Every salon chooses a color house, and most guests never think to ask. But if you’ve ever wondered why your color looks different — richer, truer, kinder to your hair — at one salon than another, the answer usually starts on the color bar.
At Canterbury & Co., the Canterbury Color Team colors with Wella Professionals. That isn’t a supplier decision that happened by default. Before founding the salon, Alli spent years as a Wella Professionals color educator, traveling across the US teaching color theory and technique to other stylists. When it came time to build her own salon, the color house wasn’t a question.
Consistency you can book against. Wella’s shade system is one of the most precise in professional color. Your formula is recorded, repeatable, and adjustable in increments small enough to matter — so “the same as last time” actually is, and “a little warmer” means exactly that.
Condition comes first. Modern Wella color is built to respect the hair it’s on. Lightening and toning are designed to work with conditioning systems rather than against them, which is why well-maintained Wella blondes don’t feel like straw by October — Florida humidity notwithstanding.
A shade range that covers real people. From gray blending that doesn’t flatten to dimensional lived-in color, vivid work, and the soft money-piece brightness that photographs so well — the palette is wide enough that your color can be yours, not the closest available approximation.
The educator’s habit is hard to break. The Canterbury Color Team trains on Wella color and Wella’s in-salon treatments, and — Bumble and bumble. lists us as a Bb.Exclusive salon — across the full Bb range for everything after the color bowl. More on what that training actually looks like: why our team trains with Bumble and bumble.
One honest note, because it matters when you book. The independent artists who rent chairs at Canterbury & Co. choose the professional color lines that best support their own services. So if coloring with Wella specifically is what you’re after, mention it when you book and we’ll seat you with the Color Team.
If you’ve been searching for a salon that colors with Wella — or you’re a Wella loyalist who just moved to Fort Myers or Estero — you’ve found your people. You’ll find us on the Wella Professionals salon finder. Still comparing colorists? Our guide to choosing a hair colorist in Fort Myers sets out the tests we would apply to anyone, ourselves included. Come have a consultation; bring your color history if you have it, and we’ll talk about where your hair wants to go.
