Stylists squeeze out colour by eye, over-mix, and bin the excess. Across a busy week that's thousands of pounds down the drain.
The exact formula is never recorded. Next visit it's a guess — and if the stylist leaves, the client's colour walks out the door with them.
Nobody knows what's really being used, so stock counts and reordering are guesswork — you buy stock you already own while the shade you need runs out.
Photograph the client’s hair and say the goal — “cover the grey,” “take the brass out.” ColorLab’s AI reads the hair in the photo and the client’s colour history, then suggests the shades and the grams.
It’s built safety-first: it won’t propose what the colour line physically can’t do, and when it isn’t certain it says “please confirm” instead of guessing. The stylist always has the final say.
ColorLab prices every bowl as it's mixed — colour, developer, additives — so you know the exact cost of every client, every stylist, every day. The excess that used to go in the bin becomes a number you can cut.
Every formula is priced automatically as it's weighed — no spreadsheets, no end-of-month guessing.
Weighing to the exact gram means the over-mix that used to hit the bin simply never gets made.
Product comes off the shelf as it's poured, so stock counts and reordering stop being guesswork — no more buying what you already own.
Type the grams and every bowl is costed to the penny on the phone already in your salon. The smart scale makes it effortless — it's an upgrade, never a requirement.
You see the exact grams every client takes, so long, thick or corrective colour can carry a fair supplement — and the number on screen does the awkward conversation for you.
ColorLab runs alongside whatever you book and take payment with — nothing to migrate, no add-on fees, no contract. First bowl to first cost report the same day.
Because every gram is weighed, ColorLab knows the real cost of every formula — per shade, per client, per stylist. Stock comes off automatically, so reordering stops being a guess.
Salons see exactly where colour spend goes — and watch the waste they used to bin turn back into margin.
This is how a colour is done in ColorLab — get the formula, weigh it to the gram, save it. Stylists learn it in a single bowl. Have a go: analyse the hair, then pour to the target.
