Colorific Hair Color Salon

You can’t beat the cost or the quality of the service. Haleigh is fantastic!

Haley was wonderful!
Easy and Cost Effective!

I would happily recommend this place to my friends who are budget-​conscious and casual but still want a great dye job. I would NOT recommend this place to my mom, aunts, or older acquaintances who expect a full pampering, cater to your every needs experience. To explain, this place is very informal and it is common (probably the more popular choice) for customers to blow-​dry and style their own hair instead of the stylists doing it. Blow-​drying and styling is available but does cost extra. I LOVE that they are up-​front about the costs and that your first visit is 15% off– even without the 15% it was very reasonably priced. The other more casual thing that happened to me (that might have bugged my mom) was that before I was finished (the pigment was still in my hair), my stylist’s next client came and I was ‘handed off’ to a different stylist– again, not a problem for me, they clearly all knew what they were doing, but not quite in line with the pampering experience. Finally, the phone was ringing fairly often and my stylist did have to leave me a few times to pick it up. It didn’t impact the final result and I was QUITE happy with the final result– I’m not saying at all that they ignore customers’ needs (they went above and beyond making sure my color was perfect), just that it is a laid-​back kind of place, and that may be a better fit for some customers than others.
Finally, I was told Sundays are their most popular day, so that may have explained some of my experience. I would definitely go back, but most likely not on a Sunday.

Good for a quick touch up. Would not make my regular place.

Christine B. is the girl to call for your hair needs. She just ombré’d my brown hair into magenta and I AM IN LOVE WITH IT. I drove an hour and a half to see her, and will definitely make that trip again.

I went to Colorific in Wheaton last night for the second time. The first time I was satisfied with the results. This time is was thrilled. Katie did my hair this time and was very professional. She listened well to what I wanted, made great suggestions on both color and cut from her experience, and worked very quickly – which I really appreciated. The results are wonderful. She suggested both high and low lights that resulted in a much more natural look. I would recommend her and the facility to anyone. Yay for Wheaton’s Colorific.

I’ve been coming to this salon for a few years now, and I absolutely love it! Reasonable prices for great work– all salons should be this way! I highly recommend Rachael… I never had a set stylist until her– worth the wait if there is one!

Terrific first experience here a few weeks ago when I brought my two boys in for a cut. The place was busy and energetic and friendly. Raquel managed to squeeze my boys in for cuts with Kate almost immediately which was impressive considering how busy it was. Cuts came out great (and only $ 20). Called back there just now to schedule new appointments and Raquel remembered us. That really goes a long way.

I was in a huge bind. I used a box color on my roots two days before leaving for vacation and the color of my roots turned a brassy red and didn’t match the rest of my dark brown/​black hair. I was freaking out. Luckily I came across Meaghan. She was super sweet right from the get go. She shared a personal story which was similar to what I had going on with my hair. She assured me she would get me back to happy again. The whole time I was there she was by my side assuring me that my hair would match my roots. Even during the «setting» time she was there to make sure I was happy and comfortable. We hit it off instantly and she made me feel as though my girlfriend who I had known forever was doing my hair. I LOVED her. She kept her promise and I left feeling amazing. My hair matched my roots and my cut was super cute. THANK YOU SO MUCH Meaghan!!!

I’ve been going to Brandi almost a year now. She gets my cut right Everytime– hard to find a good stylist for someone who has such curly hair like me! I’ve done all over color that turned out good and she also did «hair painting» it is highlights but less uniform so it looks more natural. I gave 4 stars because I wanted to go significantly lighter and it only seemed to lighten up at the top… I may try another salon for highlights in the future.

I have been going to this salon for awhile now and this review is long overdue. You will get as good of a color here as you will in a high end salon for much less! I usually see Katie, but I’ve also seen several other stylists. They are all great for color, but you will need to find your favorite for cuts because I have liked some girls more than others (which is my reason for 4 stars instead of 5). However, Katie is very solid all around. The last time I went, I didn’t see her, and I reacted horribly to their new color line (I’m very sensitive). So I shopped around and found that I had to pay almost twice what I paid at Colorific to get a root touch up with a product I could handle. I decided to give Katie a try again, because she said there were some things she could do that might help with the reaction. Well, she did it! She tweaked the solution a bit and added her magic ingredient and VIOLA! I had color with no reaction! She went the extra mile and it worked! Now I can go back and not worry about my reaction OR my pocketbook!

DO NOT GO!!!
I thought since this place specializes In color I could go get a good coloring job for a reasonable price. Wrong! I walked in they took me no problem I sat down with amber who has a very light touch and no personality (which I hate). I had not had my hair colored in over a year and my hair was all brown with some very grown out chunky blonde hightlights underneath that would pop through my hair. I say I wanted MORE blonde in the bottom without being allover. Basicly jus add morr chunky hightlights. I also said i wanted them PLATINUM white blonde and not the brassy gold color they already were. So she starts doing them and I notice she was doing little tiny high lights but I thought maybe they will cometogether and be bigger in the end after all im not a professional, what do I know. So when its all done my hair is soaking wet I dont see any blonde and she asks if want to blow dry my own hair. I opted out and left thinking maybe because my hair was wet I couldny see the blonde. Go home blow dry it, you cannot see any blonde. less then when I went in there and I asked for MORE AND PLATINUM. So I call, complain, the manager brittney says come in she will fix it. Ok I go in show pics of what I want and everything. This time wen it was done I decided to blowdry it and I can see blonde highlights but they arent platinum and they still little and all over the place. it looked exactly like it did when I came in. Actually my hair looked better when I came in. Anyways I just left so frustrated and over that place, I called my mom crying my eyes out because at $ 130 I flat out felt ROBBED!!! obviously they dont know how to lighten hair and I would not even give them a THIRD CHANCE to try. My hair should have been stripped or put under heat to achieve what I wanted. And they did niether. I jus have gold brassy highlights that look like a student did it. The whole experience was akward especially blow drying my own soaking wet hair. NEVER AGAIN. PLEASE GO SOMEWHERE ELSE ESPECIALY IF YOUR DOING ANYTHING TECHNICAL OR DRAMATIC!!!
I ALSO JOINED Unilocal BECAUSE THIS PLACE SUCKS SO BAD I HAD TO WRITE A REVIEW

This review is long over due, but I have to give praise to Brogan Julian! I have since stopped going to colorific, not because I want to, but only because I work in the city and getting out to Wheaton isn’t as easy as it used to be! For the better part of seven years or so, Brogan was the only person I would let touch my hair and she always does the very best job… the entire staff there is great, very friendly, and they know what they are doing. Hopefully I will get a chance to go back in the near future!

Not pleased at all. Color awful and washed out in two days and haircut messed up!

You get what you pay for. I had to go back to get my color retouched (blotchy and still gray) and was made to feel like an idiot. The haircut is terrible, seriously. The girl was referred to as a «master colorist». She couldn’t be more than 23 and clearly needs a lot more training. I will NEVER go back.
I would like to add that after a week I have gray showing and the color is fading. I too work in customer service and I come to Unilocal to review as everyone else does. I spoke the facts of my experience without adding in additional issues. Don’t cast aspersions when you only have a small amount of information.

Nothing special about this place. A little pricey after all ad-​ups. The atmospfere wasn’t great either. Katie did my hair and I was not happy with my color and haircut. Looking for a better place.

I’ve finally found it… the salon of my dreams!
Granted, I have spent hundreds of dollars in not-​so-​dreamy salons to find it, but that’s all in the past now.
I first went in just on a recommendation from a friend (made the appointment the same day), but I didn’t know the atmosphere or pricing of anything. So you can imagine, to my fashionista’s delight, when they told me a partial highlight was like $ 70…let’s get it on!
The stylist I had was awesome, and worked well with the drunken-​like description of the things I thought I wanted. She went to town, really coating the ends of my hair (which I always seem to have a problem with in other places), and didn’t make me want to kill myself with dreaded salon smalltalk.
I didn’t pay for the final styling, but they let me use their products and equipment to do it myself. However, I would suggest to bring your own brush or whatever you use in addition to a blow dryer… all they had were those tiny little combs that my massively thick hair just destroyed — especially with all the new color/​bleach in it.
I’m due for another change soon, and am definitely going back for round 2!

I’ve been shopping for a new hair place in the Naperville, IL area for awhile and I am SO PLEASED with the results from the Colorific in Wheaton!
My stylist was so friendly and really listened to what I wanted and delivered. I am very picky about my hair and was very particular about how I wanted it done (although I don’t know the technical terms to ask for it). I explained it best I could, showed some pictures and she understood exactly what I meant and cut it perfectly. I only did a cut this time, but I would definitely go for color as well!
I’m so happy my search is over for a new hair salon! :)

I guess you get what you pay for.
This is a little overdue, I went on Halloween, and got my hair recolored. I had two tone hair, black underneath and sort of a caramel color on top… They couldn’t exactly match it, but they did best they could. the color itself wasn’t really a problem, but the quality of the hair dye could be called into question. If you have dark hair and are going lighter, this isn’t the place for you.
While the girl was styling my hair, she combed through it with a cheap plastic needle tooth comb, and this along with the bleach/​chemicals in their hair dye caused tons of breakage in my hair. My hair felt like straw by the time I left this place, and began falling out at an alarming rate. I have NEVER had dry or damaged hair, this was only the third time that I’ve dyed my hair.
I also paid $ 20 for feathers to be put in (I already had a few) and she put them in incorrectly and you could see the bead at the top of my head. I had to go somewhere else and have them re-​done.

This place was great! I was also a little nervous as it is much cheaper than the competition, and it has always been my experience that the cheaper the service, the worse it is. That is definitely NOT the case here. I am so happy with the color AND cut. I am rarely happy with my haircut, and that is why I have been a salon hopper, but I think I’ll stick with Colorific for a while.