At Fabio Scalia Salons, every color service begins with a thoughtful consultation. Our colorists consider your natural texture, skin tone, facial features, lifestyle, hair history, and long term goals to create a result that feels refined and personal. From dimensional brunettes and luminous blondes to balayage, gray coverage, corrective color, and glosses, each service balances artistry with the integrity of your hair.

Rooted in Italian artistry and European technique, our approach creates healthy looking color with depth, shine, and natural movement. The result is color that feels wearable, elevated, and distinctly yours.

HAIR COLOR, HIGHLIGHTS & BALAYAGE SERVICES & PRICING

Single Process Color

$120 – $200+

Single process color is ideal for gray coverage, root touch-ups, tone refinement, or creating a richer all-over shade. This service can deepen, warm, cool, or refresh your base color while maintaining a polished, natural finish.

Best for:
* Gray coverage
* Root maintenance
* Rich brunette or red tones
* Subtle tonal refinement
* Clients who want a clean, consistent color result

Double Process Color

$260 – $375+

Double process color is used when the hair must first be lightened before the final tone is applied. This may be recommended for major blonding, fashion tones, dramatic transformations, or significant color shifts.

Because this process can be more technically demanding, we evaluate the hair’s condition carefully before beginning. When needed, your stylist may recommend a treatment plan to protect strength, shine, and elasticity.

Best for:
* Major color transformations
* Blonde or platinum goals
* Corrective blonding
* High-impact editorial color
* Clients who understand maintenance and aftercare

Highlights

$230 – $450+

Highlights add brightness, contrast, and dimension through carefully placed sections of lightness. The result can be soft and natural or more defined depending on your desired look.

Highlights are especially useful when you want visible lift, face-framing brightness, or a more structured blonde result than balayage.

Best for:
* Dimensional blonde
* Brunette brightness
* Face-framing lightness
* Gray blending
* Clients who want a polished, classic salon color result

Balayage

$315 – $470+

Balayage is a hand-painted color technique designed for soft dimension and graceful grow-out. Rather than creating uniform brightness from root to end, balayage allows the colorist to place light where it naturally enhances your haircut, movement, and face shape.

At Fabio Scalia Salons, balayage is designed to feel expensive, effortless, and believable. The goal is not simply to make the hair lighter, but to create depth, movement, and luminosity.

Best for:
* Low-maintenance color
* Natural-looking dimension
* Lived-in blonde or brunette
* Soft grow-out
* Clients who want brightness without frequent root maintenance

Gloss

$85 – $110+

A gloss refreshes tone, enhances shine, and helps color look polished between major appointments. It can soften brassiness, deepen richness, add warmth, cool unwanted tones, or simply restore a reflective finish.

Best for:
* Refreshing faded color
* Adding shine
* Toning blonde or brunette hair
* Maintaining balayage or highlights
* Extending time between full color appointments

Color Correction

Upon consultation

Color correction is a highly customized service for clients who want to repair uneven color, unwanted tone, banding, brassiness, over-lightening, or previous color work done elsewhere.

Corrective color may require multiple steps or multiple appointments. Our priority is always to protect the integrity of the hair while moving toward a more beautiful, balanced result.

Best for:
* Uneven color
* Box dye correction
* Overprocessed blonde
* Unwanted warmth or brassiness
* Major color changes
* Clients who need a safe, strategic plan

HAIR COLOR CONSULTATION & PROCESS

A luxury color service should consider more than the shade on a chart. Our stylists look at how your hair moves, how it reflects light, how often you want to maintain it, and how the color will support your overall look.

During your consultation, your colorist may consider:
* Your natural base color and previous color history
* Skin tone, eye color, and facial features
* Hair density, porosity, texture, and condition
* Desired maintenance level
* Inspiration photos and realistic outcomes
* Whether your goal can be achieved in one visit or over multiple sessions

This is the Hairapist philosophy in practice: listening first, diagnosing carefully, and designing hair color around the full person, not just the immediate request.

Hair Health & Maintenance

Color looks best when the hair is strong, hydrated, and reflective. Damaged or overly porous hair can absorb color unevenly, fade quickly, or lose shine.

Depending on your hair history and desired result, your stylist may recommend:
* Kérastase or Milbon treatments
* Conditioning masks
* Gloss maintenance
* A pre-color or post-color strengthening routine
* At-home products that support tone and shine

Luxury color is not just about the appointment. It is about how the hair looks four, six, and eight weeks later.

Every color plan is different, but these general timelines help clients understand what to expect.
* Gloss: every 4–8 weeks
* Single process: every 4–6 weeks, depending on regrowth
* Highlights: every 8–12 weeks
* Balayage: every 10–16 weeks, depending on contrast and grow-out
* Color correction: timeline determined after consultation

Your stylist will recommend a maintenance rhythm based on your hair, budget, schedule, and desired finish.

Fabio Scalia Salons serves clients from two New York City locations: SoHo and Brooklyn. Both salons offer expert color services, including balayage, highlights, gloss, single process color, double process color, and corrective color consultations.

Whether you are looking for a subtle refresh or a full transformation, our team will help you choose the right path for your hair.

Frequently Asked Questions

What is the difference between balayage and highlights?

Balayage is hand-painted for a softer, more natural grow-out. Highlights are usually placed with more structure and can create brighter, more defined contrast. Your stylist will recommend the best technique based on your hair color, haircut, and maintenance goals.

How much does balayage cost at Fabio Scalia Salons?

Balayage starts at $315 and may increase based on hair length, density, stylist level, and the complexity of the desired result.

Can I go blonde in one appointment?

Sometimes, but not always. If your hair has previous color, damage, or a dark base, your stylist may recommend a multi-session plan to protect your hair while moving toward your blonde goal.

Do you offer hair color correction?

Yes. Color correction is available upon consultation. Because every correction is different, your stylist will evaluate your hair history and condition before recommending a plan.

How do I keep my hair color from fading?

Use color-safe products, avoid excessive heat, protect hair from sun and chlorine, and schedule gloss or treatment appointments as recommended by your stylist.

Should I book a consultation before a major hair color change?

Yes. A consultation is strongly recommended for major transformations, corrective color, blonding, or any service where your desired result depends on previous color history.

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