This Salon Service Will Give You the Glass Hair of Your Dreams
Glass hair is one of the most coveted hair trends of 2025. Because, let's be honest – who doesn't want glossy shine with a luminous, mirror-like finish? And while there's plenty you can do at home to create that frizz-free, reflective surface, the quickest and most effective way to get the look is with a Golden Glass Hair service.
Exclusive to Wella Professionals salons, Golden Glass Hair gives your mane a glass-like shine with a combo of three color and care steps focused on the glossiest hair of your life. Below, we're revealing the looks you can wear and the steps it takes to achieve them. Then, all that's left to do is find your nearest Wella salon and book your own glass hair transformation...
The Golden Glass Hair Looks
There are six signature looks in the Golden Glass collection, ranging from hyper-natural to beautifully bold. Take your pick:
Honey Glass Hair
For golden blonde hair with a sleek finish, try this drenched-in-warmth hue, which oozes the gloss and shine of honey thanks to a scattering of micro-fine highlights, a SHINEFINITY Color Glaze and ULTIMATE SMOOTH Miracle Oil Serum.
Rose Gold Glass Hair
Rose gold hair is back in a big way, and this subtle take is the dream for brown hair. It lights up lengths and ends with a metallic glow, courtesy of Illumina Color's radiant finish, SHINEFINITY's translucent shine and ULTIMATE SMOOTH Miracle Oil Serum’s intense nourishment.
Coral Glass Hair
Adding a boost of boldness to dark hair, these coral highlights team dazzling shine with vivid vibrancy. We especially love them through curly hair, as the pinky-peach tones of Color Touch reflect the light with every twist and twirl.
Buttery Glass Hair
Gold tones are at the core of the glass hair trend, but if cool shades are better suited to your skin tone, you'll love this almost-platinum blonde. Buttery and smooth, it relies on pre-lightening with BlondorPlex for full-head, blended highlights, a SHINEFINITY Color Glaze for a fresh, glass-like finish, and ULTIMATE SMOOTH Miracle Oil Serum to seal in the shine.
Copper Glass Hair
When you're craving a red, this copper brown shade transforms hair with a warm, vibrant, glossy finish, with Color Touch, SHINEFINITY and ULTIMATE SMOOTH Miracle Oil Serum teaming up to ensure your mane glows like never before.
Apricot Glass Hair
Because apricot blonde shades are everything right now, this juicy hue fuses pastel and natural colors to deliver a lighter, brighter and glossier twist on strawberry blonde. Want in? That beautiful shine is perfected with layers of Illumina Color, SHINEFINITY and ULTIMATE SMOOTH Miracle Oil Serum.
What Happens During My Golden Glass Hair Service?
After an initial consultation, where your Wella colorist will help you find the perfect shade for your skin tone, eye color and individual style, your Golden Glass Hair service will begin. The look is all about layering to reach that polished mirror-like finish. So, let's get into the three layers they'll apply while you're in the chair...
Layer 1: The Base Layers
First, your colorist will create your base layer – the foundation of your glass hair look. Depending on your existing color and the shade you want to reach, they may start with one of four services:
Blondor Lightening: An essential step if your hair needs pre-lightening; Blondor Lights is a highlighting technique that sees BlondorPlex carefully woven through your hair to create a light, shimmery base. What is BlondorPlex, you might ask? It's our bond-strengthening pre-lightener which not only gives you up to nine levels of lift (even through darker shades) but also guarantees up to 97% less breakage¹.
Color Touch Melt: Featuring our always-loved, now better-than-ever demi-permanent formula, Color Touch, this melting technique gives you lit-from-within dimension with a low-contrast scattering of highlights and lowlights. Your colorist will select a personalized combination of shades to suit you, and Color Touch's Metal Purifier will ensure you enjoy true-to-tone vibrancy, no matter your hair's condition.
Illuminatural: When you want an ultra-believable base color, your colorist can reach for Illumina Color, our permanent formula that gives you youthful, radiant, 100% natural-looking color.
Illuminage: Another Illumina Color look, Illuminage combines a root shadow (with up to 100% grey hair coverage) with a seamless balayage on the lengths and ends. It's your answer to glass hair with a sun-kissed effect.
Layer 2: The Top Glaze Layer
Once your base layer has developed, your colorist will add a top glaze layer with SHINEFINITY, our zero-damage, zero-lift, demi-permanent color glaze. You can choose to have a clear glaze if you want a tint-free glass surface, or your colorist can refine your shade with a translucent veil of color that's tailored to your hair goals and skin tone. And, bonus: this service step only takes up to 10 minutes to develop, so you can also book it as a standalone express service in between your usual color appointments. It's perfect for a lunch break upgrade!
Layer 3: The Finishing Layer
Your glass-like color is locked in, and now it's time for the final step: a few dazzling drops of ULTIMATE SMOOTH Miracle Oil Serum to lock in that smooth, flawless surface. Infused with Squalane and Omega-9, the hair oil-meets-hair serum is a game-changer for frizzy hair, delivering nourishment in 30 seconds and smoothness that lasts up to 3 days². All that in a lightweight formula that doubles up as a heat protectant. It's a glass hair essential you'll definitely want to take home with you.
Keep it Glowing
After your Golden Glass Hair service, maintain your shiny, healthy-looking hair at home with a radiance-boosting regimen that keeps dulling frizz at bay. Follow these steps:
1. Wash Away Metals in the Hair
You can't see them and you can't feel them, but we all have metals in our hair. They come from the air that surrounds us and the water we wash with, penetrating the hair cuticle to cause color fade. So, wash with a shampoo infused with our Metal Purifier technology, like ULTIMATE SMOOTH Shampoo. Not only does it detoxify strands, but it also lays the foundation for silky, shiny hair.
2. Condition Hair with Nourishing Oils
Oils capture the essence of glass hair, veiling your strands in a lustrous glow, so reach for oil-infused deep conditioners and hair masks. ULTIMATE SMOOTH Conditioner is perfect, as it features a blend of Squalane and Omega-9 fatty acids to deeply nourish, delivering inside-out care that keeps frizz and dull hair at bay. Use the conditioner on days when you want lightweight moisture and switch to ULTIMATE SMOOTH Mask for a more concentrated dose. Make sure you squeeze out excess water first, so the sumptuous ingredients can penetrate deeper.
3. Boost Repair and Radiance
Damaged hair is one of the key causes of dullness, so replenish stressed strands with ULTIMATE REPAIR Miracle Hair Rescue. The leave-in treatment is a game-changer when it comes to transforming the condition of your hair, as it not only repairs hair damage in 90 seconds³ but also leaves you with 99% less breakage⁴. Made for all hair types, it's designed to be misted from root to tip through damp hair. Let it absorb for the full 90 seconds, then style as usual.
Want extra gloss? Layer ULTIMATE SMOOTH Miracle Oil Serum over the top of Miracle Hair Rescue, and the silky oil will give you that glossy, expensive-looking hair glow.
Now you've got the full lowdown on the Golden Glass Hair service, book yours by finding your nearest Wella salon. Need more color inspiration? We've got that covered, too, with our hair color guides.
¹ When using Wellaplex N°2 with Blondorplex, versus Blondorplex alone
² When using ULTIMATE SMOOTH Miracle Oil Serum, if unwashed for 3 days, vs. untreated.
³ When using ULTIMATE REPAIR Miracle Hair Rescue.
⁴ When using ULTIMATE REPAIR Miracle Hair Rescue instrumental test vs. non-conditioning Shampoo.