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The Gray’s Hair Journal
Straightforward advice about color, balayage, highlights and taking better care of your hair between appointments.
From the chair
Better Hair Starts With Better Information
Not sure how often to refresh your highlights? Wondering whether balayage or traditional highlights make more sense for you?
This is where we answer the questions that come up in the salon every day.
Explore practical advice about hair color, maintenance, cuts and what to know before your next appointment.
No trends just for the sake of trends.
Just useful information to help you understand your hair and make better decisions about it.
Featured guide
How Often Should You Get Highlights?
Fresh highlights can bring brightness, contrast and dimension back into your hair — but that doesn’t mean everyone needs the same touch-up schedule.
How often you refresh them depends on the look you want, how your color grows out and how much maintenance fits your routine.
Read the guide to understand when it may be time for your next appointment.
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Hair Advice, Color Guides & Stories
Highlights
How Often Should You Get Highlights?
Fresh highlights can bring brightness, contrast and dimension back into your hair — but that doesn’t mean everyone needs the same touch-up schedule.
How often you refresh them depends on the look you want, how your color grows out and how much maintenance fits your routine.
Hair Color
Balayage vs. Highlights: Which Is Right for You?
Both can create brightness and dimension, but they don’t always create the same result.
Learn how balayage and highlights differ — and what to consider when deciding which approach better fits your hair and maintenance preferences.
Gray’s Stories
10 Years of Gray’s Hair Studio
Ten years behind the chair means a lot of hair, a lot of conversations and a lot of people trusting Gray’s with an important part of how they feel about themselves.
Take a look back at the journey and the community that made it possible.
Thinking about color?
Balayage or Highlights?
Both can add brightness and dimension, but they don’t always create the same result.
Balayage typically creates softer blending and a more lived-in grow-out.
Highlights can create more brightness closer to the root and more consistent lightness throughout the hair.
Which one makes sense depends on your starting point, the result you want and how you want your color to grow out.
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