Venus Beauty Salon

Venus Beauty Salon

How Often to Come Back for Root, Trim and Perm

Hair grows 1-1.25 cm (0.4-0.5 in) a month — every return interval below is that number divided into a style.

Colour needs renewing every 4-8 weeks because new hair grows in without pigment. At 1-1.25 cm of growth a month, four weeks puts about half a centimetre of natural root on show; eight weeks puts a full centimetre. Where you sit in the window depends on your base: roots on a previously lightened base take colour faster and fade sooner than virgin hair, so lightened hair belongs at the 4-week end.

Cuts run on the same clock with different tolerances. A fringe needs cutting every 4-6 weeks because a centimetre of growth is a large share of a short length; a longer cut can absorb the same growth for 8-10 weeks before the shape goes.

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A perm or smoothing finish follows chemistry rather than scissors. A keratin or smooth finish holds a blow-dry for 3-4 months — but washing with sulfates strips it in about three washes at 12-15 °C water temperature, so the real interval is set as much by your shampoo bottle as by the calendar.

Nails run on a slower clock entirely. A full fingernail grows out in 4-6 months and a toenail in 9-18 months, which is what sets how often a gel or shell manicure needs redoing: the polish does not wear off the schedule, it grows off it.

One return visit is medical rather than cosmetic. Head lice live 7-10 days on the head, so a second treatment 7-10 days after the first is needed to kill eggs that had not hatched the first time. For what each visit costs in hours, see How Long Each Salon Service Takes; for protecting the result between visits, see Caring for Colour and Smooth Hair in the First 48 Hours.

  • Roots / colour: every 4-8 weeks
  • Fringe: every 4-6 weeks
  • Longer cut: every 8-10 weeks
  • Keratin / smooth finish: every 3-4 months
  • Gel or shell manicure: redo as the nail grows — 4-6 months for fingernails, 9-18 for toenails
  • Head-lice treatment: second pass 7-10 days after the first

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