At Charles Proper, hair color is approached with intention, precision, and respect for hair integrity. Our professional hair color services in Charlotte, NC are fully customized to enhance your natural features, complement your lifestyle, and maintain the long-term health of your hair.
Whether you’re looking for dimensional highlights, lived-in balayage, seamless gray coverage, or a full color transformation, our stylists focus on creating color that looks natural, refined, and effortless as it grows out.
Customized Color Experience
No two color services are the same. Our stylists tailor each formula and placement to your hair type, density, texture, and desired outcome. From soft face-framing highlights to full color corrections, our goal is to create color that enhances your features and fits naturally into your everyday life.
Your hair color service may include:
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Personalized color formulation
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Dimensional highlights, balayage, or foiling
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Root coverage or gray blending
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Glosses and toners for shine and tone refinement
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Professional styling and at-home care guidance
BALAYAGE: $275 – $400+
Our Balayage service is the hallmark of lived-in, natural-looking color with effortless dimension. Hand-painted with an artist’s eye, each highlight is placed to mimic the way light naturally kisses the hair rendering an “ombre” affect that is soft, seamless, and bespoke to you. This technique is achieved without adding heat or foils.
Whether you’re after sun-warmed brightness or soft, tonal contrast, our stylists customize every section to complement your skin tone, base color, and desired grow-out. The result? Low-maintenance luxury with high-impact beauty that grows out effortlessly.
Includes:
+Balayage lightening technique tailored to your texture and tone
+Gloss treatment to refine and perfect your finished color
+Blow-dry and styled finish
Ideal for clients seeking modern softness, movement, and a low-maintenance path to radiant color
FULL HIGHLIGHT: $215 – $350
Luminous Lift from root to tip! aka, “Make me bright and blonde”
Our Full Highlight service offers maximum brightness and dimensional contrast throughout the entire head. Each foil is placed with intention to frame, illuminate, and elevate your overall tone.
Whether you’re transitioning to blonde or seeking a radiant refresh, our expert stylists customize every foil pattern and lightening formula to suit your texture, tone goals, and maintenance preferences. The result is polished, transformative color that maintains its brilliance between visits.
Includes:
+Full-head strategic foil placement
+Custom gloss to refine and seal tone
+Blow-dry and Styled
Ideal for guests seeking high-impact blonde, maximum lift, and bright dimension with every turn.
PARTIAL HIGHLIGHT: $115 – $250+
Our Partial Highlight service focuses on the crown, face-frame, and upper layers to deliver soft dimension where it counts. This is the ideal refresh between full appointments or for clients seeking a more understated lift.
Foils are placed with precision to brighten your natural color and add depth through the top and sides-leaving the lower layers untouched for a balanced, sun-kissed finish.
Includes:
+Targeted foil placement around face and crown
+Custom gloss for tone refinement
+Blow-dry and styled finish
Ideal for maintenance between full services or for clients wanting subtle dimension and movement.
SINGLE PROCESS COLOR: $185 – $285
Rich, even color from roots to ends. Our Single Process Color service delivers a uniform, radiant hue that enhances your natural tone or creates a dramatic new shade. This is a foundational service for color maintenance, tonal refinement, or full coverage color transformations.
Ideal for those seeking all-over color refreshes, gray coverage, or seasonal tone shifts-our stylists select and blend each formula with care, ensuring vibrant dimensional results that grow out beautifully.
Includes:
– Customized permanent or demi-permanent color application
– Precision root-to-end saturation or regrowth coverage
– Blowout and polished finish
*Ideal for clients maintaining a consistent all-over shade or exploring a complete tonal shift.*
BASE / GRAY COVERAGE: $100 – $150+
Our Base / Gray Coverage is single process, one color application required to cover the gray showing at the root of the hair up to 3”-4” from the scalp. We expertly blend the color to fully conceal natural grays and regrowth, matching the clients base restoring depth, richness, and consistency to your overall tone.
Whether you prefer full opacity or a softer blend, our formulas are customized to match your hair’s natural hue.
Includes:
+Targeted foil placement around face and crown
+Custom gloss for tone refinement
+Blow-dry and styled finish
Ideal for clients maintaining consistent gray coverage or beginning their journey with gray blending.
GLOSS & TONE: $85 – $150+
Our Deluxe Gloss & Tone service is the ultimate finishing touch for refreshed color, radiant tone, and light-reflective shine. This service revives faded hues, neutralizes unwanted warmth, and enhances dimension-all without the commitment of permanent color.
Perfect as a maintenance treatment between color appointments or as a post-lightening essential, it seals the cuticle, balances pH, and adds a polished finish to your look. Shine Refined. Tone Perfected.
Includes:
+Customized demi-permanent gloss formulation
+Applied to mid-lengths and ends or all over
+Blow-dry and styling
Ideal for clients wanting to refresh tone, restore shine, or extend time between color services.