Where your individuality is the starting point. Because your hair should look like you, not like everyone else's.

A one-on-one approach to gray blending and dimensional hair color—designed to create natural, low-maintenance results that fit into your real life.

Every appointment begins with a thoughtful conversation—about your hair history, your lifestyle, and what you want your color to feel like day to day.

From there, I create a personalized plan using dimensional color and gray blending techniques designed specifically for your hair and your life.

Appointments are one-on-one, unhurried, and focused entirely on creating a result that feels natural, polished, and easy to maintain.

Gray Blending — What It Really Means Here

Gray blending is one of my most requested services—and one of the most misunderstood.

It’s a dimensional hair color technique that softens and diffuses gray using highlights, lowlights, and toning, allowing your natural gray to blend seamlessly into your overall color.

The result is natural, lived-in hair with soft movement and a more graceful grow-out between appointments.

Gray blending is not a transition to gray. It’s a way of continuing to color your hair while allowing gray to integrate more naturally.

It’s best suited for guests with early to moderate gray who want a polished, lower-maintenance result.

Who This Is For

My services are a great fit if you:

  • You want to enhance your natural color—not step away from it

  • You’re looking for dimensional color or seamless gray blending

  • You want gray coverage or blending that grows out naturally

  • You value a calm, private, one-on-one experience

  • You’re looking for a long-term relationship with a colorist who knows your hair

  • You’re comfortable investing in personalized, ongoing color care

Who This Is Not For

To ensure every guest gets the best possible result, my services are not the right fit if you:

  • You’re looking to transition to fully natural gray or silver

  • You want a gray grow-out or corrective transition service

  • You’re seeking vivid fashion color or large-scale color changes

  • You’re looking for a standalone haircut without color

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    Review New Guest Sessions

    I want to make your first visit with me as effortless as possible. That is why I have created New Guest Sessions to take the guess work out of your investment with me.

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    Submit your New Guest Apointment Request form

    After I receive your New Guest Form, I will reach out to you within 8-12 hours (Monday through Friday) by email. I will review which services I think best fit you and your goals. I will provide dates and times available. These dates are only held for 24 hours.

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    Arrive at Kathleen Collingwood Studio

    Arrive to your appointment confident that you will experience a relaxing, one on one appointment, tailored to your hair goals. If you have any questions, please feel free to contact me, or check out my FAQs page.

New Guest FAQs

  • No, I don’t. My focus is on dimensional color, gray blending, and coverage that enhances your natural hair.

    Full gray transitions and corrective grow-outs require a different specialization, and I want every guest to be in the right hands for what they need.

  • Gray blending is best suited for guests with up to about 50% gray who want a natural, lower-maintenance result.

  • No. Gray blending softens and integrates gray into your color—it does not transition your hair to a fully gray or silver result..

  • If your goal is to grow out or transition to fully natural gray — especially if you’ve been coloring darker for some time — that process involves corrective work that I don’t specialize in. It’s a significant undertaking that deserves the right expertise, and I wouldn’t want to take you through a process that isn’t my strength.

    What I can offer guests with higher gray percentages is gray coverage or gray blending that enhances and works with your natural hair as it is now — if that feels like a better direction, I’d love to talk through your options.