Blonde highlights & blonding in Gainesville.

At Ciao Bella, a mini highlight and toning starts at $140, a partial highlight and toning at $180, and a full highlight and toning at $225. A full balayage and toning starts at $295. Toning is always included, and your stylist confirms your exact quote at your complimentary consultation before any color begins. Book an appointment.

A partial highlight lightens the top and sides — the pieces that frame your face and show most — and is the right choice for adding brightness or maintaining blonde. A full highlight works the entire head, crown to nape, for an all-over brighter, more uniform blonde. In your consultation we look at how bright you want to be and how the color grows out, then recommend one over the other.

Yes — dark hair can absolutely go blonde, it just takes a plan. Lifting brown or black hair to a clean blonde safely is usually done across more than one session so the hair stays healthy, often starting with balayage or foilyage to build brightness gradually. If your dark color is box dye, that's a color correction first — tell us your history and we'll map out a realistic timeline and cost.

Foil highlights give brighter, more uniform lift from the root and are ideal for classic all-over blonde and for covering regrowth. Balayage is hand-painted for a softer, sun-grown, lived-in blonde with no hard regrowth line, so it stretches further between visits. Many guests do a mix. Our balayage page covers the hand-painting technique in detail.

Babylights are very fine, delicate highlights woven close together to mimic the natural, sun-kissed blonde children have. They create soft dimension and a seamless grow-out rather than bold streaks, and they pair beautifully with a face-framing money piece.

Two things: toning and upkeep. Every color service here includes toning to neutralize warmth the day you leave, and a toning and blowout or gloss between highlight appointments (from $85) refreshes it. At home, a purple shampoo used once or twice a week and washing in cooler water keeps brass away longer. Our retail shelf carries violet-toned shampoo — including Goldwell's Blondes & Highlights anti-yellow line — so you can walk in and restock any time, no appointment needed.

Lightening is the most demanding thing you can do to hair, so how it's done matters. We use Goldwell lightener with bond-protecting additives, lift only as far as your hair can safely go in one visit, and space bigger transformations across sessions. Healthy blonde is the goal — a brittle, over-processed blonde helps no one.

A double process lightens the whole head and then tones it to your target shade — the route to a bright, cool, or platinum all-over blonde. It starts at $190 and, depending on your starting color, may be staged over more than one appointment to protect the hair. We'll tell you honestly at consultation whether platinum is achievable in one visit.

A partial highlight typically holds for eight to twelve weeks; a full highlight or balayage stretches longer because there's no hard regrowth line. A root shadow and glossing ($115) can blur the grow-out and buy you extra time between full appointments. We'll build a maintenance rhythm around your hair and your budget.