The benefits of getting the service done by a professional are that you know your professional is practiced in performing the service, and you can be reasonably assured of good looking results, particularly if you have access to references or the stylist has a portfolio of previous clients.

The benefits of using foils for highlighting the hair are:

• It gives better control of highlight placement.

• It allows for the application of multiple colors in the same procedure.

• It gives easier management of the amount of highlighting you get.

• It provides more even coverage in the highlights all over the scalp.

• Allows the preservation of targeted areas of the hair when wanting to apply a general color and use the natural or original color as a “highlight”.

PERMS

A permanent wave, commonly called a perm or "permanent", involves the use of heat and/or chemicals to break and reform the cross-linking bonds of the hair structure.

The hair is washed and wrapped on a former and waving lotion or 'reagent' is applied. This solution reacts chemically softening the inner structure of the hair by breaking some of the cross links within and between the protein chains of the hair. The hair swells, stretches and softens, then moulds around the shape of the former.

In addition, the process is often used for the chemical hair straightening, or relaxing. This process makes use of the same chemical reactions as that of the permanent wave, but the hair is combed straight rather than wrapped around formers.