Why Corrective Hair Color is more expensive

When I think about what I'd like to write a blog, many times I consider questions that I have been asked several times in the salon. One of the questions that I hear the most frequently is: why is corrective haircolor more expensive?When a client comes in for maintenance, I normally see them between four and 10 weeks. If a client has lower maintenance hair I may be seeing them every 12 to 14 weeks. That said, most of my clients fall within the 4 to 8 week range. If A client has high maintenance hair, which should be done every seven weeks to look its best and the client comes in to see me after waiting for six months to do her hair, it is much more difficult and time-consuming job the normal maintenance. What would have normally been a maintenance appointment becomes a corrective appointment. It's like you own a beautiful Mercedes but you haven't brought it in for any of the scheduled maintenance for six years. When you finally bring it in for maintenance they have to do so many more things which use more time and product then if you had gone in say every six months to a year for scheduled maintenance. This is how an appointment that would have been a normal maintenance appointment can become a corrective appointment.When does someone need a corrective hair color? When you want something that is very different than what you have for hair color now, it is a corrective haircolor. How different the color that you would like to see is determines how many corrective appointments you will need. If your hair is dark brown and you're looking to be platinum, this will be many corrective appointments. This is one of the reasons why corrective hair color is more expensive. Depending on what you have done to your hair before these appointments you may or may not be able to reach your goal color.When I perform corrective hair color in the salon I spend more time, use more product, and use more resources within the salon then during a maintenance appointment. While it might look like I'm doing many of the same steps that I do for a maintenance appointment, it is a much more labor-intensive and product intensive appointment. Like most professions, the more time I spend on a task the more I charge. This is why corrective hair color is more expensive. The results are definitely worth it, but it's always good to know that changing your haircolor takes many appointments and can also be expensive.