Verlano Alves Hair Studio

Color

Custom Highlights & Balayage in Cinnaminson, NJ

Hand painted color, placed for your face and your hair, that grows out soft instead of leaving a line.

Lived in blonde on a lob, a soft shadow left at the root so the grow out never shows a line
Silver blonde kept cool against a deliberately dark root
Icy platinum blonde carried from root to end, worn long and straight
Bronde balayage on long hair, curled from the mid lengths down
Vivid copper carried the full length, seen from the back
Full highlights in a cool ash blonde, woven through the whole head and kept soft at the root
Mocha brown with an ash blonde face frame, set in a deep side wave
Bright highlights placed over a dark natural base, kept bold on purpose

What I do

Color services

  • Balayage

    Painted by hand, soft at the root, so the grow out never draws a line across your head.

  • Foilyage

    Painted like balayage, processed in foil. More lift, same soft transition.

  • Full and partial highlights

    Classic placement when you want brightness through the whole head, or only where the light hits.

  • Brazilian blonde

    Warm, lived in, sun grown. The blonde that does not read as a salon appointment.

  • Color correction

    Box dye, a bad appointment, brass that will not leave. We plan the way back from where your hair is now.

  • Root touch up

    Keeping what you already have, on schedule, without redoing the whole head.

Custom means what

Placement is not decoration

Where the light lands changes how your face reads, so I place it looking at you, not at a chart. Brightness near the jaw does one thing. Brightness at the cheekbone does another. Same color, same technique, different result on the same person.

The range

Three heads, three directions

Warm blonde, bronde and silver, done in the same session. Where your color lands depends on what your hair can hold and what you want to live with, and those are two different questions.

Three clients from the same color session, one warm blonde, one bronde and one silver

Your hair first

Lightening has limits

Lightening is chemistry, and chemistry has limits. Before we start, I look at what your hair has already been through and we agree on how far we can go today and what we save for the next session.

Getting there in two visits with your hair intact beats getting there in one with it broken.

If what you are asking for would cost you your hair, I will tell you at the consultation, not halfway through.

Questions

Before you book color

I colored my hair at home. Can you fix it?

Yes, color correction is part of what I do. Bring photos of what it looked like before, if you have them, and we will plan the way back from where your hair is now.

How often do I need to come back?

Balayage is built to stretch, which is most of its appeal. Root touch ups run on a shorter clock. We set your schedule at the appointment, based on how fast your hair grows and how bright you want to stay.

How much does it cost?

Pricing is set at your consultation, based on your hair. Length, thickness and what your hair has already been through change the work enough that a fixed price list would be wrong for most people.

Let's talk about your color

Bring photos of what you want and, if you have them, photos of what your hair has been through. Both help.

The studio is in Cinnaminson, minutes from Moorestown, Riverton, Palmyra and Mount Laurel, and a short drive from Philadelphia.