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Hair colour studio · Est. 2021

Fifth Floor. Colour correction, Leeds. Appointment only.

We're direct about what hair can take. Sometimes that means no, and a reschedule — and it's the reason people climb five floors to sit in these chairs.

Book a consultation Read one correction, start to finish

Strand and patch test before any lightening · Prices quoted at consultation and held for that booking

A gloved hand holds a single strand of vivid copper hair up to a steel-framed window in flat daylight, whitewashed brick behind
Level 4 → 8 · Two sessions · Six weeks apart

The session diary

One correction, told honestly.

A real case from this spring, told at the pace the hair set — not the pace the diary wanted. This is what colour correction from box dye actually is. If a salon promises you the same in an afternoon, keep walking.

Case 041 · Colour correction

  • Arrived: box dye ×3, level 4, banded
  • Target: level 8, cool
  • Strand test: window light, logged
  • Rule: the fibre sets the pace

Every head up here gets a card like this. The dates below are the treatment — the weeks between sessions are doing as much work as the chemistry.

  1. Consultation. We said no.

    Eighteen months of box dye — three layers of it, each darker than the last. We took a strand to the window, tested it, and watched it struggle. The lift she wanted that day would have cost her the hair. So we said no, and rescheduled.

    Strand test at the window · Lift refused · Plan: three sessions

    A dark strand test drying on foil on a steel trolley next to a handwritten record card and pen
    The strand that said no for us

  2. Session one. Remove, don't lift.

    Colour remover, not bleach. Slow, unglamorous work that takes the artificial pigment out and leaves the fibre alone. She left darker than she'd hoped and stronger than she arrived — we said that out loud before we mixed anything.

    Cleanse only · No lightener · Condition checked and logged

    A person wearing black gloves mixes purple hair dye in a bowl on a metal trolley in a salon.
    25 min development, watched, not timed and left

  3. Session two. The first honest lift.

    Six weeks of rest, then foils — fine sections, low volume, checked at the window every ten minutes. The banding from the box dye starts to give. Nobody rushes this bit. Rushing is how she got here.

    Fine foils · Low volume · Checked every ten minutes

    Fine foils and sectioning clips through mid-brown hair at the back of a client's head, a gloved hand placing the next foil
    The banding gives, slowly

  4. Session three. Level 8, earned.

    The last lift, then a cool gloss to shut the brass down. The strand we tested in March goes back up to the window next to a new one. Same hair. Fourteen weeks apart.

    Level 4 → 8 · Cool gloss · Fibre intact

    Two strand tests held to the window in gloved fingers — one dark box-dye brown, one lifted cool blonde
    March's strand beside June's
Finished cool blonde hair photographed macro-close in raking daylight, even in tone with the fibre intact
Finished in the light she'll be seen in. Level 4 → 8 · Three sessions · Fourteen weeks

Notice · Fifth Floor Studio

Things we will say no to

  1. Bleach over three layers of box dye in one sitting.
  2. Platinum in an afternoon.
  3. Colour over a failed patch test.
  4. A lift your hair can't take, just because you've booked the day off.

We'd rather reschedule you than damage you.

Screenshot it. Send it to whoever's about to bleach over box dye.

5.0 / 5 · 128 Google reviews

All of them five stars. We'd rather show you four candid ones than recite the lot.

The record

128 people, one score.

“She told me no the first visit. No one in fifteen years of salons had ever told me no. Came back six weeks later and we started properly — best thing anyone's done to my hair.”

Rachel M. · Box dye correction · Mar 2026

“I asked for platinum by Friday. They showed me the strand test and talked me down to a blonde my hair could actually survive. I'm glad every single day.”

Jess T. · Blonde, level 8 · Jun 2026

“Quoted at the consultation, held to the penny. Three sessions, six weeks apart, exactly as written on the card.”

Amy K. · Full correction · Feb 2026
The back of a client's head in the studio chair, pastel lilac hair catching flat window daylight
The chair by the window · Lilac, just finished

“They rescheduled my lift because the test wasn't right. Annoying for a week. Right for a year.”

Priya D. · Balayage over old colour · Jul 2026

The bench

Three colourists, five years up here.

A small bench is the point. Everyone up here has a speciality, and nobody takes work a colleague would do better — corrections, vivids and curl cutting move sideways across the studio until they land on the right pair of hands.

A colourist in an apron weighing pigment on digital scales at a steel trolley in flat window light

Colourist 01

Correction and blonde repair

The chair box dye ends up in. Corrections from black, banded blondes, brass that keeps coming back — mapped over sessions and never forced into one. Lived-in colour and root melts when the repair is done.

Takes: box dye correction · Blonde maintenance · Root melts — Refers sideways: vivids → 02

A colourist placing fine foils through a client's hair, steam rising from a mug on the trolley

Colourist 02

Vivid and pastel work

Fashion colour with the discipline of a correction: pre-lightening judged strand by strand, pastels toned to survive the first wash, vivids layered so they fade with some grace instead of going green.

Takes: vivid hair colour · Pastels · Creative work — Refers sideways: curl cutting → 03

A colourist holds a coiled curl up to the steel window to judge its tone, scissors in their apron pocket

Colourist 03

Curls, texture and the dry cut

Cuts curl dry, the way it's worn, then colours it curl by curl so the shape survives the tone. Texture from 2A to 4C. No thinning scissors in the drawer.

Takes: curly hair dry cuts · Texture · Colour on curl — Refers sideways: full corrections → 01

You'll be booked with the right person for your hair, not whoever's free.

The work

Colour, judged in daylight.

No ring light, no filter, no warm bulb doing the toner's job. Finished hair in the same flat north light we judge it in, with the working data attached. Hover — or tab — on any picture for the state it arrived in.

Finished copper hair photographed macro-close in raking daylight, saturated and even in tone The same hair before correction: faded orange-brown with visible banding at the mid-lengths
Copper melt · Level 4 → 7 · Two sessions, six weeks apart
Finished cool level 9 blonde hair, even from root to end with the brass gone, in raking daylight The same blonde before correction: brassy yellow-orange lengths with a hard dark band at the roots
Box dye → level 9 · Three sessions · Brass gone, not hidden
Pastel lilac hair photographed macro-close in flat daylight, tone even to the ends The same hair before toning: patchy yellow pre-lightened lengths with uneven undertone
Pastel lilac · Pre-lightened to 10 · Toned to survive the first wash
Vivid teal colour on defined 3B curls in flat daylight, each curl saturated and springy Close-up view of the back of a person's head showing wavy, greyish-green hair against an out-of-focus background with a window.
Faded green-grey on wavy hair · Coloured curl by curl · Cut dry

The process

How a booking works here.

The same three steps for everyone who sits down, whether it's a root melt or a rescue from black box dye. They're the reason the reviews read the way they do.

  1. Consultation and strand test. Always.

    Before any correction is booked, we test your hair at the window and tell you what it can take. The consultation is paid, and it comes off your service.

    Paid consultation · Deducted from your service

  2. An honest plan.

    What your hair can take, how many sessions it needs, and roughly what it costs — written down while you're in the chair, not revised at the till.

    Price quoted at consultation · Held for that booking

  3. The work, spaced as the fibre needs.

    Not as the calendar wants. The weeks between sessions are part of the treatment — that's why the finished colour holds.

    Patch test 48 hours ahead · Corrections rarely take one visit

A colourist and client at the studio window looking at a strand test on foil, record card and pen beside it
The consultation · Strand on foil · Card open

Consultation first · Appointment only

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Replies within the working day · Patch test 48 hrs before any lightening

How we handle what you send us

A converted Victorian mill in overcast light, rows of steel-framed windows with the fifth-floor windows lit
The mill · Fifth floor · North-facing windows

Find us

Fifth Floor, Leeds.

A converted mill, five floors up, where the north light does the judging. Yes, there's a lift. Yes, it's worth the ride.

The mill, fifth floor — Leeds
Open
Wed 10:00–20:00
Thu 10:00–20:00
Fri 10:00–19:00
Sat 09:00–18:00
Sun–Tue
Closed
Bookings
Appointment only · No walk-ins · Replies within the working day
Lightening
Patch test, 48 hours ahead
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