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Colour Services
At The Cutting Room, we offer a full range of professional hair colour services, designed to create beautiful, personalised results while protecting the health and integrity of your hair. From subtle root touch-ups and full hair colour to dimensional highlights, balayage and foiliage, as well as high-impact blondes, reds and brunettes, our team will tailor every colour service to suit your hair, style and maintenance preferences. We work with Matrix professional hair colour, offering permanent, demi-permanent and semi-permanent colour options, and we use Olaplex within our colour services to help maintain strength, shine and condition throughout the colouring process.
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How to Choose Your Colour Service
Not sure which colour service to book? Here’s a quick guide to help you choose the right appointment.
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Perfect if you want brightness or dimension placed through sections of the hair.
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Ideal for soft, blended colour with natural-looking regrowth and lower maintenance.
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Best for refreshing roots, covering greys, or applying one colour all over the hair.
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For high-impact blonde results using on-scalp lightening techniques.
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For major colour changes, creative colour work, or colour correction.
If you're unsure, we recommend booking a Colour Consultation, and our team will design the perfect colour plan for your hair.
Colour Maintenance Guide
Different colour services grow out at different rates. These timeframes give a helpful guide to how often many clients choose to maintain their colour.
• Highlights → typically every 8–12 weeks
• Balayage → typically every 3–6 months
• Root Colour / Grey Coverage → typically every 4–6 weeks
• Blonde Root Lightening → typically every 4–6 weeks
Your stylist will always recommend the maintenance schedule that best suits your hair, lifestyle, and desired result.
How Our Colour Pricing Works
To keep our colour services fair, transparent, and tailored to each guest, we use a simple system.
Our service prices are based on above-shoulder length hair with medium density. This gives us a clear starting point when booking your appointment. Every client’s hair is different though. Hair that is longer, thicker, or requires more product may need additional colour to achieve the best result.
To make sure you only pay for exactly what is used, we use professional digital colour mixing software in the salon.
What This Means For You
Every colour formula is mixed using a digital scale and tracked through our colour system. This allows us to:
• Measure the exact amount of colour used
• Adjust pricing fairly for longer or thicker hair
• Keep your formula saved for future visits
• Maintain consistent colour results every time
• Reduce colour waste and improve sustainability
This system means pricing stays transparent and personalised, rather than charging the same price for every client regardless of hair length or density.
Healthy Colour with Olaplex
Olaplex is a professional bond-building treatment designed to help protect and strengthen the hair during colour services.
Hair colouring and lightening can place stress on the internal structure of the hair. Olaplex works by reconnecting broken bonds within the hair fibre, helping maintain strength, shine and overall condition throughout the colouring process.
For many colour services, Olaplex can be added to your appointment as an optional treatment when additional protection is beneficial.
For Total Blonding services, Olaplex is always included as part of the service as we believe bond protection is essential when performing full blonding or scalp lightening.
Your stylist will always guide you on whether Olaplex would benefit your hair and colouring goals.
Natural & Signature Highlights
For brightness, dimension, and beautifully blended colour.
Highlights are designed to add brightness, depth and movement through the hair using carefully placed sections of colour. While highlights are often used to create blonde tones, they can also be used with brunettes, coppers or reds to add beautiful dimension.
At The Cutting Room we tailor every highlight service to your hair and the look you want to achieve. Sometimes that means soft, delicate pieces for a natural glow, and sometimes it means lots of brightness for a more striking result.
Natural Highlights
Natural Highlights create soft, blended brightness through the hair. Highlights are placed more gently to create a multi-dimensional result that looks effortless and grows out beautifully.
Perfect for clients who want a sun-kissed result with softer regrowth and lower maintenance.
Signature Highlights
Signature Highlights are designed for maximum brightness and impact. Highlights are placed more densely through the hair to create a lighter, more noticeable result with lots of shine and dimension.
Perfect for brighter blondes or a more striking transformation.
+ Root Touch / Grey Coverage
This option refreshes the natural colour between your highlights. It can be used to cover grey hair or blend your natural root colour between the foils, creating a seamless result from root to highlight.
Adding a root touch helps keep the overall colour looking balanced and polished, especially for clients who regularly colour their roots.
Toner
A toner is applied after highlighting to refine the final shade of your colour. It allows us to perfect the tone of your highlights, whether that’s cool blonde, soft beige, warm honey, or deeper dimensional tones.
Toners also add shine and help smooth the hair for a more polished finish.
Parting & Hairline
Highlights are placed through the parting and around the front hairline, where brightness is most visible. This service is perfect for refreshing existing highlights or adding a subtle boost of brightness around the face between larger colour appointments.
Half Head Highlights
Highlights are placed through the top and sides of the hair to create noticeable brightness and dimension while maintaining natural depth underneath. This service offers a balanced result that feels brighter without highlighting the entire head.
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Full Head Highlights
Highlights are placed throughout the entire head to create maximum brightness and dimension from roots to ends. This service gives the most complete highlight result and is ideal for achieving a brighter overall look.
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Balayage Transformations
Soft, seamless colour that grows out naturally.
Balayage is a bespoke colour technique designed to create soft, natural-looking dimension through the hair. Rather than traditional foiling from root to tip, colour is carefully painted through selected sections to create a seamless blend of light and shade.
The result can range from subtle sun-kissed brightness to more noticeable blonde pieces depending on the look you would like to achieve.
Balayage is ideal if you want colour that grows out beautifully, without strong regrowth lines, making it perfect for clients who prefer a more relaxed maintenance schedule.
What To Expect
Balayage appointments are typically longer than standard colour services as they involve detailed placement and careful blending. Many balayage services also include glossing or toning to refine the final shade and add shine.
Because balayage results are highly personalised, the exact technique and amount of lightening will be tailored to your hair length, density, and desired result.
If you are unsure whether balayage is the right choice, we recommend booking a colour consultation so we can discuss the best approach for your hair.
Because balayage is such a personalised service, balayage appointments cannot be booked online.
Every balayage service is tailored to the individual, and the time required can vary depending on your current colour, hair length, density, and the result you would like to achieve.
For this reason, we ask all balayage clients to first book a Balayage Consultation. During this appointment we will:
• Discuss the look you would like to achieve
• Assess your current hair colour and condition
• Plan the technique required to achieve your result
• Provide a time and price estimate for your appointment
Once your consultation is complete, we will schedule the balayage service with the correct amount of time to achieve the best result.
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“For bespoke, dimensional colour tailored entirely to you.”
Total Colour
Rich, glossy colour with seamless grey coverage throughout the hair.
Total Colour services are designed for clients who want a single, consistent shade throughout the hair or reliable grey coverage.
This includes everything from refreshing your existing colour at the roots to applying a full colour from roots to ends. Total Colour is ideal for maintaining rich brunettes, vibrant reds, glossy darker tones, or covering greys with a natural-looking finish.
During your appointment we carefully select and mix a bespoke formula tailored to your hair and desired result. Your formula is then recorded so we can recreate your colour consistently at future visits.
When To Choose Total Colour
This service is perfect if you would like to:
• Cover or blend grey hair
• Refresh your existing colour at the roots
• Deepen or enrich your natural shade
• Apply one consistent colour throughout the hair
• Maintain a glossy brunette, red, or darker blonde tone
Some Total Colour services may also include a gloss or toner through the mid-lengths and ends to refresh shine and balance the final result.
Total Colour
A complete colour service designed to create one consistent shade throughout the hair.
This service is ideal for refreshing colour from roots to ends, deepening your natural tone, covering greys, or creating a rich glossy all-over colour. Your formula is carefully tailored to your hair and recorded so it can be recreated perfectly at future appointments.
Permanent colour is typically used when full grey coverage or long-lasting colour change is desired.
Just Roots
A maintenance colour service focused on refreshing your regrowth area only.
This service is perfect for maintaining your colour between full appointments and keeping grey coverage looking fresh. Colour is applied to the root area to seamlessly blend with your existing shade while leaving the mid-lengths and ends untouched.
Most clients book this service every 4–8 weeks depending on their natural regrowth and desired level of maintenance.
Tone Revival
A refreshing colour service designed to restore shine, tone, and vibrancy to previously coloured hair.
Tone Revival uses a gentle demi-permanent colour to rebalance faded tones, soften unwanted warmth, and revive the overall finish of your colour. It can also be used to create soft, natural grey blending, offering a more transparent coverage that gently blends greys rather than fully covering them.
This service is perfect for refreshing blondes, cooling down brassiness, enriching brunettes, or creating subtle grey blending for up to around 70% grey hair.
The result is hair that looks glossier, softer, and beautifully refreshed without the commitment of a full permanent colour.
Total Blonding
For very light or platinum blondes from root to tip.
Also known as full bleach, global blonding, or platinum blonding.
A full lightening service designed to create a clean, bright blonde result from roots to ends.
All Total Blonding services include professional lighteners and Olaplex bond protection to help protect the structure of the hair during the lightening process. A toner is typically applied afterwards to refine the final shade and create your perfect blonde tone.
Consultation Recommended
For clients booking Total Blonding for the first time at The Cutting Room, we strongly recommend booking a consultation first. This allows us to assess your current hair colour, condition, and suitability for the service, and to plan the safest approach to achieving your desired blonde.
Total Blonding is best suited for hair that has not been previously coloured with darker permanent colours, and has only been lightened before. If the hair has been coloured previously, additional colour correction may be required.
In some cases we may need to perform a strand test before the appointment to ensure the hair can lift safely and achieve the desired result while maintaining the health of the hair.
During your consultation we will:
• Assess your hair colour history
• Check the condition and strength of the hair
• Discuss the blonde tone you would like to achieve
• Provide a realistic time and price estimate
This careful approach allows us to create beautiful blonde results while protecting the long-term health of your hair.
Blonde Lift & Toned Full Head
A complete blonding service designed to create a clean, bright blonde result from roots to ends.
This service is typically booked by clients who are becoming blonde for the first time, or when a larger amount of lightening is required to achieve the desired result. Lightener is applied across the whole head to lift the hair evenly before refining the final tone.
This service includes the full lightening process (bleach), Olaplex bond-building treatment, and toning to create your chosen blonde shade while helping to protect the strength and condition of the hair.
Because blonding services require careful control and lifting time, this appointment is longer than a standard colour service and allows us to achieve a beautifully even blonde result.
Blonde Just Roots & Tone
A maintenance blonding service designed for clients who already wear a full blonde look and need their regrowth refreshed. Lightener is applied carefully to the root area only to lift the new growth and seamlessly blend it into your existing blonde. A toner is then applied to refine the shade and restore the desired tone.
This service is best suited to clients with approximately 4–6 weeks of regrowth who are maintaining an existing blonde result.
The service includes root lightening, Olaplex bond protection, and toning to maintain the condition and brightness of your blonde between appointments.
“If your regrowth is longer than 6–8 weeks, we may need to book additional time.”
Creative Colouring
For major colour changes. Transformational colour tailored entirely to you.
Creative Colour services are designed for larger colour changes and highly personalised colour work. This includes services such as colour correction, major colour transformations, and more creative colour techniques. These appointments often involve multiple processes and careful planning to achieve the desired result while protecting the condition of the hair.
Because every creative colour project is different, these services are always booked following a colour consultation.
Consultation Required
Creative colour services cannot be booked online. We first need to assess your hair, discuss your goals, and plan the safest and most effective approach to achieving your result.
Creative colour appointments may include:
• Colour corrections
• Moving from dark to light shades
• Major colour changes
• Correcting uneven or unwanted tones
• Advanced colour work and bespoke colour designs
During your consultation we will:
• Assess your hair colour history and condition
• Discuss the result you would like to achieve
• Explain the process required to reach that result
• Provide a realistic time and price estimate
Some creative colour transformations may require multiple appointments to achieve the desired result safely.
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First Time Colouring Your Hair With Us?
Choosing the right colour service can feel confusing, especially if you’re unsure which technique will achieve the result you want.
Our colour consultations are designed to make the process simple and relaxed. During your consultation we’ll take the time to understand your hair, your lifestyle, and the look you would like to achieve.
We’ll assess your current colour, discuss your goals, and recommend the most suitable service, technique, and maintenance plan for your hair.
Your consultation may include:
• discussing the colour result you would like to achieve
• assessing your hair’s current colour and condition
• advising on the most suitable technique
• planning the maintenance required for your colour
• providing a clear time and price estimate
This ensures your appointment is booked with the correct amount of time to achieve the best possible result.
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