Hair color pricing guide
How Much Does Professional Hair Color Cost?
Professional hair color covers everything from a quick single-process shade to a full transformation, so its cost spans a wide spectrum. What you pay at a luxury salon reflects the service you choose and the amount of color your hair needs to look rich and even.
The biggest swing usually comes from product. A bowl of color covers a set amount of hair; longer or thicker hair simply needs more bowls to finish the job properly.
The StyleTicket difference
StyleTicket turns that complexity into a clear ticket. You describe your hair and the shade you want, and a participating luxury salon's pricing is applied to your details, line by line.
What affects the cost of hair color?
Professional color pricing follows a few dependable variables.
The service itself
Single process, all-over color, gray coverage, lowlights and lightening services each start from a different base price.
Extra color bowls
Luxury salons commonly include one bowl in the base service and price any additional bowls your hair length and density require.
Root to tip or roots only
Refreshing regrowth uses far less color than saturating the whole head from scalp to ends.
Starting color
Going darker is generally simpler than going lighter. Lifting previously colored hair can add steps and product.
Finishing treatments
Glosses, bond-building treatments and a blowout are frequently offered as separate additions.
Stylist level
Most luxury salons have tiers, so the same service is priced according to the experience and demand of the colorist.
Why “starting at” prices don’t tell the whole story
Menus often show color as starting at a certain figure because the base service is the same for everyone while the product is not. The starting price is where a short, fine-haired guest might land.
StyleTicket counts the bowls your hair is likely to need so the total you see is the one you can plan around.
Your hair isn’t a national average.
Get a price based on your hair
We will ask which color service you want, whether it is a touch-up or root to tip, and the length and thickness of your hair.
- IEnter your ZIP code.
- IITell us about your hair.
- IIIChoose the service and result you want.
- IVSelect your preferences and stylist level.
- VReceive an itemized StyleTicket price from a participating luxury salon.
The StyleTicket Guarantee
A price you can hold us to.
Your color price is honored as long as your hair length, thickness and starting color match your answers. If they don't, your stylist re-quotes from the same price chart before color is applied.
Read the termsLuxury salons only
The luxury standard.
Every participating StyleTicket salon is a luxury salon working with prestige professional color lines and trained colorists. We are not here to find the cheapest color; we help you know what exceptional color will cost.
Frequently asked questions
Why do salons charge for extra color bowls?
A base color service includes a set amount of product. Long or thick hair needs more to saturate evenly, and that additional product is priced per bowl.
Is single-process color less expensive than all-over color?
Often, because all-over color is generally designed for longer or thicker hair and uses more product.
Does gray coverage cost more?
Gray coverage is its own service. Coverage of resistant gray can need a specific formula, but price still depends mostly on how much hair is being colored.
Should I add a gloss or treatment?
Glosses refine tone and add shine; bond-building treatments help protect hair during color. Both are optional additions on your ticket.
Can I see a price before I book color?
Yes. StyleTicket gives you an itemized color price based on your hair before you ever book.
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