have a mandatory 60-minute consultation with us, even our regular clients. Hair color is a science.

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