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Professional Hair Color Techniques

Our how-to guides are here to break down all the hair color techniques, from the most salon requested to emerging trends. Whether your client is after a classic balayage, subtle highlights or wants complete gray coverage, Wella has all the tips you need to master any coloring technique.

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Woman with a blonde bob and California inspired highlights, created using Wella Professionals.
05.05.2021
Techniques Color

5 LA-Inspired Ways to Create Sun-Kissed Highlights

When you hear ‘Cali hair’, what’s the first thing you think of? For us, it’s...

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05.05.2021
Woman with a blonde bob and California inspired highlights, created using Wella Professionals.

5 LA-Inspired Ways to Create Sun-Kissed Highlights

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When you hear ‘Cali hair’, what’s the first thing you think of? For us, it’s...

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Back of woman’s head with wavy, brown hair and caramel balayage, created using Wella Professionals.
30.04.2021
Techniques Color

8 Delicious Ways to Create Caramel Balayage

Does it get more indulgent than caramel balayage? Teaming bronde tones with...

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30.04.2021
Back of woman’s head with wavy, brown hair and caramel balayage, created using Wella Professionals.

8 Delicious Ways to Create Caramel Balayage

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Does it get more indulgent than caramel balayage? Teaming bronde tones with...

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Back of woman’s head with ash brown to ash blonde balayage, created using Wella Professionals.
31.03.2021
Formulas Techniques Color

How to Create Brown to Blonde Balayage

What happens when you combine brunette balayage with blonde balayage in one...

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31.03.2021
Back of woman’s head with ash brown to ash blonde balayage, created using Wella Professionals.

How to Create Brown to Blonde Balayage

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What happens when you combine brunette balayage with blonde balayage in one...

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Back of woman’s head with straight, golden brown ombre hair, created using Wella Professionals.
24.03.2021
Formulas Techniques Color

7 Ways to Create Brown Ombre Hair

Sun-kissed hair doesn’t have to mean blonde. If you’re working with a...

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24.03.2021
Back of woman’s head with straight, golden brown ombre hair, created using Wella Professionals.

7 Ways to Create Brown Ombre Hair

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Sun-kissed hair doesn’t have to mean blonde. If you’re working with a...

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24.02.2021
Formulas Techniques Color Styling

9 Balayage Ideas for Silky-Straight Hair

We so often see balayage swept through long, wavy locks and tousled bobs....

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24.02.2021

9 Balayage Ideas for Silky-Straight Hair

Formulas Techniques Color Styling

We so often see balayage swept through long, wavy locks and tousled bobs....

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Back of woman’s head with long, wavy brown hair and warm blonde twilights, created using Wella Professionals.
17.02.2021
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What is Hair Twilighting? Your Complete Guide

We often talk about sun-kissed locks, but what about moonlit strands? In a...

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17.02.2021
Back of woman’s head with long, wavy brown hair and warm blonde twilights, created using Wella Professionals.

What is Hair Twilighting? Your Complete Guide

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We often talk about sun-kissed locks, but what about moonlit strands? In a...

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Back of woman’s head with long, wavy hair and honey blonde foilyage, created using Wella Professionals.
03.02.2021
Formulas Techniques Color

7 Foilyage Ideas to Upgrade Your Freehand Technique

Just when you thought your balayage technique couldn’t get any more...

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03.02.2021
Back of woman’s head with long, wavy hair and honey blonde foilyage, created using Wella Professionals.

7 Foilyage Ideas to Upgrade Your Freehand Technique

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Just when you thought your balayage technique couldn’t get any more...

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Back of woman’s head with glossy, polished waves and red ombre hair color, created using Wella Professionals.
10.02.2021
Formulas Techniques Color

How to Create Red Ombre Hair

Any ombre hair color is covetable, but make it a fiery red ombre, and you’ve...

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10.02.2021
Back of woman’s head with glossy, polished waves and red ombre hair color, created using Wella Professionals.

How to Create Red Ombre Hair

Formulas Techniques Color

Any ombre hair color is covetable, but make it a fiery red ombre, and you’ve...

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Before and after of gray roots covered with blonde hair color.
20.01.2021
Formulas Techniques Color

How to Color Gray Hair Blonde

Going from gray hair to blonde is a process that’s always best done by a...

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20.01.2021
Before and after of gray roots covered with blonde hair color.

How to Color Gray Hair Blonde

Formulas Techniques Color

Going from gray hair to blonde is a process that’s always best done by a...

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Back of woman’s head with chunky, platinum blonde highlights through long, wavy hair.
06.01.2021
Techniques Color

Chunky Highlights Are Back – But Not As You Know Them

While some nineties hair trends belong in the past (butterfly clips, ‘The...

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06.01.2021
Back of woman’s head with chunky, platinum blonde highlights through long, wavy hair.

Chunky Highlights Are Back – But Not As You Know Them

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While some nineties hair trends belong in the past (butterfly clips, ‘The...

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Back of woman’s head with tousled, mid-length beige blonde hair, created using Wella Professionals.
16.12.2020
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Here’s Proof Beige Blonde Hair is Anything But Boring

If you thought beige was boring, think again. When it comes to beige blonde...

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16.12.2020
Back of woman’s head with tousled, mid-length beige blonde hair, created using Wella Professionals.

Here’s Proof Beige Blonde Hair is Anything But Boring

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If you thought beige was boring, think again. When it comes to beige blonde...

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Back of woman’s head with long, wavy, ash blonde hair and a shadow root, created using Wella Professionals.
11.11.2020
Techniques Color

How to Create the Perfect Shadow Root

Every hair colorist knows about the importance of dimension. It’s the...

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11.11.2020
Back of woman’s head with long, wavy, ash blonde hair and a shadow root, created using Wella Professionals.

How to Create the Perfect Shadow Root

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Every hair colorist knows about the importance of dimension. It’s the...

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