At HARE & BONE, our colour specialists are masters in creating bespoke, effortlessly wearable and low-maintenance hair colours that enhance your natural beauty while fitting seamlessly into your lifestyle. The right colour, expertly applied, can grow out gracefully, maintain depth and dimension, and require less upkeep between salon visits. This is without compromising on quality or style. Although it still requires professional expertise to achieve the perfect results, opting for a colour that works with your natural tones and regrowth pattern could be better for your hair’s health and better suit your lifestyle. Whether you visit our Fitzrovia or Esher salon, our team will be able to craft a colour that not only looks effortless but is designed to work for you.

Techniques for effortless colour

The key to achieving low-maintenance hair colour lies in expert techniques like balayage, ombré, and soft-shadow roots. These methods allow your natural roots to blend beautifully with your colour, ensuring a softer grow-out and a more relaxed approach to maintenance. At HARE & BONE, our talented colourists personalise every shade to complement your features and lifestyle, ensuring a look that stays effortlessly fresh between salon visits.

The beauty of natural tones

Blondes are embracing a more natural and low-maintenance approach, moving away from high-maintenance platinum and icy tones in favour of softer, sun-kissed hues. Lived-in blondes, created through techniques like root smudging and baby lights, offer a more seamless grow-out, ensuring long-lasting dimension with minimal upkeep.

Bronde offers the perfect fusion of blonde and brunette, delivering a rich, sun-kissed glow with deeper, natural undertones. This shade brings warmth and dimension without the need for constant touch-ups. Darker tones are shifting towards warm, organic hues that exude richness and depth. Chestnut and cocoa brown tones are layered seamlessly to enhance natural movement in the hair.

Even those who prefer brighter shades, such as coppers or creative colours, are opting for root smudges to prolong longevity and create a softer, more blended regrowth. By incorporating more natural-looking bright tones or strategically placing colour for a more seamless grow-out, these clients can enjoy the vibrancy of their chosen hues while reducing maintenance needs.

More and more people are choosing to embrace their natural grey too, and our expert colourists specialise in blended grey transitions, ensuring a seamless, sophisticated result that enhances rather than hides. These approaches to low-maintenance hair colour allow for a stunning, effortless look that evolves beautifully over time

Creating dimension with Balayage and Baby Lights

Balayage and baby lights are the ultimate tools for creating a natural, sun-kissed effect. Balayage involves painting delicate strokes of colour through the hair, while baby lights add ultra-fine threads of lighter tones for a polished yet understated finish. Shadow roots and root smudges softly diffuse the root area, creating a natural gradient effect that ensures regrowth looks intentional rather than abrupt. These techniques contribute to a truly low-maintenance hair colour by reducing the frequency of touch-ups.

Maintaining your low-maintenance hair colour

Even the lowest-maintenance hair colour benefits from a little upkeep. Our bespoke glossing treatments refresh vibrancy and enhance shine, ensuring your colour remains salon-fresh for longer. If you opt for a bolder hue, a root smudge in a complementary natural tone extends the life of your colour, creating a more blended and seamless look. Investing in high-quality hair care products also helps maintain the integrity of your colour while keeping your hair looking and feeling its best. We trust and recommend Davines for their sustainable, high-performance products that nourish and protect colour-treated hair.

The importance of hair health

Beautiful colour starts with healthy hair. At HARE & BONE, we place hair health at the forefront of every service, ensuring that our techniques maintain and improve hair integrity. Our stylists can recommend high-performance, professional aftercare products to lock in colour, enhance shine, and keep your strands nourished between appointments. A well-maintained low-maintenance hair colour not only looks effortlessly stunning but also ensures that hair remains strong and vibrant over time.

Experience expert low-maintenance hair colour at HARE & BONE

Our Fitzrovia salon in London and Esher salon offer expert colour services tailored to every client. Whether you’re enhancing your natural tones, transitioning to blended greys, or adding dimension with balayage, we create colours that are both stunning and sustainable. Our personalised approach ensures that your low-maintenance hair colour is designed to suit your lifestyle while maintaining a beautiful, natural finish.

Get in touch to book your consultation and experience the beauty of effortless, lived-in hair colour designed to work with your lifestyle.

While the hair we create in salon is not defined by trends, we do look to them to keep your style fresh. Each season, members of our Art Team are  backstage working at LFW. While we’re at the forefront of trends we incorporate what is happening on the catwalk by blending inspiration with hair that works for you. Each time you visit us in the salon you receive the full HARE & BONE experience. We are committed to progress, through continuous education and development of our team, so we always produce contemporary, yet wearable hair designs.

So what will we be recommending this autumn/winter?

Waves are sticking around for another season so there’s a softness to hair for the season ahead. Embrace the natural texture of your hair and work with the wave. Bobs are big for the coming months and there are so many variations that can be tailored to work with your hair type and lifestyle. French, Italian, flicked, bottleneck, Botticelli and, of course, the 90s bob. Another 90s look from everyone’s most  sought-after hair icon is the shoulder kissing style seen on Jennifer Aniston. This is all about movement and bounce. Keeping with the 90s feel, Jennifer Lopez’s long length is fresh and high end. Long hair needs lots of care to look that luxurious and I recommend using Oribe Hair Alchemy Shampoo and Conditioner. It moisturises and restores from within, making hair feel hydrated and strong.

Last season the money piece was a popular trend for colour. This season it has evolved to be a little more extreme. Now colour placement has moved to underneath the hair or even stripes of highlights, which was first a massive hit with the Spice Girls and AllSaints in the mid 90s. This is the perfect trend to showcase where inspiration comes from and how in the salon we adapt it to be everyday looks for our clients. We have the skill and knowledge to create the two-toned look but also the expertise to customise it for you.

Moving into the 2000s, the red and copper tones rocked by Rihanna in 2k is very much back. This trend has resurfaced alongside others such as the Juicy Couture tracksuit. The first one to change it up was Kendal Jenner for Prada earlier this year and it’s progressed from there. Other celebrities are now following suit for new copper locks such as Phoebe Dynevor.