Hair Colour Specialists in Oakville
Hair colour is at the heart of what we do at Fortelli. Whether you're looking to brighten your blonde, cover grey, add dimension, or completely transform your look, our colourists create customized colour designed around your features, lifestyle, and maintenance preferences.
We proudly use Davines, Italy's premier professional colour line, known for delivering beautiful, long-lasting colour while maintaining the health and integrity of your hair. From subtle enhancements to major transformations, our experienced colourists will recommend the techniques best suited to achieving your desired result.
Book a Hair Colour Consultation
Consultations are complimentary. A deposit is required to reserve your appointment.
All Over Colour & Grey Coverage
Whether you're refreshing your current shade, covering grey, or making a dramatic colour change, all-over colour creates rich, even results from roots to ends.
Using Davines professional colour, we customize every formula to suit your hair type, desired tone, and maintenance preferences. From natural brunettes and radiant reds to rich coppers and glossy blacks, our colourists create healthy-looking colour with exceptional shine.
For guests focused on grey coverage, root touch-ups can seamlessly blend regrowth while maintaining consistency and vibrancy throughout your colour.
Best for: Grey coverage, root maintenance, colour refreshes, and full colour transformations.
Balayage & Lived-In Colour
Balayage remains one of the most requested colour services because it delivers beautiful, natural-looking dimension with a softer grow-out than traditional highlights.
Using hand-painted techniques, our colourists create brightness exactly where it will have the most impact while maintaining depth and dimension throughout the hair. The result is colour that looks effortless, modern, and customized specifically to you.
Whether you're looking for subtle sun-kissed ribbons or a brighter blonde transformation, balayage creates a seamless finish that grows out beautifully between appointments.
While balayage is often associated with blonde hair, it can be customized for virtually any hair colour. Caramel balayage on brunettes, dimensional blondes, rich copper tones, and even fashion colours can all be created using balayage techniques. The goal isn't necessarily to make your hair blonde. It's to create dimension, movement, and strategically placed brightness that complements your natural colour.
Best for: Natural-looking blondes, low-maintenance colour, and effortless grow-out.
Colour Melting & Ombre
Colour melting uses multiple shades that seamlessly transition from one tone to the next, creating incredible depth and dimension. Ombre is a more dramatic variation where the hair gradually transitions from darker roots to lighter ends. Both techniques can be incorporated into balayage and custom colour services to create highly personalized results.
Reverse Balayage
Not every colour appointment is about getting lighter. Reverse balayage adds depth back into overly blonde hair by strategically placing darker tones throughout the hair.
This creates richer dimension, softer contrast, and a more natural lived-in appearance while preserving brightness where it matters most. Reverse balayage is often an excellent choice for guests looking to reduce maintenance while maintaining a polished, dimensional colour.
Best for: Guests transitioning from bright blonde to a softer, lower-maintenance look.
Traditional Highlights
Highlights remain one of the most effective ways to add brightness, contrast, and dimension to the hair. Whether you choose a partial or full head of foils, highlights can be customized to create everything from subtle sun-kissed ribbons to brighter blonde transformations.
Our colourists carefully place highlights to complement your haircut, facial features, and desired level of maintenance.
Best for: Brightening your colour, adding dimension, and maintaining blonde hair.
AirTouch Highlights
Looking for a brighter blonde with softer maintenance? AirTouch is an advanced highlighting technique that creates exceptionally seamless blends and a natural grow-out.
Using a blow dryer during the sectioning process, shorter hairs are separated from the strands being lightened. This allows your stylist to create a more diffused transition between your natural colour and your highlights, reducing harsh lines and making regrowth less noticeable.
AirTouch is ideal for guests who want:
- Bright, dimensional blondes
- A soft, lived-in finish
- Less noticeable grow-out
- Longer time between colour appointments
At Fortelli, we pair the AirTouch technique with Davines professional colour to achieve blonde results that are bright, glossy, and healthy-looking. Every AirTouch service begins with a consultation so we can determine if this technique is the best approach for your hair type, colour history, and maintenance goals.
Best for: Blondes, balayage lovers, and guests who want maximum impact with a softer, more natural grow-out.
Babylights
Babylights use ultra-fine sections of hair to create delicate, natural-looking brightness throughout the hair. Inspired by the subtle highlights often seen in children's hair, this technique produces a soft, multidimensional result that never looks overly highlighted.
Babylights are ideal for guests who want a refined enhancement that grows out beautifully while maintaining a natural appearance.
Best for: First-time highlights, subtle blonding, natural dimension, and low-maintenance colour.
Teasylights
Teasylights combine the brightness of traditional foil highlights with the softness of balayage. Hair is gently teased before lightener is applied, creating a diffused transition that avoids harsh lines and obvious regrowth.
The result is a brighter look through the mid-lengths and ends while maintaining a softer, more natural appearance at the root.
Best for: Guests who want brighter blonde results with a softer, lived-in finish.
Face-Framing Highlights
Sometimes a few strategically placed highlights around the face can make a dramatic difference. Face-framing highlights add brightness where it is most noticeable, helping extend the life of your colour between larger appointments while creating a fresh, radiant look.
Best for: Maintaining balayage, refreshing blonde colour, and adding brightness around the face.
Transformational Colour & Blonding
Maximum Blonding
For guests who want their brightest blonde, maximum blonding creates extensive lightness throughout the hair while preserving softness, shine, and dimension.
This fully customized service is designed around your starting colour, hair condition, and desired result, allowing us to create dramatic blonde transformations while maintaining the integrity of your hair.
Platinum Blonde
Platinum blonde is one of the most dramatic colour transformations available. This service lightens the hair from roots to ends to achieve a bright, high-impact blonde result.
Depending on your current colour and hair condition, multiple appointments may be required to safely achieve your desired level of lightness.
Blonde to Brunette
Transitioning from blonde to brunette requires more than simply applying a darker colour. Our colourists carefully rebuild warmth, depth, and dimension to create rich brunette tones that look natural, glossy, and beautifully balanced.
Whether you're returning to your natural shade or trying something completely new, we'll create a brunette that complements your features and lifestyle.
Grey Blending
Grey blending is one of today's most requested colour services for guests looking for a softer alternative to traditional grey coverage.
Rather than covering every grey hair, grey blending strategically incorporates natural greys into the overall colour design using highlights, lowlights, and tonal adjustments. The result is a softer, more dimensional appearance with less noticeable regrowth.
Many guests choose grey blending when they want to reduce maintenance appointments while still enjoying polished, beautiful colour.
Best for: Guests transitioning to natural grey, reducing maintenance, or softening regrowth lines.
Why Choose Fortelli for Hair Colour?
Hair colour is more than applying colour to hair. It requires an understanding of tone, placement, hair health, maintenance, and how colour works with your haircut and personal style.
At Fortelli, every colour service begins with a thoughtful consultation. We take the time to understand your goals, evaluate your hair's condition, and develop a customized plan designed to achieve the best possible result while maintaining the integrity of your hair.
Using Davines professional colour and modern colour techniques, we create beautiful, dimensional colour that looks natural, healthy, and uniquely suited to you.
Ready for a Colour Consultation?
Whether you're interested in balayage, highlights, grey coverage, grey blending, or a complete colour transformation, our team would love to help.
Book your consultation today and discover what's possible for your hair.Call us on (905) 847-0706 or request an appointment.
Five Star Reviews for Fortelli Hair Salon in Oakville
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Had my hair done by Renato and I couldnt be happier. He did a beautiful job with grey blending. The color loos so soft and blends beautifully. My hair feels healthy and is alot easier to style now. Renato really listened to what I wanted and I highly recommend him.
What an amazing place. First time i did grey blending so obviously I was nervous not knowing what to expect. Renato explained options clearly, kept my base and added soft seamless highlights so that maintenance could be kept at a minimum. Hair feels so healthy and his cut has great shape and movemen...t. Ive already booked my next two appointments. Thank you Renato! read more
Always a pleasure to go to Fortelli. I adore the downtown location on Lakshore- upscale and still friendly small-town. Melissa is such a sweetie - so personable and very caring with top quality colour and cutting skills, not to mention beautiful blow dry and finishing. Approachable owner checking in... on everyone provides the professional sincere touch. I love the relaxing vibe and always leave feeling pampered and pretty. read more
I just wanted to take a moment to say how much I LOVE my hair! It is so soft and silky smooth, and the colour looks so natural! I just wanted to take the time to say THANK-YOU to Daniela!
My hair and colour looked great! Maggie is amazing, it felt good to get a cut and colour after many months. The salon was clean and you felt comfortable in there with your coat covered in plastic and the staff always cleaning.
My hair and colour looked great! Maggie is amazing, it felt good to get a cut and colour after many months. The salon was clean and you felt comfortable in there with your coat covered in plastic and the staff always cleaning.
Reply:
Thank you so much for coming in today. We appreciate your review and we look forward to seeing you again soon.
After years of searching for a studio with skilled staff and high quality hair products, Fortelli hits the mark. I’ve been a client for the past 5 years and have *never* had a bad experience. I have long, very dark hair with layers of color on it, but when I decided to go lighter, Melissa took me do...wn without compromising the integrity of my hair and achieved the exact look I was going for. The time is taken to really listen and consult before each appointment. I visit every 6 weeks, not because I need to, but because it is truly a great, relaxing experience and they keep my hair looking fresh and super healthy. read more
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Hi Maja! Thanks so much for your kind words and 5 star review! We always look forward to your visits. See you soon!
Easily the best cut & colour I've had in years. Thrilled to find a stylist who has a plan for dealing with my impossible, post-chemo hair.
Renato was excellent! He really listened to me. My colour is fantastic. The staff were very welcoming and I will definitely be a repeat client!
Had my hair done by Renato and I couldnt be happier. He did a beautiful job with grey blending. The color loos so soft and blends beautifully. My hair feels healthy and is alot easier to style now. Renato really listened to what I wanted and I highly recommend him.
What an amazing place. First time i did grey blending so obviously I was nervous not knowing what to expect. Renato explained options clearly, kept my base and added soft seamless highlights so that maintenance could be kept at a minimum. Hair feels so healthy and his cut has great shape and movemen...t. Ive already booked my next two appointments. Thank you Renato! read more
Always a pleasure to go to Fortelli. I adore the downtown location on Lakshore- upscale and still friendly small-town. Melissa is such a sweetie - so personable and very caring with top quality colour and cutting skills, not to mention beautiful blow dry and finishing. Approachable owner checking in... on everyone provides the professional sincere touch. I love the relaxing vibe and always leave feeling pampered and pretty. read more
I just wanted to take a moment to say how much I LOVE my hair! It is so soft and silky smooth, and the colour looks so natural! I just wanted to take the time to say THANK-YOU to Daniela!
My hair and colour looked great! Maggie is amazing, it felt good to get a cut and colour after many months. The salon was clean and you felt comfortable in there with your coat covered in plastic and the staff always cleaning.
My hair and colour looked great! Maggie is amazing, it felt good to get a cut and colour after many months. The salon was clean and you felt comfortable in there with your coat covered in plastic and the staff always cleaning.
Reply:
Thank you so much for coming in today. We appreciate your review and we look forward to seeing you again soon.
After years of searching for a studio with skilled staff and high quality hair products, Fortelli hits the mark. I’ve been a client for the past 5 years and have *never* had a bad experience. I have long, very dark hair with layers of color on it, but when I decided to go lighter, Melissa took me do...wn without compromising the integrity of my hair and achieved the exact look I was going for. The time is taken to really listen and consult before each appointment. I visit every 6 weeks, not because I need to, but because it is truly a great, relaxing experience and they keep my hair looking fresh and super healthy. read more
Reply:
Hi Maja! Thanks so much for your kind words and 5 star review! We always look forward to your visits. See you soon!
Easily the best cut & colour I've had in years. Thrilled to find a stylist who has a plan for dealing with my impossible, post-chemo hair.
Renato was excellent! He really listened to me. My colour is fantastic. The staff were very welcoming and I will definitely be a repeat client!
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Frequently Asked Questions
How do I know which hair colour service is right for me?
«Not sure whether you need balayage, highlights, grey coverage, grey blending, or a complete colour transformation? That's exactly what your consultation is for. We'll assess your current hair, discuss your goals, and recommend the service that will achieve the look you want while fitting your maintenance preferences and budget.
What's the difference between balayage and highlights?
«Balayage is a hand-painted technique that creates softer, more natural-looking brightness with a gradual grow-out. Traditional highlights use foils and typically create more uniform brightness from roots to ends. Both techniques can create beautiful results, but balayage is often preferred by guests looking for a lower-maintenance, lived-in appearance.
What is AirTouch colour?
«AirTouch is an advanced highlighting technique that uses a blow dryer to separate shorter hairs before colour is applied. This creates an exceptionally soft blend and more natural grow-out compared to traditional highlighting methods. AirTouch is ideal for guests who want bright blonde results with less noticeable regrowth.
What is grey blending?
«Grey blending is an alternative to traditional grey coverage. Instead of colouring every grey hair, we strategically blend natural greys into the overall colour design using highlights, lowlights, and tonal adjustments. This creates a softer, more dimensional look with less noticeable regrowth.
Can I go blonde if my hair is dark?
«In many cases, yes. However, the process depends on your starting colour, previous colour history, and the condition of your hair. Some blonde transformations can be achieved in a single appointment, while others may require multiple sessions to protect the health of your hair.
Do you perform colour corrections?
«Yes. We help guests correct unwanted tones, uneven colour, overly dark colour, brassy blondes, and other colour challenges. Because every correction is unique, we recommend scheduling a consultation first so we can assess your hair and develop a personalized plan.
Is balayage lower maintenance than traditional highlights?
«In many cases, yes. Because balayage creates a softer transition between your natural colour and the lightened sections, regrowth is often less noticeable than with traditional foil highlights. Many guests can go longer between appointments while still maintaining a beautiful result.