Love your balayage or highlights, but don’t quite love the sneaky grays in your regrowth? Selecting the right color and application technique to touch-up your roots while keeping…
Ten Tips to Improve Your Hair’s Porosity
We would all like to maintain that hair high point when your fresh color looks great. However, some of us are more likely than others to experience darker…
Let’s Talk About Color, Time and Money
Aussies are spending $3.5 billion a year on professional hair coloring! Roy Morgan reports that the biggest growth in home coloring is amongst affluent women 35+ earning over…
Ask a Colorist!
Colorist support and expertise, available 7 days a week! We don’t just bring you better hair color with healthier ingredients, we include personalised expert colorist advice too! Color…
5 Tips for Flawless Hair Color at Home
Getting flawless color isn’t as hard as you think. Here are 5 tips to help your hair color look perfect: 1. Timing really is everything when it comes…
How Hair Porosity Affects Hair color
What is Porosity? Porosity refers to hair’s ability to absorb moisture. The absorbency or porosity of your hair depends on the natural texture, color history, styling, and degree of…
5 Super Simple Steps for Coloring the Back of Your Hair
If you’ve ever wondered how you can color the back of your hair by yourself, you’re not alone. The good news – with a few steps straight from…
Expert Tips on How to Color Someone Else’s Hair
We know quite a few of our clients color their mother’s, sister’s or friend’s hair, which is a lovely way to spend some time together and be super…
6 Tips for Flawless Coverage Over Color Resistant Grays
Gray roots can be unwanted and difficult to cover. If you are looking to color resistant gray hair, we can help you improve your color coverage to give…
5 Reasons Why Every Colorist Uses a Tint Brush and You Should Too
colorists always use a tint brush and bowl and are very careful with their color placement. Their results (and job!) depends on them placing the right color in…
Color Protection Shampoo and Conditioner
Protect and lock in luxurious, lasting color with our Color Protection Shampoo and Conditioner, specifically formulated to seal the cuticle, lock in colour and balance pH levels after…
Section Your Hair Like a Pro
Hair sectioning helps you manage your color application, helping you achieve even, full color coverage and professional coloring results at home. Sectioning helps you organise your color application,…
How to Avoid Color Banding
Color banding, also known as the halo effect, is far from angelic. It describes the darker color band that can appear when new color is applied over new…
Hot Roots
Colorists use the term hot roots to describe the effect where your hair’s roots are visibly warmer than the rest of your hair color. Hot roots generally look…
Your Home Salon
The Shade is here to bridge the gap between the salon and home coloring. We provide personalised color selection and application expertise, and send your salon color and…