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Hair Color Products
Davines Hair Color
One of our favorite color lines at Sarah Kahn Hair—an innovative, high-performance system that delivers vibrant, long-lasting color while preserving hair health. Rooted in clean beauty, Davines combines natural ingredients with advanced technology.
Benefits:
- Vibrant, Long-Lasting Results: Rich, multi-dimensional color with superior fade resistance
- Exceptional Shine & Condition: Hair looks healthy, glossy, and feels soft to the touch
- Gentle on Hair & Scalp: Nourishes during processing; ideal for sensitive scalps
- Customizable & Versatile: Extensive palette for creative and natural looks that adapts to different hair types
- Strengthens & Protects: Formulated to maintain hair integrity throughout coloring
- Low Odor, Pleasant Experience: Enhances salon atmosphere with an enjoyable scent profile
- Eco-Friendly Beauty: Sustainable ingredients, recyclable packaging, and carbon-neutral production
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Color Techniques
Single Process Color
A hair coloring service where one color is applied all over the hair in a single step—a straightforward, efficient way to transform or enhance your hair color with consistent, even results.
What It Can Achieve:
- All-Over Color Change: Great for going darker, richer, or even slightly lighter (depending on your natural shade)
- Gray Coverage: Effectively covers gray hair for a natural, uniform look
- Refresh & Enhance: Revives dull or faded hair color with added shine and depth
- Tone Correction: Neutralizes unwanted tones (like brassiness or redness) for a more flattering shade
- Subtle or Dramatic Transformations: Whether you're going for a bold new hue or a soft refresh
Highlights
A hair coloring technique where select strands of hair are lightened to create contrast, dimension, and brightness throughout the hair. Unlike single process color, highlights don't color every strand—just strategically placed sections.
What They Can Achieve:
- Add Dimension & Depth: Breaks up a flat or solid color for a more natural, multi-tonal effect
- Brighten the Face: Face-framing highlights can accentuate features and give a fresh, radiant glow
- Create a Sun-Kissed Look: Mimics the natural lightening from the sun, perfect for a subtle, lived-in feel
- Customize Your Look: Can be bold and high-contrast or soft and blended—completely tailored to your style
- Low Commitment Option: Because highlights grow out more subtly, they often require less frequent touch-ups
Dimensional Lowlights
Lowlights involve adding deeper tones to selected sections of the hair to create depth, contrast, and a more dimensional, natural-looking color. They're essentially the opposite of highlights and are often used together for a balanced, multi-tonal effect. We use this technique often in salon to do anything from make brunettes richer to making blondes pop.
What They Can Achieve:
- Enhance Dimension & Texture: Adds richness and contrast, making hair appear fuller and more dynamic
- Soften Bright or Over-Highlighted Hair: Tones down overly lightened areas for a more natural, blended look
- Create a Natural, Lived-In Color: Mimics the variation found in natural hair, especially in brunettes and blondes
- Add Warmth or Coolness: Custom lowlight shades can balance your tone and enhance your complexion
- Perfect for Fall & Seasonal Changes: Great for transitioning your hair color into deeper, cozier tones
- Extend Time Between Touch-Ups: Lowlights help soften regrowth lines and blend out contrast as your color grows
Balayage
Balayage (pronounced bah-lay-ahge) is a hand-painted highlighting technique that creates a soft, sun-kissed, and natural-looking gradient of color. Unlike traditional foils, balayage is applied freehand, allowing for a more customized and blended finish.
What It Can Achieve:
- Natural, Lived-In Look: Seamless transitions from darker roots to lighter ends mimic natural sun-lightened hair
- Low Maintenance Color: Soft regrowth lines mean less frequent touch-ups and a longer-lasting, effortless look
- Fully Customizable: From subtle brightness to bold contrast, balayage can be tailored to suit any hair color, texture, or personal style
- Enhances Movement & Dimension: Hand-painting allows color to follow your haircut and flow with your hair's natural movement
- Perfect for All Seasons: Works beautifully with both warm and cool tones, and adapts easily as your color evolves
- Great for First-Time Color Clients: The natural grow-out and soft finish make it ideal for those new to hair color or looking for a subtle change
Dimensional Coloring
Dimensional hair coloring is where we mix above techniques that involve using multiple shades or tones of color to add depth, movement, and dimension to the hair. It creates a more natural, multi-faceted look by combining highlights, lowlights, or different shades that blend together. This approach allows us to customize the best result for your color goals.
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Hair Treatments
Deep Conditioning, Scalp & Hair Repair Treatments
Treat your hair to a bespoke restorative experience with our luxurious Deep Conditioning & Repair Treatments. Tailored to meet the unique needs of your hair, these treatments deeply nourish, hydrate, and restore health to dry, damaged, or color-treated hair.
Choose from:
- Hydration Boost. Perfect for dry, thirsty hair, this treatment replenishes moisture and seals in hydration, leaving your hair soft, smooth, and manageable with a radiant, healthy shine.
- Repair & Strengthening. Revitalize weakened hair with a reparative treatment designed to strengthen and rebuild the hair from within. Ideal for damaged or chemically-treated hair, this treatment improves elasticity and reduces breakage.
- Color Protection & Shine. Formulated for color-treated hair, this treatment locks in color and adds a glossy finish, keeping your hair vibrant, nourished, and full of brilliant shine while protecting from fading.
- Smoothing & Frizz Control. Tame frizz and enhance smoothness with a rich treatment that seals the hair cuticle, ensuring sleek, frizz-free results that last, even in the most humid conditions.
- Volumizing & Thickening. Give your hair a boost with a lightweight, volumizing treatment that adds body and fullness without weighing it down. Perfect for fine or thinning hair that needs an instant lift.
- Scalp Revitalization. Nurture your scalp with this restorative treatment that promotes a healthy foundation for hair growth. It's designed to balance and soothe the scalp while stimulating circulation and encouraging healthy hair.
Each treatment is customized to address your specific hair needs, leaving you with a personalized solution that leaves your hair looking and feeling its absolute best.